Levi Leipheimer
Levi Leipheimer (born October 24, 1973) is an American professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team Omega Pharma-Quick Step. His major ... More »
Levi Leipheimer announces retirement from cycling
Levi Leipheimer, who won the Tour of California from 2007 through 2009, retired from cycling at 39 years old. SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) -- American Levi Leipheimer says he retired from professional cycling when his six-month ban for doping violations ended March 1 and he was unable ... Read more »
Levi Leipheimer suspended after release of Lance Armstrong report
U.S. Levi Leipheimer has been placed on non-active status while the Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team reviews his statements. BRUSSELS (AP) -- The Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team has provisionally suspended American rider Levi Leipheimer after the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency ... Read more »
IOC opens investigation into Lance Armstrong's Olympic medal
Levi Leipheimer, a former Armstrong teammate who won the time-trial bronze at the 2008 Beijing Games, could also have his medal revoked. One of the key witnesses in the USADA's case against Armstrong, Leipheimer confessed to doping. The medals could come up for review at the IOC's ... Read more »
IOC waiting for UCI before considering punishment for Armstrong
IOC vice president Thomas Bach tells The Associated Press the Olympic body will also look into removing Levi Leipheimer's bronze medal from the 2008 Beijing Games after his admission of doping. Bach said Tuesday the IOC will wait for the International Cycling Union to determine whether ... Read more »
Levi Leipheimer fired by cycling team after confessing to doping
U.S. cyclist Levi Leipheimer rode with Lance Armstrong for five years. BRUSSELS (AP) -- American cyclist Levi Leipheimer has been fired by the Omega Pharma-Quick Step cycling team after confessing to doping as part of the investigation that brought down Lance Armstrong. Leipheimer ... Read more »
Levi Leipheimer describes culture of doping at symposium
Levi Leipheimer, a former teammate of Lance Armstrong, spoke at an anti-doping science symposium in Atlanta recently. During long training rides, Levi Leipheimer would trade secrets with his friends and foes about what did and didn't work when it came to EPO, blood transfusions ... Read more »
Levi Leipheimer takes USA Pro Cycling Challenge lead
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) -- Defending champion Levi Leipheimer opened a 9-second lead Saturday in the USA Pro Challenge overall standings, while Australia's Rory Sutherland won the uphill sixth stage. Leipheimer, the Omega Pharma-Quickstep rider based in Santa Rosa, Calif., began the day in ... Read more »
Coming to OC theaters on Tuesday, October 23: "The Levi Effect"
“The Levi Effect” is a documentary about Levi Leipheimer, a very successful and popular American rider, that “...chronicles the twists and turns of his life’s journey – both on and off the bicycle” Give the trials and tribulations of his pro cycling career, it should be offer an ... Read more »
Lance Armstrong stripped of 2000 Olympic bronze medal
The IOC is also investigating Levi Leipheimer, a former Armstrong teammate who won the time-trial bronze at the 2008 Beijing Games. The American confessed to doping as part of his testimony against Armstrong in the USADA case. The IOC is looking into the details of Leipheimer's ... Read more »
Cyclist Levi Leipheimer says he won Olympic medal clean
Disgraced Santa Rosa cyclist Levi Leipheimer says many of his best results including winning an Olympic bronze medal came without the use of performance-enhancing drugs. "They came clean, yes," Leipheimer told the Santa Rosa Press Democrat in his first interview since last week's ... Read more »
Lance Armstrong: doping denials flushed away in Usada's flood of detail
... Usada's report, however, is the sheer weight of evidence, backed up by sworn affidavits from former team-mates with no such stain on their integrity: Jonathan Vaughters (now Garmin team director), Christian Vande Velde, George Hincapie, Michael Barry, Levi Leipheimer, Tom Danielson and others... Read more »
Levi Leipheimer leads USA Pro Challenge with only Denver stage left
There was Levi Leipheimer, beaming in his new yellow jersey, sitting at the Flagstone Amphitheater on Saturday with the red brick of the University of Colorado campus and green trees of sun-splashed Boulder sprawled out 1,200 feet below him. He just had ridden through the packed streets ... Read more »
Tour de France 2012: stage 11
... (ALM), Brice Feillu (SAU), Johnny Hoogerland (VCD), Laurens Ten Dam and Steven Kruiswijk (RAB), Alejandre Valverde and Vasili Kiryienka (MOV), Chris Sorensen (STB), Fredrik Kessiakoff, Robert Kiserlovski and Vino Vinokourov (AST), Levi Leipheimer and Peter Velits (OPQ) and Pieter Weening (OGE)... Read more »
Are Lance Armstrong's ex-teammates George Hincapie, Levi Leipheimer, Christian Vande Velde and David...
The reports claim George Hincapie, who was by Armstrong's side for all of his seven Tour de France victories, as well as Levi Leipheimer, Christian Vande Velde and David Zabriskie are collaborating in the probe launched by the United States Anti-Doping Agency. But the riders will remain ... Read more »
Report: Five Americans to get off easy for doping violations after snitching on 7-time Tour de Franc...
Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf reported that Jonathan Vaughters, George Hincapie, Levi Leipheimer, David Zabriski and Christian Vande Velde — all of them former Armstrong teammates — gave evidence to the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, which has accused Armstrong of doping and is trying to ... Read more »
Amgen Tour of California 2012: The Peter Sagan show
There has been talk from Chris Horner’s camp that three time winner Levi Leipheimer is more recovered from having his leg broken after being hit by a car this spring in Spain. Chris will know tomorrow when he starts his time trial at 2:22, 18 from the end, because Levi will have ... Read more »
Amy Donaldson: Levi Leipheimer, doctor expand on Lance Armstrong, doping in cycling
"I think this really is the bottom of the whole thing," said Dr. Massimo "Max" Testa, one of the world's pre-eminent medical experts on cycling who has worked with several of the athletes caught up in the doping controversy, including Lance Armstrong, Levi Leipheimer and George Hincapie ... Read more »
Best Denver Post Photos of the 2012 USA Pro Cycling Challenge
Helen H. Richardson, The Denver Post Defending champion Levi Leipheimer finishes the race during the final stage of the USA Pro Challenge in downtown Denver, on Sunday, August 26, 2012. AAron Ontiveroz, The Denver Post BMC Racing rider Tejay Van Garderen comes across the finish beating ... Read more »
Tour of Utah: Levi Leipheimer wins stage, Johann Tschopp overall winner
USA's Levi Leipheimer celebrates winning stage 6 of the Tour of Utah Sunday, Aug. 12, 2012 Park City to Park City. Pain and suffering are not pretty. But Levi Leipheimer embraced the agony with everything his battered body had left, and gave himself, his teammates and the hundreds ... Read more »
Leipheimer confident about Tour despite April accident
Omega Pharma-Quickstep rider Levi Leipheimer of the U.S. adjusts his saddle before the sixth stage of the Tour de Suisse cycling race in Wittnau June 14, … LIEGE, Belgium (Reuters) - Levi Leipheimer believes anything is possible when it comes to the Tour de France, even getting a ... Read more »
