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Armstrong Downplays Tour de France Chances
MADRID, March 8, 2010 (AFP) – Seven-time Tour of France winner Lance Armstrong believes, at 38, he has little chance of beating arch-rival Alberto Contador of Spain to win an eighth title this year.
“It would be very difficult. I’m 38, Alberto is 27 and he’s improving every year. I [...]
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- Gert Steegmans Fractures Collar Bone
March 7th, 2010Paris – 7th March, 2010 – Team RadioShack’s Gert Steegmans broke his left collarbone in the Prologue of Paris-Nice. Steegmans was caught in a whirlwind while on his bike. The wind picked him up off the ground while he was going 75kph/47mph on a downhill section of the course. In addition [...]
- Steegmans and Vaitkus in Belgium’s Opening Weekend
February 24th, 2010Gert Steegmans and Tomas Vaitkus will race in the opening weekend’s races of the Belgian cycling season. Their participation was questionable after crashes in the third and first stages of last week’s Tour of Algarve.
Gert Steegmans suffered a concussion after landing on his head in stage three. After three days rest he did a 50 [...] - Rosseler Wins In Algarve Stage 4
February 20th, 2010First Team RadioShack Victory
Team RadioShack’s Sébastien Rosseler won the 4th stage in the Tour of Algarve (Portugal) on Saturday. The Belgian was the strongest rider after a solo effort of 28 kilometer in a demanding stage. In Tavira he had 58 seconds advantage to 5 others riders who had been part of his original [...] - Team RadioShack Takes Two Podium Spots At Algarve, Contador Wins Stage
February 19th, 2010Team RadioShack Podium Places for Machado and Leipheimer in Algarve. Steegmans Out
Home rider Tiago Machado (Team RadioShack) finished second atop the Alto do Malhão in the 3rd stage of the Volta ao Algarve (Portugal). Teammate Levi Leipheimer (USA) finished third. Stage winner Alberto Contador attacked at the bottom of the final climb, immediately took ten [...] - Skil Releases Beppu To Race With RadioShack
February 3rd, 2010Skil-Shimano cycling team have finally agreed to annul Fumiyuki Beppu’s contract after the Japanese rider ignored rules and reached a verbal agreement to join Lance Armstrong’s Radio Shack team.
Beppu had a year left on his contract with Skil-Shimano, which debuted at the Tour de France last year, but apparently ignored [...] - Contador Unfazed Of An Armstrong Challenge
January 31st, 2010VIENNA, Jan 30, 2010 (AFP) – Tour de France champion Alberto Contador insists the thought of having seven-time winner Lance Armstrong as his main rival in this year’s race is not keeping him awake at night.
The Spaniard, Tour champion in 2007 and 2009 and Tour of Italy and Spain [...] - Armstrong Hits The Beers Down Under
January 24th, 2010ADELAIDE, Australia, Jan 24, 2010 (AFP) – A relaxed Lance Armstrong swigged beer with his new team-mates on Sunday after a successful hit-out at the Tour Down Under, their first race together.
Armstrong finished the six-stage race around Adelaide in 25th place, a slight improvement on last year’s 29th as [...] - Armstrong Says He’d Sacrifice Tour Record For Team
January 23rd, 2010by 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 Alberto Contador who said he lacked support in last year’s race.
The seven-time winner, who finished third behind Astana team-mate Contador [...] - No Armstrong, No Problem For Contador
January 20th, 2010MADRID, Jan 20, 2010 (AFP) Tour de France champion Alberto Contador, buoyed by his undisputed number one status following his rocky relationship with Lance Armstrong, hailed his new-look Astana team on Wednesday.
The Spaniard insisted that the 2010 Astana model had “nothing to do” with the 2009 line-up, which catered [...] - Armstrong Looks Impressive As Team Sky Wins In Debut
January 17th, 2010by Talek Harris
ADELAIDE, Australia, Jan 17, 2010 (AFP) – Cycling legend Lance Armstrong showed strong form in the Cancer Council Helpline Classic on Sunday before Britain’s all-new Team Sky stormed to a one-two finish in their debut race.
Armstrong and fellow Tour de France winner Oscar Pereiro’s breakaway was reeled [...] - Armstrong Opens His Tour de France Bid Down Under
January 15th, 2010by Talek Harris
ADELAIDE, Australia, Jan 15, 2010 (AFP) – Lance Armstrong will launch a second attempt at an age-defying Tour de France comeback win when he headlines next week’s Tour Down Under, the curtain-raiser for the new cycling season.
Armstrong is playing down his chances in the [...] - Armstrong Says Contador Rivalry To Intensify
January 10th, 2010SYDNEY, Jan 10, 2010 (AFP) – Seven-time record Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong said Sunday he expects his rivalry with Alberto Contador to increase this year now both riders are competing in different teams.
Armstrong, who will debut his new RadioShack team at next week’s Tour Down Under in [...] - Team Radio Shack 2009 Training Camp Podcast
December 22nd, 2009Exclusive interviews with Team Radio Shack at their 2009 Arizona training camp.
