The Rothaus-Cube MTB Team has picked up five new riders for the 2010 season. The team introduced its new line-up for 600 bike dealers at the Cube Factory Days in Waldershof, Germany, this week. Under 23 world championship silver medallist Alexandra Engen and Nina Wrobel are joining the cross country part of the team while Austrian Silvio Wieltschnig and two Danish sisters Norgaard, Anna-Sofie and Kristine, are joining the marathon division. For next season the team, managed by Patrik Faller and …
The two top finishers from the Crocodile Trophy, which ended on Thursday in Cape Tribulation, Australia, were relieved to be done with their 10-day race. Urs Huber (Team St
Michael Rasmussen will head the CDC-Cavaliere team for 2010 according to Biciciclismo . Next season, the team, known as Centri della Calzatura in 2009, will step up its status from continental to professional continental. Rasmussen will race with Daniele Callegarin, who moves from Centri della Calzatura and Bernardo Riccio, who is transferring from Flaminia. “We have sent all the documentation to the UCI, and we are confident that we will be at the professional level,” said team manager …
Three venues were awarded as the best of the 2009 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup. Offenburg, Germany, won the honor of best cross country event; La Bresse, France, took the top honors for downhill; and Mont-Sainte-Anne was named best four cross event. Offenburg won the best cross country award for the second consecutive year. The event is appreciated for its organization, course, and its large and enthusiastic crowd. Organizers have named key sections of the course such as the “Dual Speed Drop”, …
An Italian doctor, Enrico Lazzaro, has come under investigation for the unlawful practice of a doping technique, ozone therapy, as reported Friday in the Italian Gazzetta dello Sport paper. Ozone therapy, also known as autohemotherapy, enriches oxygen in the blood and may therefore improve athletic performance. In ozone therapy, a small amount of blood, approximately 200cc, is removed from the body, run through a machine in which it is enriched with ozone and then returned to the body of the patient. …
Italian Enrico Gasparotto will join team Astana after a forgettable year with the Lampre team. He received assurance from Alexander Vinokourov and new team director Giuseppe Martinelli that he will have chances to race for himself throughout 2010. “I talked to Vinokourov. He will ride for Li
Carlos Sastre of Team Cerv
The organisers of Gent-Wevelgem, after already having revealed the new date of the event for the 2010 season, moreover plan to extend the length of the race in order to add further appeal to it. The semi-classic, which used to take place in the week after the Ronde van Vlaanderen, will next season be raced on the Sunday before the Tour of Flanders, and feature a route of 250 kilometres instead of a little over 200. The new date of Gent-Wevelgem will thereby mark the start of the “Flemish week” …
Italian wine and olive oil producer Farnese Vini has decided to move up into the highest category of pro cycling and become the co-sponsor of Italian ProTour team Lampre next year. Farnese Vini started its sponsorship of a cycling team in 2009, when it became the co-sponsor of Professional Continental team LPR Brakes, which had Danilo Di Luca and Alessandro Petacchi under contract. The team, however, folds at the end of this year, and Farnese Vini will step up its sponsorship with Lampre next season. …
Six to seven riders at the Giro d’Italia 2008 are reported to have indications of the EPO derivative CERA in their retroactively tested doping samples, according to Italian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport. Padua public prosecutor Benedetto Roberti ordered 82 samples to be analysed at the “Acqua Acetosa” anti-doping laboratory. The prosecutor will now cooperete with the International Cycling Union to compare the results with data from the anti-doping lab in Lausanne. This should happen …
