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It has been a busy couple of days for me personally, so I thought I would send out a quick update regarding some of the changes on the horizon for me and my family. Many of you already know I have decided to join the Phonak Cycling Team in January of 2004. The decision became official September 1st, when I traveled to Zurich to sign my new contract. While some of you may be surprised to hear this, I must tell you this is a very big opportunity for me professionally. I can look back on my two years with CSC with a lot of pride and satisfaction. We accomplished some terrific things together.

I swore when I came to Europe the first time that I would not come back “that guy.” I was convinced that Europe would make me stronger, faster, better. I would not be returning burned out, hollow-eyed, beaten. I didn't want to be the guy that was good, but no longer races, and just shows up on the local group rides and spins near the back. Every group ride has one. The new riders are always alerted to their presence in a solemn whisper. “That guy used to race in Europe.” I held great reverence for these riders, even when I had no idea what an echelon was and thought the Paris-Roubaix

It’s official: Tyler Hamilton will leave Team CSC for Phonak Hearing Systems at the end of the 2003 season. Hamilton and the Swiss team signed a two-year deal that management termed “a real coup … underscoring the team's determination to be the first division's number one outfit.” The 32-year-old American, who finished fourth in this year’s Tour de France despite a broken collarbone, was quoted as saying that he was "sorry to say goodbye to Team CSC, but that's part of the game.” “I have had a fantastic time on the team, and I will thank the whole team for their great support they have

It took a long, long time. Fourteen years, to be precise. But finally I'm there! I started my international mountain-biking career in 1990 by winning the silver medal at the first-ever world championship in Durango, Colorado. Ever since, I have been hunting the rainbow jersey, which is a mystic emblem to any professional cyclist. So many times I was close to winning it – 1990, ‘91, ‘92 and 2001, with the silver medal. In 1994, as the favorite for the title, I broke my collarbone the day before the race. In 1996, I finished second only to become world champion four years later, due to Jerome

Tyler's shedding his CSC kit for Phonak garb

Frischy outkicks Brentjens for the rainbow jersey

Wloszcowska soloes across the line

The women's points race

Cody goes for the gold in the team sprint

Pearce celebrates his scratch-race victory

Tilford collects a fifth masters title

Lydia Barter celebrates her 50-plus win

Alfred and Massie had a good duel that went three rounds

Alfred in the sprint semi's

Hammer won her first senior title by launching an early attack in the scratch race.

Barbadian cyclist Barry Forde, a medal winner at the world cycling championships and the Pan American Games, tested positive for the banned stimulant ephedrine. Forde, 26, won a bronze medal last month at the world championships in Germany and two gold medals at the Pan American Games in the Dominican Republic. It was unclear if he would be stripped of any medals. "Barry is very aware of the stimulants banned in sports and has never knowingly used these substances," Adrian Lorde, director of the Barbados Olympic Association, said Friday. The Barbados Olympic Association has launched a

EuroBike: My dinner with Jan

EuroBike: My dinner with Jan

EuroBike: My dinner with Jan

McCormack, Jeanson take Green Mountain opener

McCormack, Jeanson take Green Mountain opener

Jonas Carney in the Madison

Nothstein and O'Bee represent Navigators in the Madison

Ofoto stole the the show by getting away for an early lap and the big

Photo Gallery: U.S. National Track Championships -Day 3

Sara Uhl won the kierin by going early holding on for two laps

Jonas Carney takes the points win

Nothstein was held to just 10 points

Massie

Think you’ve got it tough at work? Well, how would you like to head into September just about every year not knowing for sure whether you’re going to have a job next year? Yes, the job of professional cyclist seems like a dream occupation to most racers, and to a large extent it is. But when you can pretty much be at the pinnacle of your sport in the U.S. and still be uncertain about your job status, well, that’s rough. It’s also the reality for a couple of recently crowned U.S. champions. Kevin Monahan may have repeated as USPRO criterium champion in Downers Grove, Illinois, but at least

EuroBike: Trade show season kicks off in Friedrichshafen

EuroBike: Trade show season kicks off in Friedrichshafen

EuroBike: Trade show season kicks off in Friedrichshafen

EuroBike: Trade show season kicks off in Friedrichshafen

EuroBike: Trade show season kicks off in Friedrichshafen

EuroBike: Trade show season kicks off in Friedrichshafen

EuroBike: Trade show season kicks off in Friedrichshafen

EuroBike: Trade show season kicks off in Friedrichshafen

EuroBike: Trade show season kicks off in Friedrichshafen

Jelly Belly team pursuit in qualifying.

Jelly Belly sets the standard

Lindenmuth in the morning rounds

Jenny Reed wins 3-4 final.

Chris Witty surprises Tanya Lindenmuth.

