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Clif Bar's Andy Jacques-Maynes and Jackson Stewart lead Vervecken (1), Wells and Gullickson on the first lap

Gullickson, Wells and Vervecken approach the run-up...

...while a chase group struggles 13-seconds behind

And then there were two

Dunlap, in a league of her own

Dear Bob;I raced as a professional this past season. The team is going to changecomposition for next year and most of us are not being asked back. Theteam owes many of us reimbursement for expenses incurred throughout theseason.I have kept two team bikes and will not return them until they pay mefor my travel expenses (which the team is responsible for paying accordingto our agreement). The team sent me a letter that has threatened to turnthe matter over to collections. Is it legal for me to keep these bikesuntil I am paid? Can the team simply turn their claim over to a collectionagency?T in

Why do I suddenly feel like I’ve got someone looking over my shoulder? Okay, quick show of hands: How many who wrote letters last week had ever read my column before? Hmmm. You’re free to go back to the live world’s coverage now. And I’ll sit back and have a few more donuts. Before I go any further, just one question: If I make fun of Arnold, am I lampooning a Republican, a Kennedy, or just a state everybody thinks is crazy anyway? * * * They came up empty in the time trial, and we won’t know any more until the weekend’s up, but I’d have to say that top-to-bottom, this is the strongest

Conciliatory moves were made to heal the rift that has grown between the World Anti Doping Agency and cycling's world ruling body during meetings between WADA president Dick Pound and his UCI counterpart here Friday. Union Cycliste Internationale president Hein Verbruggen had banned independent observers from WADA from attending the world road championships here this week following the leaking of a damaging report in the French press three weeks ago. However, after a meeting between the two sports officials, Verbruggen said that opportunities for "future co-operation" ahead of the 2004

Mass-start road racing begins in Hamilton

Lagutin went early

Van Summeren tries his luck

Van Summeren stuck with Lagutin...

... but Lagutin takes the win

The U.S. chase came a little too late

(L-R) Rogers, Millar, Peschel

Nozal got passed by Millar, but still finished fifth

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On goatheads and tech-headsEditor;Andrew's musings on 'cross (see "Acrisp in the air?") are a nice sign that our "fringe of a fringe" sportis growing up. I like to think I've earned the right to have a 'cross bikethat makes my road bike look like old tech. There must be some joy in workingeveryday and if it takes the form of a "more-money-than-brains" 'crossbike, then so be it.After three decades of active 'crossing I've watched tire technologyrun the gamut from Clement Grifos and homemade cross clinchers (think oldGrifo tread glued to Michelin Elan tires) in the '70s  to the modern-dayTufo

Happy Birthday, Dede!

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Ignatiev

Dear readers;As cyclists we are all familiar with those occasional and quite memorable moments of enmity between motorists and cyclists.  For many, this is not a particularly new subject, but in view of several examples of cyclist-bashing comments recently broadcast by radio stations across the country, there is concern that some misguided motorists may have acted or will act upon this encouragement (See "Legally Speaking - with Bob Mionske: Shock jocks"). The letters we've received on the subject, prompted us to wonder ifyou have been harassed, threatened or even assaulted by a motorist

Cozza

Technical Q&A with Lennard Zinn - Repair, replace, restore?

Road rage. Do you have a story?

Is Millar still the favorite?

Rapinski in Hamilton

Julich

view from the press room

Warmup

TT Profile

TT Map

image files - world's women's TT

Dutch

Soma

Longo

Focused

Jeanson. Home-field advantage didn't help.

So the world road championships are officially under way, and as you may have noticed, the seventh-place finisher in the men's under-23 time trial was Belarussian Viktor Rapinski, who spent the 2003 season racking up wins for Saturn, including overall victory in the Fitchburg-Longsjo Stage Race and the International Cycling Classic (Super-Week). It was announced Tuesday that the former junior world champion has signed with Navigators for 2004. With a return to Europe planned in the spring, team director Ed Beamon thinks Rapinski may just find his niche in the classics. “Viktor is absolutely

