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Prosecutor Asks For Three-Year Doping Ban For Di Luca
Italy’s anti-doping prosecutor on Thursday asked the Italian Olympic Committee’s anti-doping tribunal to hit former Tour of Italy winner Danilo Di Luca with a three-year ban.
Di Luca tested positive for the banned blood-booster EPO twice during May’s Tour of Italy, in which he finished second behind Russian Denis [...]
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- Inside The Rabobank Team Bus At Menchov Goes Down At Giro
June 8th, 2009This video is from the inside of the Rabobank team bus, while Denis Menchov goes down during the Giro time trial. The team riders reactions are priceless.
This is a must watch video. - Lance and Levi Discussing The Giro Stage 12 TT
May 23rd, 2009This is a video that Lance Armstrong put up of him and Levi Leipheimer discussing the Giro TT – stage 12. Pretty interesting stuff. Good insight into these cycling super stars.
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Lance and Levi Before Stage 13 — powered by http://www.livestrong.com - Giro d’Italia Stage 9 & Overall Results
May 17th, 2009Results in the 9th stage of the Tour of Italy here on Sunday:
1. Mark Cavendish (GBR/THR) [...] - Mark Cavendish Wins A Protested Stage 9 Of The Giro
May 17th, 2009by Jean Montois
MILAN, Italy, May 17, 2009 (AFP) – British sprint king Mark Cavendish claimed his first victory of the centenary Tour of Italy on Sunday to hand his dominant Columbia team their fourth win of the race.
Cavendish’s win followed hours of controversy which left race [...] - Boassen Hagen Wins Giro Stage 7, While Di Luca Still In Pink Jersey
May 15th, 2009CHIAVENNA, Italy, May 15, 2009 (AFP) – Boasson Hagen of Norway, riding for Columbia, won the seventh stage of the Tour of Italy on Friday at Chiavenna, with LPR’s Danilo Di Luca retaining the leader’s pink jersey.
Hagen emerged the winner from a five-man late escape over the final 20 [...] - Armstrong ‘Will Target Giro Stage Win’, Says Di Luca
May 14th, 2009MAYRHOFEN IM ZILLERTAL, Austria, May 14, 2009 (AFP) – America’s Lance Armstrong will target a stage win in the Giro d’Italia after falling off the pace in the overall standings, race leader Danilo Di Luca claimed on Thursday.
“You mustn’t forget that he stopped competing for three years and fractured [...] - Di Luca Wins Giro’s Stage 4, While Lovkvist Is Wearing Pink
May 12th, 2009Italy’s Danilo Di Luca raced his way to a victory on stage four of the Tour of Italy, the first foray into the mountains and where overnight leader Alessandro Petacchi was left trailing Tuesday.
Sweden’s Thomas Lovkvist, riding for Columbia, took the race leader’s pink jersey from star sprinter Petacchi [...] - Petacchi Wins Giro Stage 3, And Claims Pink Jersey
May 11th, 2009Italian Alessandro Petacchi of the LPR team won his second stage in a row to take the lead in the Tour of Italy on Monday after a 198km third stage slog from Grado to Valdobbiadene.
Petacchi made the most of a crash near the front of the peloton around 10km from [...] - Cavendish Still Wearing Pink As Petacchi Wins Giro 2nd Stage
May 10th, 2009Britain’s Mark Cavendish retained the race leader’s pink jersey on Sunday after Alessandro Petacchi of LPR won stage two of the Tour of Italy at Trieste.
Petacchi just edged out Cavendish, who had taken the opening honors with his Colombia colleagues on Saturday in the team time-trial at the [...] - Cancellara Confirms His Giro Aspirations
December 19th, 2008Organizers for the Tour of Italy said on Friday
that Olympic time trial champion Fabian Cancellara will join former seven-time
Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong on the start line for the centenary 2009
edition.
