Articles in the ‘Cycling’ Category

After winning the Tour de France this year, Australian Cadel Evans made it a point to pay tribute to Aldo Sassi, his coach who died succumbing to brain cancer last December, who inspired this victory.
His win was the first by an Australian in the history of the great race, and he attributes it to [...]

Cadel Evans will create history tonight when he becomes the first Australian to win the Tour de France.
For the many Australians who have spent the last three weeks on only a few hours sleep watching the awesome courage of our new national hero will be hoping for a National holiday to try and recover. The [...]

Once again after almost 25 years, ten American cyclists are competing at this year’s Tour de France on the same day every American citizen celebrate their Independence Day, July 4.
In an interview with long time Armstrong teammate, George Hincapie, he noted that the presence of 10 U.S. cyclists at the Tour de France is an [...]

Tyler Hamilton, a former teammate of world-renowned cyclist Lance Armstrong, confessed to using dope.
He was allowed to retain his gold medal from the Athens Olympics, but went to accuse other cyclists, including the best of the bunch, Lance Armstrong.
Hamilton has denied the use of performance-enhancing drugs for several years, but finally admitted to [...]

Recently it made the news that Spanish bicycle racer Alberto Contador was planning to take legal action against the unnamed sources accusing him of being a drug cheat. Currently under suspension pending investigation into his positive test for the banned substance clenbuterol at this year’s Tour de France, the racer clearly either had very bad [...]