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(Is that a good headline or what?) The UCI today made an official statement on l’affair Armstrong today. Aside from being a huge expansion on their previous statement, it also seems to be a flying leap into Armstrong’s corner, adminstering sternly-worded slaps to both l’Equipe and WADA chief Dick Pound (who I’ve been calling an…

Here’s a little good news for race-starved American cycling fans: Cycling.tv will be broadcasting the 2005 World Championships TT and 2005 Paris Brussels LIVE over the internet this September. Paris-Brussels, one of the oldest bike races in the world, dates back to 1893. Despite the name, the race begins 60k northest of Paris in Soissons,…

Well, isn’t this suprising? Alessandro Petacchi winning Stage 12 of the Vuelta in a group sprint after a picture-perfect leadout? Who would have thunk it? Seriously, though, why don’t we just give Petacchi all the remaining flat stages right now (and the Rainbow Jersey, while we’re at it), so we can jump to the final…

Top Story: Lance engaged to Sheryl Crow, making her perhaps the first trophy wife ever to be a decade older than her husband (unless, of course, Big Tex is the one being stuffed and mounted, here…) The seven-time Tour winner made sure to clear the decision with his three kids before popping the question; no…

I’m back, and we have much to discuss. Vuelta: Euskatel (remember them?) rider Roberto Laiseka won today, taking advantage of an ever-tightening GC battle to slip away for a mountaintop win. Denis Menchov is still in gold after taking it Saturday’s TT, and hanging with the leaders yesterday, when Paco Mancebo won his first Grand…

Ok, I was wrong all the way around the other day. The Vuelta was a group sprint, but with a reduced group, won by Max van Heeswijk, who charged back to the front after flatting with 15k to go (man, what I wouldn’t do for a 20-car caravan to chase back through in Cat 4…

Yeah, I have to go race today, so I won’t be around to give you the exciting results of today’s Vuelta stage (but I think it’s gonna be Petacchi), or today’s installment of the Tour of Britan (I predict a group sprint as well, let’s say won Luke Roberts of CSC). Probably will be in…

It’s like the TdF is kryptonite, because Roberto Heras flew like Superman to the top of Valdelinares today, taking the stage win and swiping the jersey from Brad McGee. When Heras is on, no one can climb anywhere near him. Denis Menchov gave it the old college try, though, ceeding only 13 seconds the scrawny…

“If Armstrong was a Frenchman and we had seen the same data, we would do the same thing,” Claude Droussent of l’Equipe told French TV station LCI. I guess we can assume that means not a single of those urine samples from the 1999 Tour has been linked to a Frenchman. Certainly FdJ directeur sportif…

Well, no. Not literally. Or figuratively. But there was a bomb threat at the finish of Stage 4 that delayed the start. Then Petacchi won. He makes it look easy. And I guess if you’re the fastest guy in the world, and you have 8 other guys determined to cart you to 150m before the…