Eneko Llanos won the Ironman Arizona

The Alava Eneko Llanos has closed the season by winning the Ironman Arizona in Tempe on Sunday disputed the United States, achieving a time less than eight hours of racing.

The Vitoria has finished the race with a time of seven hours, 59 minutes and 38 seconds and becomes the second triathlete in history that ends below the barrier of eight hours in a test of Ironman Championship in the United States.

Eneko this triumph ended the 2011 season, after a struggle in the area of ​​the race, ahead of Briton Paul Arney, who has crossed the line with a time of eight hours, one minute and 29 seconds.

This shows the fitness of Alava in the last round of competitive schedule and has made good preparation for the race.

Llanos has been the strongest and has gone from less to more in the areas of swimming, cycling and running.

The Vitoria has arrived in eleventh place at the transition between the swim and bike, two minutes from the head of the race.

In the cycle route, Llanos has proven to be the specialty that best dominates because it has begun to surpass rivals to take the lead in half Ironman rider overtaking sector in more than half a minute and Arney.

Llanos continued his good work on the bike and the final change to get off two wheels and start the run short, and a half minute advantage in the Dane Martin Jensen and Tim O'Donnell local, while Arney lost almost two minutes from the fifth.

The Alava started slacking in the footrace, while Arney exhibited all his strength and gave chase to the seven miles, from which time they have gone together taking a comfortable lead over other rivals.

With the two favorites to win the test head of the miles and wasted away in the final stretch, Eneko burned the ships, the British distanced less than four thousand meters to go and rode to victory goal.

The record Euskaltel Romain Sicard

Euskaltel Euskadi cycling team announced Friday it has opened an internal "to study the events the night of 9 to 10 November in Toulouse in relation to its member Romain Sicard."

The young Euskaltel Euskadi team rider was arrested by police in Toulouse when surprised in his car carrying signs and giving positive breathalyser test that was performed later.

Euskaltel Euskadi explained, "the cyclist himself reported" the whole "orange" events. Basque advanced training that will meet "soon" with Sicard and said "be strict in implementing their internal code."

Former World Champion U-23 was caught at about 1 am on Thursday by a police patrol district Colomiers in his car carrying a traffic signal.

When the runner was about to start, was detained by the officials, who also discovered in the vehicle cone signaling. Later, Sicard was subjected to a breathalyser test, which gave a positive result, which was taken to police station.

Landis sentenced to one year in jail exempt from compliance

The former cyclist Floyd Landis was sentenced Thursday by the French courts to one year in prison for espionage free computer performance against the French Agency for the Fight against Doping (AFLD) to distort the results of his positive test for testosterone at the 2006 Tour .

The Court of Nanterre issued the same penalty for Arnie Baker, Landis coach when the events occurred after the cyclist was stripped of his victory in the overall Tour de France that year, which competed with the Swiss Phonak.

As expected, neither Landis nor Baker were presented at the trial, which began last October 17 and which also condemned the electricity company EDF to 1.5 million euros (about $ 2 million) for spying against Greenpeace. Both Landis and company EDF hired Kargus Consultants to commit the crime.

The exciclista used the services of a hacker to alter the results of the French anti-doping laboratory Châtenay-Malabry (AFLD later) and have used the data manipulated to try to defend his innocence in his case positive for testosterone, according to the judges.

The sentence of one year in jail-free compliance, did not reach the 18 months that had required the prosecution against exciclista, 36, for having entered illegally and helped by their accomplices in the laboratory database with the intention of recover some analytical pieces on the case to manipulate scientific data.

Thus, Landis sought to retain his title as winner of the Tour de France, whose legal victor in that edition was the Spanish Oscar Pereiro, of Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears.

The bouquet of flowers to Mrs. Alberto Contador

If it is above the Giro, which has won this year for the second time in his career, and of course victories in the Tour of Murcia and Catalonia, to say nothing of the stages of Etna and transalpine round Nevegal, Alberto Contador This morning has been the greatest joy of the year to marry Macarena Pescador, his girlfriend of a lifetime.

Accustomed to the victories, trophies, applause and kisses from the hostess at the podium, this time the flowers have not been for him, but to Macarena, the person who, with his family, has been closer to him in the most-good-and bad times which mark the career of the best cyclist in the moment, at least in major stage races.

