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• Philippe Gilbert Winning Streak Continues At Tour of Lombardy
  October 17th, 2009
  

  Belgian Philippe Gilbert won his fourth race in a row as his hot streak continued with victory in Saturday’s Tour of Lombardy over 242km from Varese to Cuomo.
  Gilbert beat breakaway companion and Spanish Olympic champion Samuel Sanchez in a two-man sprint to win the last Classic of the [...]

• ‘Vino’ and ‘Kash’ Return To Worlds Stage After Bans
  September 23rd, 2009
  

  Kazakhstan riders Andrey Kashechkin and Alexandre Vinokourov will compete in Thursday’s time trial at the world road race championships after completing recent bans for doping.
  Vinokourov, a former podium finisher on the Tour de France, completed a two-year ban for blood doping at the 2007 edition of the race in July.
  [...]

• Vinokourov To Fight On As Horner Forced To Quit Vuelta
  September 2nd, 2009
  

  TARRAGONA, Spain, Sept 2, 2009 (AFP) – American Chris Horner has been forced out of the Tour of Spain after sustaining injuries in the mass pile-up which marred the end of Tuesday’s stage, his Astana team said Wednesday.
  Another Astana rider, Alexandre Vinokourov, was also caught up in the melee [...]

• Hand Fracture For Horner in Tour of Spain / Vinokourov Continues After Crash
  September 1st, 2009
  

  LIEGE SEPTEMBER 1st – Team Astana’s Chris Horner broke his left hand in the high-speed massive crash in the 4th stage of the Tour of Spain. Besides the undisplaced fracture of the left metacarpal IV Horner was further diagnosed in the Citadelle Hospital of Liège with a hematoma of the right hip and a [...]

• Cancellara Motors To Tour of Spain Opener
  August 29th, 2009
  

  ASSEN, Netherlands, Aug 29, 2009 (AFP) – Swiss rider Fabian Cancellara of the Saxo Bank team won the Tour of Spain opening prologue on Saturday which took place hundreds of miles away from Spain at Assen’s motorcycling circuit in northern Holland
  Cancellara, who also won the first stage of the [...]

• Astana Says Contador Going Nowhere in 2010
  August 15th, 2009
  

  PARIS, Aug 15, 2009 (AFP) – Tour de France champion Alberto Contador has been warned he may have to fight if he is to be granted his wish of leaving top cycling team Astana.
  The two-time yellow jersey winner is reported to be poring over offers from rival teams following [...]

• Taaramae Snatches Overall Win From Horner
  August 12th, 2009
  

  CULOZ, France, Aug 12, 2009 (AFP) – Estonia’s Rein Taaramae of the Cofidis team won the final stage of the four-day Tour de l’Ain on Wednesday to snatch overall victory from American Chris Horner.
  Taaramae, who was celebrating his first professional victory, rode off to stage victory on the summit [...]

• Vinokourov Shows Good Form At Tour de l’Ain
  August 11th, 2009
  

  SAINT-GENIS-POUILLY , France, Aug 11, 2009 (AFP) – Kazakh rider Alexandre Vinokourov, just back from a two-year blood doping ban, on Tuesday showed a clean pair of wheels to his Tour de l’Ain rivals in winning a third stage time trial over 8.6km at Saint-Genis-Pouilly.
  Vinokourov, riding for the Kazakh [...]

• Vinokourov Returns To Roots On Competitive Return
  August 6th, 2009
  

  BOURG-EN-BRESSE, France, Aug 6, 2009 (AFP) – Disgraced cyclist Alexandre Vinokourov will make his competitive return this week hoping to show he has not lost too much race form during a two-year ban for doping.
  Once one of the peloton’s toughest racers Vinokourov was revealed as a cheat in 2007 [...]

• Vinokourov Set To Return To Racing Post Doping Ban
  August 3rd, 2009
  

  Kazakh cyclist Alexandre Vinokourov will return to racing Tuesday after serving a two-year doping ban which followed a positive test on the 2007 Tour de France.
  Vinokourov will get back in the saddle for Tuesday’s criterium race at Castillon-la-Bataille in southwestern France, organizers said.
  “It is his first race after [...]

• It’s Bruyneel Or Me, Says Banned Vinokourov
  July 2nd, 2009
  

  by Ryland James
  MONACO, July 2, 2009 (AFP) – Banned rider Alexandre Vinokourov, whose doping suspension ends on July 24, insisted he will return to the Astana team even if it means its manager, Johan Bruyneel, has to leave the team.
  The 35-year-old Kazakh, who failed a doping [...]

• CAS Uphoalds Vinokourov’s Ban Until End Of July
  June 16th, 2009
  

  International Sport’s top court upheald Tuesday that disgraced Kazakh doper cyclist Alexander Vinokourov must serve out a two-year doping ban until late July.
  The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) said in a statement it had set aside the one-year suspension handed down by Kazakhstan’s cycling federation in December [...]

• New Jersey, And No Sponsor On Armstrong’s Angry Team Kit
  May 15th, 2009
  

  American Lance Armstrong’s Astana team admitted Friday they have been forced into desperate measures in a bid to publicize a never-ending financial dispute with their key sponsors.
  Seven-time Tour de France winner Armstrong and his Astana teammates started the Tour of Italy’s seventh stage Friday with new jerseys and [...]

• Alexandre Vinokourov Threatens Comeback
  May 8th, 2009
  

  Kazakhstan’s Alexandre Vinokourov has said he wants to launch a comeback later this year after competing a two-year suspension for a doping offense.
  “I do not want to end my career on such a sour note. It’s time to announce my return to action,” the 35-year-old told L’Equipe sports daily.
  Vinokourov [...]

• Disgraced Vinokourov Looks To Join Up With Armstrong At Team Astana
  October 4th, 2008
  

  BRUSSELS, Oct 4, 2008 (AFP) – Disgraced Tour de France star Alexandre Vinokourov has announced plans to return to professional cycling, with the Astana team of Lance Armstrong, according to reports here Saturday.
  The 35-year-old from Kazakhstan was handed a one-year ban after testing positive for blood doping at the [...]

• Vino, Mayo and Moreni To Face Criminal Charges
  July 12th, 2008
  

  PAU, France, July 12, 2008 (AFP) – Former Astana team leader Alexandre Vinokourov is among three riders set to face criminal charges following the discovery of drugs at last year’s Tour de France, a report said on Friday.
  According to Sud Ouest newspaper Vinokourov, kicked off last year’s race along [...]

• Liquigas Team Now At Risk Of Tour Expulsion As Beltran Tests Positive
  July 11th, 2008
  

  by Justin Davis
  AURILLAC, France, July 11, 2008 (AFP) – French police have taken Spanish cyclist Manuel Beltran, of the Liquigas team, away for questioning in the wake of the first doping scandal to emerge at this year’s Tour de France.
  Beltran, best known for helping Lance Armstrong to the [...]