Viva Lance Armstrong » Team Astana http://www.vivalancearmstrong.com Lance Armstrong's return to professional cycling and the road to the 2009 Tour de France Thu, 19 Feb 2009 05:31:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Lance’s Time Trial Bike Recovered http://www.vivalancearmstrong.com/lances-time-trial-bike-recovered/ http://www.vivalancearmstrong.com/lances-time-trial-bike-recovered/#comments Thu, 19 Feb 2009 05:17:59 +0000 Dan http://www.vivalancearmstrong.com/?p=314 Word just came in from Lance Armstrong’s twitter account that his TT bike has been recovered by the Sacramento Police!  Good news since it is a one of a kind machine worth 20,000 and more importantly specifcally tuned for Lance.

Video with Sacramento Police: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpDeNz2Xcfg

Lance's Time trial Bike is recovered

photo by: Darcy McCarty

]]> http://www.vivalancearmstrong.com/lances-time-trial-bike-recovered/feed/ 0 The Speculation is over. Lance will start 2009 Tour de France! http://www.vivalancearmstrong.com/the-speculation-is-over-lance-will-start-2009-tour-de-france/ http://www.vivalancearmstrong.com/the-speculation-is-over-lance-will-start-2009-tour-de-france/#comments Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:29:09 +0000 Dan http://www.vivalancearmstrong.com/?p=298 photo by: eugene

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Breaking news: Lance has officially confirmed he will start the 2009 Tour de France! After months of doubt and rumors Lance today made official what many may have suspected from the seven time former champion. This post will be updated with more details as soon as possible.

Viva Lance!!

]]> http://www.vivalancearmstrong.com/the-speculation-is-over-lance-will-start-2009-tour-de-france/feed/ 0 Contador: No problem if “we both stick to our schedules” http://www.vivalancearmstrong.com/contador-no-problem-if-we-both-stick-to-our-schedules/ http://www.vivalancearmstrong.com/contador-no-problem-if-we-both-stick-to-our-schedules/#comments Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:32:42 +0000 Dan http://www.vivalancearmstrong.com/?p=283 photo by: alex_lee2001

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With their first Astana training camp together starting today in Spain’s Canary Islands Contador had some interesting words regarding the team leader position and his teammate Lance Armstrong.

“If we both stick to our schedules, there won’t be a problem1”

It’s a curiously worded statement since neither riders official schedules have been announced yet. Contador has stated many times though his main objective for this season is the Tour De France and as of now it’s the one race that’s noticeably missing from Armstrong’s rumored schedule. So in other words Alberto seems to be saying “If Lance decides to race the Tour there will be a problem”. Is Contador ruling out the possibility that Lance could even ride the Tour as a supporting man for team Astana without causing problems?

Alberto did sprinkle in some lines of praise throughout the interview saying “I’m convinced he (Lance) will strengthen the team” and “For me, it’s a pleasure to be in the same team as a man whom I have always admired.1”. “Be in the same team” though also strikes me as an odd way to phrase it (though this could be just a language translation issue), instead of something like “ride alongside”, “work together in mountains”, or “challenge myself against the best rider in Tour history”.

Astana training camp runs through December 8th in Spain and I’ll keep you posted with any news as hopefully reports of Armstrong’s racing condition will also to be reported.

  1. AFP, Condador Unsure of Armstrong Level
]]> http://www.vivalancearmstrong.com/contador-no-problem-if-we-both-stick-to-our-schedules/feed/ 0 Yaroslav Popovych Joins an already stacked Astana Team http://www.vivalancearmstrong.com/yaroslav-popovych-joins-an-already-stacked-astana-team/ http://www.vivalancearmstrong.com/yaroslav-popovych-joins-an-already-stacked-astana-team/#comments Sat, 15 Nov 2008 21:18:44 +0000 Dan http://www.vivalancearmstrong.com/?p=242  

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photo by: adambowie

The 2009 Astana Cycling team has assembled one of the most talented squads in modern cycling history.  The newest member is a longtime friend of Lance and former Discovery Channel teammate Yaroslav Popovych.  Popovych is an extremely gifted rider who won the Best Young Rider designation in the 2005 Tour and stage winner in 2006 was a huge asset for Discovery helping lance to his last three Tour wins.

Bruyneel has to be licking his chops with all the weapons he has for the upcoming season.  

2009 Astana Roser1: 

  • Lance Armstrong
  • Assan Bazayev
  • Jani Brajkovic
  • Alberto Contador
  • Valeriy Dmitriyev
  • Aleksandr Dyachenko
  • Jesús Hernández
  • Chris Horner
  • Maxim Iglinskiy
  • Roman Kireyev
  • Andreas Klöden
  • Berik Kupeshov
  • Levi Leipheimer
  • Steve Morabito
  • Dmitriy Muravyev
  • Daniel Navarro
  • Benjamín Noval
  • Sérgio Paulinho
  • Yaroslav Popovych
  • Bolat Raimbekov
  • Gregory Rast
  • Sergey Renev
  • José Luis Rubiera
  • Michael Schär
  • Tomas Vaitkus
  • Andrey Zeits
  • Haimar Zubeldia
  1. PPOL, Popovych Joins Astana
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