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Marianne Vos and Bradley Wiggins both had superb 2012 seasons, but only one could take home our top award for 2012

Matthew Beaudin reflects on the moments we're chin-to-stem, churning out the beat with our legs, when we are free and we are great

The Amgen Tour executive director says the growth of big-time stage racing in the U.S. is good for all promoters

Work at the UCI's South African center is paying off with results and contracts for riders from the continent

UCI coaching manager says directors are leery of late-season commitment, but see the benefit of training sessions

Travis Tygart believes fans want sport, not for-profit entertainment, from cycling, questions why athletes wouldn't want an amnesty restart

Young Luna rider says she's honored to be closing her first year with Luna and is learning from her three world-class teammates

San Diego County likely to host a stage of the 2013 Amgen Tour

Kudus Merhawi is racing in his first big UCI event, while Darren Lill is racing his last

Cycling is hard; it is frustrating and disappointing. It creates impossible heroes, and then it tears them down. But it remains beautiful

The men behind the Mosaic custom shop talk about craft, group rides and racing

The veteran American ’crosser talks unfiltered about U.S. cyclocross and bailing on work at REI as an 18-year-old to race

Matthew Beaudin hops in the Omega Pharma-Quick Step car at the Tour of Utah for a look inside a day with sport director Brian Holm

On National Day of Listening, the 2010 Giro champ talks about her struggles with self confidence and health, and plots her 2013 comeback

Brian Worth is everywhere in the cycling world that is worth being

With Vos debuting and the World Cup hitting Koksijde, our man in the Belgian mud previews the weekend and answers reader questions

Love them or hate them, time bonuses have a history of impacting overall races and the chase for early stage wins

Canadian Bruno Langlois has found success and a new world of bike racing in Rwanda

Boulder Center for Sports Medicine founder Andy Pruitt went from spurned university trainer to ground-breaking bike fitter

From Gabonese riders suffering and thinking of university to promising young female riders, Gregor Brown finds African cycling in west Rwanda

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USA Cycling has announced the national championship calendar for 2013

American ex-pat's work in Rwanda is bearing fruit, as his first rider contests Olympic mountain bike race

The fan-favorite veteran checked another box on his comeback sheet Sunday with a big-time podium at Gavere

USADA's success in the Armstrong Affair shows that "we can achieve outcomes," said WADA's Fahey. "We can bring things through to a point where these cheats are exposed."

Dick Pound says the revelations from the Armstrong Affair are also "immensely embarrassing" to the UCI, which ostensibly is in charge of cycling

The UCI and WADA will meet this weekend in Montreal to address the Armstrong Affair

An expert on sports doping living in Austin wants to help guide cycling's future and it’s not the guy who raced a bike for a living

ASADA chief says the time to hide is past and urges riders and others to come forward

Sam Smith reflects on a no-camera, naked-waitress moment as Jeremy Powers scores the best-ever World Cup result for an American man

Dan Seaton answers reader questions on the Albert/Nys rivalry, the best mud tires, and the chances for the U.K. to host a World Cup

The U.S. champion brings 100 points to Bjarne Riis with his late signing, and it could be enough to keep the Dane's team in the WorldTour

The UCI Athletes' Commission met Monday through Wednesday in Switzerland to make proposals for improving the sport

UCI president announces new anti-doping hotline, says John Coates has offered recommendations for review commission panel

Top riders and officials say the Louisville worlds venue is very difficult, but some say it could better suit Americans with some changes

In a companion piece to Velo magazine's "Danger Issue," we explore the lonely ground ridden by pros who crash out of the sport

Skins' chariman Jaime Fuller says his company's suit against the UCI is an effort to force change in the UCI and in the sport as a whole

Says Summerhill of UHC: "These guys are so awesome ... they deserve all the credit I can give them, you know?"

