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| Clemson wins Music City Bowl, beats Kentucky 21-13 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- C.J. Spiller went out a winner in the final game of his record-setting career at Clemson.... hosted.ap.org |
Jets-Bengals AFC wild-card preview USA TODAY previews the Jets-Bengals AFC wild-card game on Saturday. rssfeeds.usatoday.com |
Cavendish condemns return of Ricco • 'It's like a parasite coming back into the sport'• Ricco may line up against Cavendish in Milan-San Remo raceMark Cavendish has condemned the imminent return to cycling of Riccardo Ricco, the Italian rider who was ejected from the Tour de France two years ago and given a 20-month ban from the sport after testing positive for CERA, the third-generation form of the human growth hormone EPO."It's like a parasite coming back into the sport," Cavendish said at his HTC-Columbia team's training camp in Majorca. "It's not the fact of what he did, because everyone can make a mistake. But he doesn't see it as a mistake. He's not even sorry about it."The 26-year-old Ricco, a specialist climber, won mountain stages of the 2008 Tour at Super-Besse and the Col'Aspin. Four days after the latter it was revealed that he had given a positive result from a dope test taken after the fourth stage, when he had tried to evade testers. He was expelled from the race and his Saunier-Duval team left with him, firing the Italian from the squad the following day. The original two-year ban, handed down by the Italian Olympic committee, was reduced by four months on appeal to the Court for Arbitration for Sport on the grounds of his co-operation.Now he plans to return with a small Italian team, Ceramica Flaminia. His ban ends on 10 March and he could find himself facing Cavendish 10 days later in the Milan-San Remo one-day classic, which the British rider won last year, and in the Giro d'Italia a few weeks later."The passion that I and other riders have for a beautiful sport, and for someone not to give a shit about it, it's incredibly demoralising to have to compete against people like that," said Cavendish, who has made his home in Tuscany for several years and has embraced - and been embraced by - Italian cycling culture. "It's hard for me to say whether he should have been given a life ban. What upsets me is the lack of regret for everybody and everything they've damaged."Another rider who was forced to leave the race along with Ricco was Cavendish's "good friend" David Millar, the Scottish rider, who served a two-year ban and has since made a successful return to the sport both as a rider and an outspoken campaigner against doping. "David is deeply sorry for what he did," Cavendish said. "It's the people who don't care about what they've done, that's what gets me."CyclingMark CavendishRichard Williamsguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |
Novak Djokovic and Nikolay Davydenko enjoy quiet preparation Nikolay Davydenko was asked yesterday if he felt the tournament was starting now and obviously did not quite understand what the inquisitor meant. Having had the demand explained, he was happy to accept that three straight matches in which he had only dropped 17 games probably constituted a bit of a lark in the park. It surely cannot keep coming to him as easily as this. feeds.timesonline.co.uk |
Shani Davis won't skate 5 events at Olympics U.S. speedskating star Shani Davis won't be competing in all five individual races at the Vancouver Olympics.... hosted.ap.org |