The link has been produced in the church of Santo Domingo de Silos, Pinto, the birthplace and residence of the couple. The ceremony was attended also relatives and friends of the bride and groom, fellow champion, already a few weeks ago celebrated in private, but in style, the bachelor of Alberto.

Marriage will now Contador few days honeymoon. Rome is one of the destinations chosen, but not the only one. Upon his return, Alberto will face between 21 to November 24 the process that is pending in the Court of Arbitration for Sport in the case of clenbuterol. Your wedding shows the confidence he has in this story ends happily.

The Coll de la Gallina, the latest discovery of the Tour

Although Unipublic is doing everything possible to hide the route of the Tour 2012 to the date of its presentation, in the second week of January-are already beginning to filter some of the steps that will define and mark the race.

We said a few days ago that the race will start in Pamplona with a team time and, due to the success of this year and geographic proximity, will return to the Basque Country to reach the Bola del Mundo on its way to the finish in Madrid. Now we extend the information to ensure that one of his queens stage finish in Andorra, and more specifically in the Coll de la Gallina, a port for its difficulty unpublished marked differences among the favorites.

'The Periodic d'Andorra "realized a few days ago the new discovery of the Tour, which hits new peak on 25 August, in the eighth stage, so the first conclusion we can draw is that the race will take the clockwise to clockwise. Thus, it can hardly return to the North, then in 2012 may not be passed by Asturias and Galicia.

Focusing on the Coll de la Gallina, I must say that a port is unpublished, but well known and recommended cycling forums. Unfortunately, however, has some stretches of the last kilometers hardly passable, as are unpaved, and also in the top evacuation seems complicated, so Unipublic not want to take more risk than strictly necessary, installed the goal at the Shrine of Canòlich, after 7.5 km of ascent and four of the top, which may be left for another occasion

The gap means that brokers must pass be about 8.3%, although some ramps reach 18%. Before this final climb, moreover, will probably Ordino, so that the stage presents clearly interesting.

After Lakes, in 1983, El Morredero (1987), Xorret del Cati (1998), Angliru (1999), Aitana (2001), La Covatilla and La Pandera (2002), Calar Alto (2004), The Cobertoria (2006 ) Velefique (2009), and Ball Cotobello World (2010) and The Manzaneda and The Farrapona (2011), the Tour will discover the Coll de la Gallina in 2012.

Clara Sanchez wins in the opening World Cup

The Frenchwoman Clara Sanchez confirmed his status as favorite and took the victory in the keirin in the inaugural World Cup track cycling, which took place in Astana. Sanchez, winner of his specialty the last edition, again showed his power by winning ahead of Kristina Vogel and Russian Ekaterina Gnidenko, while the world champion in the discipline, the Australian Anna Meares, could only be sixth.

In the last day in the Kazakh capital, Australians and Glenn Alexander Edmonson Oshea beat Madison with 22 points, eight more than the Swiss Silvan Dillier / Loic Perizzolo, and completed the podium with twelve Russian Artur Ershov / Kirill Sveshnikov. Britain's Chris Hoy was exhibited in the sprint, winning the final against Russian Denis Dmitriev, and won the women's Omnium Romanyuta Russian Evgeniya ahead of another Briton, Dani King. The Spanish Juan Peralta was thirtieth in sprint and keirin thirteenth in Calvo Tania.

Oscar Sevilla ponders run with Colombia

Spanish rider Oscar Sevilla, six months suspended for doping until 21 February next, there is the chance to represent Colombia in the World Cup after receiving the offer to acquire the nationality of the country has fixed his residence for years.

"So far I have residence in Colombia, but I have offered to run global citizenship in Colombia and I'm going to think. However, Spain did not forget it is my land, Albacete, Castilla-La Mancha took them deep inside despite in Colombia that have welcomed me very well, this is my land and I am very proud to be Spanish and Albacete, "said the newspaper 'La Verdad de Albacete". Sevilla, 35, is on holiday in Spain after a season racing in America in which he has achieved twelve victories.

"I am very happy to have met a different bike, a different culture and countries because not only is Colombia, I am also running in North, Central and South America. It's been a very positive experience in my career despite having taken other competitions such as the European Tour, "he said.

