News

Heras and the gang join the big move

Hunter takes the win

American Olympic sprint champion Marty Nothstein and the Chinese national team will not compete at the track cycling world championships, which are slated to begin Wednesday at the SportPaleis in Antwerp, Belgium. Nothstein, who recently turned in a sub-par showing at the Goodwill Games in Brisbane, Australia, has turned down the chance to race at the event in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C. The move will reduce the U.S. team to just five men and four women. The Chinese, who won two medals at last year’s championships, apparently bowed

Italian cycling team Mapei announced Tuesday the signing of Kazakhstan youngster Dmitriy Muravyev. Muravyev, 21, inked a two-year deal with the outfit after winning 10 amateur races this year. Muravyev will make the move to Italy after representing his country at the world championships in Lisbon, Portugal, his last competition as an amateur. The move came a day after Mapei announced the signing of Olympic mountain biking champion Miguel Martinez. Copyright AFP 2001

There was talk of staying home, but despite the September 11 terrorist attacks, USA Cycling has decided against bowing out of this year’s world championships, and announced its 24-rider roster on Tuesday. The U.S. will be one of 35 countries competing at the final major road event of the 2001 season slated for October 9-14 in Lisbon, Portugal. The men’s squad will be led by four-time world’s team member and 2001 USPRO champion Fred Rodriguez. Rodriguez recently finished second in the Grand Prix de Fourmies in France. Jonathan Vaughters will also make the trip to Lisbon. The Colorado

Rubiera and Virenque

Nothstein won't contest world's

Citing “a breakdown in trust,” the Italian cycling team Mapei has fired former world number one Michele Bartoli on Monday. In an apparently unrelated move, the team also announced that it had signed mountain-bike star Miguel Martinez to a three-year road contract. In a statement faxed to news agencies around Europe on Monday Mapei's general manager Giorgio Squinzi said that "it would be advisable for Bartoli to negotiate with his future team right now." The parting of the ways comes at a time when speculation was running high that Bartoli was planning to join Fassa Bortolo. Squinzi

Martinez is hanging up the fat tires.

Carney

Sevilla chases

Jose Maria Perez, director sportif of Relax-Fuenlabrada was suspended Sunday by his employers following controversial remarks made about the ONCE team and their former world champion Abraham Olano. Perez claimed on Spanish radio last week that Olano had won the world title in 1995 with a hematocrit reading (the percentage of red blood cells) of 62, and that ONCE had a 2.5 million dollar "pharmacy budget.” Perez, whose team only has an overall budget of 11,000 dollars, also claimed that Swiss rider Alex Zulle, with the iBanesto team, "was not riding well" because he had been deprived of his

Sevilla still in the lead

Elli drives the break

Sevilla still in the lead

Kelme powers the peloton

The great escape

Elli and the Telekoms drove the chase for Zabel

Beloki in happier times

Chris Horner has been granted clearance by the UCI to leave the troubled Mercury team and finish out the 2001 season as a member of Prime Alliance. Horner is making the move to Prime Alliance in time to race this weekend in Irvine, California, and has contracted to race for the team in 2002. Horner will be joined by fellow Mercury rider John Peters for the 2002 season. Prime Alliance general manager Roy Knickman said Horner will serve as "a sort of co-leader with Danny Pate," the team's most promising young rider. Knickman said that the team's title sponsor has been pleased with the

Green will trade in the fat tires for skinny ones and head to Portugal.

Jiminez has an almost Zabel-like win streak

Sevilla's seventh was good enough to keep him in the jersey

Leipheimer continues to wow 'em

The Canadian Cycling Association announced its rider selections on Wednesday for the UCI Road Race World Championships to be held October 9-14 in Lisbon, Portugal. Roland Green, who became the first Canadian man to win a cross-country world championship with his victory at Vail, Colorado, Sunday, will ride the elite men’s time trial along with national teammate and 2000 Canadian time trial champion Eric Wohlberg. Green is not the only selected rider with impressive palmarés. Michael Barry, 1996 Canadian espoir national road race champion and Mark Walters, 1998 Canadian road race champion,

Giro d’Italia winner Gilberto Simoni appears to be on his way out of the Lampre team, which on Wednesday released its official team roster for the 2002 season - without his name. Lampre said it had not received word from the 30-year-old Simoni about his future plans, and seemed to anticipate any decision by thanking him for his two years service and wishing him good luck for the future. The Italian outfit will also be without departing Swiss rider Oscar Camenzind, winner of Liege-Bastogne-Liege. However, Lampre will welcome back former team member Pavel Tonkov of Russia, who arrives from

Sevilla: back on top

Jimenez on his own

Leipheimer

The Vuelta entered Andorra Wednesday

Simoni's plans for next year probably don't include wearing a Lampre jersey.

