US firm drops cycling team after doping cases

American cycling apparel firm DeFeet says it has severed ties with Italian team Vini Fantini after two Giro d’Italia riders tested positive for doping.

American cycling apparel firm DeFeet says it has severed ties with Italian team Vini Fantini after two Giro d’Italia riders tested positive for doping.
TEENAGER Jester Mendoza stole the thunder from the seasoned bets as he ruled the 90-kilometer road race of the 2013 AboitizPower Tour of Subic at Subic Bay Freeport Sunday.
Mehdi Sohrabi and his Tabriz Petrochemical teammates purposely signed up to conquer the hardest climb in the Le Tour de Filipinas.
Lee Ki-suk, the sprint specialist of Taiwan-based CCN Cycling Team, nipped Douglas Repacholi of Perth Cycling Team by a wheel in a wild dash to the finish yesterday to seize the opening stage of the 2013 Le Tour de Filipinas.
Filipino riders know the terrain and are used to the scorching heat more than any seasoned foreign cyclist in the 2013 Le Tour de Filipinas.

Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong has sold his Austin estate to an oil-and-gas rights agent.

Swimming’s world governing body on Thursday said it had written to organizers of a regional swimming championships in the United States, requesting that shamed cyclist Lance Armstrong be barred from competing.
AFTER competing in the local Tour twice in nine months, Baler Ravina is looking forward to repeating as champion in the short but foreign-flavored 2013 Le Tour de Filipinas set April 13 to 16.
RUSTOM Lim of Team LBC Cycling Pilipinas finished joint fifth with a huge wave of riders while Ronald Oranza couldn’t sustain a late breakaway and ended up 26th in the men’s road race of the Asian Cycling Championship in New Delhi over the weekend. A sprint specialist from Guimba, Nueva Ecija, Lim came home with [...]
TERENGGANU Cycling Team, one of the highest-ranked teams in Asia, will race in the 2013 Le Tour de Filipinas despite the ongoing political turmoil between the Philippines and Malaysia.
FILIPINO Ronald Oranza placed eighth out of 23 riders in the individual time trial of the Asian Cycling Championship in New Delhi on Thursday.

Lance Armstrong will not interview under oath with the agency that exposed his doping and took his seven Tour de France titles. The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency told Armstrong he would have to reveal all he knows about doping in cycling — a process officials expected would take several days — if he wanted to reduce his lifetime ban from sports.
The cyclist who nearly broke a time trial world mark by the great Jacques Anquetil lives 23 kilometers away from here.