There’s an old Race Across America adage that says “the race starts at the Missisipi River." Indeed, RAAM history shows many epic battles that didn’t begin until then. But if that is truly the case this year, then male solo leader Jure Robic is starting his last third of the race with a 5 1/4 hour head start over second place racer Gerhard Gulewicz.
Replay: Live coverage of the 2010 Tour de Suisse stage 4
Miller. Photo: Courtesy Team Tibco Miller. Photo: Courtesy Team Tibco At only 23 years old, Team TIBCO-To The Top’s Amanda Miller is already something of a jack-of-all-trades. A podium finisher at both the cyclocross and mountain bike collegiate national championships in 2008, Miller has now proven her versatility on the road as well, winning everywhere from the flat Blue Dome criterium course at Tulsa Tough to the 12 percent cobbled climb at Iowa’s Snake Alley.
2010 Tour de Grove results
Winners of each race across all categories during the Tour of America's Dairyland presented by Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board, June 17-27, will be awarded the coveted black and white cowprint jersey as they did in 2009 but this year, Cat 2 amateur riders will be competing for the green.
Over the weekend men's leader Jure Robic seemed to have recovered from issues that slowed his pace on Friday. His pace and appearance were greatly improved on Saturday and he once again seemed to be enjoying himself.
Staff was a member of the gold-medal winning team sprint squad at the Beijing Olympics. His other accolades on the track include a keirin world title (‘04) and team sprint world titles (’02 and ’05). The 38-year-old got his start in BMX, winning a world title in that discipline in 1996 and attaining world number one status in 2000 and 2001. He will begin his tenure with USA Cycling in July.
Team TIBCO/To the Top will be one of the participants in the first edition of La Grande Visite de Gatineau, two days of UCI-sanctioned races in Gatineau, Quebec, just across the Ottawa river from the hometown of Team TIBCO founder and managing director Linda Jackson.
Austrians drop trafficking charges against Kohl and Rasmussen
The Explainer offers a follow-up on a case involving a fatal encounter with a seriously bad driver.
VERSUS' coverage begins on Saturday, June 12, with daily one-hour stage recaps from June 14-18, as well as a two-hour show on June 20 that will feature highlights of stage 8 and full coverage of the final stage.
Landis, Lance, motors and the code of silence
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Cycling super-sprinter Mark Cavendish explains his phenomenal rise to stardom in his new book, Boy Racer: My Journey to Tour de France Record-Breaker.
Floyd Landis, who last month admitted doping throughout his cycling career and accused Lance Armstrong and others, has hired a law firm that once represented cyclist Greg LeMond. The UCI also has sent a "strongly worded" letter to Landis asking him to stop making claims that Lance Armstrong conspired with UCI official to suppress an alleged positive doping test.
International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge has presented an Olympic gold medal to a Belgian cyclist, 62 years after he won it, London's Times newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Responding to a flood of recent inquiries CrossVegas organizer Brook Watts reminds everyone that registration for the early cross season classic opens August 1st.
2010 Mt. Hood Bicycle Classic women's results
As they pedaled side by side during the 2006 Giro d’Italia, American Pat McCarty and Dutchman Marc de Maar probably would not have guessed that four years later they would both taste success at a national-level stage race at Mt. Hood, Oregon.
The TD Bank Philadelphia International Cycling Championship just got more exciting. SugarHouse Casino, a new sponsor in 2009, has come back in 2010 with an gambler’s twist to the race -- a SugarHouse Jackpot sprint competition with a prize purse totaling $10,000.
With the Tour de France on the horizon, VeloNews editor at large John Wilcockson visited the Ardennes Classics to witness firsthand how this year's Tour contenders were shaping up. At the Amstel Gold Race Belgian Philippe Gilbert used his impressive power to win a difficult uphill sprint ahead of Ryder Hesjedal. At Flèche Wallonne Cadel Evans jumped past Alberto Contador on a steep summit finish for a cagey win. And at Liège-Bastogne-Liège Alex Vinokourov launched a perfect counterattack to outwit Evans, Contador and the Schleck brothers for victory. Any of these three scenarios could have been epic battles at the Tour de France — only RadioShack's Lance Armstrong, Andreas Kloden and Levi Leipheimer were missing. But regardless of who wasn't there, the Ardennes were telling of what's to come in July.
Readers ask whether Floyd Landis has been suspended and what rule did Alejandro Valverde violate/
While Dick Pound’s term as WADA president expired at the end of 2007, the 68-year-old former Olympic swimmer remains a member of the WADA board and still quite willing to express his opinions.
2010 Giro Donne stage 1 results
The Mt. Hood Cycling Classic is one of most difficult stage races in the U.S., with tough climbing and beautiful scenery. The popular event has been on and off the National Racing Calendar in recent years, but always delivers a top-notch field.
Elite professional cyclists from across the United States will travel to St. Louis on Sunday, June 13th, 2010 for the National Racing Calendar Tour de Grove – Missouri’s biggest single day race.
Results - 2010 Killington Stage Race
Amateurs and Olympians alike will descend upon Harlem’s Marcus Garvey Park on Father’s Day, June 20 to compete in the 37th annual Harlem Skyscraper Cycling Classic presented by Rockstar Games.
2010 Kelly Cup results
Strava and Inferno Racing LLC partner to bring the world the first everinternet, GPS based competition, where the reward is a real spot on a real team.
The BMC team re-instates former world champ Alessandro Ballan after an internal investigation finds no evidence of doping.
This weekend’s Mt. Hamilton Classic Road Race/Memorial Day Criterium in California marks the end of the 2010 Nature Valley Pro Ride qualifiers. The final two riders selected will join the five men and five women who have already qualified.
