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Champagne again

A beautiful day for cycling in Italy.

Marco Velo and Lombardi make a bid for freedom.

Eddy Mazzoleni tries to lose Lombardi ... to no avail.

The men start on the $150,000 cross-country course built by the Scottish Forestry Service.

How Geneviève Jeanson usually looks to the field ... this time, in Montréal.

Jeanson's Rona-Esker team masses at the front on the Mont Royal climb.

Zabella group

Sometimes I wonder about this town I live in. A couple of weeks ago, a letter was published in Boulder’s Colorado Daily. It began as follows: While on a walk recently, I came upon hideous-looking, twisted, tortured, distorted remnants of living beings. I encountered this scene, block after block. It looked like a war zone, in many ways it was. The stench burned my mouth, my sinuses, and my lungs while inflaming and swelling the lining of my brain. I often experience an un-coordinated walk after such exposure as well, compounded by profound exhaustion. I saw the twisted scene as an astute

Mazzoleni and Rumsas

Upon completing a damp, three-hour solo ride this past weekend, I returned to happily inform my housemate that I had discovered the best training tool ever invented. No, it isn’t a German power meter, a palm-reading heart-rate monitor or any sort of output-measuring device. Rather, it is an energy-inducing device, one that, when used properly - and responsibly - can introduce a whole new element to long miles spent in the saddle. And while I’m not usually one to cover bike tech, and it’s still only May, I hereby cast my vote for the VeloNews Technological Innovation of the Year: Apple’s

Pantani break

Memo to: Maynard HershonFrom: Geneviève JeansonSubject: “The New Cannibal” Hi, Maynard! If I didn’t know any better, I’d say you’re about as shy as I am. Otherwise you’d have come up to me and at least said hello at some point. It would have been great to chew the fat and clear a few things up. As things stand now we’ve never even exchanged the time of day, which is kind of a shame, I think. I mean, it must make it real tough for you to write a whole page about me without ever having said boo, even once. In light of what you wrote about me (see "The New Cannibal," by Maynard Hershon, in

Simoni Solo Charge

Gilberto Simoni claims the final mountain stage.

Nowitzki and Voight: Separated at birth?

iPod, therefore iRide.

Simoni at the start

During the climb

The final climb of the day ... and of this Giro.

Marco on the attack...

.. but Simoni is the man to beat in this Giro.

Pantani after crossing the finish line

Simoni celebrates

Looking to Milan.

First escape

Climbing the to the Cima Coppi

Simoni's climbing bike

On the Colle di Sampeyre

Popovych on the attack

Giro: One for the books

Garzelli rescues his day

Simoni (2R) climbing Colle D'Esischie

The pack climbing Colle Sampeyre

Dear Bob;If there is a bike lane and I choose to ride in the lane, can I beticketed?Mark O,Portland, Oregon Dear Mark; If I understand correctly, you are asking two questions: 1) If there is a bicycle lane, and the state has a “ride as farto the right as practiable” statute, should you legally follow the lane,or move to the right “as far as safe and practical” on the roadway?2) Is the bicycle lane a part of the roadway, and do the rulesof the road govern it? I’ll take the second question first, because it’s easier. The answer is yes, a bicycle lane is part of the roadway. A few

The pack leader Simoni (2R) climb Colle D'Esischie

More news from this summer’s biggest buzz race, the Jeep King of the Mountainmountain-bike event. Organizers have now settled on two of the three sites,with the opener slated for Wintergreen, Virginia on June 28-29 andthe finals taking place at Lake Tahoe, California, August 23-24. The middle event will be held somewhere in Colorado, and with EclipseTV’s headquarters being in Vail, expect it to be somewhere in that vicinitywith Beaver Creek a strong possibility. Eclipse has also released a preliminary line-up of the two-rider teamswho will be competing in the gated-racing format. In the

Simoni (R) and Frigo climb Colle Sampeyre

Simoni rides

Pantani recovered and finished.

Pantani down after crashing

MTB News and Notes: Jeep KOM, Bootes back

Frigo celebrates

MTB News and Notes: Jeep KOM, Bootes back

Simoni and champagne

From left: Matt Marcus, Governor Bob Wise, Laird Knight, Steve Thaxton

Motorcycle cops start drinking before the start here

Garzelli's bike. note the wheels.

Gonzalez and Lanfranchi lead the escapees up Montemale di Cueno

Pantani's wheel

...and his new Deda bars

Paying homage to Fausto

Giro fans

Fassa Bortolo rider Alessandro Petacchi raises his arms at the finish

Fassa Bortolo rider Alessandro Petacchi shows number six on podium

French cyclist Laurent Roux has been banned for four years after testing positive for drugs for a second time, the International Court of Arbitration for Sport said on Wednesday. A four-year ban is the minimum punishment for a second offense. Roux, 30, tested positive for amphetamines at a UCI doping control during the Tour of Vendee in France in April last year, having previously been banned for six months for failing a drugs test in 1999. The French Cycling Federation (FFC) decided against sanctioning Roux saying that no breach of French law had been made because the UCI are a

One plus five makes SIX!

Go Slovenia!

Short, flat and beautiful

Simoni: Garzelli says he's still vulnerable.

Pantani is wants Bianchi, but does Bianchi want Pantani?

Fabio Sacchi has the peloton's funkiest hair ...

... so, at the finish, he does the only logical thing and grabs the only fan he can find with a weirder do than his.

Perez Cuapio's Battaglin...

Avid's eagerly anticipated Juicy 7 hydraulic disc

The very-adjustable lever

Galfer USA's patented wavy rotor

Goodridge braided brake lines

I swear I've tasted this before...

...oh, that's right!

Haro's Werks SS

Jan Ullrich will top the bill when Bianchi, his third team in a year, stages its team presentation in Dresden on the eve of the Tour of Germany next Monday. Ullrich's new sponsor stepped in to replace Team Coast, recently banned by the sport's ruling body. The new Bianchi squad will make its Tour de France debut with the reigning Olympic champion in July. However, Bianchi's general manager Jacques Hanegraaf, said the team could be forced to don drab neutral jerseys for a one-day race on Saturday, then the German showpiece on Tuesday, if the new jerseys are not ready in time. "They should

Spanish cyclist Francisco Perez failed a doping test conducted during the Tour of Romandie cycle race, the organizers of the event said on Tuesday. Tour of Romandie officials refused to be drawn on the exact details of the test, but spokeswoman Corinne Druery said: "We learned today that Spanish cyclist Francisco Perez has failed a drugs test taken during the race." Perez, riding for the Portuguese Milaneza team, finished third overall and won two stages during the six-day event, which started in Geneva on April 30. A spokesman for the UCI was not available to comment, but it is

Blessed are the cyclists, for they shall never get positive commercialpress.”The Race Bible” - Book of Ed, Chapter 12, Verse 3 We interrupt our regularly scheduled technical talk to bring your this important news at Hamilton 2003: We just got another 1.25 million Canadian dollars. Since our CDN dollar is now over the 73-cent U.S. mark, this starts to be real money. VeloNews readers are indeed a privileged group because the news of this influx of cash to our organization is a well-kept secret, especially in Toronto, about 60km away. That this would be the case is very strange, though no

As you have probably already seen we have a new look today. The same content is still there, we just thought that after 2+ years it was time for some sprucing up. The colors are a little brighter than before. We've updated the site colors of VeloNews.com to match our print publication. There is more content on the front page so you can get more stories at first glance. The latest/hottest stories are on the top of the page, plus we've categorized the additional stories by headings. We've heard the saying if it isn't broke don't fix it, in response we say that every once in a while the bike

That's as high as he got them. Petacchi wins with a grimace.