- Levi Leipheimer Talks About Training For The Tours
December 12th, 2009At the Team RadioShack training camp in Tucson, Arizona we had the chance to ask Levi Leipheimer about training in 2010 and how it would be different from 2009. Although Levi answered the question, I think that I could have worded my question better.
The video was taken by our good friend Bob [...]
- Team RadioShack Exclusive Training Camp Photos
December 8th, 2009The 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 [...]
- First Look At The New Team RadioShack Trek Madones
December 7th, 2009These are the first photo’s to come out showing the new Team RadioShack Trek Madones. The photo’s were taken by Brian Hodes at VeloImages.com.
These are the teams home bikes.
We will be at the training camp tomorrow and will be uploading more photo’s and interviews. - Popovych, Steegmans Boost Armstrong’s Tour Down Under Team
December 3rd, 2009SYDNEY, Dec 3, 2009 (AFP) – Tour de France stage winners Yaroslav Popovych and Gert Steegmans will boost Lance Armstrong’s Team RadioShack when it makes its worldwide debut at Australia’s Tour Down Under, organizers said Thursday.
Seven-time Tour de France winner Armstrong is returning for a second attempt at the first UCI ProTour race of [...] - Armstrong To Return To Revamped Tour of California in 2010
October 24th, 2009LOS ANGELES, Oct 22, 2009 (AFP) – Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong will compete in the 2010 Tour of California, which will boast a new route and new dates to avoid the West Coast’s wet winter weather.
Sixteen host communities were announced on Thursday morning via an exchange [...] - Dream Of Owning A Bicycle Racing Team
October 10th, 2009We all dream, every night we close our eyes and dream the dreams of cyclists. No not those involving your favourite rider, massage oil, and a beautiful woman, although if you have any good ones I’m always willing to share… Anyway, we all dream. We dream of winning races, of riding past Armstrong in the [...]
- Armstrong, New and Improved, Set To Take On Contador In 2010
October 3rd, 2009PARIS, Oct 2, 2009 (AFP) – Lance Armstrong says he will go into the 2010 Tour de France better prepared to challenge for an eighth yellow jersey, but he believes reigning champion Alberto Contador will be “very hard” to beat.
“I think I will be a bit better in 2010,” [...] - UCI Decides No ProTour License For Bouygues and Cofidis
September 29th, 2009French cycling teams Bougyues Telecom and Cofidis will not race on the ProTour circuit next season after the UCI, world cycling’s governing body, refused to renew their licenses.
The license commission “has decided not to award a UCI ProTour license to the French teams Cofidis… and Bbox Bouygues Telecom”, UCI said, [...] - Armstrong Insists, I Want To Win The Tour de France In 2010
September 5th, 2009Lance Armstrong insisted he will be aiming to win an eighth Tour de France title when he competes in the 2010 race with his new venture Team Radioshack.
The 37-year-old won seven consecutive Tour titles between 1999 and 2005, but left his retirement to finish an amazing third behind Spanish winner [...] - Team Radio Shack Signs Rosseler and Steegmans
August 26th, 2009BRUSSELS, 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.
According to Het Nieuwsblad, Rosseler, 28, will quit Quick Step at the end of the season to sign a two-year [...] - Team RadioShack Adding To It’s Ranks
August 13th, 2009Sergio Paulinho has confirmed that he will be riding for the new Lance Armstrong RadioShack team in 2010 and 2011.
The news was announced on the Portuguese wire service LUSA, and stated that Paulinho has signed a two year contract. What makes this news that much more interesting is that he was seen as the domestique [...] - Armstrong Needs To Work Hard To Win 2010 Tour, Says Astana Boss
July 27th, 2009MADRID, 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 Sunday after the US rider finished the 2009 Tour in third place.
“It is too early to talk about it but if [...] - Armstrong Prefers Team Radioshack To Contador Party
July 26th, 2009by Ryland James
PARIS, France, July 26, 2009 (AFP) – Lance Armstrong admitted on Sunday he did not celebrate team-mate Alberto Contador’s Tour de France triumph, preferring instead to go for drinks with the backers of his future outfit, Team Radioshack.
The 37-year-old finished third overall after Sunday’s [...] - Contador To Distance Himself From Armstrong
July 25th, 2009Spain’s 2007 champion Alberto Contador said Saturday he will not join up with Lance Armstrong in a team next year, after virtually securing his second Tour de France crown here.
The Spaniard will go into Sunday’s final stage to Paris with a lead of 4min 11sec and 5:24 respectively [...] - Armstrong Tunes Into Recruiting For Team Radioshack
July 25th, 2009ANNECY, France, July 24, 2009 (AFP) – With his chances of winning this year’s yellow jersey all but over, Lance Armstrong said Friday he is already looking at potential riders for his new team at next year’s Tour de France.
Spain’s Alberto Contador is set to win the yellow jersey [...] - Team RadioShack Announcement With Lance Armstrong
July 24th, 2009This is the video announcement of the new Lance Armstrong team with the main sponsor of RadioShack.
Bicycle.net welcomes Team RadioShack and looks forward to seeing them on the road 2010.
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