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Tech Report, with Lennard Zinn - Tech with Italian flair

Tech Report, with Lennard Zinn - Tech with Italian flair

Tech Report, with Lennard Zinn - Tech with Italian flair

Tech Report, with Lennard Zinn - Tech with Italian flair

Tech Report, with Lennard Zinn - Tech with Italian flair

Tech Report, with Lennard Zinn - Tech with Italian flair

Tech Report, with Lennard Zinn - Tech with Italian flair

Tech Report, with Lennard Zinn - Tech with Italian flair

Tech Report, with Lennard Zinn - Tech with Italian flair

Dan and Myriam Schmatz

Schmatz will switch from racing to mentoring in his new role as manager of the THF Realty amateur team

Mmmmm Tasty!

2007 Colorado State Cross Championships

Every last ounce - Mt. Diablo Summit 2007 Low-Key Hillclimbs

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Team High Road is implementing a new comprehensive and independent anti-doping program. The program will be managed by the Agency for Cycling Ethics (ACE), a company that provides monitoring and testing programs to prevent and detect doping. “Last year we made a strong commitment to fight against doping,” said Bob Stapleton of High Road Sports. “It is the most comprehensive program out there. It is what the team needs and what the sport needs.” Each of the team’s riders will give a minimum of 26 random blood and urine samples per year, allowing ACE to build profiles of each individual that

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CanadianCyclocross Championships

CX...SoCal style!

No Shade to Hide In

"Fixie on the beach", BASP Finals at Coyote Point 11/09/07

Bob and Jen on the Christmas Light Bike Ride

Aaron and Trinka at the Sacramento Christmas Light ride

off camber, off-camber!

Men's 200-meter sprintDutchman Theo Bos easily beat Frenchman Mickael Bourgain 2-0 to take gold in the men’s sprint at the second stop of the UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics that concluded Sunday. In both finals heats Bos overtook Bourgain on the final straightaway, winning each time by less than half a wheel length. After the second heat the reigning world sprint champion pulled off his helmet and sunglasses, then raised his arms in triumph, acknowledging the crowd at Beijing’s Laoshan Velodrome. In the bronze medal round German Stefan Nimke defeated France’s Kevin Sireau

Cyclocrossworld.com teammates Lyne Bessette and Jeremy Powers capped off the Verge New England Championship Cyclocross Series on Sunday with wins in the elite races. Despite being besieged by illness this ’cross season, Bessette went on to clinch the series title, having won five of the seven races. Men's leader Jesse Anthony (Jamis), in his first year as an elite racer, easily pocketed the overall win with consistent top-three finishes in each of the seven races.

Powers outkicks Wells at the finish

Bessette was back and in business

Wells's acrobatics gave him an edge, but fell short of the win

USGP Mercer Cup

Furry Fan

Cancellara shows his stripes at the Tour of California TT

American Michael Friedman won the men’s scratch race on Saturday at the UCI Track World Cup Classics in Beijing, China. Friedman beat Walter Fernando Perez of Argentina and Tim Mertens of Belgium to score the second U.S. medal of the meet. On Friday, Sarah Hammer rode to the bronze in the women’s individual pursuit. In other racing, Great Britain collected two medals, winning the team pursuit and the keirin with Chris Hoy. France scored thrice, with Francois Pervis winning the kilometer time trial, Arnaud Tournant placing second in the keirin and Sandie Clair and Clara Sanchez claiming

David Millar has taken a seat on the World Anti-Doping Agency's Athlete Committee, the organization announced this week. The 30-year-old Scot, who joined the Slipstream team as a part owner for 2008, has been a strong anti-doping advocate since serving a two-year suspension for confessing to using EPO. Millar, who will join elite athletes from throughout the world on the committee for one year beginning January 1, is the first athlete from Great Britain to serve on the committee. "I'm delighted to have been elected and am looking forward to getting involved," Millar told The

Anna Milkowski (Velo Bella–Kona) and Todd Wells (GT) helped end an era by winning the final W.E. Stedman Grand Prix of ‘Cross on Saturday. After a successful seven-year run, race promoter Joel Brown and patron W. E. Stedman will leave the Warwick, Rhode Island, race in good hands with the NBX-Narragansett Beer Cycling Team, which will promote it as part of a double-header NBX Grand Prix of ‘Cross weekend in 2008. Saturday’s 4km course wound circuitously around Goddard State Park, diving down to the sandy shoreline of Narragansett Bay at one point and sending racers running up the embankment

The Brits ride to gold in the team pursuit

Milkowski legs it through the sand

Wells and Anthony take different approaches to a tough section

Friedman scored a gold in the scratch race

Cape of Good Hope, South Africa

'56 Olympian Joe Becker winning FL championship 52 years after becoming the first ever FL champion in 1955

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Alexander Vinokourov, suspended for blood doping by his national federation, announced his retirement from the sport at a press conference in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on Friday. The 34-year-old and his Astana team were kicked out of the 2007 Tour de France after he tested positive for homologous blood doping. "I am stopping competition ... It's a definitive decision," he told a news conference. "I don't want this sport anymore ... I'm slamming the door and I'm leaving."