It promises to be one of the strongest Giro line-ups in recent history with
Italian former winners Ivan Basso — [...] - 2009 Giro d’Italia Stages
December 13th, 2008Stages for the 3,395.5km Tour of Italy 2009 were announced Saturday:
Stages
1) May 9: Venice Lido (team time-trial, 20.5 km)
2) May 10: Jesolo to Trieste (156 km)
3) May 11: Grado to Valdobbiadene (200 km)
4) May 12: Padova to San Martino [...] - Venice Start And A Rome Finish For Centenary Edition Of Giro d’Italia
December 13th, 2008ROME, Dec 13, 2008 (AFP) – The 2009 Tour of Italy, which will welcome former Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong for the first time, will start its centenary edition in Venice on May 9 and finish in Rome on May 31, organisers said in unveiling the 3,395.5km route on Saturday.
[...] - Cadel Evans Denies Rumors That He Will Race The Giro In 2009
December 13th, 2008Australian cycling ace Cadel Evans has denied he will ride in next year’s Giro d’Italia, putting him at odds with his Silence-Lotto team, reports said.
Race organisers on Wednesday announced that the 31-year-old runner-up in the past two Tours de France was set to take on seven-time Tour champion Lance Armstrong [...] - Teutenberg Finishes The Giro With Four Stage Wins and The Points Jersy
July 13th, 2008TEAM COLUMBIA’S TEUTENBERG FINISHES THE GIRO WITH FOUR STAGE WINS AND THE POINTS JERSEY
Desio, Italy, 13 July 2008 – Columbia’s Ina-Yoko Teutenberg won the final stage of the Giro d’Italia Femminile today finishing the ten day tour with four stage wins and the Points Jersey.
“I think this week was something that happens once in a [...] - Giro d’Italia Results – Stage 21 and Overall – Contador Wins It All
June 1st, 2008ALBERTO CONTADOR OF ASTANA WINS THE 2008 GIRO D’ITALIA
Results in the 21st and final stage of the Tour of Italy on Sunday, a 28.5km time trial from Cesano Maderno to Milan:
21st stage
1. Marco Pinotti (ITA/THR) 32min 45sec, 2. Tony Martin (GER/THR) 7sec behind, 3. Mikhail Ignatiev (RUS/TCS) [...] - Alberto Contador and Astana Leave No Doubts About Their Winning Ways
June 1st, 2008MILAN, June 1, 2008 (AFP) – Spain’s Alberto Contador of Astana won the Tour of Italy on Sunday following the final stage, a 28.5km time trial won by Italian Marco Pinotti of High Road.
The Spaniard snapped an 11-year Italian winning streak in the event – Russia’s Pavel Tonkov [...] - Giro d’Italia Results – Stage 19 and Overall
May 30th, 2008Results in the 228km 19th stage of the Tour of Italy from Legnano to here on Friday:
19th Stage:
1. Vasil Kiryienka (BLR) Tinkoff 6hr 37min 32sec. 2. Danilo Di Luca (ITA) LPR at 4min 36sec. 3. Alexander Efimkin (RUS) QST 4:43. 4. Steve Cummings
(GBR) BAR 5:25. 5. Riccardo [...] - Vasil Kiryienka of Tinkoff Wins The Giro Stage 19, Contador Still Wearing Pink But Says Race Is Still Wide Open
May 30th, 2008MONTE PORA, Italy, May 30, 2008 (AFP) – Belarussian Vasil Kiryienka, of the Tinkoff team, won the 19th stage of the Tour of Italy here on Friday following a long breakaway but Spain’s Alberto Contador said after retaining the overall lead the race was “wide open.”
The 228km stage [...] - Jens Voight Wins Stage 18 For CSC At Giro
May 29th, 2008Evergreen Voigt wins maiden Tour of Italy stage
VARESE, Italy, May 29, 2008 (AFP) – Veteran German rider Jens Voigt won his first ever stage in the Tour of Italy when he took the 18th leg here on Thursday, a 147 kilometres ride from the Swiss town of Mendissio the venue for the [...] - Team Milram States Igor Astarloa Might Be Canned After Team Blood Test At Giro
May 29th, 2008VARESE, Italy, May 29, 2008 (AFP) – Spain’s 2003 world road race champion Igor Astarloa, who retired from the Tour of Italy after just one stage following a blood test carried out by his Milram team could be axed by the German outfit it was revealed on Thursday.
