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PEZ On The Scene: A Day With Garmin-Barracuda!
PezCycling News &bull Jan 30, 2012
Message by Alastair Hamilton Training camp time of year is probably the busiest time of year (for me) around this area. Astana, RadioShack, BMC, Quick-Step, Euskaltel-Euskadi, GreenEdge, Cofidis, Vacansoleil and many other smaller teams converge in this part of the… Full Story »
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Inside Trek's race department - Massive photo gallery
Bikeradar.com &bull Jan 21, 2012
Trek's race department is heavily tasked. This six-man team must support the company's professional race teams and individual athletes, and use those programs to test new products and make existing products better - because at Trek, they race what they… Full Story »
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Offseason Team Capsule: Lampre, or, which Cunego will we see this year?
Podium Café &bull Jan 12, 2012
Lampre is full of experienced veterans who will bring in plenty of good, if not spectacular, results. Lampre is full of aging riders on their last season of good results. Damiano Cunego will really be good this year (really!). Cunego, he's just going to disappoint people again. You could have made any of these statements at the beginning of the season and half the cycling world would have agreed with you. Lampre is a bit of a mystery - we never seem to know what to expect from them. After all, what other teams can have the same rider (Cunego)… Full Story »
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Offseason Capsule: TSV in 2011. Were the kids alright?
Podium Café &bull Jan 11, 2012
First, a quick introduction. TopSport Vlaanderen is the government-run - well, one of our government at least - sports program of Flanders. It isn't just for cycling, that is just one part of it. But since the dawn of time, or somewhere mid nineties at least, there has been a TSV cycling team, for both road cyclists and trackies. They're a ProContinental squad that like the classics, no surprise, but also usually participate in your second-tier Spanish or Italian climby stage races (think Burgos). They have a modest budget of 2.5 million euros, and have produced some great names in… Full Story »
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Best Of PEZ: Quick-Step Training Camp
PezCycling News &bull Dec 26, 2011
More... It's Best Of Week on PEZ, as we bid adieu to the big Holiday weekend and gear up for New Year's. For this Monday, we'll keep the Alastair Hamilton theme going and opt for his pick - the 2011 Quick-Step training camp - to go along nicely with yet another excellent EuroTrash. Read on! This article originally ran January 19, 2011. Team training camps are a nice way to meet the riders and staff, there's not the same pressures as at a race, it's more laid back and like meeting up with old mates on their holidays...well it feels… Full Story »
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A Day With "The Shack!"
PezCycling News &bull Dec 9, 2011
More... Well, its that time of year againDecember is training camp time in this part of Spain and the coastal town of Calpe is probably the favourite venue for the Pro teams. This year the RadioShack-Nissan-Trek was the first team to turn up for a full training camp. There have been a few small groups of riders, Astana also arrived around the same time, but it was The Shack who invited me to come… Full Story »
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Allegations Arise: Did Vinokourov buy 2010 Liege-Bastogne-Liege Victory?
Podium Café &bull Dec 8, 2011
Alexandre Vinokourov cheated. Maybe. At least that's what the headlines have been blasting all day. According to Swiss magazine L'Illustre the Astana rider paid Alexandre Kolobnev 100,000 Euro to take victory in the 2010 Liege-Bastogne-Liege uncontested. As you may remember, Vinokourov attacked Kolobnev in the final 800m of… Full Story »
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Olympic track test event tickets go on sale this month
Bikeradar.com &bull Nov 2, 2011
Tickets for the track cycling Olympic test event at the London velodrome will go on sale from 17 November, with prices ranging from 10 to 40. The event, which takes place from 17-19 February, will serve as the fourth and… Full Story »
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So I got bored and read every transfer blurb on every website and...
Podium Café &bull Oct 24, 2011
Some funny stuff has been going on over at RadioShack-Nissan-Trek (Ya know, the Bruyneel-Becca bastard child). From what I have gathered from 06.live-radsport/wielerflits/etc. Once school stops beating up on me, I have a story ready about Kritskiy...good comeback tale there.… Full Story »
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Worlds '11: The Men Provide The Expected Sprint!
PezCycling News &bull Sep 25, 2011
More... Race report: The mens road race might have taken place on a course flatter than squashed credit card, but the racing was fascinating as the British team tried to deliver on the worst-kept plan in road racing. Get Cavendish to the finish; everyone else tried to wreck that idea. Who had the last laugh? Read on ! The first established breakaway is seven strong, formed towards the end of the first hours racing. The peloton is keen to avoid last years near-humiliation then the commissaires had to order them to get the collective finger out before they got lapped.… Full Story »
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Vuelta'11 St.20: Bennati Victor In Vitoria!
