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Andrew Hood

BACKGROUND: Hood cut his journalistic teeth at Colorado dailies before the web boom opened the door to European cycling in the mid-1990s. Hood's covered every Tour since 1996 and has been VeloNews' European correspondent since 2002. He lives in Leon, Spain, when he's not chasing bike races.

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Stories by Andrew Hood »

  • Posted: Fri, Oct 30th
    Andrew Hood: Euskaltel-Euskadi reshapes following doping scandals
    Basque-backed Euskaltel-Euskadi is trying to turn the page on a season of potentially fatal doping scandals that plagued the team during 2009. High-profile doping positives involving Iñigo Landaluze and Tour de France stage-winner Markel Astarloza nearly scuttled the team, ...
  • Posted: Thu, Oct 29th
    Kazakhs claiming Contador
    Will he stay or will he go? If you ask the Kazakhs, Tour de France winner Alberto Contador is staying in an Astana jersey in 2010. The ongoing saga of the future of Contador took another turn this week when officials said the two-time Tour champion isn’t going anywhere ...
  • Posted: Tue, Oct 27th
    The former Saunier Duval team organization rejoins the ProTour as 'Footon-Servetto.'
    The former team of disgraced cheaters Riccardo Riccò and Leonardo Piepoli rolls on in 2010, surviving a difficult struggle to try to erase the doping stigma from its name. The former Saunier Duval squad will continue in 2010 thanks to the arrival of the new title sponsor ...
  • Posted: Tue, Oct 27th
    The Chicken finds a new roost: Rasmussen says he's found a European team
    Michael Rasmussen is heading back to a European-based team. That’s according to Rasmussen, 35, who confirmed to the Danish newspaper Politiken that he’s poised to announce his return to a European team. “I won’t say which team it is until everything is ...
  • Posted: Mon, Oct 26th
    Carlos Sastre likes the look of the '10 Giro
    Carlos Sastre likes what he sees for next year’s Giro d’Italia. With a climber’s course laden with monster ascents, including the Mortirolo, the Gavia, Zoncolan and Plan de Corones, the punishing Giro course could well tempt Sastre back to ...
  • Posted: Fri, Oct 23rd
    2010 Giro route could be a classic
    The route for the 2010 Giro d’Italia won’t be revealed until Saturday, but hints of what’s in store are already being leaked in Italy. Several media outlets, including rival daily Tutto Sport, have scooped the newspaper owned by Giro organizers, La Gazzetta ...
  • Posted: Tue, Oct 20th
    Tiralongo, Davis, Simoni linked to Astana; Arroyo stays with Caisse d’Epargne
    Despite its ProTour status for 2010 being still up in the air, Astana continues to bolster its squad for the upcoming season. Italian workhorse Paolo Tiralongo revealed he’s signed a two-year deal to join the Kazakh-backed team while Aussie sprinter Allan Davis confirmed ...
  • Posted: Sun, Oct 18th
    De la Fuente close to Astana deal
    Spanish head-banger Davide de la Fuente is close to penning a deal that will put him in an Astana jersey in 2010. According to the Spanish daily MARCA, all that’s missing is the signature to close the deal that will add some needed firepower to the depleted Astana ...
  • Posted: Fri, Oct 16th
    The scandal that just keeps on giving: Puerto investigation faces another delay
    The slow wheels of Spanish justice are almost grinding to a halt in the never-ending saga of the Operación Puerto blood doping ring. According to reports in the Spanish media, oral testimony ordered in January of this year by an appeals court likely won’t happen ...
  • Posted: Fri, Oct 16th
    European road season closes at Lombardia
    Saturday’s Giro di Lombardia – the “Race of the Falling Leaves” – is Italy’s long good-bye to yet another exciting, daring and controversy-filled season. In the last major European event of the 2009 campaign, Lombardia always packs an emotional and palpating punch ...
  • Posted: Thu, Oct 15th
    CAS sets November date for Valverde
    Alejandro Valverde finally has a date with destiny. November 16, to be exact, when the Court of Arbitration for Sport will hear testimony in the ongoing appeal on his two-year racing ban in Italy for links to the Operación Puerto blood doping scandal. The ...
  • Posted: Thu, Oct 15th
    Mr. October: Gilbert gets another win
    Philippe Gilbert must be wishing he had this ripping form a few weeks ago at the world championships in Mendrisio. Just days after taking scalps at Paris-Tours and Coppa Sabatini, the Belgian bomber rounded out his October treble with victory Thursday at Giro del Piemonte in ...