Slipstream Sports, the owner and manager of the Garmin-Transitions team, says its riders are obligated to cooperate with an investigation into Floyd Landis' doping allegations.
A Missouri tourism oversight committee on Thursday approved a spending plan that does not include funding for the Tour of Missouri, and the race's organizers are all but conceding that the battle is over and the race will not be held this year
Registration is now open for individual amateur cyclists and professional teams for the 5th annual Alexian Brothers Tour of Elk Grove, Friday-Sunday, July-30-August 1, in the Chicago suburb of Elk Grove Village.
Federal authorities are investigating Floyd Landis' charges against Lance Armstrong and other cyclists with an eye toward criminal charges, the New York Times is reporting.
The Wapiyapi Classic will be held on Sunday, Sept. 26 in Aspen, Colo., and will feature seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong among other professional cyclists.
2010 Amgen Tour of California FINAL results
Two days after shocking the bike world by admitting that he doped and accusing a long list of star cyclists of doing the same, Floyd Landis appeared at the Amgen Tour of California time trial in Los Angeles Saturday. And ESPN.com reports Landis called Greg LeMond Friday to apologize for an incident at his 2007 doping hearing.
Crucial Innovation, Inc., makers of Retul 3D bike fit technology, has announced a strategic partnership with the RadioShack professional cycling team to supply bike fit technology and bike fitting services.
Thomas Rabou (Team Type 1) lived out a dream Friday on the Angeles Crest Highway. The neo-pro found his way into the day’s long breakaway at the Tour of California with stars of the sport, like Andy Schleck and George Hincapie.
After winning a stage and finishing this week's Tour of California, Mark Cavendish will appear at Helen's Cycles in Santa Monica on Monday, May 24th at 6 p.m. to meet cycling fans and autograph copies of his new book, Boy Racer: My Journey to Tour de France Record-Breaker.
Greg Lemond, the first American to win the Tour de France, says he believes "most of Floyd Landis's statements" charging systematic doping in cycling.
Replay: Live coverage of 2010 Amgen Tour of California stage 5
Nearly four years after he was disqualified as the winner of the 2006 Tour de France for a doping postive, Floyd Landis told ESPN.com Wednesday night that he doped during much of his career. He told ESPN.com of his "extensive, consistent use of the red blood cell booster erythropoietin (commonly known as EPO), testosterone, human growth hormone and frequent blood transfusions, along with female hormones and a one-time experiment with insulin, during the years that he rode for the U.S. Postal Service and Switzerland-based Phonak teams," the ESPN.com story reads.
2010 Amgen Tour of California, stage 4 results
2010 Amgen Tour of California stage 3 results
Independent Fabrication will raffle a fully custom steel Crown Jewel SE to help support the Wounded Warrior Project.
Photographer Lucas Gilman is spending the week embedded with the Garmin-Transitions team at the Amgen Tour of California.
Inside Cycling with John Wilcockson: The Giro battle has only just begun
Amber Neben will race for the Webcor Builders team for the balance of 2010, she confirmed Thursday. The 2008 world time trial champion will be at the start of Sunday’s Sacramento Grand Prix criterium with the team.
Fly V australia releases daily Tour of California power files
Hunter Allen and Andy Coggan have updated their bestselling book, Training and Racing with a Power Meter. Allen and Coggan have completely revised the book that made power meters understandable for amateur and professional cyclists and triathletes.
Fiber One, a General Mills brand, is the new title sponsor of the Collegiate All-Star Team for the Nature Valley Grand Prix that was selected at the USA Cycling Collegiate Road National Championships.
PRESS RELEASE: Steven Cozza, a professional cyclist with Team Garmin-Transitions, the top American team dedicated to ethical sporting and developing the next generation of cycling champions, is on a mission to help children throughout the world.
PRESS RELEASE: SANTA ROSA, Calif. — This summer, there’ll be another name on the bicycle of 3-time Amgen Tour of California winner Levi Leipheimer. As part of the “I Ride For” effort sponsored by LIVESTRONG and Trek Bicycle, Leipheimer and other Team RadioShack riders will get the chance to ride for someone whose life was forever changed by cancer.
WADA poised at globalizing Valverde ban
Charges dropped against journalists in Cofidis case
Eric Barlevav of the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis is the featured rider in the first of a series of cycling documentaries by Emmy-Award winner Brian Smallwood and his Pro Road Access Productions.
British riders injured in Belgium
In 2010 the spring classics season belonged to one rider, Saxo Bank’s Fabian Cancellara. Over the course of three weekends — E3 Prijs, the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix — Cancellara won three of the hardest one-day races in pro cycling, each time crossing the finish line alone against the best classics riders in the sport, and each time by a wider margin than the last. VeloNews managing editor Neal Rogers was on the ground in Belgium and Northern France to witness the Swiss rider’s domination and put it into perspective. VN tech editor Zack Vestal was also rattling along the cobblestones, and scored a shotgun seat in one of Mavic’s SSC Neutral Support cars at Roubaix. He came back with a memory card full of photos and war stories. Subscribe Now!
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Andrew Talansky comes out of nowhere to establish himself with the best young rider prize at the SRAM Tour of the Gila
Our readers speak out on Ben Day's tapeworm and Mark Cavendish's brash nature.
Van Dijk wins in Holland; Pooley in Switzerland
Alison Powers (Vera Bradley Foundation) closed two-thirds of her gap to race leader Mara Abbott (Peanut Butter & Co.-Twenty12) on Friday, winning the 16.15-mile Tyrone time trial by a minute in a half over second-placed Errine Willock (Webcor) and 2:14 ahead of Abbott.