Updating this event to Stage 5 of 5 (Final) - Click Link below Lots of USA, CAN, IRL riders (Source: Cycle Racing)Stage and GC Results
Tour de Bulgarie - Bulgaria - GC:Tomasz KLOCZKO (Pol)
Tue Sep 21 18:48:45 2004
Updating this event to Stage 11 of 11 (Final) - Click Link below (Source: Cycle Racing)Stage and GC Results
Bradley McGee extends at FdJ
Tue Sep 21 17:48:29 2004
The Australian Bradley McGee has extended his contract at fdjeux.com for a further two years. McGee (28), a speed merchant, won the prologue in the 2003 Tour de France ahead of Scotland's David Millar. Prologue, Tour, 2003 1. Bradley McGee (Aus) en 7'26"16 2. David Millar (Gbr) à 0"08 3. Haimar Zubeldia (Esp) à 2"09 4. Jan Ullrich (All) à 2"11 5. Victor-Hugo Pena (Col) à 6"08 (Source: VRT)Bradley's Official Site
Giro di Lombardia - New Parcourse
Tue Sep 21 16:30:32 2004
The Giro di Lombardia, the final race of the World Cup on October 16th, has adopted a new course this year. The Fogli Morti (Falling Leaves) as the event is sometimes known as it takes place at the end of the season when the leaves are falling, will start this year in Mendrisio, Switzerland and finish in Como, Italy. The new route is 246 km long, a slight reduction over the course used in prior years. Como hasn't seen the finish of this great Italian race for 20 years when Frenchman Bernard Hinault won. For the 98th edition, Lombardia starts outside Italy for the first time although Mendrisio, in the Italian speaking Canton of Tessin is very close to the Italian border, and after 18 km. the rest of the course will stay in Italy. Previously the race started in Como with the finish line in Bergamo. (Source: L'Equipe)Can Bartoli make it Three in a Row?
Cofidis Transfers
Tue Sep 21 16:24:06 2004
Dutchman, Jans Koerts, 35 years old, winner of a stage of Paris-Nice in 2001, has joined Cofidis. He will join Nicolas Roche (see below) (Source: L'Equipe)Cofidis - Official Site
Kloeden Staying with T-Mobile
Tue Sep 21 16:15:39 2004
Germany's Andreas Kloeden has extended his contract with the T-Mobile squad. The extension was announced today at a Press Conference in Bonn. The German Champion, second to Armstrong at this year's Tour de France, is 29 years old. (Source: L'Equipe)
Spotted Dick: Press Conference Friday
Tue Sep 21 16:07:54 2004
Richard Virenque, who hasn't previously indicated whether or not he will end his career after this season will hold a Press Conference this coming Friday in the Olympia Hall, site of many Parisian Spectacles, to address the subject. (Source: L'Equipe)Richard - Official Site
Roche junior signs pro deal
Tue Sep 21 15:59:05 2004
Nicholas Roche, 19-year-old son of cycling great Stephen Roche of Ireland, has signed a two-year professional contract with top French team Cofidis. Roche, a member of the French club VC La Pomme-Marseille, has been on trial with Cofidis in recent weeks. His father became only the second rider to win the Triple Crown of cycling with triumphs in the Giro d'Italia, Tour de France and World Championship in 1987. The legendary Eddy Merckx had achieved the feat in 1974. (Source: BBC)
Vuelta - Stage 16 to Spaniard Jose Julia
Tue Sep 21 12:49:35 2004
Spaniard Jose Julia broke away with two kilometres to go to win the 16th stage of the Tour of Spain from Olivenza to Caceres on Tuesday. Julia took off from a group of six riders, the leading segment of a group originally made up of 13 in a day-long move. Slovenian Tadej Valjavec was second over the 190.1-km stage, 12 seconds behind Julia, and Danilo Di Luca of Italy was third. (Source: Marca)Vuelta - Official Site
Ferrari to visit Regina Coeli?
