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AP Source: Lance Armstrong Met Banned Doctor Before 2010 Tour
By not in system - AOL NewsROME -- 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 criminal charges accusing him of distributing doping products to athletes, but he remains barred for life by the Italian Cycling Federation. Italian authorities suspect Ferrari of continuing to work with 20 to 30 top level cyclists despite his ban, including Armstrong, and are ...
Seattle's Cycling Mayor Mike McGinn Victim of Bike Theft
By Dana Chivvis - AOL NewsSeattle'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 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Stephen Brashear, Getty Images Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, seen here in 2009, has been encouraging residents to ride bikes. "I know I've been encouraging people to ride bikes more," McGinn wrote. "but I didn't mean u could 'borrow' my ...
Lance Armstrong Announces 'Retirement 2.0': A Timeline of the Top Cyclist's Career
By Torie Bosch - AOL NewsIt'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 resembles the race courses he used to tackle. Surge Desk looks back at how his career unfolded. 1989-1992: Amateur career As a teen, Armstrong was interested in the triathlon but soon focused his training on cycling, competing in the junior world championships in Moscow in ...
Lance Armstrong's Big Win Not on Bike
By Kevin Blackistone - AOL NewsWhen 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, bicyclist Lance Armstrong. But Thomas wasn't inspired by Armstrong's athleticism. Thomas was an athlete himself. Just a few years earlier, he'd retired from a 20-year soccer career in England where he captained Crystal Palace to the FA Cup final in 1990 and made nine appearances ...
Boy With Leukemia Gets New Bike, but Family Wants Thief Caught
By David Lohr - AOL News(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 an anonymous donor today replaced his stolen bike. "People throughout the country, from Philadelphia to San Diego, are calling and donating various items to the family," Pennsylvania State Police Cpl. Kenneth Stapchuck told AOL News. AOL News, as well as media outlets in ...
NY Judge: 4-Year-Old Can Be Sued for Bike Accident
By Mara Gay - AOL News(Oct. 29) -- A little girl who allegedly drove her bicycle into an elderly woman when she was 4 can be sued for negligence, a New York judge has ruled. Juliet Breitman was 4 years old in April 2009 when she allegedly raced her bicycle -- still fitted with training wheels -- into 87-year-old Claire Menagh in Manhattan. The woman suffered a hip fracture that required surgery; she died a few weeks later, according to The New York Times. Courts have ruled that children under the age of 4 cannot be held legally liable. But Justice Paul Wooten of the State Supreme Court in Manhattan said that ...
Wallaby-Bicycle Crash Leaves Australian Woman in Critical Condition
By Carl Franzen - AOL News
(Oct. 5) -- Wallabies are known for being cute, furry, mini-kangaroo-like marsupials, but that doesn't mean they can't be dangerous as well. Case in point: This week, a wallaby leaped out into a road and collided with a 55-year-old Australian cyclist, knocking her to the ground, inflicting serious head injuries and putting her in critical condition, according to multiple international reports. Greg Wood, AFP / Getty Images Sure, they're cute. But wallabies, like these at Sydney's Wildlife World, have been the cause of many accidents in which humans are injured. The woman, whose identity ...
Italian Anti-Doping Agent Ettore Torri: Doping in Cycling Is Unstoppable
By Hal Spivack - AOL NewsEttore Torri - the head of Italy's National Olympic Committee on doping (CONI) -- said that he believes doping is widespread throughout the sport and is convinced that all cyclists are partaking. "I'm not the only one saying it. Lately, all of the cyclists I've interrogated have said that everyone dopes," the 78-year-old Ettore Torri told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "The longer I'm involved in this the more I marvel at how widespread doping is," Torri said. "And I don't think it will be eradicated. Because it just evolves continuously. There are new substances coming out that can't be ...
Alberto Contador Suspended for Doping, Could Lose Tour de France Title
By Paul Wachter - AOL News(Sept. 30) -- Surprise, surprise. Another professional biker has been caught doping. But it's not just any biker, it's three-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador, just a few months after his latest triumph. He "has been provisionally suspended after traces of the bronchodilator clenbuterol were found in a urine sample given by the Spaniard on the second rest day of the Tour de France on 21 July," The Guardian reports."The sample was taken in Pau the day before the most important stage of the race through the Pyrenees." Of course, just like Floyd Landis (the only Tour winner to test ...
Guinness Picks World's Longest Nose
By Joe Peacock - AOL News(Sept. 17) -- This nose knows no bounds. According to Guinness World Records officials, Mehmet Ozyurek has the world's largest nose. Measuring 3.46 inches from bridge to tip, the Turkish national's schnoz has earned its spot in the hot-off-the-presses 2011 edition of the record book. I have purposely refrained from picking on this guy's nose, despite having some rather juicy jokes just hanging there, waiting for me to pluck them. It's probably a good thing. though; nose-related humor is rather congested and is on par with crusted-over humor best left under seats or countertops. You might ...
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