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Under Cycling videos you'll find all our current listings for bike race video highlights and clips, interviews, etc.

Final Teams Announced for 2009 Amgen Tour of California

Lance Armstrong, Levi Leipheimer, Fabien Cancellara and Oscar Freire will Lead Race’s Best-Ever Field of Seventeen of the World’s Best Teams to Compete in February 14-22 Stage Race

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Team Saxo Bank - Danish TV streaming video TODAY

TV2 Sport of Denmark is airing a program this evening on Team Saxo Bank (Cancellara, O'Grady, F. Schleck, A. Schleck, Voigt et al).

The program is scheduled to begin HERE at 21:00 CET (3pm U.S. Eastern).  We do not know if there will be any geo-restrictions.

Update:  Program on Team Saxo Bank (formerly CSC) survival training has begun.  Confirmed playing in the UK and France, not sure about rest of the world.

Help wanted: Atlantic Collegiate Cycling Conference Volunteer Director

Collegiate Cycling Volunteer Conference Director

Lance Armstrong and girlfriend Anna Hansen expecting June baby

Agence France-Presse (AFP) has the story this morning, confirming a story at CNNLance Armstrong and his girlfriend Anna Hansen are expecting a baby in June. (ie, just before the 2009 Tour de France)

"Anna et moi sommes ravis de confirmer que nous attendons un bébé en juin et nos familles sont folles de joie et très heureuses", a déclaré Armstrong.  (Their respective families are crazy happy.)


 

French Media Fascinated by Armstrong Comeback

Paris (cyclingfans.com) - The French media (notably television) are already falling over themselves to cover the Lance Armstrong comeback story.  Armstrong, no doubt, will be the biggest story French sports journalists cover in 2009 and they know it.  French radio, television, print and internet journalists are following Armstrong's every step.  And Armstrong is feeding them (as well as his fans and detractors worldwide) as if they were pigeons in a Paris park via his Twitter feed.

A lucky few will get exclusive access to the 7-time Tour de France champion in the form of lengthy interviews.

Longtime journalists for French sports daily L'Equipe, accustomed in another era long ago to informal interviews of star cyclists over a drink in a bar, resented the relatively limited access they had to Armstrong during his seven Tour de France victories; they often had to go to the old Paceline website like everyone else to get the latest Armstrong news.  And by the time they filed their stories, a million bloggers worldwide had already covered the story.  Oh la la, it was the end of journalism!

And now they have to consume his Twitter feed like everyone else?  (Would you like fries with that, Jean-François?)  Mon dieu!

Many individual journalists here will continue to resent the limited access they have to Armstrong in 2009 but the media they work for are fascinated by Armstrong's return.  Hero or outlaw, it doesn't matter.  The French love westerns.  Armstrong of course knows by now which French journalists are "friendly" and which are not.  Nearly all of them will tip-toe carefully around the champion for fear of having the door shut entirely on their access to the subject of their biggest story of the next year.

There's always Twitter.

-Pete Geyer

Recent Armstrong stories on French television:


Lance Armstrong on Tenerife
Armstrong vs. Contador?
Armstrong and Contador go on
a training ride, one that Contador
finds a bit long given he has only just returned to training.  He asks Alain Gallopin, an Astana directeur sportif, who is responsible for laying out the tough ride.  Gallopin responds "Uh, Lance."  Contador responds "I won't forget this."

Lance Armstrong sits down for a chat with two friendly journalists from France Télévisions, Lionel Chamoulaud and Jean-René Godart.  A long interview, Armstrong responses are in English but also voiced over in French.


(click a thumbnail to watch)

On L'Equipe TV, they recently discussed whether Armstrong would need protection from roadside fans.

 

USA Cycling Announces Elite Women's, U23 Men's and Junior Men's Squads for 2009 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships

Colorado Springs, Colo. (December 23, 2008)—USA Cycling has announced the first round of nominations to the United States National Team for the 2009 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Hoogerheide, Netherlands, Jan. 31-Feb. 1.

USA Cycling Announces 2008 Clubs of the Year


USA Cycling Women's Club of the Year:  the Velo Girls Bicycle Club (San Mateo, California)
Photo courtesy Lorri Lee Lown, Velo Girls

Colorado Springs, Colo. (December 22, 2008)—USA Cycling has announced the recipients of its annual Club of the Year awards. Ten USA Cycling-sanctioned clubs received recognition for outstanding programs throughout the 2008 season and will receive complimentary registration fees for the 2009 racing season.

First Eight Teams Announced for 2009 Amgen Tour of California

LOS ANGELES, December 18, 2008 – The 2009 Amgen Tour of California will once again bring together a world-class field of cycling teams from multiple nations, including eight of the sport’s top-rated ProTour teams.  Race organizers confirmed today that entries for the fourth annual race will include Lance Armstrong and the Amgen Tour of California’s two-time defending champion Levi Leipheimer’s team, Astana, along with two of the top U.S.-based teams, Garmin-Slipstream (new to the ProTour circuit) and Columbia Highroad (formerly Team High Road).  Also racing will be Team Saxo Bank, which finished in the top-three of the world rankings last season and Quick Step, which claimed 55 victories in the 2008 season.

The 2009 Amgen Tour of California roster includes the following eight ProTour professional cycling teams:

·         Ag2r-La Mondiale (FRA)

·         Astana (LUX)

·         Garmin-Slipstream (USA)

·         Liquigas (ITA)

·         Quick Step (BEL)

·         Rabobank (Netherlands)

·         Columbia Highroad (USA)

·         Team Saxo Bank (DEN)

 

Team Saxo Bank
jersey image not
yet available

 

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