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Kazakh cycling team Astana leader Alberto Contador of Spain, left, rides in a training session with teammate, Lance Armstrong of the U.S. on Monday in Sion, Switzerland, on a rest day of the 2009 Tour de France cycling race.

Davide de la Fuente is poised to join Astana for 2010. Spanish head-banger Davide de la Fuente is close to penning a deal that will put him in an Astana jersey in 2010.

RadioShack Granted ProTour License Here we go... USA adds third top tier UCI registered team to the national roster... America has another top tier team according to the International Cycling Union which granted Team RadioShack a ProTour license for the next four years.

While the UCI spends the next two years debating whether Team RadioShack can be ProTour or not, controversial Bruno-sounding German Andreas Kloden is confirmed for the Shack; this transfer has also been posted as "The truth!" on CyclingNews.com, Laola.at, and Radsport-News.com.

Cycling News Roundup 21 August Team News: GP Quest Plouay Squad Announcements, Trofeo Melinda, 2 Giorni Ciclistica Internazionale di Vertova, EuroSport's Sean Kelly Vuelta Prognostications, Saxo Bank NDS... GP Plouay Team Announcements: Caisse d'Epagrne Fresh off a victory in the Tour du Limousin the team of Yvon Ledanois brings winner Mathieu ...

Although there's a Grand Tour and many more shorter bicycle races coming up this year, it's never too soon to start planning for the future.

His familiar place high atop the Champs-Elysees podium was occupied by someone else, but it hardly mattered to Lance Armstrong that he was positioned about a foot lower in the spotlight yesterday at the end of the Tour de France.

ALBERTO CONTADOR has admitted that having seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong - his teammate-cum-rival in this year's race - stand two places below him on the podium in Paris adds lustre to his second victory in the world's greatest bike race.

Wow, what a race ! Today's TDF stage 17 from Bourg-Saint-Maurice to Le Grand-Bornand had everthing, courage, strength, attacks, cracks, great teamwork, and solo moves.

Lance Armstrong will join him on the podium after finishing third in his comeback to cycling's main event Andreas Kloden of Germany, American seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, Sergio Paulinho of Portugal and Tour de France winner Alberto Contador of Spain, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, left to right, toast during the ...

VAISON LA ROMAINE, France - Lance Armstrong's strategy Saturday for the daunting climb to the summit of Mont Ventoux was such a simple one.

IT WAS towards the top of the Col de la ColombiA re, on Wednesday's final Tour de France stage in the Alps, that the cracks in the Astana team were blown open.

Spaniard Alberto Contador, resplendent in the Tour de France's yellow jersey, rides the 19th stage from Bourgoin-Jallieu to Aubenas.

Alberto Contador attacked once on the Col de la Colombiere near the end of Wednesday's queen stage, but it didn't make anyone happy on the Astana Team.

During his seven-year Tour reign, Lance Armstrong said that the yellow jersey wearer needed to definitively prove that he is the strongest rider in the race.

Alberto Contador closed in on the overall victory at the Tour de France on Wednesday after finishing second behind Frank Schleck in the 17th stage as the race left the Alps.

Spaniard Miguel Astarloza won the 16th stage of Tour de France; the 159km from Martigny, Switzerland to Bourg-Saint-Maurice, France.

Spain's Alberto Contador salutes his stage win and ascension to the yellow jersey.

Cruising along: The main pack enjoys a peaceful ride during the 14th stage before the race heads into the gruelling climbs in the Alps today enlarge After two weeks of phony war, the fight for overall victory in the Tour de France starts in earnest today, with Lance Armstrong and Alberto Contador in pole position to take yellow in Paris.

While the cyclists in the Tour de France suffered through Stage 13 on Friday, riding in pelting rain, cool weather and on slick mountain roads, Levi Leipheimer had it even worse: he was out of the race and having surgery for a broken right wrist.