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• Cycling Chiefs Call Bruyneel, Vaughters To The Saddle
  July 4th, 2011
  

  REDON, France, July 4, 2011 (AFP) – World cycling chiefs have hit back at professional team managers Johan Bruyneel and Jonathan Vaughters after the pair complained about technical checks on [...]

• Swiss Lab Will Cooperate In Armstrong Doping Probe
  May 27th, 2011
  

  WASHINGTON, May 27, 2011 – Swiss drug-testing laboratory director Martial Saugy has agreed to cooperate with a US federal investigation into Lance Armstrong and doping in cycling, the Washington Post [...]

• Robbie McEwen and Robbie Hunter to Team RadioShack
  December 23rd, 2010
  

  Sprinters Robbie McEwen and Robbie Hunter are joining Team RadioShack in 2011. Both riders were part of the Pegasus Sports project which failed to get a ProTour or Professional Continental [...]

• UCI Fines Armstrong’s Team For Tour Black Jersey
  October 29th, 2010
  

  PARIS – World cycling chiefs have slapped a ban and a fine on RadioShack manager Johan Bruyneel after jersey-swapping antics designed to promote Lance Armstrong’s fight against cancer at the [...]

• Armstrong Manager Laments Crash, Not Allegations
  July 11th, 2010
  

  MORZINE-AVORIAZ – Lance Armstrong lost all chance of winning this year’s Tour de France because of injuries suffered in a crash and not because of pressure caused by more damning [...]

• Contador Makes A Timely Gift To Armstrong, Bruyneel
  July 8th, 2010
  

  MONTARGIS, France – Reigning Tour de France champion Alberto Contador caused a minor shock at the race Thursday when he paid a visit to the RadioShack team bus of arch [...]

• Bruyneel Responds To Vuelta Snub
  June 14th, 2010
  

  Team Manager Johan Bruyneel Stunned over Team RadioShack’s Non-Invite to the Vuelta Bern, June 14th 2010 – Team RadioShack has not been selected as one of the 22 teams that [...]

• Garmin Calls On Riders To Come Clean Amid Landis Claims
  May 28th, 2010
  

  Garmin-Transitions has called for “transparency” from its team riders if they are called by the authorities to answer recent allegations of doping leveled by American rider Floyd Landis. Landis, formerly [...]

• UCI Asks For Probes On Cyclists Accused By Landis
  May 26th, 2010
  

  GENEVA, May 26, 2010 – Cycling’s governing body UCI said Wednesday that it has asked for probes to be carried out on four riders who have been accused by disgraced [...]

• UCI Claims ‘No Conflict Of Interest’ In Armstrong Donation
  May 25th, 2010
  

  PLAN DE CORONES, Italy, May 25, 2010 (AFP) – World cycling chief Pat McQuaid rejected claims there was a conflict of interest in the sport’s governing body accepting a 100,000 [...]

• Leipheimer Wins Gila With Team Help
  May 2nd, 2010
  

  PINOS ALTOS, New Mexico, May 2, 2010 (AFP) – Levi Leipheimer won the Tour of the Gila for the second straight year on Sunday as teammate Lance Armstrong finished 17th. [...]

• Armstrong Says He’d Sacrifice Tour Record For Team
  January 23rd, 2010
  

  by Talek Harris ADELAIDE, Australia, Jan 16, 2010 (AFP) – Lance Armstrong Saturday insisted he’d sacrifice an astonishing Tour de France comeback win for his team, hitting back at rival [...]

• 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 [...]

• Team Astana Reactions To The 2010 Tour de France Course
  October 14th, 2009
  

  Manager Johan Bruyneel I think it’s a very traditional course. There is a little bit less time trialing than normal but other than that there are no surprises. In the [...]

• Team Radio Shack Signs Rosseler and Steegmans
  August 26th, 2009
  

  BRUSSELS, Aug 26, 2009 (AFP) – Belgians Sebastien Rosseler and Gert Steegmans are set to join Lance Armstrong’s new team Radio Shack, according to reports in several Belgian newspapers Wednesday. [...]