It was the second time Meares had claimed the award following her win in 2008

Carron has been central to the UCI's equipment approval program

Lampre-Merida waits for Mantova shoe to drop, as Bardiani-CSF lacks Pro Continental license and Acqua & Sapone shuts its doors

Emily Batty escapes her injury-marred 2012 season on the dirt bike, re-setting for 2013 and building handling skills in the process

Our man in the Belgian mud previews Belgian 'cross racing on the coming weekend of Armistice Day

Jeremy Powers and Katie Compton will headline the fields as the U.S. Gran Prix of Cyclocross returns to Eva Bandman Park

Bradley Wiggins hit by car while training in UK

Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme has called the MPCC's approach as "the future" for the sport

Alex Dowsett moves from Sky to Movistar, Sylvester Szmyd joins Movistar from Liquigas, and José Serpa joins Lampre-Merida

Steve Brown of Iceman Cometh says the race began in 1990 as a 35-entrant epic spawned by 'a simple ride through the forest'

The December issue examines all facets of the dangers of cycling, from hazardous elements to the psychology and physiology of crashing

The sandy course at Zonhoven allowed Bart Aernouts to break the podium stranglehold of Nys, Albert, and Pauwels

1. James DRISCOLL, in 58:29 2. Ryan TREBON, in 58:55 3. Christopher JONES, in 59:15 4. Zach MCDONALD, in 59:27 5. Ben BERDEN, in 59:27

Jeremy Powers shares his experience finally racing with disc brakes at the USGP in Fort Collins, Colorado

Having discovered his talent for marathon races, newly crowned world champion Periklis Ilias turns his focus exclusively to longer distances

Dr. Phil Skiba argues that responses to the Armstrong case highlight our worship of celebrity and a collective "win at all costs" mentality

What I don't want is for the AOC to have egg on its face like cycling has," says Australian Olympic Committee president John Coates

Our man in the Belgian mud answers reader questions on the difficulty of the Koppenberg hill and why U23 racers jostle with the elites

South African Pro Continental team MTN-Qhubeka is set to break into European racing in 2013, with eyes on the Vuelta in 2014

1. Sven NYS, in 1:00:31 2. Niels ALBERT, in 1:00:45 3. Klaas VANTORNOUT, in 1:01:35 4. Aurelien DUVAL, in 1:01:46 5. Bart WELLENS, in 1:01:53

Cari Higgins explains the team pursuit, madison, and other track events from the Elite Track National Championships in Carson, California

Lampre and Wilier have split, leaving the latter out of the WorldTour in 2013, but with Mantova and Padua looming, the team is under fire

Rabobank's withdrawal from cycling has pushed the effects of the Armstrong scandal into mountain biking

Joe Dombrowski talks about his Giro Bio win and more as he poses for Velo magazine's November 2012 issue

David Chauner says that since a U.S. team was at the heart of cycling's worst doping conspiracy, Americans should lead the battle

Brad Kaminski captures the action at the 2012 Boulder Cup as Ryan Trebon and Georgia Gould take the cup

Lance Armstrong's star frequently eclipsed Bobby Julich's, but last week the Coloradan did something the Texan might never: tell the truth

IOC president says cycling's current anti-doping measures protect it from the Olympic reaper

Sean Yates headed the most successful stage racing outfit in history in 2012, but Sky must start from scratch after his sudden departure

While recovering from a hand injury, Meredith Miller has turned her focus to breast-cancer awareness through Hope Lives

U.S. officials aren't sure how or to whom prize money should be redistributed in the Armstrong Affair

Reporter Matthew Beaudin laments believing the unbelievable

Top women's team bosses urge separation from men's cycling for the women's peloton

In this overflow edition of Mailbag, we feature letters from readers that did not make it to print in our December issue

Our man in the Belgian mud answers reader questions on disc brake adoption in Europe and what sets European ’cross apart from the U.S.

American confesses to using banned substances under Sky's new anti-doping policy

America's only Tour winner urges McQuaid and honorary UCI chief Hein Verbruggen to resign for the benefit of the sport

After butting heads with Armstrong for years, the French cycling establishment is eager to move on

Corey Keizer captures both days of Spooky Cross 2012

Italian investigators are expected to file charges soon in broad doping case involving Michele Ferrari, RadioShack-Nissan, Astana, Lampre, Katusha and others

Tour organizers hope to break through the shadows of the Armstrong Affair on Wednesday with the route announcement for the 100th edition

Sam Smith recounts his favorite regional foods from the Czech Republic, Belgium, Gloucester, and Montreal