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Cannondale is to promote long-time employee Jeff McGuane to president of Cannondale Europe, the company’s European subsidiary, based in Oldenzaal, the Netherlands. McGuane is currently president of Cannondale's Japanese operation.

...but he could sure live without David Walsh. The Irish journalist has today told the International Herald Tribune that there's no smoking gun in his controversial new book. "It's all circumstantial evidence," said Walsh, currently reporting on football for The Times at Euro2004. Walsh's doping allegations have yet to impact on Lance Armstrong's lucrative promotional tie-ups, the latest being a US TV ad for Coca Cola's filtered-water brand, Dasani.

Davis, the Forest Sports Development Adviser, Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, has been named in Queen's Birthday Honours List. Over on bikemagic.com, Cullen Ward of ATB Sales said this was a "top example" of a people's award.

In his book about Lance Armstrong, David Walsh carries a claimed transcript of a heated, EPO-related telephone conversation between Greg LeMond and Lance Armstrong, claimed to have been transcribed by LeMond's wife. Why is the conversation related by Kathy LeMond? Because, it is claimed by Walsh, Trek USA asked Greg LeMond not to speak to Walsh, but Trek did not say Mrs LeMond couldn't speak to him. Armstrong rides Trek and the LeMond bike line is owned by Trek.

"Lance Armstrong utterly denies ever having taken any performance enhancing drugs," says a statement from Schillings, a London-based firm of solicitors, acting on behalf of the Texan icon. Armstrong has instructed Schillings to file a libel suit against David Walsh and Pierre Ballester, authors of 'LA Confidential', and The Sunday Times and L'Express.