Milram asked [...] - Giro d’Italia Race Results – Stage 17 and Overall
May 28th, 2008Results from the Tour of Italy following Wednesday’s 17 stage, a 146km ride from Sondrio to here:
Stage 17
1. Andre Greipel (GER) THR 3hr 27min 05sec, 2. Mark Cavendish (GBR) THR same time, 3. Daniele Bennati (ITA) LIQ, 4. Erik Zabel (GER) MRM, 5. Assan Bazayev (KAZ) AST, 6. Alexandre [...] - Giro d’Italia Results – Stage 16 and Overall
May 26th, 2008Results of the 16th stage of the Tour of Italy, a 12.9km time trial on Monday:
1. Franco Pellizotti (ITA/LIQ) 40min 26sec, 2. Emanuele Sella (ITA/CSF) at 0:06s, 3. Gilberto Simoni (ITA/SDA) 0:17, 4. Alberto Contador (ESP/AST) 0:22, 5. Riccardo Ricco (ITA/SDV) 0:30, 6. Jose Rujano (VEN/GCE) 0:49, 7. Marzio Bruseghin (ITA/LAM) 1:04, [...] - Franco Pellizotti of Liquigas Wins Giro 16th TT Stage, Alberto Contador Still In Pink
May 26th, 2008PLAN DE CORONES, Italy, May 26, 2008 (AFP) – Italian rider Franco Pellizotti of Liquigas won the 16th stage of the Tour of Italy, a 12.9km time trial here on Monday.
Spain’s Tour de France champion Alberto Contador retained the leader’s pink jersey after finishing fourth on the day, 22sec [...] - Alberto Contador of Asatana Is Now Wearing Pink Jersey While Sella Wins Two Stages In A Row
May 25th, 2008PASSO FEDAIA, Italy, May 25, 2008 (AFP) – Spaniard Albert Contador of
Astana took the overall lead in the Tour of Italy on Sunday after Italian
Emanuele Sella of CSF won the 15th stage.
Sella triumphed on the day in the rain but the plaudits went to Contador,
the reigning Tour de France champion, as [...] - Giro d’Italia Results – Stage 15 and Overall
May 25th, 2008Giro d’Italia results after
Sunday’s 15th stage, a 154km ride from Arabba to Passo Fedaia:Stage
1. Emanuele Sella (ITA/CSF) 154km in 4hr 53min 24sec
2. Domenico [...] - Emanuele Sella Solo’s To Giro Stage Win, While Gabriele Bosisio Tries On Pink For First Time
May 24th, 2008ALPE DE PAMPEAGO, Italy, May 24, 2008 (AFP) – Italian mountain specialist
Emanuele Sella came home alone to win in the 14th stage of the Tour of Italy
on the Alpe de Pampeago summit on Saturday.
The first day in the Dolomites produced a new leader with Italy’s Gabriele
Bosisio inheriting Giovanni Visconti’s pink jersey.
[...] - Giro d’Italia Results – Stage 14 and Overall
May 24th, 2008Results from the 193km 14th
stage of the Tour of Italy from Verona to Alpe de Pampeago on Saturday:
1. Emanuele Sella (ITA/CSF) 5hr 37min 14sec, 2. Vasil Kiryienka (BLR/TCS)
at 4min 38sec, 3. Joaquim Rodriguez (ESP/GCE) 5:08, 4. Jose Rujano (VEN/GCE)
7:28, 5. Paolo Bettini (ITA/QST) 7:59, 6. Denis Menchov (RUS/RAB) 8:48, 7.
