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.
Editor's note: the following is an essay written by 1984 Olympic gold medalist Alexi Grewal. A full article on Grewal and his admitted use of performance enhancing drugs appears in the April 15 issue of VeloNews. Sons have a propensity to follow in their father’s footsteps. For that very reason I write this. My son, your son or daughter, should have the right to find the sport better than it is now or was in our day.
Abraham Ruhumuriza of Team Rwanda leads American Jock Boyer through the prologue
Abraham Ruhumuriza of Team Rwanda leads American Jock Boyer through the prologue
That red couch on the podium? Your guess is as good as ours.
Cannondale-Vredestein's Jakob Fuglsang, the U23 world champ, leads teammate Roel Paulissen through a creek
Kevin Evans donned the leader's jersey after winning the prologue alongside teammate David George. The two would not be so lucky on the first stage to George.
Defending champions Karl Platt (left) and Stefan Sahm signed some autographs the day before the race
The Absa Cape Epic's sign-in is a chance to show off the toned legs and new kit, however hideous it may be.
Trek/VW's Jeremiah Bishop meets a new friend on the eve of the race
Haywood (left) and Smith took their second straight stage win on the 2008 Absa Cape Epic's longest stage
July 1949 of Italian cyclists Gino Bartali (L) and Fausto Coppi (R) waiting before the start of a stage of the Tour de France. The two champions won 2 Tour de France each : Bartali in 1938 and 1948, Coppi in 1949 and 1952.
Network covers historic bicycle races LIVE from Indiana University – April 11 and 12 WHAT: For the 6th consecutive season, HDNet will cover the greatest single-speed bike races in the world - the Men’s and Women’s Little 500 LIVE from Indiana University. Steeped in tradition and high on excitement, these races are known as the nation’s premier intramural collegiate cycling event. The races have the reputation of being the best of their kind anywhere in the world, earning the nickname "The World's Greatest College Weekend."
Colorado Premier Training (CPT), the nation’s leading facility for wind tunnel pro team testing and pre-race camps has selected Kurt Kinetic as the center’s official trainer. Teams fine-tuning their start of season performance are already making use of the first trainers to arrive: the Kurt Kinetic Road Machine. “This partnership creates a more comprehensive package for CPT athletes,” says Steve Owens, CEO of Colorado Premier Training.
Editor’s Note: - By now, most long-time readers of VeloNews and VeloNews.com realize that our favorite – albeit not legally recognized – holiday is April Fools’ Day. Many of us here have long enjoyed the once-a-year opportunity to set aside our normal duty of checking sources, facts and the veracity of quotes and just make the stuff up.
The TT rig is an old U.S. Postal/Discovery Channel Trek. Steve Hed fit Bajadali to this bike, which he believes belonged to either Lance Armstrong of Viatcheslav Ekimov.