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New England Race Week: June 28 – July 6. Four states, 8 races, one week.
Steeped in history and with its hilly, winding stone-lined roads and historic town centers, can New England become the epicenter of American cycling? Five New England race promoters hope so. Race promoters from Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New Hampshire have formed an association to co-promote five races over one week, June 28th – July 6th. George Gantz, president of Fitchburg Cycling Club, which puts on the venerable Fitchburg Longsjo Classic, started talking about the idea a couple of years ago.
2008 Tour de Suisse, stage 4: BMC’s Jonathan Garcia was in a breakaway for much of the stage.
NBC invests in WCSN to create UniversalSports.com sports video site and a new TV channel.
NBC Sports is investing in World Championship Sports Network, an online sports video provider that will be renamed UniversalSports.com. The companies also will launch a new television network called Universal Sports. “Universal Sports will provide a terrific year-round home to almost all Olympic sports and the athletes who give our viewers such compelling stories,” said Dick Ebersol, the chairman of NBC Universal Sports & Olympics.
Phinney posts world pursuit mark
American Taylor Phinney, the 2007 world junior time trial champion, set a new world junior pursuit record Monday at the ADT Event Center velodrome in Carson, California. Phinney’s time of 3:16.589 in the 3000-meter individual pursuit broke Australian Michael Ford’s four-year-old record of 3:17.775. It was the first world record set at the ADT Event Center — the same track where Phinney won a pursuit World Cup in January.
Readers get it DARN straight on Boonen
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