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• Team RadioShack Exclusive Training Camp Photos
  December 8th, 2009
  

  The morning started out with the pre morning temps around 40 degrees, Team RadioShack started to get ready for the morning ride with all eyes looking out for Mr. Lance Armstrong himself. Wearing his now trademark Mellow Johnny’s kit and black and yellow helmet., he took to the front of the ride and started [...]

• 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 [...]

• 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 [...]

• Armstrong to Race In Nevada City Classic
  June 17th, 2009
  

  LOS ANGELES, June 17, 2009 (AFP) – Lance Armstrong will continue his preparations for the Tour de France by racing in the Nevada City Classic on Sunday, the seven-time Tour de France champion said on Twitter.
  Armstrong returned to the United States after finishing 12th in the Giro d’Italia in [...]

• Small Fracture for Chris Horner of Astana
  May 29th, 2009
  

  An MRI scan in San Diego revealed a hairline crack in the lateral tibia plateau of his left leg. Chris Horner crashed in the 10th stage of the Tour of Italy (Cuneo-Pinerolo). He finished the stage but was not able any more to start in the eleventh stage. After one week rest Chris Horner resumed [...]

• Leipheimer Crashes, But Gets Up And Finishes On Horner’s Bike
  May 2nd, 2009
  

  Today’s Tour of the Gila came out and bit the race leader, Levi Leipheimer, with just six corners remaining in Saturday’s Downtown Silver City Crit. Leipheimer had to avoid a crash that happened right in front of him, and in doing so he rolled his tire and went down. But the quick thinking of [...]

• Tour of the Gila Race Good Training For Armstrong, Says Bruyneel
  May 2nd, 2009
  

  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 on Thursday.
  Bruyneel, in the United States to watch Armstrong and Astana teammates Levi Leipheimer and Chris Horner compete as independents in [...]

• PRESS RELEASE: Lance Armstrong to return at SRAM Tour of the Gila, Levi Leipheimer and Chris Horner to join
  April 28th, 2009
  

  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). The Texan was back on the bike days after a crash and subsequent collar bone fracture in the Castilla y León in (Spain) stage race [...]

• Armstrong Jumps On A Jet Plane To Race Tour of Gila In New Mexico
  April 28th, 2009
  

  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 hone his form for the Giro d’Italia which begins on May 9, his team confirmed on Tuesday.
  It [...]

• Chris Horner Out For Tour of Spain / Astana in Spain and France
  August 4th, 2008
  

  Chris Horner (Astana Cycling Team) broke his left collar bone after a crash in the final sprint of the 2nd stage of the Tour of Elk Grove, IL, USA on August, 2nd. Chris Horner was able to finish the race (as 34th) but was transported to a nearby hospital where the break was diagnosed.
  Chris [...]

• Rock Racing’s Dawson Wins Shortened Race
  July 21st, 2008
  

  Evanston, Ill. — Peter Dawson scored his second victory – and Rock Racing’s fifth of the Point Premium Root Beer International Cycling Classic – in winning the Evanston Northwestern Healthcare Grand Prix of Cycling.
  Sunday’s race was originally scheduled for 62 miles (100 km) around a six-turn, 0.8-mile course. But a pair of serious crashes twice [...]

• Chris Horner of Astana Wins In Canada
  July 21st, 2008
  

  Chris Horner (Astana Cycling Team) captured the Tour de White Rock Road Race on Sunday, July 20th. That race was the finale of the 10-day, eight-race British Columbia Superweek Series (a Series that has Lance Armstrong on his list as a former winner). The Tour de White Rock is one of Canada’s classic races, on [...]

• Astana Has A Successful Weekend – Yellow In Oregon, Podiums In Austria
  July 14th, 2008
  

  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 in the five-day-race in Central Oregon. Not present in the Tour the France, the USA road champion, was delighted to wear a yellow jersey, the one [...]

• Exclusive: Daily Podcast from the Tour of California – Stage Seven Edition
  February 25th, 2008
  

  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 Stapleton, Team High Road
  Freddie Rodgriguez, Rock Racing
  Chris Horner, Astana
  Jose Luis ‘Chechu’ Rubiera, Astana
  Scott Nydam, BMC
  Michael Creed, Rock Racing

  Summary of the Day’s Racing Action
  Final Standings
  Post-race Interview with Michael Creed
  Press Conference [...]

   

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