• Defiant Contador Wins The Tour His Way
  July 27th, 2009
  

  by Justin Davis PARIS, July 27, 2009 (AFP) – Newly-crowned Tour de France champion Alberto Contador showed more than impressive climbing and time trialling skills on his way to victory [...]

• Armstrong Needs To Work Hard To Win 2010 Tour, Says Astana Boss
  July 27th, 2009
  

  MADRID, July 26, 2009 (AFP) – Lance Armstrong will have to work hard if he wants to win the Tour de France next year, Astana’s Belgian manager Johan Bruyneel said [...]

• Evans Fights To Salvage Pride, Armstrong Fights To Bite His Tongue
  July 23rd, 2009
  

  by Justin Davis LE GRAND-BORNAND, France, July 23, 2009 (AFP) – Racing with the sprinters and the non-climbers on the Tour de France was not what Cadel Evans had in [...]

• Sparks Could Fly After Contador Attack, Admits Bruyneel
  July 22nd, 2009
  

  by Ryland James LE GRAND BORNAND, July 22, 2009 (AFP) – Johan Bruyneel admitted sparks could fly between yellow jersey holder Alberto Contador and Astana team-mate Lance Armstrong after the [...]

• Armstrong and Contador ‘Incompatible’ – So Says Bruyneel
  July 22nd, 2009
  

  MADRID, July 22, 2009 (AFP) – Astana’s Belgian manager Johan Bruyneel says there is a “certain incompatibility” between Spanish rider Alberto Contador and Lance Armstrong of the United States even [...]

• Bruyneel Says It’s Time To Quit Astana
  July 21st, 2009
  

  Astana team manager Johan Bruyneel announced he is set to quit the Kazakhstan-backed outfit. “It’s time to turn a page in my career,” Bruyneel told Flemish language channel VRT just [...]

• Contador Steals Back Precious Seconds From Armstrong
  July 10th, 2009
  

  by Justin Davis ARCALIS, Andorra, July 10, 2009 (AFP) – Alberto Contador relaunched his bid for the 2009 yellow jersey on the first mountain stage of the Tour de France [...]

• Astana Boss Plays Down Armstrong – Contador Rivalry
  July 3rd, 2009
  

  by Ryland James MONACO, July 3, 2009 (AFP) – Astana boss Johan Bruyneel played down the rivalry brewing between team-mates Lance Armstrong and Alberto Contador on the eve of Saturday’s [...]

• 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 [...]

• Financial Problems For Astana Cycling Team Resolved
  June 18th, 2009
  

  The Khazakstan government has agreed to back cycling’s Astana outfit for the rest of the 2009 season, including the Tour de France, a team spokesman said on Thursday. The promise [...]

• Astana Pays Up, And Secures Spot In Tour de France
  June 9th, 2009
  

  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. [...]

• Astana Cash Still Not Delivered Says Johan Bruyneel
  June 5th, 2009
  

  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 [...]

• Giro Result “Promising” For Tour de France, Says Armstrong
  May 31st, 2009
  

  Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong said his 12th-placed finish in the Giro d’Italia, which ended on Sunday, was “promising” ahead of this year’s French test. The 37-year-old American, [...]

• Johan Bruyneel Receives 2009 Flanders-America Award
  February 26th, 2009
  

  (New York, NY) – On Wednesday night, Johan Bruyneel, the eight-time winning Tour de France sports director received the 2009 Flanders-America Award from the Flanders House New York. The annual [...]

• Bruyneel Believes The Armstrong Return Nothing More Than A Rumour
  September 9th, 2008
  

  Johan Bruyneel, general manager of Astana and former sporting director of Lance Armstrong’s US Postal and Discovery Channel outfits, said Tuesday he thought reports of the seven-time Tour de France [...]