Levi Leipheimer’s move to Astana is now official and he will join ex-Discovery Channel team manager Johan Bruyneel and Tour de France winner Alberto Contador at the new-look Astana team for 2008.
Wednesday’s EuroFile: Leipheimer heads to Astana; Tour heads to Italy
VeloNews is also reporting that the Tour will both stop in Italy and include l’Alpe d’Huez. If l’Alpe d’Huez is included in the route, and it’s not on a Saturday or Sunday, I’m literally putting in a request tomorrow for the day off come next July. Those are fun mornings- get up at six, park myself on the couch with coffee and lounge my way through 5 hours of pure madness on the slopes of the Alps.