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Gideon Massie in the 200

Americans Liz Carlson and Jennie Reed in the women's team sprint final

Mike Creed shows off the new Slipstream kit as he chases in the points race

Roberto Chiappa and Hoy in the prelims of the sprint

Chiappa's legs show the veins of multiple sprints

The Danes started strong in the team pursuit . . .

. . . only to fall apart

Hammer hits the line first with Quinn second

Saluting the home crowd

Reed en route to bronze in the keirin

The Brits took the team sprint

British beef: from left, Hoy, Staff and Crampton

Huff and Creed in the madison prelims

Creed grits his teeth and digs in

Morkov and Rassmussen, Madison winners

Hammer leads the entire field on the last laps

Francois Pervis of France in the team-sprint reride after his crash

The US team sprint led by Gideon Massie

Quinn, Hammer, and Visser on the podium after the scratch race

Bobby Lea chases down the break

It may be the off-season to you, but not to the intrepid Casey Gibson, who has lugged his bag of camera bodies, lenses and computer gear from snowy Colorado to the ADT Event Center in Carson, California, for the UCI track World Cup. Here's a peek at what he sent home.

Swiss racer Martin Elmiger was rewarded for his persistence with the lead of the Tour Down Under after the fourth and penultimate stage on Saturday. On another rain-soaked day in the hills around Adelaide, Elmiger took the ochre jersey from overnight leader Karl Menzies of UniSA after the Australian managed only to finish 11th in the 147 kilometer stage. The 24-year-old Belgian Pieter Ghyllebert won the stage, picking up his maiden professional win and the second in the five-stage race for his Chocolade Jacques outfit. Teammate Steven Caethoven celebrated a fine win on Thursday. A former

World individual pursuit champion Sarah Hammer (Ouch Pro Cycling) set a national record in a qualifying ride on day two of the Los Angeles World Cup. Hammer turned a 3:32.058 on Saturday to beat the old mark of 3:32.865, which she set in October at the 2006 track national championships. The record-breaking ride followed Hammer's victory in the points race the night before. "I really didn’t expect to break the record after doing the points race last night," Hammer said while getting her legs rubbed down after the effort. "It wasn’t a good ride, legs-wise. I was hurting. But the goal

It turns out there is a little something to those rainbow stripes. At the opening night of the Los Angeles Track World Cup, American Sarah Hammer, Brit Chris Hoy and Aussie Anna Meares showed their respective fields just why their biceps are circled with cycling’s most powerful design. Tour de France winner Floyd Landis and his friend, CSC rider Dave Zabriskie, were among the crowd of thousands at the Home Depot Center velodrome. Hammer, a world champion in the individual pursuit, won the January 19 women’s points race with some last-lap assistance from her American teammate Becky Quinn.

Australian cyclist Mark French has been sent home after breaching the national team's code of conduct on Wednesday during a Qantas flight to Los Angeles, where he was to have raced in this weekend's round of the UCI track World Cup series. French, who would not say what happened on the flight, is trying to resurrect his track-racing career, stalled for 18 months following drug allegations that led to a two-year ban in 2004. The Court of Arbitration for Sport overturned the ban on July 2005. While he successfully fought to prove his innocence then, the former world junior champion is

Hammer nails the points race

Ghyllebert grabs a win, but third-placed Elmiger was a big winner, too.

Elmiger moves into the lead, but it's still close.

The weather is still rougher than usual this year.

Brouchard was in the hunt for sprint points

The escapees stayed out for most of the day...

... until the chase began in earnest.

The Nav's lend a hand

Elmiger had hoped to gain time on the climb.

Menzies was not happy with the outcome

Hammer cranking it up

How'd I do, coach?

Hampton in the scratch race . . .

