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Master Sergeant Gleason and his platoon

As the big teams set up their trains, Vogels brought McEwen into the mix

Wednesday's pace reflected the prospect of hard days ahead

TV time for Raffaele

Di Luca holds on to the lead

T-Mobile may not have set Zabel up for the win, but McEwen seemed to benefit

Di Luca likes the color

A day at the office

The U.S. Olympic Committee has asked a federal judge to take over a state-courtlawsuit filed by the organization's former drug czar.Wade Exum, who served as the Colorado Springs-based agency's directorof drug control administration for nine years until he resigned in 2000,sued the organization in El Paso County District Court in February, revivingclaims that a federal judge refused to consider in a previous lawsuit.Exum's attorney, John Pineau, hadsubpoenaed two women to testify at a hearing next week about theirknowledge of athletes who tested positive for performance-enhancing

When Jan Ullrich first met his girlfriend Gaby Weiss it was her modest and unobtrusive demeanor that attracted him. “She was different than the other girls”, he wrote in his autobiography, “in that she was quiet and confident. She didn’t need to draw attention to herself.” Eleven years later the quiet girl has moved out of the Ullrich’s house in Scherzingen, Switzerland, with their two-year-old daughter Sarah and one of the reasons may be, that Gaby had become a little too quiet for the sports star. In his autobiography “Ganz oder gar nicht” (“All or nothing”), Ullrich describes how he

Di Luca has the jersey - how long can he hold it?

The Mailbag is a regular feature on VeloNews.com. If you have a comment, an opinion or observation regarding anything you have seen in cycling, in VeloNews magazine or on VeloNews.com, write to WebLetters@InsideInc.com. Please include your full name and home town. Letters may be edited for length and clarity.Where are Zabriskie’s stars and stripes?Editor:Congratulations to David Zabriskie for his fantastic performance in the first Giro TT. I am disappointed, however, that unlike the Europeans, Zabriskie was not wearing a national-champion skinsuit. Zabriskie should be recognized for his

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The day's escape went early

Krauss and Christensen continue on their own

Coming down the Muraglione

The chase is on...

Still in the lead, Di Luca keeps the jersey on the first rest day

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When Greg LeMond and Jonathan Boyer became teammates on Renault-Gitane at the start of 1981, there were expectations that America’s top two riders would form a winning alliance. But their contrasting personalities and different styles of racing saw them grow apart rather than connect. Although Boyer was the first American to ride the Tour with Renault that year, he soon moved with another American, John Eustice, to Sem-France Loire, a French team led by Irish star Sean Kelly. At the same time, LeMond established himself as the heir apparent to Bernard Hinault at Renault. After winning the

A delighted Miller

Abbott meets the press

Western Washington University's 1-2 punch

Basso's performance moved him out ahead of the major GC contenders

Savoldelli takes third

Zabriskie takes Giro TT, Di Luca holds on to jersey

Zabriskie takes Giro TT, Di Luca holds on to jersey

Karpets' strong performance moved him up on GC

Di Luca keeps the jersey for another day

Basso lost some precious time

Simoni thins out the herd

Di Luca is back in the jersey

Gil savors his win

Uhl hoped to stay out of trouble - and got the bronze

Brandenberg's bike - or what's left of it

Baldwin blazes the Boulder opener

Holden gets set to start

A big bunch leaves early in the day

Michael Barry made the break

The group was trimmed to three... and then to one

Chasing duties fell to CSC for much of the day

Rujano caught all but Gil by the top of the day's biggest climb

Cunego leads an elite group in 20 seconds after Gil takes the stage

Bettini's back in the pink . . .

. . . displacing Di Luca

Hesjedal was one of the day's victims

And the Fassa choo-choo jumped the tracks once again

Another day at the office

As we've already mentioned several times now, so many of you have submitted entries (hundreds of them!) to our WeeklyPhoto Contest that we've now been forced to put up a gallery eachday this week in order to accommodate as many as we can. If we missed you this week, try again next week, please. Today'sGallery is now available for your viewing pleasure. We'll keepthis up all week and announce a winner on Friday. Just so we can handle what we've got, we must ask that you do not submit any more photos for this week's contest. We will begin accepting new submissions on

The Mailbag is a regular feature on VeloNews.com. If you have a comment, an opinion or observation regarding anything you have seen in cycling, in VeloNews magazine or on VeloNews.com, write to WebLetters@InsideInc.com. Please include your full name and home town. Letters may be edited for length and clarity.Can’t beat Bay Area/SacramentoEditor:To Neal Rogers: I couldn't resist commenting on your well-written Boulder/Orange County article. I believe everything you and others say about Boulder as a cycling Mecca, but having lived in the San Francisco Bay/Sacramento area since 1993, I

McEwen wins as Fassa falls

My colleague John Wilcockson’s recent column, “Boulder cycling and its mountains,” got me thinking about all of the velonews.com readers who have never been to Boulder, or ridden anywhere in Colorado. Readers in places like Pennsylvania, Oregon, Florida, Wisconsin or British Columbia, who think their local riding and racing is just fine, thanks. Readers who may be sick and tired of hearing yet again about the “promised land” of Boulder. I know how they feel. I used to be one of them. This had nothing to do with Boulder, or even cycling. My irritation was with the surfing mecca that is

Score two stage wins for the man who leads both the Giro and the ProTour.

The Boulder area's fabled Morgul Bismarck course got the Hollywood treatment in American Flyers, for the two or three people who actually saw the movie

'Off Road to Athens' comes to Boulder on Saturday. Don't expect to see Kevin Costner in this one

Bettini needed to let off a little steam.

Thursday was potentially dangerous, happily uneventful

The daily ritual begins

Simoni and Garzelli stayed low key for most of the day

Danielson is looking toward the mountains.

Rodriguez goes it alone

The Mailbag is a regular feature on VeloNews.com. If you have a comment, an opinion or observation regarding anything you have seen in cycling, in VeloNews magazine or on VeloNews.com, write to WebLetters@InsideInc.com. Please include your full name and home town. Letters may be edited for length and clarity.Wilcockson revives fond memoriesEditor:Kudos to John Wilcockson for his delightful column about his 62nd birthday road ride around Boulder. As a 28-year-old Colorado native, an avid mountain biker, and the son of a former recreational road racer, I grew up watching the Coors Classic.

It’s hard to believe that Stephanie Graeter has only been racing bikes for three years. After all, the 22-year-old Graeter – one of Christine Thorburn’s talented domestiques on the Webcor Builders team - has an impressive list of results that women 10 years her senior would be proud to claim. Still, the Fairfax, California, racer is only a college senior, and for the past two seasons has juggled the conflicting lives of a Cal Berkeley student and a professional cyclist. As Graeter will attest, completing two difficult degrees (one in environmental biology, another in German) is not an easy

Bettini's celebratation was short-lived...

Not in the mood to talk. Cooke declined to discuss the matter.