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Freire and Moos on the attack

Liquigas worked for defending champ Di Luca, to no avail

The Mur de Huy

Extebarria and Valverde sprint for it

And Valverde gets it

Tom Danielson (Discovery Channel) and Floyd Landis (Phonak) mind each other

Jackson Stewart (Kodakgallery.com-Sierra Nevada) gets a little face time for the sponsor

Janez Brajkovic (Discovery Channel) gets some lunch

Chris Baldwin (Toyota United) chases

We’ve posted the submissions of our reader-submitted Sea Otter Photo Gallery and encourage you to take a look. Take the time to wander through and see if anything strikes your fancy. Let us know what you think by dropping us a note at Rosters@InsideInc.com and we’ll take your views into account when we name a winner later this week. This also gives us the opportunity to announce our second event-specific contest here at VeloNews.com and encourage viewers to send in new photos from this week’s Tour de Georgia. Again, our rules are slightly different than our usual contest, so be sure to

J.J. Haedo (Toyota United) is a blur when he lights it up

It’s been nearly six years since former junior national team rider Greg Strock charged that his coach and other team officials had doped him without his consent in the early 1990s, and it will be at least a few more months before a jury hears arguments in the case. On Tuesday, the matter made its first appearance in a courtroom as a U.S. District Court judge heard arguments on defense motions to dismiss. Strock, now a medical doctor and a member of the faculty at the University of Indiana Medical School, joined former teammate and fellow plaintiff Erich Kaiter in Denver as attorneys argued

Rebellin had a great run in '04

Race Finish

Greg Strock (r) consults with a member of his legal team outside the Federal Court House in Denver

Wenzel (c) with attorney Reid Kelly (r) and USAC attorney William Senter speak to reporters outside the Federal Court House in Denver

Olson on his own

Michaelsen on the podium

What could rival an autograph from Discovery Channel's Viatcheslav Ekimov?

How about James Brown?

The peloton marches through Georgia

Tour de Georgia: Top Americans looking for victory on home soil

Tour de Georgia: Top Americans looking for victory on home soil

The road up Brasstown Bald will again be decisive

Stage 4 - From Dalton to Dahlonega

Danielson looking to repeat without the world's best domestique at his side

Friedman and Huff get a trial by fire in the Madison

Schleck picked the right time to attack

Bos does it again

It was Bettini's chase of Wesseman that set Schleck for the win

Michael Boogerd and his Rabobank teammates missed the bus this time.

Wesseman managed to hold on for second.

Vande Velde returns to the peloton

On the Cauberg

Members of the U.S. men´s pursuit team on Saturday morning raced with an homage to Saul Raisin emblazoned on their helmets in the qualifying round. In a show of solidarity with the injured Raisin, the team wrote, “Raisin Hell” on their racing helmets. “We´ve been thinking about him all week,” said team member Mike Creed. “It´s hit everybody pretty hard.” Raisin, 23, is showing signs of improvement after coming out of a coma earlier this week. Raisin crashed in the Circuit de la Sarthe and nearly died when he suffered a brain hemorrhage. Vande Velde rides with eye on GiroChristian Vande

Mike Creed readies for the team pursuit

The Aussies blazing along

Bettini, 32, is at his peak

The footwear of choice

Jenny Copnall prays to the mud god

Craig never fell ... instead, the mud came to him

The Mailbag is a regular feature on VeloNews.com. If you have a comment, an opinion or observation regarding anything you have seen in cycling, in VeloNews magazine or on VeloNews.com, write to WebLetters@InsideInc.com. Please include your full name and home town. Letters may be edited for length and clarity.Does that make us ... uhhhh... Fair and Balanced?Dear VeloNews,After your articles about former USA Cycling CEO Gerard Bisceglia (seepartone and parttwo) my thoughts were of never joining such an organization.The passion in his words left me feeling that we lost a vital part of USACycling

Is it just me, or has it been April Fool’s Day all month long? It seems like every time I go online to check the news, the headlines are straight out of The Onion. In some cases, they’re not at all funny, but are equally as hard to fathom. Just in the past 10 days, a report was published in the science journal Nature on fossil findings that supposedly prove the evolutionary link between fish and land animals. Another report claims that an early Christian manuscript has surfaced after 1700 years including the only known text of what is known as the Gospel of Judas, which postulates that the

Bartko clocks 4:23.115

Boogerd has been top 10 at Amstel for seven consecutive years

Say what?