. . . and on the podium

Hoy in the keirin

Another view

Meares in the sprint

Meares

Quinn in the points race

Hammer en route to cracking her own U.S. pursuit record

It's Hammer time again

The arrival of Iban Mayo helps bolster Saunier Duval-Prodir as a major player going into the 2007 season and gives the Spanish team more options in the grand tours. With Gilberto Simoni focusing on the Giro d’Italia and rising star José Ángel Goméz Marchante the man for the Vuelta a España, team management can only hope the troubled Basque climber can return to the same heights he enjoyed when winning Alpe d’Huez at the 2003 Tour and the overall at the 2004 Dauphiné Libéré. “Mayo is a major ‘star’ but we have 28 riders on this team who will be able to achieve goals,” said Saunier

The on-again, off-again courtship between Russian businessman Oleg Tinkov and Jan Ullrich may be back on again, if recent press reports are to be believed. Back in November 2006, Tinkoff Credit Systems team manager Omar Piscina told Agence France Presse that title sponsor Tinkoff was "a huge fan" and wanted to sign Ullrich, but that the former Tour de France winner didn’t seem interested. "It has been more than a month since we spoke," Piscina said at the time. On Friday, during a team presentation in Moscow, Tinkov confirmed reports that he had tried to sign Ullrich and said the major

Unibet sprinter Baden Cooke underlined his early season ambitions by claiming a well-deserved victory onthe rain-soaked third stage of the Tour Down Under Friday. Cooke, a former Tour de France green jersey winner, flew first over the finish line of the 128km stage, drenched but happy having stayed true to his morning pledge to claim a win in the early part of the season. Five seconds further back was Australian Chris Jongewaard (UniSA), one of six riders contending the finale, who was initially part of a 19-man breakaway but whose powerful riding left the peloton trailing 14 minutes

Border guard: Your papers, please!Hippie: Sorry, man, all I got is a pipe.—A Child’s Garden of Grass I’ve heard it said that the French love Jerry Lewis movies. But anti-doping chief Pierre Bordry must be a Cheech and Chong fan, because he seems to be modeling his pursuit of cycling cheats on the work of Sgt. Stedenko. If salbutamol could put a wanker on a Tour podium, I’d have won eight or nine of the damn’ things by now because I’ve been an asthmatic since childhood. Alas, my various inhalers failed to land me a berth on the U.S. Olympic swimming team back in the Seventies, and a pro

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SAN FRANCISCO – For the first time in San Francisco, residents can use their pedal power to support the fight against cancer during PedalFest 2007. PedalFest – an Amgen Tour of California professional road cycling race pre-event – is a unique, stationary cycling fundraiser in which miles pedaled will earn matched dollars. U.S. individual time trial champion David Zabriskie of Team CSC, the No. 1 cycling team in the world and winners of the 2006 Amgen Tour of California, will join local residents as they "pedal their way" to raise money and awareness aboard stationary bikes. The event will

Mayo swaps orange of Euskaltel for yellow of Saunier Duval, but will be it enough for the maillot jaune of the Tour?

Gilberto Simoni makes a watery arrival at the team presentation. Can the aging general still muster the forces to win the Giro? Gibo says it's so.

Saunier Duval-Prodir's team presentation at the Crowne Plaza hotel was a posh affaire. The team training camp continues through the weekend before the racing season begins in earnest.

Cooke wins it under rainy skies.

A big group formed up, but no one posed a threat to Menzies's lead.

The Chocolade Jacques squad lent a hand monitoring the break

The pace started out high as escapees tried to sort out a potentially successful combination.

Vansevenant (Predictor-Lotto) tried his hand, but was caught.

Asthmatic child, or future Tour winner and notorious dope fiend?

Young Belgian Steven Caethoven swept past two-time race winner Stuart O'Grady less than 300 meters from the finish line to claim victory in stage two of the Tour Down Under Thursday. A textbook team tactic by Caethoven's Chocolade Jacques riders stunned the Australian after he had led a brave attack to close out the day's racing. CSC team leader O'Grady had worked hard throughout the day in pursuit of a stage win, a consolation of sorts after he finished Wednesday’s stage more than 26 minutes in arrears. However, O’Grady’s hopes were scuppered when Pieter Ghyllebert, one

Australian Baden Cooke is hoping that an off-the-bike battle will not prevent him unleashing the kind of form that won him the Tour de France green jersey on the European cycling scene. The 28-year-old's chances of challenging in major one-day classics, and the Tour de France, have been put in doubt because of a long-running dispute between cycling’s biggest players, and they’re not men on bikes. Cooke joined Swedish-registered Unibet last season, after leaving Francaise des Jeux. Cooke brought with him an impressive resume, including the 2003 Tour de France points jersey. Unibet

