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Greg LeMond and track and field star Edwin Moses will speak at the unveiling of a statue honoring African-American cycling pioneer Major Taylor in Worcester, Massachusetts, next month. The statue is the culmination of a long-term effort by local fans of Taylor, who lived in Worcester at the height of his career. LeMond won one of his cycling world championships 80 years after Taylor. The statue of the "Worcester Whirlwind," created by sculptor Antonio Tobias Mendez, is Worcester's first monument to an African-American.

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Oakland, CA – The NorCal High School Mountain Bike League held its third race of the season on March 30th at Grant’s Ranch Park in Santa Clara. It was a day that couldn’t decide if it was warm or cold as a steady breeze brought clouds across the venue valley. The six-mile course started riders with a long, tough climb right off the get-go that was followed by a rip-roaring descent that took riders into some mini-rollers before they had to dig in deep in the grassy start/finish area.

HIGH ROAD AIMING TO DEFEND PROTOUR LEAD IN FLANDERS This Sunday sees High Road’s Men and Women’s Teams taking part in their respective versions of the Tour of Flanders. For the men’s team, as team manager Rolf Aldag says one key aim will be to defend Andrei Greipel’s ProTour lead. “He hadn’t planned to do Flanders, but once he’d got the ProTour lead we changed his race program. He’s going quite well, with a third place in the Nokere Koerse [on March 19] but punctured in Harelbeke at exactly the wrong time!”

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Former Coors Light great Michael Engleman has a chat with some of his riders from the US Women's Cycling Development program.

Anne Samplonius is still out there racing, with dripping sweat showing the effort.

Dominique Rollin was the surprise of the prologue, hauling his sprinters body up the hill to 3rd place.

Hincapie™ Sportswear, Inc., a leading manufacturer and marketer of distinctive clothing for the performance cyclist, has been chosen as the official cycling apparel supplier for the 2008 Tour de Georgia presented by AT&T (Tour) for the third consecutive year. Hincapie will provide premium, Tour-custom cycling apparel for stage winners, race leaders and souvenir sales. Designs for the 2008 award jerseys were provided for a fourth consecutive year by Bigelow Advertising, based in Atlanta, Ga.

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Handmade bicycle exhibit opens TODAY at PDX More than three million airline passengers are expected to see the showcase of frames designed and built in Oregon

Eleven Elite Cycling Teams from around the United States have been selected from over fifty applications to compete in the American Eagle Outfitters Tour of Pennsylvania Presented by Highmark Healthy High 5®, a U-25 cycling stage race taking place from June 24 thru June 29, 2008. The lucky eleven will face the seven international squads from Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Ireland, Netherlands and South Africa that were named on March 18.

Hamilton, behind Jeremiah Wiscovich, oversees the chase at stage 2 at San Dimas last weekend.

Thousands Are “Legal to Ride” at the start of the 2008 Cycling Season in Colorado May 30 to June 1 in Castle Rock REGISTRATION is now more than half full; May 14 is mail-in deadline; May 28 is regular deadline Where can you find an 8-mile family course, 32, 50, 65, 100-mile road rides, a 25-mile off-road course and a 24-hour ride during a weekend? The annual pilgrimage to Castle Rock, Colo.,marks the first major cycling festival of the season for participants from near and far.

Continuing the excitement generated last year throughout the national cycling community, Carrera de San Rafael announces important changes to its 2008 event. Project Sport, LLC, one of the largest sports marketing companies in the San Francisco Bay Area, has acquired this premier cycling event that will return to the streets of downtown San Rafael on its new date of Saturday, August 9, 2008.

The Redlands Classic, which begins Thursday April 3 in Southern California, marks the opening of the USA Cycling NRC series. By this time of the year, the NRC competition is usually well under way. But with the MERCO races in Merced and the Central Valley Classic in Fresno not having NRC status this year, the race for the NRC crown is off to a late start.

Riders Get Chance to Earn A Spot on The Nature Valley Cycling Team and Compete in The 2008 Nature Valley Grand Prix

The International Council of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has named Italian Mino Auletta to be its president. Auletta has been interim president since the death of Judge Ke?ba Mbaye last January. Mbaye was the president and founder of the organization. Outspoken Canadian Dick Pound, the former president of the World Anti-Doping Agency had been lobbying for the position.

David George and Kevin Evans of MTN 1 sprint to victory during stage 6 of the 2008 Absa Cape Epic Mountain Bike stage race from Bredasdorp to Hermanus in the Western Cape, South Africa.

Eugene A. Sloane, the author of the 1970s Bike Boom bestseller The Complete Book of Bicycling, died in Illinois this weekend. He was 91 and died for complications from pneumonia, according to the Chicago Tribune. Sloane published his first cycling book in 1970. It was followed by Sloane's Handy Pocket Guide to Bicycle Repair and Sloane's Complete Book of All-Terrain Bicycles. Sloane's sons told the Times that their father had many interests that, variously, bordered on obsessions, including sailing, motorcycling and photography. Services will be private.