With regard to his punishment, said the case comes from 2010 but has gone now. "It was inadvertent doping. Vuelta a Colombia in the last year I had a fall two days to complete missing and had to go to the emergency room because I had many injuries, knee open and he was also unconscious. There abrasions healed me and I sutured wounds, but I got an IV and the next day I tested positive by the method, not substance, because the intravenous method is banned in cycling. "

"From there began a film that has lasted a year and two months of uncertainty, not knowing what would happen, lawyers ... and the outcome was a sentence of six months ending on February 21 . accept and comply with the sanction, but I do not agree or think it's fair. "

Sevilla defined as a "political fudge" Operation Puerto, with whom he was linked in his day. "It was a very large political fudge that wanted to demonstrate that fighting doping and all they did was flip the image of cycling and cyclists through the ground."

"Only served to load cycling at the grassroots level, at the level of advertising and the fans in Spain," he added. "There are few races, the media has been following the races just keep doping and I think it is fair." Colombia has been very good physically, "I won twelve races, I've been at the top, I'm happy with my performance and also enjoy what I do, which is cycling. I train with the same enthusiasm as usual" .

"After the 2006-year of Operation Puerto, has always been very difficult to race here (in Spain) and although there have been any offers, maybe it was too sad because she wanted to take advantage of the circumstances because riders like Mancebo or as I have a name that deserves respect. However in the U.S. and South America have accepted us as we are. "

To Seville, "in Spain, the future of cycling is quite black, which in America and Asia is the opposite, there is the future of cycling, including the present. In countries like Russia, China, USA and South America cycling enjoys a better image, more companies are investing in it and the fans are more focused with cycling, which in Spain has gone down to the point that some people do not know who won the Vuelta, the Tour or the Giro. "

For next season, is set in the U.S.: "I want to make a good campaign in tests such as California, Colorado and Utah, which are very important and then there is the Tour of Colombia and the RCN Classic, which is very interested in the team. I love win the Vuelta a Colombia, perhaps the world's toughest test for the hardness of the course and the quality of Colombian cyclists increases. "

The municipal flag Xavi Valls called Tondo

The town of Valls (Tarragona) will pay tribute next Saturday, November 5, his countryman Xavi Tondo, professional cyclist who died on May 23, baptizing municipal hall with your name, city officials said.

Thus, the current flag of Fornes renamed Xavier Tondo Volpini i after an act in which you will discover a plaque with the name of the entry Vallense cycling equipment.

The event will coincide with the date of Tondo had served 33 years, will feature performances by saxophonist Pep Poblet, while Cossetània perform a sardana Cobla composed expressly entitled Forcada Xavier "Xavi, somriure i struggled."

Sardana members of the Flame Unió Anelle Sardana dance is dedicated to Tondo and also the two colles Valls castelleres participate in the tribute with a pillar plate when it is discovered that will rename the pavilion.

Before that, you can participate in any of the three sessions of 'spinning' organized by the Municipal Sports Valls.

A fatal accident
Tondo Xavi was born in 1978 and died in an accident last May 23 in Pradollano (Granada), when preparing the Tour de France, hopelessly overwhelmed by the garage door that was used.

Movistar rider had won the Tour in April of Castile and Leon, so that 2011 was presented as a good year after in 2010, in the ranks of Cervelo, won a stage of Paris-Nice in the queen stage of the Volta a Catalunya.

Mancebo, "The crisis is doing more damage to the cycling doping"

The rider Paco Mancebo, the U.S. team before RealCyclist.com and played for Banesto team, he lamented that the economic crisis "is doing far more damage to the cycling doping." In presenting the Memorial José Cañavate, to be held next Sunday in Huelva, Mancebo has told reporters that "in Spain there is a crisis for all and there are few teams," so he had to emigrate to America, where said that he "got the opportunity" and doing "quite well".

On doping cases reported in recent years, was glad that "fortunately cycling is rearing its head again," but, on the contrary, "has now joined the crisis, and the sport lives private contributions" , recalled the broker, born in 1976 in Madrid, although residing in Navaluenga (Ávila).

"No money, companies are tightening their belts and contribute less, so this year, possibly, there will be four or five professional teams in Spain, and there is no room for a squad of two hundred people. That and doping has killed "he underlined.

