guardian.co.uk Sport:
• Chooses new British team over Lance Armstrong's squad• Alberto Contador stays with Astana if they remain in ProTourSean Yates, one of only four British cyclists to wear the yellow jersey of the Tour de France leader, is to join Team Sky as a sports director. The 49-year-old, a veteran of 12 Tours, will leave Lance Armstro (Read More)
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• Brailsford: 'We've been keen for a long time to get Sean'• To be part of this team is truly special, says YatesTeam Sky have announced that Sean Yates will join the British outfit as sports director in the new year. The former cyclist has been sports director for Astana since 2008, after stints in a similar role at Team D (Read More)
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• Garmin-Slipstream unwilling to release Wiggins• Team Sky poised to add Ben Swift to rosterTeam Sky yesterday announced two new Italian signings, bringing their roster up to 24 ahead of the squad's first training camp in Manchester next week. But while the British-born Dario Cioni and Davide Viganò add strength, neither is (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
• Sylvain Calzati, Nicolas Portal and Mathew Hayman join• Two Frenchmen may help Team Sky get Tour de France placeTeam Sky have confirmed three more signings, bringing the number of cyclists in the line-up of Britain's new team to 22. Two Frenchmen, Sylvain Calzati and Nicolas Portal, and an Australian, Mathew Hayman, are t (Read More)
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Who mistimed their holiday, who admired Hitler, and what's Bradley Wiggins shouting about? They're all here in our celebration of sport's stranger moments in 2009The Prince Philip Award for TactBBC presenter Clare Balding. To jockey Liam Treadwell, after his win at April's Grand National: "Give us a big grin to the camera. (Read More)
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• Peter de Villiers packs bench with front-row players• South Africa were battered in the scrums by LeicesterPeter de Villiers, the South Africa coach, has packed his bench with front-row players in anticipation of a torrid forward onslaught from France in Friday's match in Toulouse.In the squad announced today, the hooker (Read More)
The Guardian:
Tom Hall of Lonely Planet answers your questions about worldwide travelQ: My daughter and her husband like booking mystery short breaks for one another; it's now her turn to book a four- or five-day break starting on 26 December. So far so good, but the complicating factors are: finding anywhere between Christmas and New Ye (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
In the wake of the London mayor's heroics this week, we want your stories of cycling's good samaritansGuardian reader Lissendis commented on one of this blog's recent posts:This bike blog is getting a bit depressing. It seems as if the purpose of most of the recent threads is to get us all moaning about something.Ample evid (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
• British cycling team delays naming final roster• Wiggins said to be keen to join Team SkyTeam Sky will delay naming their full line-up with the final roster hingeing on their ongoing last-ditch efforts to sign Bradley Wiggins from the American Garmin-Slipstream team.With 19 riders signed up for the new British team, it ha (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
Manchester's World Cup was a chance for the young cyclists who are keeping Chris Hoy and Bradley Wiggins on their toesFor Great Britain's cyclists, the weekend's World Cup in Manchester was a matter of setting a marker – as the performance director, Dave Brailsford, put it – so the team knows what to look forward to in the (Read More)
The Guardian:
Iraq and Afghanistan veterans race hand-cycle wheelchairs in US, but London marathon allows only push-rim chairsMore than 20 disabled American veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan raced wheelchairs in the New York City marathon yesterday. Some of the men and women served alongside British forces, but when London holds its marat (Read More)
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• Olympic gold medallist expected to be named in squad• 29-year-old yet to comment on future prospectsThe saga of Bradley Wiggins' future on the road could be resolved by the end of the week, with Team Sky poised to complete their line-up for the 2010 season.The two-time Olympic individual pursuit champion, who equalled the (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
• Top Briton's 'exciting' form brings him best last lap time• Women's team pursuiters finish with a world recordGreat Britain's cyclists left Manchester tonight with 10 gold medals from the opening World Cup of the winter, four fewer than last year's haul, but it is 22-carat metalware to judge by the flood of records and pe (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Sport:
• New mark of 4min 15.015sec is fastest under current rules• Team Sky rider is a contender for time trial in Tour de FranceThe individual pursuit's status as an Olympic event is in the balance, but it can still bring a crowd to its feet, as Geraint Thomas of Wales found at the World Cup in Manchester when he set the second (Read More)
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Team GB are switched on despite possible changes to the 2012 track cycling programmeA year ago this week, Great Britain's cyclists assembled for the World Cup in Manchester in the euphoric haze that followed the team's domination in Beijing. Against a relatively weakened international field the squad continued where they ha (Read More)