Indurain: “It is good that Contador is sanctioned”

Miguel Indurain, five time Tour winner, believes that “not good” for cycling his compatriot Alberto Contador, pending the decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on the positive for clenbuterol at the Tour de France 2010, be punished.

“It’s not good for cycling that Contador will be punished, I hope everything will go as best as possible,” Navarro said in an interview published in the Italian sports daily La Gazzetta dello Sport.

Indurain believes that the history of counter is “difficult to explain, especially to the fans” because of its technical complexity.

For the runner Navarre, there is currently a leader in cycling, but there are big favorites for testing: “Contador is the best of the big tours, Gilbert is a specialist in classical and Cavendish is the best sprinter.”

The Villava has fond memories of his time as a professional, but his job at a sporting goods store and his role as a columnist for a newspaper specializing keep you busy.

Now he has turned his dream at the start in cycling his son Michael, who at 16 is released in the youth category with the team where his father started, Cycling Cross Villava Villaverde.

Buemi will be the third driver for Red Bull

Swiss driver Sebastien Buemi will continue its relationship with Red Bull Racing as reserve driver and tester during the 2012-13 season, joining Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber, which were confirmed by the team.

The 23 years that ran next to last season in the Spanish Alguersuari subsidiary of Red Bull, Toro Rosso, was happy with his new position in the team, but said he would like to “ride in the races.”

“It’s good to stay at Red Bull for another year and have this opportunity with the team winning the World Championship.’d Rather ride in races, of course, but working with Red Bull Racing in the development of your car and provide a ‘feedback ‘throughout the season is the next best option, “Buemi said in a statement provided by the team.

Meanwhile, the Red Bull team principal Christian Horner said he is “completely logical that Sébastien continue on your computer”, as a member of ‘Junior Team’ since 2004. “He knows the team well from the time he spent with us in 2008,” he added.

“He has acquired significant experience in the race for the last three years. All-important ‘tests’, will make us work simulation along this year and will be present at each Grand Prix,” concluded Horner.

Hermida tune their guns

Although there are still nearly eight months to the Olympics in London, Jose Antonio Hermida, the best ‘biker’ in the history of Spanish mountain bike, trains its guns, those who wore and made famous with gestures at the finish in Athens, where he held the second, after the ‘Cannibal’ Frenchman Julien Absalon.

Although these months the cyclocross spend their time, their goal points to August 12, the day, if everything is normal, will start as one of the favorites for Olympic gold.

PAST: “When I was young and gave me a pair of gloves, I could think to get where I am”

Six times World Champion, three of them individually, and four times European champion, the Olympic title is the icing is lacking in his extraordinary achievements. “I also lack an overall World Cup,” he recalls, “but I would be fine if I had to remove so that I have, because I touched the Olympic dream in Athens, when I was second.”

The cyclo-cross, as we say, is your occupation right now and although it has begun to run later than their rivals, and has three victories: Amezaga (Álava), Valencia and Catalonia Championship. “I’ve been preparing a little more advanced than other years because of obligation,” he explains, “and I want to start strong mountain bike season and in 2012, being an Olympic year, the timing is advanced.”

Nothing better than the specialty mountain bike winter in preparation for the “Other years between World cyclo-cross and the first round of the World Cup mountain bike had two months, then I could not require the maximum, but this year there is only one, so my intention is to get good at BMX World, which interests me more than ever, strong to begin the World Cup “, the first test will be March 18 in South Africa.

THIS: “My intention is to get good at BMX World, which interests me more than ever, strong to start the World Cup mountain bike”

“You can pick up points in May, then although Spain has already secured three seats, will have to get the job,” he says wryly, as in reason no one before him has secured the square. “The program plans to stop a little in May, for breath, and then all followed, The Jerk”, because the European is in July, the Olympic Games in August and the World Cup in September. “But if I can close the year in August, without waiting for the September exam, the better,” he adds with characteristic grace. Road 34, Jose Antonio is already an institution in the bunch of ‘bikers’. “Together with Sauser, which is somewhat greater than I are veterans,” said Hermida. “But we still endure. I think I can still be three or four years running at high level: three in the Olympic discipline, because I do not get to Rio, and then long distance, as the Cape Epic tests.”

Since it began competing at age 14, has two decades climbed to the bike. “When I was young and gave me a pair of gloves, I could think to get where I am. I have to be grateful,” he repeated again and again. “The next will be my fourth game and my name still ringing.” Of all his victories, José Antonio has two specially recorded in his brain: “The first victory we got in the World Cup, in 2001, in Napa (USA), because I won all those who Habaiah been my idols, and the World Last year’s elite, for closing the circle after being champion in the other categories, “he explains,” although the fourth at the Sydney Games was the beginning of everything. ”

Absalon, the alien who has mastered many years the mountain bike world has returned to earth. “But now there is another dictator,” says Jaroslav Kulhavy by Czech. “This year he has won almost everything. It is clear that new generations are being consolidated, but that encourages me and helps me to challenge.”

