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The masseur for Team Sky has died from a bacterial infection after falling ill during the Spanish Vuelta. Txema Gonzalez died in a Seville hospital Friday after going into septic shock, Sky team doctor Steve Peters said. The team said the infection entered Gonzalezs blood stream and developed into sepsis which damaged the organs in his body. - [Read more]

Txema Gonzalez, a member of Team Skys back-up staff at the Tour of Spain, died on Friday. - [Read more]

Tour de France champion Alberto Contador will not race for Spain at the upcoming world championships. Spain coach Jose Luis de Santos says the three-time Tour champion will not be at the worlds in Australia since "Alberto told me he prefers not to stretch out the season any more and will rest ahead of next season." Contador also injured his right knee after crashing during training on... - [Read more]

American bicycle manufacturer Trek will sponsor the new pro cycling team led by two-time Tour de France runner-up Andy Schleck. Schleck and his brother Frank announced earlier this season that they would leave the Saxo Bank team to start their own team based in their native Luxembourg beginning in 2011. - [Read more]

* LeMond pays tribute to "priceless" Fignon - [Read more]

Laurent Fignon was so close to his third Tour de France victory on the penultimate day of the 1989 race that newspapers began preparing their editions with the Frenchman splashed across the front page. - [Read more]

Factbox on former Tour de France winner Laurent Fignon who died of cancer on Tuesday: - [Read more]

*Fignon dies of cancer - [Read more]

Laurent Fignon, a Frenchman who twice won the Tour de France but was defeated by American rival Greg LeMond in arguably the events greatest race, died Tuesday after a battle with cancer. He was 50. Fignon, who had worked as a television commentator for the state-backed France 2 network for the past five years, announced last June that he had advanced cancer of the digestive system and was... - [Read more]

Former Tour de France winner Laurent Fignon has died of cancer at the age of 50. - [Read more]

Three-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador has slightly injured his right knee after crashing during training. Contadors spokesman, Jacinto Vidarte, says the rider fell while training on the outskirts of his hometown Pinto on Monday after losing control of his bike at a roundabout on a road made slippery by oil. - [Read more]

A mystery illness has struck Team Sky, forcing two riders to abandon the Tour of Spain during the third stage on Monday while three others have also been left feeling very sick. - [Read more]

Tour of Spain leader Mark Cavendish, battling with bouts of sickness, suffered a surprise defeat in Sundays sprint finish in Marbella when he was beaten by Yauheni Hutarovich of Belarus. - [Read more]

Results Saturday from the first stage of the Spanish Vuelta, a 13-kilometer (8-mile) team time trial through Seville: 1.HTC-Columbia, 14 minutes, 6 seconds. 2.Liquigas-Doimo, 10 seconds behind. 3.Saxo Bank, 12 seconds behind. 4.Cervelo TestTeam, 13 seconds behind. 5.Lampre, 14 seconds behind. 6.Garmin-Transitions, 17 seconds behind. - [Read more]

Frank Schleck believes his crash at this years Tour de France will give him an edge when the Tour of Spain begins in Seville on Saturday. - [Read more]

The Spanish Vuelta begins Saturday with a handful of riders seeking to make the most of the absence of key rivals in a race that will heavily favor mountain specialists. The 65th edition of the Vuelta opens with a night team time trial through the winding streets of Seville and ends 21 stages and 2,081 miles later in Madrid on Sept. - [Read more]

Tour de France podium finishers Andy Schleck of Luxembourg and Denis Menchov of Russia are the favourites for victory in the Tour of Spain, which starts on Saturday, race organiser Javier Guillen said. - [Read more]

Lampre has included Alessandro Petacchi in its Spanish Vuelta squad even though the sprinting standout could face a doping suspension from the Italian Olympic Committee. Petacchi was questioned by CONIs anti-doping prosecutor Tuesday after being linked to blood doping by a prosecutor in Padua. CONI could issue a preliminary ban ahead of a trial before the committees anti-doping court. - [Read more]

The Luxembourg cycling federation says Tour de France runner-up Andy Schleck will miss next months road world championships in Australia. Schleck, 25, will instead concentrate on his participation in the Spanish Vuelta starting Saturday through to Sept. 19 and his preparation for Italys Tour of Lombardy from Oct. - [Read more]

Italian sprinter Alessandro Petacchi and Lampre teammate Lorenzo Bernucci are attending a hearing with the Italian Olympic committees anti-doping prosecutor. Petacchi and Bernucci have been linked to blood doping by a prosecutor in Padua. Neither rider has tested positive, but the investigation involves wire taps and testimony. - [Read more]