Franco Pellizotti (ITA/LIQ) 8:57, [...] - Giro d’Italia Results – Stage 13 and Overall
May 23rd, 2008Results from the 177km 13th stage of the Tour of Italy from Modena to Cittadella on Friday:
1. Mark Cavendish (GBR/THR) 4hr 11min 07sec, 2. Daniele Bennati (ITA/LIQ) s.t., 3. Koldo Fernandez (ESP/EUS) s.t., 4. Erik Zabel (GER/MRM) s.t., 5.
Julian Dean (NZL/TSL) s.t., 6. Mirco Lorenzetto (ITA/LAM) s.t., 7. Alexandre Usov (BLR/A2R) s.t., [...] - Lucky 13 for Mark Cavendish Of High Road In Giro As Giovanni Visconti Keeps Pink Jersey
May 23rd, 2008CITTADELLA, Italy, May 23, 2008 (AFP) – Briton Mark Cavendish, riding for the High Road team, won Friday’s 13th stage of the Tour of Italy with Italian Giovanni Visconti holding on to the race leader’s pink jersey.
Cavendish was gaining quick revenge on second-placed Daniele Bennati, who
24 hours earlier [...] - Giro d’Italia Results – Stage 12 and Overall
May 22nd, 2008Results from the 169km 12th stage of the Tour of Italy from Forli to here on Thursday:
1. Daniele Bennati (ITA/LIQ) 4hr 05min 29sec, 2. Mark Cavendish (GBR/THR) s.t., 3. Robbie McEwen (AUS/SIL) s.t., 4. Koldo Fernandez (ESP/EUS) s.t., 5.
Paolo Bettini (ITA/QST) s.t., 6. Robert Forster (GER/GST) s.t., 7. Luciano Pagliarini (BRA/SDV) s.t., [...] - Giro d’Italia Stage 11 And OverAll Results
May 21st, 2008Results in the 199km 11th stage of the Tour of Italy from Urbania to Cesena on Wednesday:
11th stage
1. Alessandro Bertolini (ITA/SDA) 5hr 44min 22sec, 2. Pablo Lastras
(ESP/GCE) 5sec behind, 3. Fortunato Baliani (ITA/CSF) 16, 4. Tiziano Dall’Antonia (ITA/CSF) 41, 5. Laurent Mangel (FRA/A2R) 1:33, 6. Jussi Veikkanen [...] - Giro d’Italia Stage 10 and Overall Results
May 20th, 2008Standings from the tenth stage of the Tour of Italy on Tuesday, a 39.4km individual time trial from Pesaro to here:
Stage
1. Marzio Bruseghin (ITA/LAM), 39.4km in 56min 41sec
2. Alberto Contador (ESP/AST) [...] - Alberto Contador of Astana Vows To Continue At Giro Even With A Fractured Elbow
May 19th, 2008URBINO, Italy, May 19, 2008 (AFP) – Spaniard Alberto Contador, last year’s
Tour de France winner, is suffering from a minor elbow fracture sustained
during a crash during the ongoing Tour of Italy, but has vowed to continue the
race.
“Contador’s visit to the radiologist today (Monday) revealed a fissure in
the radius head of his [...] - Giro d’Italia Results – Stage 9 and Overall
May 18th, 2008Results in the 218km ninth stage
of the Tour of Italy from Civitavecchia to San Vincenzo on Sunday:
1. Daniele Bennati (ITA) Liquigas 5hr 30min 06sec, 2. Paolo Bettini (ITA)
QST s.t., 3. Robbie McEwen (AUS) SIL s.t., 4. Erik Zabel (GER) MRM s.t., 5.
Koldo Fernandez (ESP) EUS s.t., 6. Robert Forster (GER) GST s.t., 7. [...] - Daniele Bennati of Liquigas Clinches Giro Stage Nine In A Photo-Finish
May 18th, 2008SAN VINCENZO, Italy, May 18, 2008 (AFP) – Italy’s Daniele Bennati, of the
Liquigas team, clinched the ninth stage of the Tour of Italy on Sunday in a
thrilling photo-finish.
