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 2011-2012
Cyclocross season action continues Saturday with Superprestige
Cyclocross at Middelkerke. There will once again be live
streaming video. The first Middelkerke live stream is
expected to start about 30 minutes before the Elite Men race
begins. Live streaming video: Elite Men: 4:00pm CET (10:00am
U.S. Eastern).
Mark
Cavendish crashes in final sprint as no team takes control.
Garmin-Barracuda
rider celebrates victory.
CyclingNews:
Races
& Results.
Tour of Qatar (Stages & results), Amgen Tour of California (Stages ), Tour Méditerranéen Cycliste Professionnel (Stages), Trofeo Deia (Stages & results), Trofeo Palma (Stages & results), Etoile de Bessèges (Stages & results), Paris - Nice (Stages), Copenhagen 6-days (Days & results), Ladies Tour of Qatar (Stages & results), More... 
"So
far we’ve covered Men of the Hour and Up-and-Comers as part of our 2012
Season Preview; now it’s time for a list of the riders and teams who
find themselves “on the hot seat” heading into the 2012 season."
If
you have been to a cyclocross race in Ohio the past couple of years,
chances are you’ve seen a rocket ship in the women’s races that goes by
the name of Katie Arnold.
Team
Sky’s Mark Cavendish took his first two wins of the season in Qatar
this week. But the by far the season’s biggest success story—so far, at
least—has been Omega Pharma-Lotto’s Tom Boonen.
The
Olympic Games time trial is perhaps the centrepiece of Marco Pinotti’s
2012 season, and the Italian is confident that he can arrive in London
on top form, regardless of whether or not he rides the Tour de France
for his new team BMC.
 
Based
on five stages so far, two things have been made abundantly clear in
Qatar. FIrst, Mark Cavendish is off to a fast start and more ominously
for his rivals, is showing that he doesn’t need a big HTC-Highroad
train to kill people and embarrass the slow.
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"If
the points obtained by Alberto Contador, representing approximately 68%
of the Saxo Bank-Sungard team’s total points, are disregarded, his team
would no longer be considered to fulfil the sporting criterion required
for the UCI WorldTour."
The
Court of Arbitration for Sport has admitted that it made a crucial
mistake within its 98-page report on the Alberto Contador clenbuterol
case. Article 16 of the report states that “a blood sample taken on the
morning of 20 July 2010 contained clenbuterol in a concentration of 1
picogram.”
Subscribe
to Nona Varnado’s newsletter for information on how to purchase limited
edition (and special pricing!) pieces from her women’s urban “spin
apparel” collection like the cycling cape pictured above.
Your
guide to the bikes, groupsets and wheels the pros will be using in the
2012 big races.
On
the surface, the Specialized vs. Volagi case seemed like a case of an
industry giant picking on an upstart brand. A closer look reveals that
it’s not that simple.
“The
CAS decision itself wasn't so exciting. What will be much more
interesting is what Jan [Ullrich] will say. He knows what he can say.
In any case, it is of course silly that such a finding is only issued
six years after his last race." - Rolf Aldag CyclingNews
With
all the carbon technology going on with the WorldTour in Qatar, nice to
see there are still frame startups in steel...
"Sheikh
Khalid Bin Ali Bin Abdullah Al Thani the Just announced Friday at the
conclusion of stage six of the Tour of Qatar that his country will be
purchasing Mt. Shasta from the state of California along with the
population of Belgium to make the race more exciting for the riders and
the cycling fans around the world."
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Police
in Grenoble discovered that Patrice Ciprelli, husband and coach of
French cyclist Jeannie Longo, spent 19,800 dollars on 15 purchases of
the banned performance-booster EPO (erythropoietin) since 2007, a
source close to the investigation told AFP on Friday.
Implied
doping confession follows earlier admission by Rudy Pevenage.
The
Court for Arbitration in Sport has had a busy week. Monday saw it
ruling on Alberto Contador, the UCI and Alexander Kolobnev were there
on Tuesday and yesterday we got the verdict on Jan Ullrich.
 UCI-linked
Global Cycling Promotions introduces another new race.
"The
Handy Tool M has Allen (4, 5, 6mm) and Torx (T25, T30) heads hidden
inside its 6061 alloy body, and they're made from heat-treated chromoly
which should resist rounding. Weight on our scales is 75g."
Schmidt’s
Edelux headlights were designed to be waterproof, and for most
customers, this claim has held true.
Patrice
Ciprelli, the trainer and husband of legendary French cyclist Jeannie
Longo-Ciprelli, has reportedly confessed to purchasing the
blood-boosting hormone Erythropoietin (EPO) in 2010 and 2011 on
L'ÉquipeTV, but contended the drug "was for his own, personal use".
Two-year
suspension for retired German rider; forfeits final Tour de France
podium.
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