Van Garderen returns to racing at San Sebastian
July 30, 2010 (20:52) [ Indexed from Cyclingnews.com ]
After a break from racing, Tejay Van Garderen (HTC-Columbia), will start his first race since June at the Clásica San Sebastian in Spain, this weekend. The American has had a successful season to date and capped it with a podium spot in June's Critérium du Dauphiné. The second part of his season will revolve around his first Grand Tour - the Vuelta a España - where he's already set some impressive goals. "I don't want to go there and just ride around," he told ... More...

Cycling: Din of le Tour still clear in Dean's ears
July 30, 2010 (20:12) [ Indexed from New Zealand Herald ]
It is the silence that Julian Dean finds toughest to take. Nestled away in Gandia, just south of Valencia, Spain, Dean should be contentedly resting on a bed of laurels as his family - wife Carole and kids Tanner and Val - go... More...

Rebellin loses drug case appeal
July 30, 2010 (20:01) [ Indexed from BBC Sport ]
Italian cyclist Davide Rebellin loses his appeal against being stripped of the silver medal he won in the road race at Beijing Olympics in 2008. More...

CAS rejects Rebellin's appeal
July 30, 2010 (19:52) [ Indexed from Cyclingnews.com ]
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) dismissed the doping case appeal filed by the Italian cyclist Davide Rebellin against the decision of the Executive Committee of International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Friday. The IOC had disqualified Rebellin from the 2008 Olympic Games and withdrew his silver medal, and with this ruling CAS upheld the decision. Rebellin's sample from August 5, 2008, during the Olympic Games, eventually tested positive for EPO CERA. On August 9, 2008, he took part in the ... More...

Valjavec cleared by Slovenian anti-doping agency
July 30, 2010 (18:22) [ Indexed from Cyclingnews.com ]
Slovenian rider Tadej Valjavec has been cleared by his national anti-doping agency. The AG2R rider, currently suspended by his team, had been accused of blood doping within the framework of the UCI's Biological Passport in early May this year, with the questionable values dating back to 2009. However, according to Slovenian website siol.net , the disciplinary board of the Slovenian NAK ruled on Thursday, July 29, that there was not enough evidence to open disciplinary proceedings against Valjavec. ... More...

Rebellin loses doping appeal
July 30, 2010 (18:12) [ Indexed from Yahoo! Eurosport ]
Italian cyclist Davide Rebellin has loses his appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport against the stripping of his Olympic silver medal for doping. More...

World Cup returns to former World Championships site in Val di Sole
July 30, 2010 (17:52) [ Indexed from Cyclingnews.com ]
One week after the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup began the second half of the season in Champéry, Switzerland, the circuit moves to the mountainous countryside bordering the Lombardia and Trentino regions in the northeast of Italy. Val di Sole (Valley of the Sun) was the location of the 2008 World Championships and is a fitting locale for the first triple event of the season, where all three disciplines - cross country, four cross and downhill - come together. The organizers have made adjustments ... More...

Rebellin loses appeal over Beijing positive test (Reuters)
July 30, 2010 (17:39) [ Indexed from Yahoo! Sports ]
PARIS, July 30 (Reuters) Italian cyclist Davide Rebellin has lost his appeal against the stripping of his Olympic silver medal for doping, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said on Friday. More...

Katusha's Kirchen targets comeback to cycling
July 30, 2010 (16:22) [ Indexed from Cyclingnews.com ]
Kim Kirchen wants to come back to pro cycling next year despite suffering a heart attack at the Tour de Suisse in June. The Katusha rider made his first public appearance after awakening from a medically induced coma and coming out of hospital on July 8, attending the presentation of the Tour de France Gala criterium earlier this week. While the exact causes of his heart failure are still unknown, Kirchen hopes that he will be able to ride a bike again soon. "We have to wait and see," ... More...

Cyclist impressed by Olympic Park
July 30, 2010 (15:42) [ Indexed from BBC Sport ]
Cornish-based cyclist Wendy Houvenaghel says visiting the Olympic velodrome in London has given her extra motivation to ahead of the 2012 Games. More...