Barry smiles through the pain

Brad Lewis, 1968-2006

Rock on, man

Moninger makes the funny papers

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A-Hoy: The Brit opens his nation's gold-medals account

American cyclist Saul Raisin appears to be making progress toward recovery after medical staff removed him from a ventilator allowing him to breathe on his own Raisin emerged from a coma on Wednesday after suffering the effects of a life-threatening crash in a race in western France. Raisin, one of the Crédit Agricole team's up and coming riders, was placed on the ventilator a week ago to take pressure off his body, and improve his chances of recovering from the hemorrhage he suffered Team manager Roger Legeay said that the signs are good and that friends and family are beginning to

Di Luca, last year's Flèche and Amstel winner, will only ride at Liège this coming week before aiming at the Giro

Hammer tops the podium in Bordeaux

Hammer gave it all in the gold-medal round

The Mailbag is a regular feature on VeloNews.com. If you have a comment, an opinion or observation regarding anything you have seen in cycling, in VeloNews magazine or on VeloNews.com, write to WebLetters@InsideInc.com. Please include your full name and home town. Letters may be edited for length and clarity.Foundation rep outlines support for cyclingEditor:Your recent interview with Gerard Bisceglia (see part one and part two) made some accusations about the USA Cycling Development Foundation. I am one of the initiators of the foundation and I would like to shed some light on the foundation

Last week, USA Cycling chief executive officer Gerard Bisceglia discussedhis termination from the post with former VeloNews news editor CharlesPelkey. (see "Exit Interview: Bisceglia speaks" Part1 and Part2). At the time, we extended a similar invitation to a representativeof USA Cycling or its board of directors.Bisceglia's replacement, Steve Johnson, who was moved into the CEO postfrom the chief operating officer's spot, accepted our invitation and discussedhis new position, his assessment of the current state of the organizationand his hopes and expectations for cycling's

Hincapie after his craash

Boonen and Van Petegem in Sunday's Paris-Roubaix

Tech Talk: Mr. Zinn rides SRAM's new road groups

Tech Talk: Mr. Zinn rides SRAM's new road groups

Tech Talk: Mr. Zinn rides SRAM's new road groups

Tech Talk: Mr. Zinn rides SRAM's new road groups

Tech Talk: Mr. Zinn rides SRAM's new road groups

Tech Talk: Mr. Zinn rides SRAM's new road groups

Tech Talk: Mr. Zinn rides SRAM's new road groups

Bisceglia at the Tour of California route announcement

Lopes

After four years in the post, USA Cycling chief executive officer, GerardBisceglia, was fired last week by board president Jim Ochowicz. Biscegliawas replaced by the organization's chief operating officer, Steve Johnson,who is also the executive director of the USA Cycling Development Foundation.Bisceglia agreed to sit down with former VeloNews news editor,Charles Pelkey, and discuss his time at the head of the national governingbody, the reasons behind his sudden departure and what he sees as the challengesand opportunities facing the sport of cycling in the United States. In Part1 of

Kintner

The Mailbag is a regular feature on VeloNews.com. If you have a comment, an opinion or observation regarding anything you have seen in cycling, in VeloNews magazine or on VeloNews.com, write to WebLetters@InsideInc.com. Please include your full name and home town. Letters may be edited for length and clarity.What goes around...Dear Gerard,You raised my eyebrows when you seemed surprised by not receiving ananswer to why you were fired. The occasion should have reminded you ofmy dismissal a year ago when the exact same thinghappened to me. When you, and your immediate office, refused to

Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell announced Sunday that Philadelphia?s 22nd annual International Cycling Championship on Sunday, June 11, will continue with the help of a $400,000 state investment. "For more than a generation, the world?s best cyclists and their fans have flocked to Philadelphia to enjoy this great athletic competition. And, it pumps $15 million into the local economy," Governor Rendell said. "Losing it was not an option because it means so much to the Delaware Valley. It would be like Boston losing the Boston Marathon." "Pennsylvania is proud that it could help this

The Rival road group.

Tech Talk: Mr. Zinn rides SRAM's new road groups

The prototype... now all you have to do is shrink it.