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PARIS, Sept 30, 2011 (AFP) – Slovenia cyclist Janez Brajkovic, the winner of the 2010 Criterium du Dauphine, has rejoined Astana, the Kazakhstan team announced on Friday. “With Roman Kreuziger [...]
PARIS, May 3, 2011 – The Czech rider Roman Kreuziger has the podium objective in the Giro which starts Saturday in Turin, said Tuesday his Astana team. Kreuziger will have [...]
MONACO- Embattled Tour de France winner Alberto Contador was wiped from the record when his former Astana team staged their2011 launch on Friday. Contador, who was provisionally suspended after failing [...]
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Evgueni Petrov stage winner at Aquila during the last Giro d’Italia has signed a contract for two seasons for the Astana team (2011 and 2012). The Russian former world champion [...]
PRAGUE – Rising Czech cycling star Roman Kreuziger signed for Kazakh outfit Astana on a two year contract on Tuesday from Italian team Liquigas. The 24-year-old – winner of this [...]
COPENHAGEN – Three-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador of Spain has signed a two-year contract with the Saxo Bank-Sungard team managed by Bjarne Riis. The move announced Tuesday comes [...]
NEW YORK – Three-time Tour de France champion Greg LeMond has received a subpoena to testify before a grand jury in the investigation of possible fraud and doping charges against [...]
If you’re not excited about how this Tour de France is setting up, you’ve topped your max heartrate one too many times. May you rest in peace. On Saturday the [...]
The Astana Cycling Team is placed as leader of the UCI world ranking team, with 624 points ahead of training Katusha, 575 points. The Kazakh team counts two of its [...]
Alberto Contador finished today the recon of four Pyrenean stages of the Tour 2010, where he spent four days training in the company of seven teammates: Fofonov, Tiralongo, Noval, Navarro, [...]
MIDDELBURG, Netherlands, May 10, 2010 (AFP) – Veteran Alexandre Vinokourov, riding for Astana, took the overall leader’s pink jersey following Monday’s third stage of the Tour of Italy, the day’s [...]
PARIS, April 28, 2010 – Kazakh Alexander Vinokourov, winner of last weekend’s Liege-Bastogne-Liege, will lead the Astana team at the three-week Giro d’Italia which starts on May 8 in Amsterdam. [...]
Kazakh rider Assan Bazayev, which crashed Tuesday in the first stage of the race Three Days of De Panne, shall observe complete rest for two weeks, said Thursday by his [...]
Spain’s Alberto Contador secured a Paris-Nice double whammy on Thursday by winning the race’s fourth stage here, becoming the overall leader in the process. The Astana rider attacked 1700 meters [...]
VIENNA, Jan 30, 2010 (AFP) – Tour de France champion Alberto Contador insists the thought of having seven-time winner Lance Armstrong as his main rival in this year’s race is [...]
Specialized is one of Team Astana’s sponsors, and with Alberto Contador being on the team, plus he signed a contract with Specialized, it was only a matter of time before [...]
Reigning Santos Tour Down Under champion Allan Davis will return to Adelaide to defend his title with new team Astana. Allan Davis today confirmed he has signed a two year [...]
PARIS, Jan 5, 2010 (AFP) – Australian Allan Davis, champion in last year’s Tour Down Under, has signed a two-year deal with the Astana team, led by Spanish star Alberto [...]
PARIS, Dec 23, 2009 (AFP) – Blood doping kits were discovered in a search of medical equipment belonging to the Astana team during this year’s Tour de France. Blood transfusions [...]
PARIS, Dec 8, 2009 (AFP) – Spain’s Oscar Pereiro, a former Tour de France winner, has signed a one-year contract with Astana, the Kazakh team announced on Tuesday. The move [...]
MADRID, Nov 10, 2009 (AFP) – Two-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador may stay with the Astana team until 2010, but no longer than that, Spanish media said Tuesday. [...]
MADRID, Oct 29, 2009 (AFP) – Two-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador revealed on Thursday that he is yet to choose which team he will ride for next season [...]
PARIS, Oct 30, 2009 (AFP) – The International Cycling Union (UCI) on Thursday reopened a war of words with the French anti-doping agency AFLD in blasting an AFLD report which [...]
PARIS, Oct 30, 2009 (AFP) – The International Cycling Union (UCI) on Thursday reopened a war of words with the French anti-doping agency AFLD in blasting an AFLD report which [...]
MADRID, Oct 24, 2009 (AFP) – Tour de France champion Alberto Contador would like to race with a Spanish team next year but refused to rule out staying with Astana [...]
Kazakh cycling team Astana, still awaiting their ProTour license, insisted Friday they are hopeful of keeping Tour de France champion Alberto Contador among their riders. Astana and four other teams [...]
PARIS, Oct 14, 2009 (AFP) – Spain’s reigning Tour de France champion Alberto Contador played down the threat of a drugs probe that was launched a day before the presentation [...]
