The 4.2-mile ITT was almost a pure power course: smooth as glass with only a couple shallow rollers and two wide turnaround points that kept the speed high. The crit would prove to be tougher than it looked on paper, though, largely due to a rough road surface that was even punctuated by a few cobbles.
Western Washington University and the University of Washington hosted this weekend’s races as the Northwest Collegiate Cycling Conference’s season continues. Whitman College and the University of Washington are both vying for the top spot in the overall team omnium as the third weekend of racing comes to a close.
Blinkies, backpacks and more — VeloNews tech editor Zack Vestal scopes out some commuter gear.
2010 Tour de Normandie results
Criterium International 2010 - Graham Watson
Results - Criterium International 2010
Will Ghent-Wevelgem gain prestige with its new position on the international calendar that puts the Belgian semi-classic in the spotlight this weekend? Race organizers sure are hoping so.
UCI president Pat McQuaid said Saturday that governing body will wait for the outcome of a pending appeal before the Court of Arbitration for Sport before seeking a worldwide ban of Caisse d'Epargne's Alejandro Valverde.
Britain and fellow track powers Germany and Australia were warned Saturday that attempts to leave weaker nations behind thanks to illegal technological advances will not be tolerated.
The demands of early season stage races like the Tours of Oman and Qatar have been given the thumbs-up by medal-winning stars at the world track cycling championships.
Economic impact of bike races, VeloSwap and a tiny track primer
2010 Redlands Bicycle Classic results
The UCI has filed an appeal to the International Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) challenging a decision by the Swiss Olympic Committee to end its doping case against 1997 Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich.
Reader letters on collegiate cycling and female athletes
Eight Americans, including a current and a former world champ, queue up for track worlds in Copenhagen
2010 Tour of Catalonia galleries
2010 Gran Premio San Giuseppe results
2010 Tour of Taiwan results
San Dimas, 2010, Stage 1 - Photo Gallery
Graham Watson: The 101st edition of Milan San Remo.
Results - Milan San Remo, 2010
2010 San Dimas Stage Race results
HTC-Columbia manager Rolf Aldag says despite his recent lack of results, Cavendish is still their man for Saturday, and 'there is no Plan B.'
A three-member arbitration panel has issued a two-year suspension of David Clinger for a positive testosterone test at last year’s national elite championships in Bend, Oregon.
A knee injury will keep Cervelo TestTeam's Heinrich Haussler from starting Milan-San Remo Saturday, and the team's medical officer s not sure when the German will return to racing.
Polite women, the inclusion of collegiate racing and that DVD
Supporters of the Tour of Missouri are lobbying the state legislature, governor and public to restore state funding for the three-year-old race. Missouri like many states is facing a budget crisis. In Missouri's case Gov. Jay Nixon announced earlier this month that $500 million needs to be cut from this year's budget because of lower-than-expected tax revenue. The state's tourism department, which had been providing the bulk of the support for the race — some $5 million over the three editions — has not included the race in its next budget.
A French court of appeals has upheld the prison sentence of Bernard Sainz – also known as "Dr. Mabuse" – following his 2008 conviction on charges related to doping athletes in the late 1990s.
Fröhlinger and Gerdemann are back from the sick list, but Wegmann and Ciolek are still recovering from injuries.
The U.S. Open of Cycling, which had been scheduled for May, and would have been a part of the USA Cycling Professional Tour, has been canceled, its organizers announced Wednesday.
2010 Nokere Koerse results
The Orbea app has content on athletes, bikes, events and more.
An unsanctioned race deep in the belly of New York’s biggest borough, the Red Hook crit, now in its third year, is held on a course that race founder and promoter David Trimble tries to keep secret till race-night registration. So riders have to show up and pay their entry fee to learn the course’s whereabouts.
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The International Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has rejected Alejandro Valverde’s challenge to his two-year suspension from competition in Italy.
Riders flocked from all over California and Nevada this weekend to participate in the first race held in Northern California this year of the Western Collegiate Cycling Conference. The race was hosted by the reigning national champions, the University of California-Davis. This was a crucial weekend for teams to gain points as the upcoming races are split weekends between Southern California and Northern California. With two new tough courses, racers were tested to the limit in climbing, handling, and tactical savvy. Although full race results have yet to be posted, UC Davis is poised to be atop the leader boards after a dominating performance over a resurgent Cal Poly and UCLA squads.
The second week of the Eastern Collegiate Cycling Conference season continued at the Stevens Duck Country circuit race Sunday, hosted by Stevens Institute of Technology. By the end of the day, Boston University had won the overall team omnium for the weekend, with MIT in second place and the University of Pennsylvania close behind in third.
With three regular season races completed and three more before conference championships, racers in the SECCC came to the geographic center of the conference to compete in the Georgia Tech Cycling Classic in Newnan, Georgia, this weekend.
2010 Georgia Tech results
DirectTV's customers will get the Versus network back under a deal announced Monday.
Wind and rain buffet Eastern racers at the Grant's Tomb collegiate races.
PRESS RELEASE: After nearly a decade in hibernation the Beast of the East has reawakened! The Killington Stage Race is back for 2010 with three days of racing on May 29, 30 & 31 with $13,600 in prize money up for grabs.
2010 Tofej Porec results
2010 Paris-Troyes results
Teams announced for 2010 Paris-Roubaix
2010 Tour de Murrieta results
The Explainer fields reader questions about the Race to the Sun
2010 Tirenno-Adriatico results
The UCI has provisionally suspended Italian pro Massimo Giunti after a laboratory found the blood booster EPO in a urine sample from an out-of-competition test on February 23.
Google will announce its new biking directions feature on Google Maps at the League of American Bicyclists' National Bike Summit
The Eastern conference kicks off with a three-event weekend at Rutgers.
UA Wildcats score wins at the final Southwest conference event, in Las Cruces, NM.
French cyclist Guy Lapebie, a double Olympic champion from the 1936 Berlin Olympics, died on Monday at theage of 93, his family confirmed.
Sinead Miller of Marian University swept the women’s A field races in the Midwest Conference race at Lindsey Wilson College in Columbia, Kentucky, over the weekend. Will Nowak of Northwestern, Kip Spaude of Lindsey Wilson College, and Rob Bush of Marian University split the wins in the men’s A races throughout the weekend.
2010 GP d la Ville de Lillers results
2010 Trofeo Zssdi results
2010 Paris-Nice galleries
Start List - 2010 Paris-Nice
Ready gallery for March 5, 2010
Double stage winner, Robbie Hunter, has pulled out of the Tour of Murcia on Friday after learning that his wife has gone into labor.
2010 Paris-Nice results
2010 Three Days of West Flanders results
2010 Vuelta a Murcia results
The UCI has announced that the governing body’s anti-doping manager, Anne Gripper, will leave the post this month, citing a desire to return to her home in Australia.
Monaco’s Cycling Federation has handed a two-year suspension to former Silence-Lotto rider Thomas Dekker for an EPO positive that resulted from the re-testing of an old sample last year.
A reader asks why the UCI bothers to regulate road and time trial equipment at all.
U.S. masters racers who plunked down big bucks for Specialized Shivs just like Alberto Contador's won't have to sell them this year. USA Cycling announced Tuesday that it will follow the UCIs lead and enforce rules barring some frame shapes for any racing bearing UCI points or qualification potential — except for masters competition.
Tech Gallery: Fort, Restwise, Genuine