Tag Archive for ‘Team Astana’
Cavendish Cruises on Champs-Élysées, Contador Crowned – 96th Tour de France Stage 21
An exultant Alberto Contador (Astana) stood on top of the final Tour de France podium for the second time in his short cycling career. The 2007 Tour de France champion can now boast of consecutive Tour victories (a team exclusion in 2008 prevented him from defending his Tour crown) and a total of four consecutive [...]
Astana United, But Cancellara Defends – 96th Tour de France Stage 4
Graham Watson must have been delighted to see “The Big Blue Train,” albeit made up of different pieces and sporting a lighter shade of blue, take full flight once again. On a short and technical course that demanded teams to ride unrelentingly, Team Astana lived up to its hype and took the Stage 4 Team [...]
Astana Does Not Want A Double Burger
Team Astana has named their nine for the New French Revolution. The roster includes: Lance Armstrong, Alberto Contador, Levi Leipheimer, Andreas Kloden, Haimar Zubeldia, Yaroslav Popovych, Sergio Paulinho, Gregory Rast, and first-timer, Kazakh rider Dimitriy Muravyey. The most notable exclusion from the Tour team was 37-year old American Chris Horner, he of In-N-Out Double-Double fame, [...]
Sunday Reading
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Levi Leipheimer, who rides for the Astana Pro Cycling Team, displays a T-shirt given to him on behalf of a petition to allow him to ride in the Tour de France on the eve of the Amgen Tour of Californi. (Doug Pensinger/Getty Images) — San Francisco Chronicle: Race alterations may put [...]
The Other Shoe Falls
First it was the Giro.Now it’s the Tour de France that has said “not my race” to Astana and Alberto Contador.For the second-straight year, the Tour has rejected its defending champion.This seems to be more about Astana than Contador, but judge for yourself: — CNN: Contador blasts ‘unfair’ Tour decision– Richard Moore of the Guardian: [...]
Giro Stuns Astana
In what strikes me as a stunning development in professional cycling, organizers of the Giro d’Italia have left not invited some top cycling teams to this year’s race on May 10-June 1.The Kazakh-backed Astana team of Tour de France champion Alberto Contador, has been left out, as has French team Credit Agricole, which stars Norwegian [...]
Astana Looks More and More Like Discovery
I ride a Trek 5200 and rode the same bike (with my own pedals) in 2003 and ’04 when I traveled with Trek Travel during the Tour de France (which is how the Crankset team met in ’03). Trek has had a great presence in the Tour and professional cycling thanks to the U.S. Postal, [...]
The Answer…These Days, Astana
First it was to be Slipstream/Chipotle, or maybe Rock Racing. But definitely not Predictor-Lotto. Predictor-Lotto? No. Then Slipstream’s roster filled. Now its gotta be Rock Racing, right? Nope. Today came news that American Chris Horner (formerly of Predictor-Lotto) has signed with Astana. Astana? Yes, Astana. The Kazakhstan sponsored Pro Tour team that shot itself in [...]
Ah, Not So Good…
To say I’m shocked or to say this news hasn’t rocked the Tour would be a bit of an understatement. No, make that a huge understatement! But the currently labelled patron of the peloton, Alexandre Vinokourov, has tested positive for homologous blood transfusion from blood taken after his ITT win in Albi. (Photo: Cyclingnews) The [...]
Astan-afia
Perhaps we should have all seen this coming, or rather maybe we have already. You know, this is the episode where Tony, recovering from a gunshot wound, orders Silvio, Paulie, and Christopher to hold down the fort until he’s fully recovered. And once he’s well, they go and whack everybody. Insert the latest patron of [...]
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