American Sarah Hammer rode to a bronze medal in the individual pursuit as the second round of the UCI Track World Cup Classics series opened Friday in Beijing. Australian Katie Mactier took the gold with Britain’s Rebecca Romero second. In men’s racing, Bradley Wiggins of Great Britain took the individual pursuit ahead of Ukraine’s Volodymyr Dyudya with Russian Alexander Serov winning the bronze-medal round against American Taylor Phinney. Wiggins, the reigning Olympic and world champion, made a late-race comeback to take the gold. Dyudya led at the 2000- and 3000-meter marks, but Wiggins

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Five T-Mobile riders resorted to blood doping on the 2006 Tour de France, a newspaper report will charge on Saturday. According to the Stuttgarter Zeitung, the riders made a dash to the Freiburg University Clinic in Germany immediately after the prologue in the French city of Strasbourg. There, the report alleges, they all received transfusions of their own blood, a practice outlawed by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). Former T-Mobile cyclist Patrik Sinkewitz, who was convicted of doping with testosterone in July and banned for a year by the German cycling federation (BDR), recently

Vinokourov tested positive for homologous blood doping after his time trial win at the Tour in July.

Wiggins burns up the boards in the pursuit

Oregon Costal Redoods

Nature Valley GP '07 TT-Stevic of Team Toyota out of the gate.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEGet the Inside Story on the 2007 Tour de France with John Wilcockson'sNew BookBoulder, CO USA - December, 2007 - John Wilcockson and the editorsof VeloNews magazine reveal the inside story of the 2007 Tour deFrance in a newly published book. The2007 Tour de France: A New Generation Takes the Stage gives the scoopon a race that exploded with surprises. Follow the four jersey winnersthrough the Tour and read race diaries from pro riders Christian VandeVelde and Simon Gerrans. The book is now available in book stores, bikeshops, and at VeloGear.com. In turns

When the director of the Vuelta a España, Victor Cordero, unveiled the route of next year’s race at a ceremony in Madrid on Wednesday, he said in a fiery speech: “We must stop the unending suspicions and conflicts. We share the same ideas as our colleagues at the Giro and Tour de France. Next year, there will not be more than 20 teams at the start. And they will have to respond to our impeccable ethical criteria. Only riders holding biological passports will be invited. And we will count on the sporting quality of the prospective teams.” Cordero, claiming the 2008 Vuelta will be less hard

The UCI has expressed its surprise and astonishment at the Kazakh cycling federation's decision to ban Alexander Vinokourov for only one year for blood doping. Thursday's ruling paves the way for the disgraced Kazakh cyclist to compete at the Beijing Olympics, as his suspension runs up to July 2008, the month before the games start. In explaining how the Kazakh federation arrived at its decision, vice president Nikolay Proskurin said: "Documents and evidence presented by Vinokourov and his lawyers were not convincing. We decided to disqualify him for a year.” Proskurin added: "I

Dear Bob,Here’s a question for ya. I was wondering what the law is as far as in a group ride while crossing a street if the light changes to yellow then red with cyclists still in the street crossing: What is the law as far as a whole group crossing? Are the riders required to stop or does the whole group continue until the group is through the crossing. I live in Arizona and in the Scottsdale area north of Phoenix the lights are so fast you just cannot get even a small group through a light. I was just curious as to what you could find to enlighten me. Thanks and you have a great column,

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The Gavia awaits in the 2008 Giro

Roberto Heras en route to victory on the Angrilu in 2002

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team louisville

grunpy old man....just puked

as it should be

It's time to ride!!

Keiran's First Cross Race - USGP Mercer Cup

The MAN plowing the field at USGP #6 - Portland

Andy Jacques-Maynes Most Aggressive Rider USGP#6

Summitting

The Bell of 'Cross, Oklahoma City, OK Series

TdG 2007 Stage 2 Peleton in the feedzone

A frigid start to the Agordo-Lienz stage, Giro d'Italia 2007

Texas State University Stomping Grounds

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Against a backdrop of falling television audiences and dwindling roadside support, the organizers of the Vuelta a España on Wednesday called for their shrinking fan base to rally behind the race once again as they unveiled the route for the 2008 edition. "This will be the Vuelta of hope, a chance for a new cycling," said race director Victor Cordero as he unveiled the 63rd edition of the Spanish national tour. The three-week, 3173km race begins August 30 in the southern city of Grenada and ends September 21 in Madrid. Its 21 stages include three time trials, among them a team time trial,

The French finance company Cofidis will continue underwriting its cycling team until the end of 2009, it was announced on Wednesday. In a press release, the company said that supporting cycling in the long term offered a “formidable” return on its investment. Cofidis has been a part of the professional peloton since 1996. The company also vowed “to continue and intensify” its commitment to drug-free cycling. Cofidis quit the 2007 Tour de France when rider Cristian Moreni tested positive for testosterone after stage 11. The 35-year-old former Italian champion was sacked and subsequently

USA Cycling named Nick Adams as director of sponsorship and business development on Tuesday. Adams comes to USA Cycling from AG Edwards and Sons, Inc., a national financial consulting firm. He has also worked as director of athletics at the University of Illinois at Springfield and at Mesa State College in Grand Junction, Colorado — where he owns and operates the Grand Valley BMX Track — and served as associate director of athletics at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville. At USA Cycling, Adams will lead the national governing body’s sponsorship-sales efforts. He will be responsible

The Tour de Georgia is still hunting a title sponsor for 2008, but with five new host cities, a team time trial on Braselton’s Road Atlanta motorsports track and the enthusiastic backing of Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, race director Jim Birrell was optimistic on Wednesday as organizers announced the route for next year’s race. The 2008 race will include five new host cities and feature a team time trial on Braselton’s Road Atlanta speedway. “We’re in a much better situation than we were last year,” said Birrell of Medalist Sports during a press conference at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at

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Victor Cordero, director of the Tour of Spain (Vuelta) speaks during the presentation of next year's route in Madrid

Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle announcing the stages for this