BMX star 'stronger' after Beijing crash
July 30, 2010 (15:39) [ Indexed from BBC Sport ]
Shanaze Reade says she is mentally ready to go for gold More...

Klemme back to racing in Poland
July 30, 2010 (15:22) [ Indexed from Cyclingnews.com ]
After a five-week break from racing, Dominik Klemme (Saxo Bank) is looking to hit the ground running when he lines up for the Tour of Poland, August 1. The German will use the seven-day race as preparation for his first tilt at a Grand Tour, at the Vuelta, which starts August 28. "The training has been going well," Klemme told Cyclingnews . "I've had five weeks off and went for a holiday. But since then I've really ramped things up with a week at altitude followed by a week of interval ... More...

Frnk and Andy Schleck to leave Saxo Bank
July 30, 2010 (14:22) [ Indexed from Cyclingnews.com ]
Fränk and Andy Schleck have officially announced that they will not be riding for Bjarne Riis' Saxo Bank cycling team next season. Instead the brothers will ride for a Luxembourg-based team in 2011. For months the pair were rumoured to be setting up a team based in their homeland, while Riis, struggling to find a backer for next season, had finally announced at the Tour de France that a new sponsor had been found to replace Saxo Bank, who are set to leave the sport at the end of the year. In ... More...

British cyclist Staite suspended for doping (AP)
July 30, 2010 (14:01) [ Indexed from Yahoo! Sports ]
British Cycling has announced that Dan Staite has received a two-year ban from all competitions after testing positive for the blood-boosting agent EPO. The urine sample collected at the Roy Thame Cup road race in March also showed the presence of an aromatase inhibitor, which is used in cancer treatment. More...

UCI weighs appeal after Valjavec doping decision (AP)
July 30, 2010 (14:01) [ Indexed from Yahoo! Sports ]
The International Cycling Union is studying a Slovenian ruling which rejected biological passport evidence that rider Tadej Valjavec was doping before deciding whether to appeal to sport's highest court. The UCI said Friday it must translate the detailed judgment by Slovenia's anti-doping organization which declined to sanction the 33-year-old Valjavec. More...

Astana start their post-Contador rebuild
July 30, 2010 (13:22) [ Indexed from Cyclingnews.com ]
With team leader Alberto Contador set for the exit and likely to take four Spanish team-mates with him, Astana have started their rebuilding process by signing Robert Kiserlovski from Liquigas. The 24-year-old Croat, who finished 10th on his Giro d'Italia debut in May, has signed a two-year deal with the Kazakh team. "I will benefit from having time to adapt. For the first season I will be at the service of a team leader and then we will see," Kiserlovski said in the Croat press. Kiserlovski ... More...

Schlecks to quit Saxo Bank team
July 30, 2010 (12:40) [ Indexed from BBC Sport ]
Andy and Frank Schleck are to leave the Saxo Bank team with a view to joining a a new Luxembourg-based team in 2011. More...

Ballan to defend Tour of Poland title
July 30, 2010 (11:52) [ Indexed from Cyclingnews.com ]
Alessandro Ballan has been announced as the BMC team leader for the upcoming Tour of Poland, starting on Sunday, August 1. The former world champion intends to defend his title at the week-long stage race in Eastern Europe, where he won a stage last year before taking the overall classification. "Ballan comes out of the Tour de France in excellent form," said John Lelangue, sports director at BMC. Ballan placed second in the 15th stage of the Tour after having finished third at the Italian ... More...

Visconti extends lead in UCI Europe Tour
July 30, 2010 (11:11) [ Indexed from UCI ]
Italy's Giovanni Visconti the ISD-Neri team extended lead the individual standings the 2010 Europe Tour ranking thanks winning Italian national road race title. More...

France and Netherlands battling for full complement Worlds
July 30, 2010 (10:56) [ Indexed from Cyclingnews.com ]
France and the Netherlands face lining up with a reduced complement of riders at the World Championships Road Race for the second year in succession. The allocation of places for the event in Melbourne will be finalised based on the UCI’s world rankings of August 15. As things stand, with both nations lying outside of the top ten in the national standings, they will have only six riders on the start line as opposed to the full quota of nine. The current top ten as per the classification calculated ... More...