AIGLE, Switzerland (AP) The Astana team of 2014 Tour ... The International Cycling Union said on Thursday that its independent licensing panel let the Kazakhstan government-backed squad keep ...

The 2017 Astana team was officially presented in Kazakhstan on Sunday as part of the Asian country's 25th anniversary of independence. After a recent training camp in Spain, the riders travelled ...

Astana Qazaqstan Team is not just a new team name ... of domestic cycling,” said Nurlan Smagulov, president of the Kazakhstan Cycling Federation. “The project is getting a second wind and ...

But the team has been placed "on probation", external by the International Cycling Union (UCI). The UCI says Astana will be audited ... the team's home country of Kazakhstan.

Vinokourov and his team have had to deal with budgetary issues over the past few years, prompted by higher authorities in Kazakhstan ... within the current cycling world. Astana has been a ...

while Dmitriy Gruzdev and Valentin Iglinskiy fly the flag for Kazakhstan. Target: Nibali is out to get at defending champion Froome with overall victory in mind and has a crack team of climbers to ...

Astana reached an agreement with the Kazakh cyclist that runs through next year, the team said in a statement ... year ban for blood doping. The Kazakhstan cycling federation gave him just a ...

The Astana cycling team has denied any of its riders ... accuses Fuglsang of training with Italian Ferrari last year, claims the Kazakhstan team strongly refute. Fuglsang, one of the team's ...

Kazakhstan's flagship sponsorship project, the Astana cycling team, is in the not-so-glamorous spotlight once again after news media learned on September 29 that this year's Tour de France winner ...

AIGLE, Switzerland -- The doping-tainted Astana cycling team will keep its top-tier racing status next season, it was announced Monday. The International Cycling Union says the Kazakhstan ...