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• Former Sprint King Zabel To Becomes Katusha Advisor
  October 20th, 2011
  

  PARIS, Oct 20, 2011 (AFP) – Former Tour de France sprint king Erik Zabel is set to become the new advisor to the fast men of Katusha, the Russian team’s [...]

• Kolobnev Expelled From Tour After Positive Doping Control
  July 11th, 2011
  

  LE LIORAN, France, July 11, 2011 (AFP) – Russian cyclist Alexandr Kolobnev became the first rider to be forced out of the Tour de France on Monday after an A [...]

• Police Raid Katusha Over Doping Suspicions
  April 14th, 2011
  

  ROME, April 14, 2011 – Italian police raided the racing headquarters of Russian pro cycling outfit Katusha at Lonato in northern Italy on Thursday, seizing five biological passports, the team [...]

• Rodriguez Wins Basque Tour Stage 1
  April 4th, 2011
  

  MADRID, April 4, 2011 – Spaniard Joaquin Rodriguez, riding for the Katusha team, on Monday won a sprint finish for the 151.2km first stage of the Tour of the Basque [...]

• Di Luca To Race For Team Katusha
  January 10th, 2011
  

  ROME – Italy’s Danilo Di Luca, suspended for one and half years for doping, which is ending in January, has signed for the Russian Team Katusha, where he has no [...]

• Cipollini To Be An Advisor For Team Katusha
  November 23rd, 2010
  

  PARIS – Former Italian sprinter Mario Cipollini, the World Champion in 2002 will be a consultant for the Katusha cycling team they announced on Tuesday. Cipollini will work to assist [...]

• Frederik Kessiakoff Signs With Katusha For 2 Years
  September 30th, 2010
  

  The Swedish rider has signed with the Kazakh team for the next two seasons. Known for his qualities of climber, he reached the 4th place of Tour de Langkawi overall [...]

• Hoste and Moreno Sign With Katusha
  September 23rd, 2010
  

  Belgium’s Leif Hoste, 33, and Spaniard Daniel Moreno, 29, both of Omega Pharma, are committed for the next two years with the team Katusha , it was announced Thursday by [...]

• Kirchen To Keep Racing Despite Heart Attack
  September 11th, 2010
  

  PARIS – Luxembourg’s Kim Kirchen has drawn criticism from his manager at Team Katusha after stubbornly refusing to give up bike racing in spite of knocking on death’s door three [...]

• Bocharov Wins Stage 3, Larsson Keeps Yellow At Tour du Limousin
  August 19th, 2010
  

  Mansac (Corrèze) – The Russian rider Alexander Bocharov (Katusha) won the third stage of the 43rd Tour of Limousin cycling race on Thursday. The stage covered a distance of 191.5 [...]

• Veteran Rodriguez To Make Tour Debut With Katusha
  June 25th, 2010
  

  PARIS, June 25, 2010 (AFP) – Spanish veteran Joaquin Rodriguez will make his Tour de France debut with team Katusha in the Tour de France from July 3-25. The 31-year-old [...]

• Australian McEwen Not To Race Again This Season
  September 1st, 2009
  

  PARIS, Sept 1, 2009 (AFP) – Australian Robbie McEwen of the Katusha team has called an end to his “disastrous season” which has been marred by a bad fall and [...]

• Three Riders Refuse Katusha Anti-Doping Rules
  June 7th, 2009
  

  Three prominent members of the Katusha cycling team are refusing to comply with new anti-doping rules imposed by the Russian-backed outfit, a team official said on Sunday. The trio who [...]

• Robbie McEwen Rules Out Tour de France After Breaking Leg In Crash
  May 31st, 2009
  

  Australian sprint star Robbie McEwen has ruled himself out of taking part in the Tour de France after undergoing surgery on a fractured tibia. The 36-year-old Katusha rider underwent surgery [...]

• McEwen’s Belgium Curse Strikes Again, With Bozic In Lead At Tour of Belgium
  May 28th, 2009
  

  KNOKKE-HEIST, Belgium, May 28, 2009 (AFP) – Australian sprint star Robbie McEwen will miss the Tour de France after undergoing leg surgery following his second crash in Belgium in the [...]

• Ivanov Wins Tour of Belgium 1st stage
  May 27th, 2009
  

  TERVUREN, Belgium, May 27, 2009 (AFP) – Russia’s Sergei Ivanov, riding for the Katusha team, won Wednesday’s Tour of Belgium first stage, with Australian Graeme Brown in second and Slovenia’s [...]

• Positive Doping Test Takes Pfannberger Out Of Tour of Italy
  May 7th, 2009
  

  PARIS, May 7, 2009 (AFP) – Austrian professional Christian Pfannberger has been suspended by the Russian Katusha team following a positive test from a random doping control, the team announced [...]

• Pozzato Wins ‘La Panne’ First Stage
  March 31st, 2009
  

  ZOTTEGEM, Belgium, March 31, 2009 (AFP) – Italy’s Filippo Pozzato took the first stage of the ‘Trois Jours de La Panne’ cycle race here on Tuesday. The Katusha team rider [...]

• Pozzato Wins Grand Prix Cycliste de l’E3
  March 28th, 2009
  

  HARELBEKE, Belgium, March 28, 2009 (AFP) – Italy’s Filippo Pozzato of the Katusha team won the Grand Prix cycliste de l’E3 here on Saturday, ahead of breakaway companions Belgian sprinter [...]

• Colom Wins Mallorca Trophy Race For Team Katusha
  February 12th, 2009
  

  MADRID, Feb 12, 2009 (AFP) – Spaniard Toni Colom handed the newly-formed Katusha team their first stage race victory of the season winning the Mallorcan Trophy, a five-stage race which [...]

• New UCI ProTour Teams To Debut Down Under
  December 2nd, 2008
  

  Two new UCI ProTour teams – Garmin Slipstream and Team Katusha – will make their ProTour debut at the 2009 Tour Down Under. Mike Turtur, Tour Down Under Race Director, [...]