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Raisin had a great ride and was the top finisher for Credit Agricole

Voeckler before the start of Thursdays stage at Qatar

The Once Were Warriors look didnt go over with Webcor team management

McEwen finally punches his way through to victory

Wow. File this week’s column under the “Stranger Than Fiction” heading. Or, following last week’s story about Matt DeCanio and the Ofoto-Sierra Nevada squad parting ways, maybe we should designate this as chapter 2 of “How to lose your job before ever toeing a start line with the team.” So, where to begin? When three-time NRC winner Chris Horner left the upstart domestic Webcor Builders squad to take his rightful place among the world’s elite in Europe, the first question many asked was, “What will happen to Webcor?” That question seemed to have been answered when Webcor announced that it

But Michaelsen got the big prize

Giroscopic Sports Management is pleased to present Team Biovail, which will be competing in road cycling events throughout North America in 2005. Team Biovail continues to build on an existing five-year franchise and is actually two distinct teams. The Elite Women's team focuses on key Pro-Am races in the U.S. and Canada while the Master Men's team will contest events primarily in Canada. Women's Elite Team: Newcomer Amanda Shaw, 2004 Ontario provincial ’cross champion, returning rider Anna Garnett, Jennifer Stephenson, Nanci Dodman and newcomer Tracey Vincze. Men's Masters

CSC swept the podium

American cyclist Will Frischkorn will moving into a team leadership role as he joins newly crowned national champion Ian Macgregor in heading up Team TIAA-CREF in 2005. Sponsored by Fortune 68 financial services company TIAA-CREF, the team begins its second season with a full slate of the country’s most exciting young up-and-coming riders. Frischkorn, who comes to TIAA-CREF after serving as a key teammate for Chris Horner at Saturn, is widely recognized as one of the country’s top talents. An accomplished rider at only 23, Frishkorn has won stages in the Ronde de L'isard and the Tour

The final circuit race

What we read and how we communicate have always been important elements in the evolvement of our sport. At the outset of professional road racing in the late nineteenth century, the editors at newspapers and magazines not only reported the events but they also dreamed up the races and put them on. The world’s very first long-distance road race, from Paris to Rouen along the length of the Seine valley, was sponsored in 1869 by a magazine called the Vélocipède Illustré. Another title, Véloce-Sport, organized the first Bordeaux-Paris classic in 1891, Le Petit Journal put on the inaugural

Tom Simpson on the cover of Sporting Cyclist

A sprint to the line at Genting

Cox was clearly not intimidated

The two leaders emerged from a shrinking lead group as the climb to Genting took its toll

Grajales managed fifth

Danielson

Barry

Herbolds riding skills were about the only thing we could document with a camera

Cipo gets his first win in his new kit.

Thomas Voeckler and friend.

Michaelsen had some troubles Thursday, but his lead remained safe

PROFESSIONAL AND AMATUER ROAD CYCLISTS ROLL INTO MORGAN HILL TO COMPETE IN THE MORGAN HILL GRAND PRIXSpecialized Bicycle Components Creates a Road Race in its HometownMorgan Hill, Calif, - The Morgan Hill Grand Prix, Northern California’snewest and most eagerly-awaited professional and amateur road race, willtake place on April 10, 2005, from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Between 300-500pro and amateur athletes, and approximately 2,000 spectators are expectedto attend.“It's really great to be involved in the creation of a local race,"says Mike Sinyard, Founder and President of Specialized

Yup, its a Panaria jersey crossing the line first.

Koji Fukushima

Brown grabs win No. 3 at Langkawi

Brett Lancaster leads out of the last corner, around 300 meters to the finish. Brown is sitting about 8th here, and still wins.

Discoverys Michael Creed shows off a few of his battle wounds from the big pile-up

Discovery mechanic Geoff Brown makes a few on-the-road adjustments

Discovery DS Lorenzo Lapage hands off bottles to Patrick McCarty

Plan of attack: CSC made its move at the right moment

American Fred Rodriguez finished sixth on the day, at 1:22

The winds forced the field into echelons for the second day

Unique hazards at the Tour of Qatar

A new leader

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The Race Route has been announced!Navigate themap to learn more about each host city.The 2005 Dodge Tour de Georgia begins on Tuesday, April 19, with allof its pageantry in historic downtown Augusta, along the banks of the SavannahRiver. Stage One will challenge The Masters of cycling as they traverse120 miles across Middle Georgia to its finishing circuit in the Song andSoul of the South, Macon. It will be an ideal day for the sprinters tomake a lasting first impression as they race to the city that musical legendsOtis Redding, the Allman Brothers, James Brown and Little Richard haveall

Casero, after winning the 2001 Vuelta.

Deja Vu all over again

Michael Barry and Tom Danielson discuss plans before the stage

Phonak manager John Lelangue and Nicolas Jalabert, at the Tour of Qatar, now know what they will be doing in July.

Boonen makes it look easy

Rodriguez is in Qatar for early season prep work...

... and McEwen is there, perhaps recovering from a string of wins Down Under.

Cipollini missed the key break and finished out of the money on Tuesday.

Thomas Voekler and friends

Its January and Qatar is warm...

...although a touch on the windy side

Canadian researchers working in conjunction with the World Anti-Doping Agency announced Tuesday that they have discovered a new “designer” steroid developed along the lines of THG, the drug at the center of the BALCO case in the U.S. Acting upon an anonymous tip e-mailed to WADA officials this past summer, scientists said they have reproduced a drug that appears to have been designed to avoid detection in standard drug tests. WADA science director Olivier Rabin and Christiane Ayotte, director of Montreal's anti-doping lab, told reporters in a conference call on Tuesday that the agency

Are the Panaria boys the only ones trying for the line?

Another reminder that this is not the Tour de France

Ed Beamon handing out water and sage advice from the team car

Cesare Grejales after another hot day on the road.

The Clubhouse is an occasional service of VeloNews.com that lists cycling clubs and racing teams looking for new members. If your outfit needs some new blood, send a brief description of what you expect from/provide to your members along with contact information to rosters@insideinc.com. Submissions will be edited for length and content.MassachusettsThe Northeast Bicycle Club (NEBC) is looking for additional racers of all ages and in all categories for both men and women. We are particularly on the lookout for junior cyclists and have a dedicated junior coaching program. NEBC is one of the

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.DeCanio should try smarter tacticsEditor:Matt DeCanio can speak out all he wants but he should likely not, as one letter writer put it, “bite the hand that feeds us.” Most everyone agrees that we want doping out of the sport, but there is a time, place and approach to voice what is going

Perez in happier times

True-to-form: O’Neill was expected to do well and he did.

Cox held his own and remains a favorite for the overall

Barry is happy with his form, especially after training on frozen gravel.

Prime viewing from the Motorworks

Beppu is still Asian despite the jersey, right?

Knapp

Vervecken and Vanthourenhout round-out the top-three

Nijs Wins

Nijs and Kupfernagel tops at world cyclo-cross championships

Vervecken leads

Belgian, Belgian and Belgian... but why does Nijs get a Cycle Ball jersey?

Vanthourenhout and Mourey

Jonathan Page finishes 14th...

Hanka Kupfernagel takes her third world title