Mancebo turned pro in 1998 with the Banesto team, where he stayed until 2006 Ag2r Prévoyance went into French. A year later he moved to Relax-GAM, and after he disappeared, he enlisted in 2008 in the Portuguese-Paredes Rota dos Ferca Moveais the following year to join the American team Rock Racing.

His biggest hits were the title of champion of Spain in 2004, a stage of the Tour of Spain 2005 and good ratings, especially between 2003 and 2005, the Tour and the Vuelta. This year, Paco Mancebo joined the U.S. team RealCyclist.com, with whom he recently renewed until 2013.

Tribute to Lastras in Isla Cristina

Thanks to the good offices of Santos Hernandez, former ONCE team rider, a good handful of cyclists and former professional cyclists will converge on Sunday in Isla Cristina (Huelva) to travel the 105 miles from the IX-Memorial Road Cycling José Cañavate.

Along with the 400 enrolled, take exit Pablo Lastras, who will be honored for his 14 seasons in the top flight, his victories in the three-stage in the Giro 2001, another in the 2003 Tour and three in the Tour Spain, two in 2002 and a year-and, above all, professionalism, willingness, expertise and friendliness.

Wrapped in a special day will be next to Paco Mancebo, a fixture of this test, Jesus Rosendo, Javier Estrada, Javier Ramirez Bee, Luis Angel Maté, Fran Pérez, Ricardo Mestre, Samuel Caldeira, Miguel Angel Candil, John Pedro Trujillo, Sergio Mantecón, Jose Antonio Camacho and Jesus Suarez Cuevas.

The 2012 Tour will unveil its design in January

Although both the Giro and the Tour and officially presented the 2012 tour, the Tour of Spain in no hurry to do so for the simple reason that it is the last of the three major disputes. However, Unipublic already have practically closed the course of the next edition.

MARK has been told, the presentation of the Tour 2012 will be in the second week of January in Pamplona, ​​which is the city that will start the race with a team time trial on 18 August.

Following the success of this year and geographical proximity, it seems, can not be understood otherwise-that the next edition will return to the Basque Country. Also return to the Pyrenees after the last edition of the obvious.

The final fireworks, however, will almost certainly be in the Bola del Mundo, Madrid's top-and Spanish-which rose for the first time in 2010, when Mosquera and Nibali offered a great show with career win into play only one day remaining.

The jump in the Canaries have to wait at least another year, until 2013.

Pujol is "very difficult" to find equipment

The Catalan rider Oscar Pujol settled in Valladolid has admitted on Wednesday he sees "very difficult" to find equipment for next season after finishing his contract with Omega Pharma Lotto.

One possibility which prefers not to think, though, has said he sees "very black" after "call all the doors," he commented. Their claims are not high, as it has acknowledged that it is "in a position to ask" and that all he wants is "a little calendar" to let "see" because he thinks he has "level".

"I'm doing and the preseason with uncertainty. As of December 31 there is time, but it is difficult to prepare without knowing where to run. I hope to find something even smaller," he explained. It has also to some extent blamed his former team of the situation that is because, as has been reported, was not given option to be seen.

"From the start I got with the group of Belgians and partly because of the language, I felt apart, what makes you discouraged. Then I ran like I should not do in Dauphine Libere and I no longer took the Tour of Spain . It was a stick because it was going to run and was the goal of the season, "acknowledged Pujol.

Since then, the racing cyclist attended loose only in Poland, France and Canada and was left with no options to renew with his former team, Omega Pharma Lotto. "It's been a bad year. When I walked not had to walk and I could not compete much. I am the champion of training," joked the climber.

Fabio Duarte Colombia signed for Coldeportes

The Colombia-Coldeportes professional team, led by Claudio Corti, manager and victorious Italian team management as Saeco and Barloworld, confirmed the signing of Fabio Duarte. Thus, the cyclist, 25, who this year has run in the Geox-TMC in 2012 wear the colors of Coldeportes-Colombia.

Former world champion sub-23 (won his title in Varese, Italy in 2008) is the reference point of a team that offers interesting innovations among young Colombian climbers.

This season has been the best for Duarte, despite the fall he suffered in the Giro d'Italia which took two months of inactivity due to a knee problem. After recovering, the Colombian won the third stage of the Giro del Trentino in Fai della Paganella and was second in the fifth stage of Giro d'Italia race between Piombino and Orvieto. He was also second in the Grand Prix of Lugano and joined the best team in the last Tour of Spain, where his partner won Juanjo Cobo.

