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TOUR DE FRANCE ENTRANTS GARMIN-CHIPOTLE AND LIQUIGAS HEAD A LIST OF TEAMS ADDED TO COMPLETE THE TOUR OF MISSOURI FIELD
All teams now announced for September race
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (August 4, 2008) - Team Garmin-Chipotle of the United States and Team Liquigas of Italy—two top-performing entrants from the recently completed Tour de France—head a list of [...]
by Justin Davis
NARBONNE, France, July 18, 2008 (AFP) - Disgraced Italian cycling star Ivan
Basso deserves a second chance of resurrecting his career, the Italian’s
future manager at the Liquigas team said Friday.
Basso is nearing the end of a ban handed down after he admitted, without
having tested positive for banned substances, [...]
by Justin Davis
NARBONNE, France, July 18, 2008 (AFP) - Liquigas manager Stefano Zanatta
has admitted the latest doping scandal to hit the Tour de France is also a
major blow to Italian cycling.
The race was rocked on Thursday by news of Riccardo Ricco’s positive test
for banned blood booster EPO (erythropoietin), the [...]
by Benoit Petit
BERNE, June 22, 2008 (AFP) - Czech rider Roman Kreuziger of the Liquigas team won the 72nd Tour of Switzerland here on Sunday, despite losing out to Switzerland’s Fabian Cancellara in the ninth and final stage.
The 22-year-old - the youngest winner of the Swiss [...]
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 yellow jersey ahead of Sunday’s final day.
The 22-year-old was first over the 25km time-trial in one hour and [...]
The 2007Giro d’Italia winner, Danilo Di Luca has appealed his three-month suspension in the Oil for Drugs investigation. The 31 year old Italian from Abruzzo, is accused of using the services of Doctor Carlo Santuccione, has appealed the Italian Cycling Federation (FCI) Disciplinary Commission’s decision last October to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) [...]
Team Liquigas was visited for the second time during its off-season training camps by International Cycling Union (UCI) anti-doping controllers. The Italian ProTour team – in Benicásim, Spain, from December 10 to 18 – was subjected to blood checks according to La Gazzetta dello Sport. The UCI had previously visited the team during its Italian [...]