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AP Source: Lance Armstrong Met Banned Doctor Before 2010 Tour

ROME -- Lance Armstrong and a banned Italian physician have met repeatedly in Europe since severing formal ties in 2004, including as recently as last year before Armstrong's final Tour de France, a high-ranking Italian law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Friday. Michele Ferrari was cleared in 2006 of...

Seattle's Cycling Mayor Mike McGinn Victim of Bike Theft

Seattle's cycling mayor, Mike McGinn, was the victim of bike theft, but the unfortunate incident turned out to be doubly so for McGinn because it wasn't even his own bike -- it was his wife's. "Peg is pissed," McGinn tweeted Wednesday evening. The mayor had ridden the bike to work earlier in the day, according to the...

Lance Armstrong Announces 'Retirement 2.0': A Timeline of the Top Cyclist's Career

It's the end of an era: Lance Armstrong is hanging up his cycling shorts. He's calling this "Retirement 2.0" because he previously retired and then re-entered the sport. But this time, he says, he's not coming back. Armstrong's professional career has been filled with so many twists, turns, hills and valleys that it...

Lance Armstrong's Big Win Not on Bike

When I finally reached Geoff Thomas by phone in the summer of 2005, he'd just come off Col du Galibier, the highest peak in that year's Tour de France, where he'd pedaled most of the day over 100 miles through rain, sleet, snow, plummeting temperature and gusting wind on his campaign to duplicate the feat of his hero,...

Boy With Leukemia Gets New Bike, but Family Wants Thief Caught

(Dec. 14) -- An 8-year-old leukemia patient has been given a new bicycle, but his parents still want police to catch the thief who stole his bike while the family was away on a trip arranged by the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Authorities in Pennsylvania said there has been an outpouring of public support for Aaron Jones, and...

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06/03/12 Wiggins off to a strong start Source: Sky News Bradley Wiggins got his defence of the Criterium du Dauphine off to a near-perfect start with a close-up second in the prologue.
06/03/12 Bike wars: cyclists fear for safety Source: Border Mail IT'S not considered an extreme sport but maybe it should be.
06/03/12 Let's Ride: State Ranks 6th in Nation for Being Bike... Source: Waukesha Patch - Waukesha WI Waukesha's biking community knows the area trails better than anyone else.
06/03/12 On 'Carless Sundays', Pasig City residents roam in... Source: GMA Many people prefer to spend Sundays inside air-conditioned malls instead of strolling around outdoors.
06/03/12 Shanghai stages half-naked bike ride to promote green... Source: Zee News Half-naked men and women in bikinis took part in an annual bicycle ride to promote the use of green energy, healthy lifestyle and zero-carbon transportation in this Chinese metropolis.