Stage 16 winner Mikel Astarloza of Euskaltel Euskadi has tested positive for EPO in an anti-doping control prior to the Tour de France, according to the UCI.

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Here’s the UCI press release …

Press release : Mikel Astarloza provisionally suspended

Date:
31.07.2009

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During the Tour de France, the telEvision at 10 Speed’s house is pretty much stuck on Versus, so it’s been quite a change in the few days since the Tour ended Sunday.

So, in no particular order, here are 10 of…

With Columbia-HTC driving the split in the field Monday in Stage 3 of the Tour de France, and with Lance Armstrong making the selection while teammate Alberto Contador missed it, some interesting questions are set to be answered Tuesday in the…

From the Associated Press …

Kazakh federation to resume paying Astana wages

By PETER LEONARD

Associated Press Writer

ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) — Kazakhstan’s cycling federation said Thursday it will resume paying salaries to Lance Armstrong’s Astana team now that it has received money owed…

A little more than three weeks since undergoing surgery to repair a broken collarbone, Lance Armstrong has told Giro d’Italia organizers that he’ll be in the race as planned.

The Giro begins May 9 and ends May 31. Armstrong’s participation had been in…

Former Gerolsteiner cyclist Bernhard Kohl, the King of the Mountains last year at the Tour de France, has admitted to blood-doping and using CERA, and has publicly named the clinic and his former manager for their roles in helping him…

Not that a broken collarbone is something I’d wish on anyone, but I’m thinking  Lance Armstrong’s broken collarbone might turn out to be a good thing from a sporting perspective for the seven-time Tour de France winner.

Mainly, I think it eliminates…

See extended  video of Lance Armstrong crash at Castilla y Leon

The twitter site of Astana director Johan Bruyneel brings updates of Lance Armstrong’s crash in the first stage of the Vuelta a Castilla y Leon. In…

It remains to be seen whether the latest Lance Armstrong headline about Alberto Contador being “too nervous” is really a media-created firestorm or the sign of a huge rift developing in the fabric of the Astana cycling team.

Cyclingnews.com published a rewrite of the original…