VeloNews recently released its 20th Annual Awards Issue, on newsstands now. In the magazine, VeloNews editors spell out the best, the worst and the most notable performances and personalities of the cycling world in 2007. Below is a sample.
X-mas Cross "the ghost of boobar past"
BOULDER, Colo. (December 17, 2007) -- More than 250 courageous athletes have pre-registered to compete in the 2008 Race Across America (RAAM). View 2008 roster here. RAAM is a non-stop, coast-to-coast race in June that will pass over two major mountain ranges, through the desert and across the American plains, and into the face of the severest weather patterns on the North American continent.
Trebon in Hofstade.
Most of the news out of last month’s Third World Conference on Doping in Sport in Madrid centered on who would replace outgoing WADA President, Dick Pound. We now know that former Australian Finance Minister John Fahey will take over as the organization’s president on January 1, 2009. While this changing of the guard is important, it is too early to tell what it means for the future landscape of anti-doping enforcement.
At Cape Epic
Pendrel took gold at the 2007 Pan Am Games
The ‘new’ Astana is largely the ‘old’ Discovery Channel.
KCCX M30 race
Despite being full members of Astana, contractual agreements keep the Disco riders in their 2007 kits until the end of the calendar year.
Staying upright at KCCX Nats
Speaking of the ‘old’ Discovery, Trek Bicycles followed team director Johan Bruyneel over to Astana, where riders are currently on stock, non-team-issue Madones.
Double Header - 2 riders tangle & tumble at the 2007 Reston Town Center Grand Prix
Astana will have a second training camp in Albuquerque, New Mexico in January. Americans Levi Leipheimer and Chris Horner will attend.
After my first race
Tour de France winner Alberto Contador won’t have to make a bike change next year. Note the SRAM SRM Pro power meter.
Santa left me a bike trail under the tree
Astana’s Spain camp in Jávea, on the Mediterranean coast, is about 280 miles from Contador’s home in Madrid.
Note to Contador: Don’t try this in Albuquerque, where drivers are, um, of a different understanding.
Where will these brand new Treks go once Astana has its team bikes?
The SRAM SRM Pro crankset is new for 2008.
In addition to new equipment, riders use the training camp to get to know one other.
“I enjoy long walks on the beach…”
The man with the plan: Johan Bruyneel.
And his 2008 crew.
Minaar encountered some major hurdles this year.
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World's No. 2 Katie Compton will lead the women's team to Treviso
The French national anti-doping laboratory at Châtenay-Malabry has confirmed the positive doping test for Spanish rider Iban Mayo, the daily sports newspaper l'Equipe reported on Wednesday. Mayo, of the Saunier Duval team, was originally cleared by the Spanish cycling federation (RFEC) for the same offense. The Spanish cycling federation in October cleared Mayo, who tested positive for blood-booster EPO during the 2007 Tour de France, claiming his second sample was negative. However cycling's world governing body the UCI said at the time the second sample needed to be reanalysed.
American Floyd Landis, stripped of his 2006 Tour de France title for doping, was on Wednesday banned from all competitions in France by the country's anti-doping agency AFLD. Landis tested positive for testosterone on July 20 last year and was suspended from competition for two years by a three-member panel organized by the North American Arbitration Association in September. Landis has appealed the ban, which expires on January 29, 2009, to the International Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Mayo still faces a long road back to the peloton
Feel a little bloated over the holidays? Don't freak.
Landis, at last summer's USADA hearing, lost a round in France on Wednesday.
The Worlds First Ironbridge Shropshire England
cinder track
Smiles fro a Clyesdale at Folsom Lake, CA
Race leaders with 3km to go on Brasstown Bald TdG 2007
Yoga for Athletes
CX- SoCal style!
LAKE FOREST and SAN CARLOS, Calif. - Dec. 18, 2007 - GT Bicycles and Ritchey Design Inc. today announced the signing of sponsorship agreements with the Jelly Belly Pro Cycling Team, a continental road cycling team. As a direct result of a strategic partnership with Jelly Belly Pro Cycling Team's apparel sponsor Champion System, GT Bicycles signed a deal to become the exclusive bicycle frame supplier for two years starting January 1, 2008. Ritchey Design will be the exclusive provider of handlebars, stems and seatposts to the Jelly Belly Pro Cycling Team for the 2008 racing season.
Fremont Peak on a Chilly Morning
dan dead serious at the 13 hrs of santos
On our way to the Col Du Tourmalet
Matt the MT Biker
OKHT 30th edition
Julie Sroka/Bear Naked Cannondale at the KC Cyclocross (Ice) Nationals
Dacia last push up Ventoux
Our latest reader-submitted photo gallery is now ready for your viewing pleasure. Of course, a new gallery also means the naming of the winner of our most recent contest.
Team Paisano TTT Champs 2006 Ike Park
The chief counsel of the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) has asked the organization’s disciplinary committee to impose a life-time suspension for former Tinkoff rider Ruggero Marzoli. The 31-year-old Marzoli was named in the ongoing "Oil for drugs," scandal. The panel’s attorney noted that the rider had already served a four-month suspension for doping in 1999 and should, therefore, be banned from sport for life, in keeping with the World Anti-Doping Code. The panel will review the case and determine whether or not to act on the recommendation. The prosecutor’s office also
KISSCROSS - Ridgepoint Church, Holland, Michigan
Big changes in store for 2008
Snow Much Fun
CX...SoCal style!
Ivan Dominguez - Stage 6 Tour of Missouri
Health Net inks deal with O'Bee
Team Cycle Depot 2007 Central New Hampshire Road Race
Cyclocross Nationals 35 39
Trebon taming the Green Monster in KY
My Honeymoon in Esmeraldas, Ecuador
Mike B. climbs San Juan Trail
Hand Cycle Race at the Wichita Cyclefest Scare Crow Crit
Saul Raisin 2007 Tour of California Prologue
On the way home from Junior Track Natz somewhere in Colorado off the 70, I guess the kids kicked up some dust
Alberto Contador greets fans at Tour of Mo stage 1
Toto Cyclocross Race
Lance-2007 LiveStrong Challenge, Dripping Springs, TX
Snow in Ohio???
Suffering through an LT Test
Go, man, go! Young fans at Le Grand Depart, London 2007
B-Dwight "racing" at Fruita Fat Tire 2003
Pre-Decent - Copper Canyon, Mexico
Jake and Linda Wells/Happy Ending at Nats
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