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.

Velonews and cyclingnews have complete coverage.

Here’s the UCI press release …

Press release : Mikel Astarloza provisionally suspended

Date:
31.07.2009

Description:…

In its third edition, the Tour of Missouri will be a 2.HC race,  joining the Tour of California and the Tour of Georgia in the highest classification among stage races sanctioned by the Union Cycliste Internationale.

According to the UCI America Tour schedule,…

Lance Armstrong has said he’d be open and accommodating to everyone in his comeback in professional cycling, and apparently he meant it.

Three-time Tour de France champ and Armstrong antagonist Greg LeMond attended Armsrtrong’s press conference at InterBike, and Armstrong noted…

German Bert Grabsch of Team Columbia is the new World Time Trial champ in another  big victory for American team Columbia.

Canadian Svein Tuft was second, and American David Zabriskie third.

Favourite Levi Leipheimer would up four. My other podium picks —…

Thankfully, seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong and former UCI chief Hein Verbruggen have put the kibosh on the Sydney Morning Herald speculation that they wanted to buy A.S.O. and the Tour.

Said Armstrong, Tuesday in New York according to Velonews.com:  ”I…

Seriously, or so the Sydney Morning Herald is surmising in Saturday’s edition.

Story entitled: Once he dominated - now Lance could own the Tour

Tis an interesting theory to say the least, that Armstrong “may” team with former UCI head Hein Verbruggen…

In contemplating the word that best describes the 2008 Tour of Missouri, "speed" was the first thing that came to mind.

The second ToM was ridden at a blistering pace, 27.3 miles per hour, which is…

In the course of a year, the state of Missouri has had a front-row seat in the growth and maturation of the American professional cycling team owned by Slipstream Sports.

A year ago at the inaugural Tour of Missouri, Slipstream-Chipotle celebrated…

Svein Tuft’s (left) story about becoming a cyclist is not unlike the story of many avid, recreational cyclists.

You start riding, you really like it, you ride some more, you really, really like it and, before you know it, you’re taking…

There’s one thing I can state for certain about the second edition of the Tour of Missouri: We won’t see a repeat of last year’s decisive Stage 2 breakaway.

That 12-man  breakaway, which put nearly 15 minutes into the peloton, essentially…