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Armstrong

Simoni

Hamilton

Garzelli

The chase over the Col de Nufenen

Bartoli survived for second place

Moninger

Bessette (center) had a big lead going into the last day.

Teutenberg (left) gets congratulated by teammate Kristy Scrymgeor

Ivanov

Belli

Koehler

Fisher leads the break

Konyshev

The Tour de Suisse concludes June 28

Marsal, Van Scheppingen and Smith

Bessette took charge once she joined the break

Vinokourov wins

Hincapie and Hamilton

Jalabert

Rossner congratulates Bessette for another stellar performance

Longo, Bessette and Berger

For those that know him, this really is Jim Safford

Still in Charge. Bessette maintains a three-minute grip on GC.

Intersports worked to protect Marsal's hold on the sprint jersey.

Jeannie Longo and friend.

Wrolich and Bortolami

Zabel

Zumsteg

Postal in control

Bessette

Jolanta Polikeviciute in one of the day's early (and unsuccessful) attacks.

Longo tries to rid herself of Bessette and Jolanta Polikeviciute

Armstrong in yellow

Hamilton

Neben

Bruckner says she feels better racing than spectating, but found it impossible to ride Tuesday.

Neben realized she could beat the rest of the group and took off on her own.

Neben was on her own.

Bessette, Worrack and Longo

Moreau protected the yellow-and-blue leader's jersey on the final day.

She may be riding shotgun in the team car, but Bessette is in the driver's seat at HP

Peat chose the right tires for the conditions and extended his overall World Cup lead.

Moreau kept the leader's jersey and Tonkov kept his eye on it.

Bessette

Tillman (center) was boxed in all day by the Prime Alliance riders.

Beltman

Nothstein lurked near the back, then struck on the last lap.

Pearce took home another Madison title.

Reinhart and Kyle moved themselves into second place.

The Prime Alliance train rolls to victory in the team pursuit.

The Carney brothers and the rest of the Prime Alliance squad don their new jerseys.

James Cullen was one of several riders to go down hard.

Longo maintains her grip

Acca Due had the wrong twin closing in on the leaders; the team's top GC rider, Rasa (left) was forced to chase her twin

Despite spending most of the summer on the road, Nothstein is still the king of the track.

Massie is one to watch in the coming years.

Mirabella (near) and Quinn were close all day.

Moreau took the jersey and a 1-second lead over Tonkov.

Kivilev scored his first professional stage win.

Rodriguez holds lead in Luxembourg

Lindenmuth takes out Reed to win the sprint.

Marty Nothstein was just about to roll down the wooden start ramp for the time trial at the First Charter Criterium. "Hang on!" yelled a Mercury-Viatel staff support person. "Won’t need these." The staff member quickly removed a pair of water bottles from the two cages on Nothstein’s team issue LeMond race bike. It was a no-brainer that refreshments could wait until after Nothstein made his less-than-two-minute trip around the 1.4km TT course, but cut the guy some slack for not shedding the unnecessary weight. He’s used to racing bikes that don’t have water bottles — or gears for that

Lately, Josiah Ng has become known as "the guy who beat Nothstein." And beat him he did — twice. Sort of. But there’s a lot more to the 21-year-old from Carlsbad, California, than that simple label conveys. In April, Ng did surprise Olympic sprint champion Marty Nothstein at the American Velodrome Challenge in San Jose, California. In a three-up, one-ride final, Ng caught his two opponents eyeing each other and charged. He got a great jump and for 400 meters held off Nothstein and Jeff Solt to take a surprising win. "There was a lot of luck involved, but that’s part of bike racing, too," Ng

With the TT win, Vaughters moved into second-place overall.

Millar took the Dauphine leader's jersey, but it's the yellow one up for grabs in July that he really wants.

Merckx gave up the leader's jersey after one day.

Rodriguez wins stage 1 at Luxembourg

Nothstein is sure he can win on the road, but that hasn't happened yet.

Arndt

Not exactly ideal riding conditions.

Axel did dad proud by taking over the leader's jersey

Longo took charge of the winning break

Dario Frigo, fired by his Fassa Bortolo team last week after drugs were found in his room during the Giro d'Italia, spoke publicly at a press conference in Biella, Italy, Friday. The 27-year-old claimed that he had not taken banned substances and also denied media reports that he had acted as a police informant. "I have never taken doping products and I never named any colleague," said Frigo who was flanked by a lawyer. "It was a weakness on my part to have these medicines, but I was conscious not to use them." Frigo admitted that he deserves to be punished after being found in

All bike races in Italy will be suspended starting June 18. This shocking news from the French news agency AFP comes in response to the drug bust and scandals surrounding the Giro d’Italia. Italy’s Olympic committee (CONI) has made the decision to suspend "all national cycling activity from athletic and amateur categories," according to the Federation. An ethics committee presided by former national team coach Alfredo Martini and co-ordinated by Sergio Fusaro, the president of the Council of Professional Cycling, has been instructed to define a code of conduct. The federal committee of the

Frigo speaks: 'I have never taken doping products'

Nothstein added another feather to his cap