Alexandre Vinokourov

Another rider that we have seen very little of this season is Alexandre Vinokourov who inadvertantly got tangled up in the recent Spanish doping incident, which ultimately lead to the demise of Liberty Seguros (Vino’s team). However several companies from Kazakhstan stepped in to offer sponsorship for three years.
While the new sponsorship is good-news for […]

Last years Tour de France was quite interesting for the Kazak cyclist Alexander Vinokourov who had ambitions of his own while riding along side T-Mobile team leader Jan Ullrich. While Vino had a sense of duty to Jan their were more than one occasions where he worried more about his standing in the race than Jan’s.
It was […]

Another “fairly flat” stage as the Tour de France continues to roll in an eastern direction, todays stage was another ball buster with speeds reaching near 60 k per hour as the Teams like Quick-Step and Davitamon-Lotto word to try to get the pack together which would allow their super star sprinters to go for […]

Paris – Nice is a 7 day stage race that takes place early in the season (March) it is considered one of the first “major” stage races of the year. The race starts in northern France and slowly works it’s way to the warm south of France. Because the tour heads towards warmer weather it is […]

Alexandre Vinokourov has had an incredible cycling career winning this years Liege Bastogne Liege, finishing 3rd overall in the Tour de France in 2003 as well as winning the Pair Nice tour that same year. Vinokourov now 31 years old is thinking about his future, specifically about the Tour de France saying “I have maybe […]