Dear Bob,I am getting ready for the new season of racing and am planning out my training schedule in preparation for the spring races. My teammateand I want to work on our leg speed and plan to motor-pace behind my car.Can I get a ticket for pacing him like this?Peter S.Eugene, OregonDear Peter,I do not recommend that you motor-pace your friend. But if youinsist, I offer the possible legal ramifications as well as some basicpacing advice. This is the classic "do as I say, not as I do" lecture.In fact, when I was racing and training, I wasn't even smart enough tolimit my motor-pacing to

Spaniard Oscar Pereiro (Caisse d’Epargne), who finished second to Floyd Landis in the 2006 Tour de France, twice tested positive for the banned substance salbutamol during the race, French newspaper Le Monde alleged Thursday on its website. Salbutamol, a substance often prescribed for asthmatics, was discovered in Pereiro's urine samples after the 14th and 16th stages, the newspaper alleged. Landis also tested positive, for a skewed testosterone-epitestosterone level, following Stage 17. Pereiro defended himself in an interview with Radio Cadena Ser in Spain, saying he used Ventolin— an

Top Australian cyclist Baden Cooke is hoping an off-the-bike row will not prevent him unleashing the kind of form that won him the Tour de France green jersey in 2003. The 28-year-old's chances of challenging in major one-day classics and the Tour may be scuppered by a dispute between cycling bosses. Cooke joined Swedish-registered Unibet last season from Française des Jeux, with whom he won the Tour points competition four years ago. Unibet became the latest addition to the UCI ProTour at the end of 2006, thus paving the way for automatic inclusion in 27 of the series' biggest

Teamwork! Caethoven grabs the win, with a little help from his friends.

O'Grady earned the title of most aggressive rider on Thursday's stage

Summertime racing in Oz.

The winning break... with four men from Chocolade Jacques in the mix.

Another day in ochre for Menzies

Clarke and Gonzalo worked hard to join up with O'Grady

For a short time, this appeared to be a winning combination.

Pereiro in the 2006 Tour, after taking the yellow jersey from Landis on Stage 13

Hushovd ended his 2006 Tour the way he began it - with a win

Cooke dons the green at the finale of the 2003 Tour

A successful early breakaway effort blew a hole in the hopes of many race favorites at Australia’s Tour Down Under on Wednesday as powerful Tasmanian rider Karl Menzies claimed one of the biggest wins of his career. The UniSA rider held off Swiss ace Martin Elmiger (Ag2r) in a sprint for the line and then exploded with joy after picking up the race leader's ochre jersey. "This is as big as it gets for me, this is the best result for a long way," beamed the big 29-year-old, who finished more than 26 minutes ahead of 93 of the race's 111 riders. “That was everything I had on Sunday at

American Cycling Association PresentsA NIGHT OF CYCLING GREATS - PAST TO PRESENTA fundraiser for American Cycling Association - Tom DanielsonJunior Cup SeriesDATE: January 17, 2007 6:30PM  Join Tom for an event to raise money and awareness for the new "TomDanielson ACA Junior Cup Series" in Boulder, Colorado. This is a new programwhich includes a series of races throughout the state. There are over tenraces in the series and each junior participant can accumulate points tocompete for the title of Junior Cup Champion at the end of the season.There are five age groups of both girls

A fund-raiser for the Tom Danielson Junior Cup Series is scheduled tonight at the Boulder Theater in Boulder, Colorado. Among the cycling luminaries scheduled to appear during "A Night of Cycling Greats, Past to Present" are Tom Danielson, Ned Overend, Andy Hampsten, Ron Kiefel, Alexi Grewal, Connie Carpenter, Michael Aisner and Dave Towle. The event, which starts at 6:30 p.m., will include a silent auction featuring race memorabilia, clothing and equipment. Aisner will provide rare footage from the Coors Classic and talk with the retired pros about their experiences racing in America and

The 2008 Tour de France cycling race, sans prologue, will start in Brittany on Saturday, July 5, going from Brest on the Atlantic coast to Plumelec, organizers announced Wednesday. The second stage will run from Auray to St. Brieuc on Sunday, July 6, while the third stage starts at St. Malo. Further details about the early stages of the 2008 Tour will be unveiled January 25 in Rennes. Discovery announces 28-man rosterDiscovery Channel has fleshed out its roster for 2007, signing Spanish climber Alberto Contador, British trackie Steve Cummings and U.S. mountain biker-turned roadie John