PezCycling News &bull Sep 10, 2011
More... There was no change to the overall after the finish of today Vuelta a Espana stage between Bilbao and Vitoria. There was still lots of action, a miss judgement from Froome saw him go for the wrong intermediate sprint, a big break and solo attempts from Barredo and Sastre, but in the end it came down to a sprint finish. Madrid here we come! Today is (probably) the last chance for Chris Froome to win La Vuelta a Espana, he needs 13 seconds and more to take the red jersey from Juan Jose Cobo. The course does have opportunities… Full Story »
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Vuelta 19: Igor Anton wins on home turf
Bikeradar.com &bull Sep 9, 2011
Vivero. Alexsandr Dyanchenko (Astana). Full Story »
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- Astana
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Vuelta'11 St.19: Basque Triumph At Home In Bilbao
PezCycling News &bull Sep 9, 2011
More... Back to the heat and hills on the 19th day of racing with temps at 100F and 4 categorized climbs. Two Cat 3s and two ascents of the Cat 2 Vivero on the finishing circuits with the last climb just 15km from the finish were sure to provide some fireworks, and Igor Anton lit the fuse for the rabid fansRead on! The Vuelta was headed back to the Basque country today, for the first time since the late 70s, and to say the orange clad cycling… Full Story »
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Vuelta'11 St.17: More From Froome!
PezCycling News &bull Sep 7, 2011
More... Stage 17 came down to the last steep 3 kilometres up to the summit of the Pena Cabarga for a battle Royal between the top two riders in this Vuelta a Espana. It was head to head or toe to toe action with one attacking the other as the mountain climbed higher towards the finish. Froome needed to attack; Cobo had to respond...it was close fought action all the way to the line. Unlike yesterday's stage, today is rather hilly over its 211 kilometres. The longest stage on this years Vuelta goes from the Bodegas Faustino V, if members… Full Story »
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The Super Ultra Mega Transfer Thread
Podium Café &bull Sep 6, 2011
As demanded by the masses, more Super Ultra Mega Transfers. Now with even more random capitalisation. Ag2R In Sylvain Georges (neo) Romain Bardet (neo) Jimmy Casper > Saur Out David Le Lay Saur Astana In Andrey Kashechkin > Lampre Dmitriy Muravyev > RadioShack Jacopo Guarnieri > Liquigas Egor Silin > Katusha Francesco Gavazzi > Lampre Out Alexander Vinokourov (retired)… Full Story »
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Vuelta'11 St.14: Wiggins One Step Closer!
PezCycling News &bull Sep 3, 2011
More... Today Bradley Wiggins helped by his right-hand man; Chris Froome put himself ahead of all the other favourites in this years Vuelta a Espana with a strong ride that saw off Nibali and Rodriguez and ended the hopes of many others. Another full day of excitement on a monster stage of La Vuelta with a great ending! The early news is that Michele Scarponi (Lampre-ISD) did not start this morning, on yesterdays stage 13 to Ponferrada he lost 21 minutes to stage winner Michael Albasini (HTC), Scarponi was sitting in 37th place overall at 24 minutes and 10 seconds… Full Story »
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Vuelta'11 St.13: Albasini Doubles for HTC
PezCycling News &bull Sep 2, 2011
More... A hilly Friday faced the lads before the double whammy of two summit finishes coming Saturday and Sunday, leaving the door open for the opportunists today. And a special guest spectator was in the follow cars Alberto Contador himself followed todays stage. The beginning of the day was marked by some odd happenings, as twice huge groups of over 30 men were forming the breakaways on the early climbs, one even including race leader Bradley Wiggins. Eventually the groups broke up and Wiggins ended… Full Story »
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Vuelta 12: Sagan pounces in Pontevedra
Bikeradar.com &bull Sep 1, 2011
After winning from a small group in Cordoba, Peter Sagan showed the range of his talent when he led the bunch into Pontevedra. Showing consummate skill as he jumped from wheel to wheel in the final two kilometres, the Liquigas-Cannondale… Full Story »
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Vuelta a Espana: Mountaintop Victory for Moncoutie
Podium Café &bull Aug 31, 2011
David Moncoutie of Cofidis won Wednesday's stage of the Vuelta a Espana after a solo escape. The stage finished at the summit of the Estacion de Montana Manzaneda and perfectly suited the lanky French climbing specialist. Moncoutie has an affinity… Full Story »
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- Astana
- Vuelta a España
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Vuelta 9: Martin triumphs atop La Covatilla
Bikeradar.com &bull Aug 28, 2011
The first 'real' summit finish of this year's Vuelta a Espana produced the desired effect and sparked fireworks as Garmin-Cervelo's Daniel Martin took his first Grand Tour stage win at the end of a tough opening week. The Irishman claimed the spoils for his toil over the final seven kilometres of the stage - when the finishing climb to La Covatilla hit its hardest slopes - beating Rabobank's Bauke Mollema and Geox-TMC's Juan Jose Cobo, who finished second and third respectively. Overnight general classification leader Joaquin Rodriguez lost his red jersey after finishing 49 seconds behind the front group as… Full Story »
