Cycling

Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome had twice the permissible amount of asthma medication in his system during the Vuelta race in September, cycling’s governing body UCI said on Dec. 13.

Bernard Sainz, who has already been convicted for inciting cyclists to cheat with drugs, was charged on Nov. 22 with further doping offences, a court source told AFP.

Ahmet Örken, a 24-year-old cyclist who has dominated the Turkish cycling scene for the last four years, has joined pro-continental Israel Cycling Academy (ICA) to become the first Turkish athlete to join a cycling team at this level.

Cities for Cycling is a citizens' group that campaigns for measures that will help make the country's cities more bicycle-friendly. It is organizing a free tour of the center of Athens on Sunday, May 28. All you need to do to join the tour is show up, on your bike, at Kotzia Square in front of City Hall on Athinas Street, at 11 a.m.

The first hotel in Athens certified with the “Bike Friendly Hotel” sign is “Fresh Hotel”.
A hotel that wants to be certified as such must fulfill the following 6 specific criteria:

In the spring of 2017, the network for bike rental will start operating in Sofia. There will be a total of 400 bikes distributed among 33 stations, announced Deputy Mayor on Transport Evgeni Krusev.

Sofia Municipality intends to connect bicycle lanes in a joint section. A scheme is being developed for the distribution of charging stations for electric cars.

Thousands of female bikers from 28 cities in Turkey and Turkish Cyprus got behind the handle bars on Sept. 24 for the annual Chic Women's Bicycle Tour in a peaceful demonstration that combined feminism and green transport.

Starting Friday, the Lovers' Bridge in the center of Bulgaria's capital Sofia is hosting an exhibition of posters showing images of the Netherlands and its bikes.

The volume of Bulgaria's exports of bicycles increased by more than a fifth between 2013 and 2014 to almost 819,000 units, maintaining an upward trend, Bike Europe trade journal reported on Monday.

The total value of Bulgarian bike exports also increased, exceeding EUR 108 M in 2014, or about 32% more than a year earlier, according to an article posted on bike-eu.com.

Turkey's first regulations on bicycle lanes and parking spots made the news last week. This raised more than a few eyebrows in a country where it's not uncommon to see parked cars on pavements leaving no room for pedestrians, or aggressive car traffic making its own rules.