A doping inspector with the International Cycling Union (UCI) has backed the body’s claims that Lance Armstrong’s team were not given special treatment by UCI anti-doping inspectors at the 2009 [...]
French anti-doping chiefs (AFLD) said Wednesday they were surprised at the lack of positive doping tests at this year’s Tour de France and said they won’t collaborate with world cycling’s [...]
The cycling future of the Astana team, whose star rider is Tour de France champion Alberto Contador, could be in doubt, UCI chief Pat McQuaid said Saturday. Astana are currently [...]
Two-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador, under contract with Astana until 2010, is unwilling to negotiate with his Kazakh-funded team until management issues are cleared up. “Currently, we don’t [...]
MADRID, Sept 5, 2009 (AFP) – Two-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador, under contract with Astana until 2010, has received offers from Garmin, Caisse d’Epargne and Quick Step as [...]
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 [...]
VERBIER, Switzerland, July 19, 2009 (AFP) – Spain’s 2007 champion Alberto Contador of Astana took possession of the Tour de France yellow jersey after a superb solo attack and victory [...]
Lance Armstrong will be able to compete for his eighth Tour de France title this summer after his Astana team announced on Monday that they have resolved their financial problems. [...]
PARIS, June 5, 2009 (AFP) – Astana, the team of seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong and Spanish star Alberto Contador, have yet to pay a bank guarantee on [...]
American Lance Armstrong admitted he is still finding his climbing legs after losing nearly three minutes to the favourites on the Tour of Italy’s second day in the mountains. Russian [...]
By ANDREW DAMPF, AP Sports Writer May 6, 7:22 pm EDT VENICE, Italy (AP)—Lance Armstrong lashed out Wednesday at Kazakh officials who let his Astana team fall into a financial [...]
Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong is regaining the form he showed before breaking his collarbone last month in a crash in Spain, Astana team manager Johan Bruyneel said [...]
Silver City, NM – April 28, 2009 – Lance Armstrong has announced his return to racing will commence at the challenging 23rd SRAM Tour of the Gila (New Mexico, USA). [...]
by Justin Davis PARIS, April 28, 2009 (AFP) – American Lance Armstrong has performed a dramatic u-turn and will race in New Mexico’s Tour de Gila in a bid to [...]
Lance Armstrong’s Astana team expressed optimism Wednesday over his prospects of recovering from his broken collarbone in time to line up for next month’s Tour of Italy. The seven-time Tour [...]
MADRID, April 8, 2009 (AFP) – Spain’s Alberto Contador seized the overall leadership at the halfway point of the Tour of the Basque Country after launching a daring late attack [...]
American cycling legend Lance Armstrong has expressed his outrage at claims from France that he had not behaved himself during an out of competition drug test earlier this season. The [...]
: MADRID, March 27, 2009 (AFP) – Americain Levi Leipheimer of the Astana team Friday won the Tour of Castilla y Leon in northern Spain, a race overshadowed by an [...]
Team Astana’s Levi Leipheimer and Alberto Contador finished first and second in the second stage of the Spanish stage race Vuelta a Castilla y León. Leipheimer took over the lead [...]
PALENCIA, Spain, March 24, 2009 (AFP) – American cycling legend Lance Armstrong left Spain for his home in Texas Tuesday a day after suffering a broken collarbone during a race. [...]
MILAN, Italy, March 20, 2009 (AFP) – Lance Armstrong on Friday declared himself “happy” to be competing in the Milan-San Remo again after an absence of seven years. “It will [...]
MILAN, Italy, March 20, 2009 (AFP) – American cycling legend Lance Armstrong will meet with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi before competing in the Giro d’Italia on May 9-June 1 [...]
Team Astana’s Andreas Klöden took over the lead in the Italian stage race Tirreno-Adriatrico (March 11th-17th) after winning the 5th stage, an individual time trial from Loreto to Macerata. Klöden [...]
PARIS, March 2, 2009 (AFP) – Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong is to continue his build-up to this year’s Tour of Italy and Tour de France with two [...]
PRESS RELEASE – TEAM ASTANA Team Astana’s Alberto Contador took an early season-victory by winning the 4th stage in the Tour of Algarve (Portugal), a 33.7 kilometer individual time trial [...]
SANTA CRUZ, California, Feb 16, 2009 (AFP) – American Thomas Peterson won the second stage of the Tour of California on Monday while countryman Levi Leipheimer seized the leader’s yellow [...]
MADRID, Oct 18, 2008 (AFP) – Spaniard Alberto Contador, reigning champion of the Tour of Italy and Spain, on Saturday confirmed he will remain at Astana next season despite the [...]
PAU, France, July 15, 2008 (AFP) – Seventeen of the world’s top cycling teams said on Tuesday they would not be seeking a Pro Tour license for 2009, according to [...]
Successful Weekend: Yellow In Oregon, Podiums In Austria More than ten years after his first stage victories in the Cascade Cycling Classic (1996, 1997) Levi Leipheimer claimed the overall victory [...]