Okay, Tom Danielson he ain't

Dear Bob;Is it true that in Illinois, an injured cyclist cannot sue anyone fordamages? Isn’t that just a back door way of banning bicycling?FLIllinoisDear FL;No, it is not true—mostly. The case you are referring to is Boubv. Township of Wayne, from 1998. Jon Boub was riding his bike on aquiet rural road in Illinois. He started across a one-lane covered bridge.The bridge was originally built with two parallel sets of planks for thewheels of carriages to run on. Under these planks were the floor joistsof the bridge, running perpendicular to the roadway. Over the years, thegap between these

Adding to the evidence that new technology isn’t always a great leap forward, one of the new Segway human transporters struggled its way to the top of New Hampshire’s Mount Washington, but well off the pace of the machine it may eventually seek to replace. It took six sets of batteries and three drivers, but the Segway eventually made it to the top of New England's tallest peak. The scooter climbed Mount Washington's auto road – site of the annual bicycle race -- in about two and a half hours Wednesday, well off of Tom Danielson’s 49:24. The standup scooter, invented by Manchester New

Bobby Lea, upset winner in the kilo.

Nothstein in the kilo'

Jonas Carney in the kilo.

So after signing a two-year contract, Tom Danielson is headed to Italy to with Fassa Bortolo, alongside 2002 Vuelta winner Aitor Gonzalez and this year's top grand tour sprinter, Alessandro Petacchi. In less than 18 months, the friendly 24-year-old from East Lyme, Connecticut, has grown from Fort Lewis college student/struggling NORBA pack fodder to emerging Euro’ pro. Along the way he’s won some big races — the Tour de Langkawi being the biggest — and learned what he could about European road racing from former Euro pros like Henk Vogels, Chris Horner, Jonathan Vaughters and Nathan

Tough enough - Danielson at Sea Otter

Mayo may stay

Nothstein checks the competition

Uhl tops in pursuit

Sarah Hammer

Adam Sbeih

Bobby Lea

Lindenmuth

Danielson on Mt. Washington

Girona—With a little extra time on my hands these days I thought I would take the opportunity to fill you in on what’s going on here. First off, I was off the bike for a few days after my crash at the Tour of Holland. I went down hard last Wednesday during the finishing circuits of stage 2. Ironically, we were on the straightest part of the course when the accident happened. A couple guys went down directly in front of me. And being that we were in a crowded field of riders going at a pretty good clip, there was nowhere to go but straight into them. I have no idea what happened really, and

Who turned off the heater? The heat wave is over, finally. Temperatures reached 104 degrees in places. Now it is back to normal summer weather in Belgium. What does that mean? Thermal long sleeve jerseys, leg warmers, earbands, and wind vests. At least things are back to normal. But now you can see how so many elderly people died of the heat with no air conditioning and normal temperatures in the 60s. I think the Belgians are happy to return to the pre-race heat cream on the legs. At least this summer we had a summer, unlike last year when it rained every day for two months. Ah, but late

Levi Leipheimer will be starting next month’s Vuelta a España, but he was never planning on it. The 29-year-old designed his entire season at arriving at the 2003 Tour de France in top form with eyes of making a run for the top 5 overall. But Leipheimer’s season was turned upside down when he went crashing down in the finish-line pile-up coming into Meaux in the Tour’s first road stage. The highly-criticized finish – with a sharp downhill funneling into a narrow twisting run to the finish line – spelled doom for Leipheimer and Rabobank teammate Mark Lotz. CSC’s Tyler Hamilton also crashed,

Don't buy this jersey

Maybe Carlos will have a reason to pull out the pacifier at the Vuelta, too.

Dinner Club. Bread bowl chili made with the finest Belgian beer by Cycling Center riders, for Cycling Center riders.

Before the fall: Leipheimer had high hopes for the Tour

Second-guessing strategy is half the fun of any spectator sport, and there were a couple of good examples to come out of this past weekend’s USPRO Criterium Championship in Downers Grove, Illinois. Just minutes after the race, in which Kevin Monahan (7UP-Maxxis) beat Saturn’s Chris Horner and Mark McCormack for the race win and the stars-and-stripes jersey, McCormack readily admitted that he might have done things differently if he were presented with the same scenario again. Here’s how it played out. Heading toward the final turn, Horner and McCormack are one-two. McCormack decides to open

Single-day tickets to the 2003 world road cycling championships in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, will go on sale Wednesday, August 27. Tickets will be sold for each day of the October 7-12 event. Upwards of 250,000 spectators are expected to watch 800 athletes from more than 50 different countries competing in 10 different races, according to the Hamilton 2003 World's Organizing Committee. Weekly passes have been on sale since April. Tickets are on sale through Ticketmaster. Spectators can order by phone, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, by calling 905-527-7666 (Hamilton); 416-870-8000

MTB News and Notes: Moving on and breaking out

O’Neill in front of the Natural History Museum in Manhattan, his last day in the “halo” neck brace.