Bennati just edged fellow Tuscan and world champion Paolo Bettini in a
sprint finish which stormed through the final 3000 metres at the end of [...] - Giro d’Italia Results – Stage 8 & Overall
May 17th, 2008Results for the Giro d’Italia, both for stage 8 and the overall:
Stage 8
1. Giovanni Visconti (ITA/QST) 208km in 36h44:06.
2. Matthias Russ (GER/GST) [...] - Riccardo Ricco of Saunier Duval Wins The Eighth Stage Of The Giro d’Italia
May 17th, 2008TIVOLI, Italy, May 17, 2008 (AFP) – Italian Riccardo Ricco, riding for the Saunier Duval team, won the eighth stage of the Tour of Italy here on Saturday, edging out two-time world champion and compatriot Paolo Bettini while another Italian, Giovanni Visconti of Quick Step, retained the leader’s pink jersey.
[...] - Matteo Priamo of CSF Wins Giro Sixth Stage, Giovanni Visconti of Quick Step In Pink Jersey
May 15th, 2008PESCHICI, Italy, May 15, 2008 (AFP) – Italian Matteo Priamo, riding for the CSF team, broke away to win the sixth stage of the Tour of Italy here on Friday.
Priamo’s compatriot Giovanni Visconti, who rides for Quick Step, took the leader’s pink jersey.
Priamo built up a [...] - Giro d’Italia Stage 5 & Overall Results
May 14th, 2008Results from the 203km fifth stage of the Giro d’Italia from Belvedere Marittimo to Contursi Termo on
Wednesday:
5th stage
1. Pavel Brutt (RUS) TCS 5hr 4min 42sec, 2. Johannes Frohlinger (GER/GST) 4sec behind, 3. Luis Laverde (COL/CSF) 10, 4. Francisco Perez (ESP/GCE) 25, 5.
Paolo Bettini (ITA/QST) 31, 6. Daniele [...] - Giro Call Has Astana Anxious, With Lots To Prove
May 5th, 2008by 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 first three-week race of the cycling season.
Giro d’Italia organizers performed a dramatic u-turn on Sunday and invited [...] - Italy’s Eddy Mazzoleni ‘Oil for Drug’ Affair BAN – Two Years
April 8th, 2008ROME, 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 his involvement in the “Oil for Drug” affair, the FCI said on Tuesday.
The FCI also banned 28-year-old former Ceramica [...] - Danilo Di Luca Set To Race At Settimana Lombardia
March 30th, 2008ROME, March 30, 2008 (AFP) – Giro d’Italia champion Danilo Di Luca will ride in the Settimana Lombardia on April 6, his LPR team said on Sunday.
Di Luca is currently embroiled in an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to have a three-month suspension he served [...] - Former Champ Damiano Cunego of Lampre Set To Skip Giro
March 30th, 2008Former Champ Damiano Cunego of Lampre Set To Skip Giro
CHARLEVILLE-MEZIERES, France, March 30, 2008 (AFP) – Former Tour of Italy winner Damiano Cunego looks set to skip this year’s Giro in order to focus on his preparations for the Tour de France, his Lampre team revealed Sunday.
The 2004 Tour [...] - Giro Takes The High Road – Team High Road invited to the Giro d’Italia
February 15th, 2008Palo Alto, Ca. – VeloGuy is in Palo Alto this week hanging out with some of the teams getting ready for the Tour of California this week. He’s learned from officials of Team High Road that they have been invited to participate this year in the Giro d’Italia and other events sponsored by [...]
- The Press Reactions to 2008 Giro route
December 2nd, 2007The Press Reactions to 2008 Giro route
At the presentation of the 2008 Giro D’Italia at the Teatro degli Arcimboldi in Milan, RAI-TV color commentator Davide Cassani described the 2008 Giro d’Italia as “a nervous course in the first stages, for the first half, then in the second part there are hard stages with climb after [...] - The Di Luca Saga Continues
August 8th, 2007The Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) said in a statement on its website Friday that Giro d’Italia winner Danilo Di Luca will be subject to further inquiry for alleged doping charges and may be sanctioned following the review of new evidence.
No details were available about the nature of the evidence, the case, or where it might [...]
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