The complete and final list of team members will get to know little by little. According to Claudio Corti, "Duarte's arrival represents an important step and I am excited to see how the broker has understood and believed in our project preferring the offer we made on others that we were very important."

LONDON OLYMPICS: Five runners on the road time trial

Spain will have the maximum representation, five runners in the test route and two in the time trial in cycling events of the 2012 London Olympics, as confirmed by the UCI.

With a total of 140 participants in the online test, only 9 countries will have five riders on their computers. These nine countries are Austria, Belgium, Spain, Germany, Britain, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland and the United States.

In the time trial involved 40 riders and a maximum of 2 per country, height reach only eight Olympic committees, those of Austria, Denmark, Spain, Britain, Germany, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands and Switzerland.

The list of countries with the highest representation in the two tests is reduced to six, Austria, Spain, Britain, Germany, Holland and Switzerland. In the women, the allocation of places will be held on May 31, 2012.

Geox lost their chance of being World Tour

Although Joxean Fernandez and Mauro Gianetti Matxin still looking almost desperate a sponsor that will allow them to continue their project forward, the team Geox, or rather his successor, is unlikely to have more World Tour in 2012, ended yesterday as the deadline for depositing guarantees to the ICU.

"I want to be optimistic, despite the crisis, think it will bear fruit some of the conversations we are having" Matxin explained yesterday, "but unfortunately there is nothing currently closed. I will leave the soul in it," he added.

From this moment, therefore, the goal will get a Professional Continental team, which is the category that have had this year and, with the staff of brokers that possess Menchov, Cobo, De la Fuente, Blanco, I open the doors of some of the greats. For this, however, finding a sponsor seems so necessary and urgent.

Moreover, the UCI announced yesterday that Spain may have in testing route from London 2012 with the maximum of cyclists, five online and two time trials.

Proposed two-year sanction for Mosquera

Thirteen months after his positive test for hydroxyethyl in the Tour of Spain, the case looks and Ezequiel Mosquera of the solution path. Victoria Carmen Lopez, judge in the case has raised a proposal for sanction of two years to the Competition Committee of the Spanish Federation, who will finally decide.

Hydroxyethyl, expander artificial colloidal plasma, obtained from corn starch, is a possible masking of other doping products. A Mosquera was detected after stage win of the Ball of the World, which earned him second place in the Tour 2010, after Nibali.

Galician rider joined this year by the Dutch team has withdrawn Vacansoliel align all season for this case.

The prosecution called 18 months in prison without compliance to Landis for spying

Prosecutors on Monday demanded 18 months in jail exempt from U.S. exciclista compliance against Floyd Landis , stripped of the title of winner of the Tour de France 2006 by doping, for allegedly spying for the French anti-doping agency. The prosecution believes the exciclista and coach Arnie Baker, tried by the Court of Nanterre (a suburb of Paris) in 2006 hired a hacker to illegally access the database from the laboratory of the French Agency for Combating Doping (AFLD). In this way, had tried to recover some analytical pieces on the case for some scientific data handling and retain his title of winner of the Tour de France, whose victory fell to Spanish Oscar Pereiro .

According to prosecutors, Landis had hired the services of the company Kargus Consultants, the firm would also have appealed the EDF power to spy on Greenpeace. Neither Landis, 36, and Baker were present at the process as have always refused to appear before the French courts. After denying doping allegations initially, in 2010 admitted to cheating during the race. In relation to that part of the investigation, the prosecution has asked for 1.5 million euros against the French power company three years in prison, with 30 exempt from compliance months to two senior security officers of EDF, Paul François and Pascal Durieux.

Venezuela wins March 2 golds in track cycling

Venezuela struck authority in track cycling, winning the Monday two of the three gold medals were handed out at the velodrome of the Pan American Games . The Venezuelan teams were imposed in the sprint events for men and women, while Colombia won the gold in the men's team pursuit. The Venezuelan women set a new record in speed Pan, like the Colombian team in the chase. Colombia defeated Chile in the final of men's pursuit, in which Argentina was the bronze. Venezuela beat Colombia in the final of women's speed. Mexico beat the United States in the race for the bronze. At the rate of men, America was left with the silver medal won against Colombia Argentina for the bronze.