The Friday Rumour.
22 May 2009

Latest from the world of cycling before it happens

Lance Armstrong is in a bit of a quandary. We heard he was due to announce his new team on June 1 and it would take over from Astana, but the Kazhaks have rained on his parade by paying the team all they owed plus two months in advance.
No one knows now under which banner the team will ride the Tour
de France.

High Road have secured two further year’s funding when their current contract with Columbia runs out. Mark Cavendish is close to signing another two-year contract with them.

The Tour of Spain will return to its April slot in 2010, which is where it was in the cycling calendar until the 1990s, but it will be two instead of three
weeks long.