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Entries from November 2006

Floyd blasts LeMond

November 30th, 2006 · No Comments

Hometown boy Floyd Landis made public a rift between himself and one of only two other Americans to have won the Tour de France.
Three-time Tour winner Greg LeMond was quoted in a recent Cyclingnews.com article saying that Floyd had called him seeking advice. Floyd had a different recollection. In a posting on the Daily Peleton Forum, […]

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Lancaster Race gets No. 1 status

November 30th, 2006 · No Comments

Cyclingnews.com is reporting that Lancaster’s Tom Bamford Lancaster Classic, to be held on June 7, has been ranked category one in the newly revamped U.S. Pro Tour calender for 2007.
The classification puts the Lancaster race in the second tier of professional cycling in the country, behind the three races listed as “Hors Categorie” – the AMGEN Tour […]

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Indoor track coming

November 17th, 2006 · 1 Comment

The Pro Cycling Tour, the Norristown outfit that annually brings the professional bike race to Lancaster, announced earlier this month that it plans to build an indoor velodrome outside Philadelphia.The track will be one of the few velodromes on the East Coast and the only one undercover. It has been years since indoor velodromes were […]

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Crack in the wall

November 17th, 2006 · No Comments

For the first time this week, officials at the LNDD lab at Châtenay-Malabry, France, have admitted they are fallible.
The lab director has confirmed an “administrative error” in the labeling of Landis’ “B” urine sample - the very one they said had an elevated level of testosterone. The sample did not have Landis’ rider number. The error […]

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Tres bizarre

November 14th, 2006 · No Comments

Just when it seemed Floyd was able to get back on his wheels - now riding for two hours daily five weeks after hip replacement - something else comes along to knock the wind out of him.
The French sports daily L’Equip is quoting a French police official claiming that an associate of hometown boy Floyd […]

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