Armstrong: You had to be mentally strong

Freire in Zolder in 2002

Marcus Fothen

Michael Creed

Bianca Knöpfle

Alexandr Bespalov

A bit of a breeze and lots of sunshine

The Moose from Belarus

What's good for the Goose...Editor;Funny how los ditto heads want to slag all over Bryan Jew fordoing in a cycling forum (see "TheMail bag: Of Rush, Wheat Thins, lawyers, world's and flat repairs")exactly what Limbaugh did in a football forum (see "Notesfrom the road: From foolishness to food"). I guess opinions aregreat until someone shouts theirs a little louder, huh? I'm sure when BryanJew oversteps the bounds of decency as determined by VeloNews, he'llfind the exit, too.Until then, shut up and ride.Jose Martinez,Boston.That dreaded liberal cycling mediaMr. Jew;Having read the bashing that

An arbitration panel with the Court of Arbitration for Sport has recommendeda six-month suspension for T-Mobile's Amber Neben after she tested positivefor nandrolone metabolites following the UCI World Cup race in Montrealon May 31.Neben accepted a provisional suspension on July 13, when she was informedof the positive test, which is now regarded as the starting point of hersix-month penalty.The United States Anti-Doping Agency announced interim decision by thethree-member panel of the American Arbitration Association (AAA)/NorthAmerican Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Monday.Neben

Zabel celelbrates, Petacchi still looked surprised

Escape

A windy day on the way to Tours

Unhappy ditto headTo Bryan Jew:While you are entitled to your opinion, I really don't want to knowwhat your political views via your Rush Limbaugh commentary (See "Notesfrom the road: From foolishness to food") This is not why I reada cycling magazine. So stay with your core competency which is cyclingand leave the adult stuff like politics to us adult, common working stiffs. Thinking your opinion is uninformed,MSRush likes Lance, so we should like RushEditors;Brian should stick to cycling commentary.  If he had ever listenedto Rush Limbaugh, he would know that Rush has praised Lance for what

One-time Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich is set to return to his old Telekom squad, the team confirmed on Saturday. Negotiations broke down earlier this week after Telekom director Walter Godefroot had refused to accept the return of his former deputy, Rudy Pevenage. But that problem was solved after Ullrich agreed to employ Pevenage directly. "Telekom and Ullrich have reached agreement on a long-term contract," the team, which will call itself T-Mobile in 2004, announced. The German daily Bild suggested Ullrich's annual salary would be in the region of 2.5 million euros (2.9 million

So, Rush Limbaugh resigned from ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown just four weeks into the NFL season. If you ask me, he was overrated from the start, and ESPN was just desirous for a slow, fat, white, conservative pundit to have success … In the days following his racially tinged comments regarding Eagles’ QB Donovan McNabb being overrated, Limbaugh declined interview requests, including a request to appear on ESPN’s SportsCenter. All these years, and we’ve only now found a way to get him to clam up? * * * Turns out Lance is overrated, too. Those five Tour wins were just the U.S. media hyping

The parent company of Cannondale Corporation has sacked three vice presidents, including the son of the company’s founder, according to the trade journal Bicycle Retailer & Industry News. Those dismissed Wednesday by majority stockholder Pegasus Capital Advisers include Scott Montgomery, vice president of marketing and son of Cannondale founder Joe Montgomery; Dan Alloway, vice president of sales and a 15-year Cannondale employee; and Len Konecny, vice president of purchasing, according to the trade journal. Attempts to contact Scott Montgomery were unsuccessful. Cannondale's Tom Armstrong

No Zolder repeat for Mario

Former Tour de France winner Marco Pantani has been cleared of sporting fraud for a case of doping during the 1999 Giro d’Italia, by a court in Trentino on Thursday. Pantani was charged after high hematocrit levels were found in his blood on the penultimate day of the 1999 Giro d’Italia. The hematocrit limit was imposed in 1997 as an indicator that a rider might be using the endurance-enhancing drug EPO. The Italian, winner of both the Giro and Tour de France in 1998, had already served a six-month ban for his failed drugs test but faced prosecution charges as doping in Italy is a criminal

Dear Bob,My local cycling club posted a notice on its website that a chain ofradio stations was instructing their disc jockeys to tell listeners tothreaten cyclists or do violence against them. Do you know anything aboutthis, and can anyone do anything to stop them?R.B.,Texas Dear R.B.On September 22 and 23, two DJs on a morning show on radio stationWDCG ("G105") inRaleigh, North Carolina, held a listener call-in where listeners were encouraged to relate violent activities they participated in against cyclists, including running them off the road, hitting them with cars or throwing objects

MTB News and Notes: Bon Jovi in, Green out

Pantani cleared of criminal charge