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Omega Pharma Quick Step Visits Valencia Velodrome

Works with Partner Specialized on TT Position Testing 19-Dec-2013: Omega Pharma – Quick-Step Cycling Team continues to work closely with partner Specialized in order to optimize time trial bike position for team riders. OPQS visited the velodrome of Valencia last week to participate in further testing. “Last month we had […]

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Argos Shimano 2014 Training Camp

Building foundations for success at first training camp of 2014 The whole organisation, including the World Tour, women’s and development teams, have convened at the teams base in Altea hills, Spain for the first training camp of the new 2014 season. In total there are over 60-people, included trainers, coaches, […]

Final Stage of 2014 USA Pro Challenge will Take Riders Through Iconic Parts of Colorado from Boulder through Golden to Denver

Fans Helped Shape Stage 7 of America’s Most Difficult Professional Cycling Race Denver (Dec. 18, 2013) – The fans have spoken, and Stage 7 of the 2014 USA Pro Challenge professional cycling race will take riders from Boulder through Golden and over Lookout Mountain, finishing with three circuits around Downtown […]

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New Bianchi Café and Cycles launched in Sweden

Bianchi owner Salvatore Grimaldi celebrated the opening of a new Bianchi Cafè and Cycles in Malmo (Sweden) on Thursday, November 28th. Three years after the unveiling of the first Bianchi concept store in Stockholm, Malmo’s café is now the third in Sweden, while another Bianchi Café and Cycles is set […]

Jeannie Longo Suing AFLD

 Jeannie Longo is suing the AFLD, the French Anti-Doping Agency.  She’s asking over 1 million euros, both for being included in a list of targeted athletes of 2012 and 2013 as well as the 2011 claims about not providing her whereabouts three times. She had been able to prove that […]

Riis Gives Up Riis Cycling

Following a lot of problems between Bjarne Riss and Team Saxo-Tinkoff team owner Tinkoff, a surprising announcement came this week.  Riis is giving up his company, Riis Cycling, to Oleg Tinkov. The team name was changed to Tinkov-Saxo.  The partnership wasn’t expected to last much longer but handing over his […]

Possible New Doping Detection

An article on Cycling News has interviewed a Spanish doctor who is a famous cancer specialist.  He says that the way some cancers are detected could be used to also detect doping. Some doping products disappear quickly, in a few hours, but they leave a genetic footprint which could still […]