Tue Sep 21 12:40:53 2004
The Prosecution are demanding a prison sentence for doctor Ferrari Prosecutors demanded todaay (Tuesday) that an Italian sports doctor should be jailed for 14 months for doping offences. Italian news agency ANSA said the public prosecutor Lorenzo Gestri asked for Michele Ferrari to be given a 14-month sentence, a 900 euro ($1,100) fine and a one-year ban from medical activity. The doctor, who has worked with six times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, has denied the charges and said he was being made a "scapegoat" for the drug problems in cycling. If convicted Ferrari would be given two opportunities to appeal any sentence before having to serve prison time. Ferrari, a former university researcher, is accused of doping riders during the past 10 years a nd of receiving banned drugs from a pharmacy in Bologna. The trial in a Bologna court began in December 2001. (Source: Reuters)
Hamilton: IOC hedging
Tue Sep 21 10:52:38 2004
British Eurosport commentator David Harmon is hot off the phone with a spokesman at the International Olympic Committee, looking to niggle out new precisions on the doping case involving Olympic TT champ Tyler Hamilton. ``The IOC is neither confirming nor denying Hamilton's positive test at the Athens Games.'' (Source: EuroSport)Hamilton Tests Positive
Beloki abandons Vuelta
Tue Sep 21 09:33:35 2004
Spaniard Joseba Beloki has abandoned the race, tossing the towel in the midst of this 190 km trek between Olivenza and Caceres. Beloki, still on the psychological mend after a horrendous crash at the 2003 Tour de France, has had a rough ride in 2004, yet to find to find his former winning ways... (Source: EuroSport)
Tyler Hamilton has definitely tested positive for Blood Doping. However, the finding must be confirmed by the counter-analysis which will probably be conducted sometime today. American Tyler Hamilton, Olympic TT Medalist, Positive at the Vuelta, will go down in History, should the conter-analysis also prove Positive, as the first to be unmasked by the new technique which was used both at the Olympics and the Worlds. Breaking the news, the Spanish Press are quoting the Doctor for Phonak, Hamilton's Swiss squad. Hamilton won, September 11th., the 8th Stage 40.1 Km Time Trial of the Vuelta at Almussafes before abandoning the Vuelta six days later. Officially, Phonak cited Stomach Problems as the reason for the ``abandon''. Hamilton who switched from the CSC squad to Phonak after the 2003 season, has had an up and down Summer. Abandoning the Tour on stage 13 in the Pyrennees he went on on to win Gold in the Athens Olympics Time Trial. (Source: L'Equipe)Hamilton: A Short Bio
Ladies Only
Tue Sep 21 08:14:25 2004
Here's Kimberly Bruckner......... (Source: Six Day staff. Photo Courtesy Cyclisme féminin)Kimberly
Worlds TimeTable
Tue Sep 21 01:48:29 2004
Date Venue Local Time Event Distance Laps Mon 27 Bardolino 12,00-13,15 TT Jr. W 15,700 kms Sept 14,30-17,05 TT U23 M 36,750 kms Tue 28 Bardolino 12,30-15,00 TT Jr. M 24,050 kms Sept 15,15-17,05 TT Elite W 24,050 kms Wed 29 Bardolino 14,30-17,10 TT Elite M 48,750 kms Fri 1 Verona 09,20-11,50 RR Jr. W 73,750 kms 5 Oct 12,30-17,15 RR U23 M 177,000 kms 12 Sat 2 Verona 09,00-12,40 RR Jr. M 132,750 kms 9 Oct 13,30-17,25 RR Elite W 132,750 kms 9 Sun 3 Verona 10,00-16,55 RR Elite M 265,500 kms 18 Oct (Source: Verona Official Site)Official Worlds Site
Hamilton under a Cloud
Tue Sep 21 00:20:52 2004
Reports are coming in from Spanish news agencies that Phonak rider, Tyler Hamilton, who recently abandoned the Vuelta for a not altogether convincing reason, has been engaged in practices designed to enhance his athletic performance by means of methods not sanctioned by the UCI (Union Cycliste International, the governing body of the sport of cycling) It is inferred from what scant reports are currently available, that a review of Hamilton's Haemocrit levels over a period of time has raised the question of whether or not Hamilton has been engaged in the practice of ``Blood Doping''. Speculation is now rife over whether Slava Ekimov (Russia), Bobby Julich (USA) and Michael Rogers (Australia) will eventually be declared the top three in the Olympic Time Trial. (Source: Sundry)