Heras

Leipheimer

Dunlap powers to the win.

Ferguson heads down Vail Mounatin.

Sydor led early, but settled for second.

Dahle ended up dropping out.

Green is the first Canadian male to win a rainbow jersey.

Frischknecht picked up yet another silver medal.

Galdeano

Wind forced the peloton into echelons

Beloki: still Golden

Postal and ONCE drove the train

Lejarreta wore his uncle's picture during the race.

Absalon repeated the 1998 win over Hesjedal when both were juniors.

Hesjedal couldn't match Absalon on the climbs.

Cooke (right) bides her time before making the winning move

Beloki takes over the jersey

Leipheimer

Suemasa

Cory and Hill

It's mine: Nico took back the stripes.

She's No. 1: Chausson was nervous but she delivered again.

Night rider: Lopes took the world title in typical form.

Eric Carter was taken out by Scott Beaumont in this round two battle

We were hoping it would happen and SuperCup promoter Lyle Fulkerson did not disappoint… he just kept us waiting for a while. Fulkerson said Friday that he has overcome logistical problems and the lack of a title sponsor to hammer together a four-race, three-venue series, beginning in Gloucester, Massachusetts on October 13, moving on to Chicago on November 17 and wrapping up in Baltimore on the weekend of December 14-16. No, it won’t be a truly national series, but it joins other UCI-sanctioned events in the Eastern U.S. to make for a tough group of events, that will each play a role in

Botero's TT performance put him in the overall lead

Leipheimer continues to surprise 'em

The crowd at Vail shared turned their attention away from racing

American Juniors

Team Austria

Pastor Eugene Scott

Don Watson

The bidding war between Huffy and Pacific Cycle over the bankrupt Schwinn and GT brands ended Wednesday when a US District Court bankruptcy judge approved a joint $151 million bid offered up by Pacific and a third firm, Direct Focus. Pacific Cycle is now slated to acquire both bicycle brands while Direct Focus will assume control of the Schwinn fitness brand. After the combined bid was accepted by Judge Sidney Brooks, Pacific CEO Chris Hornung pledged to renew Schwinn and GT’s relationship with the network of independent dealers handling the brands across the country. “This is a landmark

Millar and Botero escape

The team from Canada celebrates its victory.

Evans and Grigson led Australia to silver.

Redden takes the hand-off from Coates.

The Canadians decked out in their new duds.

On Thursday, it was announced that the BMC Software Tour of Houston has been cancelled following the terrorist attack against the United States that occurred on Tuesday. In a press release issued Thursday, cited uncertainty over travel as one of the main concerns of the organizers. The statement also said that the prize money from Houston would be donated to Red Cross Relief efforts in New York and Washington, D.C. The full text of the release follows: BMC Software, the City of Houston, the Houston Police Department, USA Cycling and Threshold Sports announced today that the BMC Software

Amid mass sporting event cancellations across the United States, officials at the UCI mountain bike world championships have postponed racing Friday in observance of the national day of prayer and remembrance called for by President Bush. All races scheduled for Friday have been moved to Sunday, creating an extremely full slate of racing that will start with the men’s junior cross country at 8:30 a.m., and conclude with the elite men’s cross country at 4 p.m. "Just as everyone has been extremely supportive of us continuing with the competition aspect of these championships, they have been

In a move to stamp out doping in yet another sector of the sport of cycling, the UCI announced plans on Thursday to institute a mandatory medical monitoring program in cross-country mountain bike racing. The program will be similar to the one instituted in road racing two years ago in the wake of the drug scandal at the 1998 Tour de France. As outlined by UCI vice president Daniel Baal at the mountain bike world championships in Vail, the new policy will require all trade-team affiliated riders to undergo a thorough physical examination prior to the start of the 2002 season, then submit to a

In the wake of the terrorist attacks against the United States, the U.S. road racing scene will see the postponement of at least one, and possibly three, of the main events on the calendar for this weekend. According to USA Cycling, the amateur-only Univest Grand Prix in Pennsylvania will be "definitely postponed," with a possible make-up date in early October. Meanwhile, the Pro Cycling Tour’s BMC Grand Prix of Houston is still up in the air, and a decision whether or not to race it will be made in the next few days. The third event scheduled for this weekend on the national calendar was