Former world time trial champion Michael Rogers can race again after cycling's governing body accepted that meat he ate in China possibly caused his positive doping test.

Two-time Tour de France runner up Andy Schleck will make the trip to China for the 2012 Tour of Beijing after a four month absence due to a pelvis fracture.

Team Argos-Shimano, a team with a Japanese co-sponsor and rider, has withdrawn from the Tour of Beijing amid tensions between Japan and China over disputed islands in the South China Sea.