There are still two days to go, but Levi Leipheimer has taken an option on the final victory in the Cascade Cycling Classic. It is the 29th edition of America’s [...]
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 [...]
Tomas Vaitkus had two successful days in his homeland of Lithuania. After he took the silver medal in the time trial on Friday, he won the national title in the [...]
Sérgio Paulinho is the new time trial champion of Portugal. The only Portuguese Astana Cycling Team rider was the fastest rider on the 27.6 K long circuit in Paredes. Paulinho [...]
For the third day in a row the Astana Cycling Team won a gold medal in the national championships. On Saturday, Assan Bazayev took the national road title in Kazakhstan. [...]
Only two of the 180 riders in the Russian championship were Astana Cycling Team riders but a Team rider won. Sergey Ivanov was the strongest rider in the Russian championship [...]
ALTORF, Switzerland, June 21, 2008 (AFP) – Czech rider Roman Kreuziger, of the Liquigas team, won the eighth stage of the Tour of Switzerland here on Saturday to seize the [...]
VERBIER, Switzerland, June 19, 2008 (AFP) – Luxembourg’s Kim Kirchen, riding for the High Road team, surged into the overall lead of the Tour of Switzerland after keeping his cool [...]
Giro winner Contador ready for Olympics MADRID, June 17, 2008 (AFP) – Spain’s recently-crowned Tour of Italy champion Alberto Contador has said he wants to compete in the Beijing Olympics. [...]
Levi Leipheimer held on to his 3th place on the final podium of the Dauphiné Libéré. The whole team performed well and defended with success its first place in the [...]
AVIGNON, France, June 7, 2008 (AFP) – Astana have watered down pre-race predictions that their team leader for the Dauphine Libere, Levi Leipheimer, will emerge triumphant after a week of [...]
Astana Cycling Team, with Team Director Alain Gallopin, comes with a strong team to the 60th Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré to defend its first place in the ProTour Team Classification. [...]
Three days after capturing the 91st Giro d’Italia title, Alberto Contador gets his deserved rest. The last days were well filled with celebrations. At a press meeting in Pinto, he [...]
by Justin Davis PARIS, May 5, 2008 (AFP) – Spaniard Alberto Contador and his Astana team have admitted to being in a race against time as they prepare for the [...]
One week prior to the start of the Giro d’Italia (May 10th-June 1st), the Astana Cycling Team has received an invitation to participate in the first Grand Tour of 2008. [...]
ROME, May 4, 2008 (AFP) – Giro d’Italia organizers have performed a dramatic u-turn and invited the Kazakh-backed Astana cycling team to this year’s race, Italian daily La Gazzetta dello [...]
This is excellent news for Astana. We at Bicycle.net would be thrilled to see Astana at the Giro. Anything that increases the level of competition is good for cycling. PARIS, [...]
ROME, April 8, 2008 (AFP) – Eddy Mazzoleni, third in last year’s Tour of Italy (Giro d’Italia), has been handed a two-year ban by the Italian Cycling Federation (FCI) for [...]
Pasadena, Calif. (Feb. 24, 2008) Michael Creed‘s extraordinary ride Sunday capped an impressive performance for Rock Racing at the Amgen Tour of California. Attacking from the start of the 93-mile [...]
Enjoy the Bicycle.Net podcast Stage 7 edition with our host, David Bernstein of The FredCast Cycling Podcast. Preview of Today’s Stage 7 Interviews with: Mark Cavendish, Team High Road Bob [...]
VeloGuy spent the end of the race sitting in the finishing shoot with camera in hand watching for the leaders to cross the finish line. Sitting next to him was [...]
Stage One. Sausalito to Santa Rosa. Jackson Stewart fighting, Hincapie crashing, Haedo winning. Today’s race had it all. So what does tomorrow look like. Listen to David Bernstein of The [...]
Bicycle.Net Tour of California Podcast - Stage 1 Edition [ 30:05 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadSunday’s Prologue to the Amgen Tour of California, was a warm beautiful day, great crowds and tons of excitement. Listen here to Bicycle.Net’s podcast wrapup, with our host David Bernstein [...]
Bicycle.Net Tour of California Podcast - Prologue Edition [ 18:43 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadBicycle.net this year is thrilled to bring you fantastic exclusive interviews and podcasts. Here are some thoughts on what this year’s Tour of California is going to bring you. For [...]
Astana and the ASO – An opinion piece by bicycle.net It goes without saying that every organization is entitled to set their own standards and practices, and the ASO is [...]
Kloeden furious at Astana’s Tour rejection by Ryland James BERLIN, Feb 14, 2008 (AFP) – German cyclist Andreas Kloeden has reacted angrily to the news his Astana team – including [...]
Apartheid is an Afrikaans word meaning “separation” or “being apart”. [SATIRE... sort of] Is it now accurate to use apartheid to describe a policy that exists in France in the [...]
Alberto Contador and Levi Leipheimer Astana kicked out of Tour de France PARIS, Feb 13, 2008 (AFP) – The Astana team of reigning Tour de France champion Alberto Contador have [...]