Evans, a ‘biker’
Hermida could have run on the road, but has declined: “It is that mountain biking is my life,” he explains. “I enjoy the mountain bike, is a way of life. It’s like if you asked Carlos Sainz and Loeb why they have not raced in Formula 1.”

FUTURE: “I would be fine if I had to remove so that I have, because I touched the Olympic dream in Athens, when I was second”

However, almost daily trains professionals route: Arrow, Danielson, Vandevelde and a long list of cyclists who are prepared by the Cerdanya. “This year we have also joined the group Boonen and Chavanel,” he says.
For Jose Antonio, the BTT is your life, but other ‘bikers’, as Rasmussen, Evans, Fuglsang, Kessiakoff Sagan and switched to the road, where shine, “Evans’s victory in the Tour is the victory of mountain bike” says Hermida. “The ‘bikers’ we are proud that one of us has won on enemy territory.” he adds.

“Until 2002 I fought with Evans,” Catalan explains further. “Although I never managed to be world champion, was very good. I had a great technique, strategically was very good and seemed obsessed with the preparation. I have not missed his victory in the Tour, because I had prepared to the millimeter and had everything studied while taking into account the potential rivals could also have won the other. “

Rosell Elena enters the story … of Qatar

Elena Rosell not make the Americas. Times have changed. Now the north in the compass of the sport often look to Asia or the Middle East. Especially in Qatar, the country’s few pop up in the Emirates. There has traveled the Valencian rider to realize his move to Qatari team Motorcycling Federation, with which he played the full schedule next season in the Moto2 class. In this he and his first steps this year at the hands of Jorge Martinez Aspar.

It started as a gift unpretentious, tasty snack for Elena, which premiered at the World Cathedral, Assen, without success. He fell several times and failed to qualify for membership in the Moto2 grid. But it ended up becoming a lottery jackpot for her. Elena compete within the structure to replace the pilot Qatari local partner Al Naimi as Ricky Cardus, Cardus Tiriti nephew, which ran in the 2011 with the Middle Eastern team.

His first venture, controversial, some saw the opportunity to Aspar a pure marketing maneuver, was a small setback for Rosell, who could not hold back the tears after a failed attempt to be the first Spanish woman to compete in a World Cup. Then came a second chance, Alcaniz. In familiar territory, Elena managed to finish his first race and into the history of motorcycling. Valencia went even better, the event that put an end to the season and which ended in a creditable 25 th place ahead of some World Cup.

This triathlete at heart, also take part in the brief history of sports in Qatar, a country that always closed its borders, along with Brunei and Saudi Arabia, for their women to participate in the Olympics. At least until the London Games in 2012, and now the eastern country to let the rider deck Dalma Rushdi Malhas participate as a gesture of openness.

Pilot ‘nationalized’
Elena could be the first to defend the flag of Qatar into a major international event and a global sport with much acceptance. Especially in a city like Doha, which hosted the first event of motorcycles in the Middle East and also in unpublished form: in a fully lighted circuit to the races at night.

Thus, the pilot will be the first Spanish Manises to complete one-fourth World Women Championship in 50 years, following the departure of Poensgen Katja, a German who ran in 2001 and 2003 in the 250cc class. Previously, the Finnish Riina Taru succeeded, in 1989, adding 23 points in the 125cc class. Same as Tomoko iGate, Japan, in the same category in 1995.

CAS did not try the case Ullrich

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has been declared incompetent to judge the dispute between Germany’s Jan Ullrich doping and the Swiss Agency for a lawsuit requesting the opening of disciplinary proceedings against former broker for violation of the rules doping and a lifetime ban for his involvement in Operation Puerto.

Last May, the Swiss Agency requested the sanction for Ullrich, who won the Tour in 1997, before the Committee on Discipline of the Swiss Olympic Committee, an organization that refused the application to be considered incompetent. The Agency decided to appeal to the CAS.

Yes, the procedure assumes the ICU
Now the TAS is declared incompetent to meet the demands of the agency because the agency Helvetica did not exist in 2005 when Jan Ullrich won the Swiss license and was under the rules of the International Cycling Union (UCI), cycling Federation Olympic Committee francs.

However, the CAS announces its competition in the arbitration proceedings on the one hand holding the ICU and Jan Ullrich, and the Swiss Federation on the other, and whose decision is expected within 6 weeks.

The 2013 Tour will start in Corsica

The hundredth edition of the Tour de France will start on the island of Corsica in 2013, for the first time will march on their roads to cyclists media platoon of the world, as revealed by the organizers.

In a brief statement, the Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme announced that the so-called “Island of Beauty” will kick off for the most iconic bike race.

“While many cycling events have taken place in Corsica, it is the only region in metropolitan France never received the visit of the Tour de France,” noted the organizers.

The details of that exit and the steps that make up will be revealed on December 6 press conference.