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When the director of the Vuelta a España, Victor Cordero, unveiled the route of next year’s race at a ceremony in Madrid on Wednesday, he said in a fiery speech: “We must stop the unending suspicions and conflicts. We share the same ideas as our colleagues at the Giro and Tour de France. Next year, there will not be more than 20 teams at the start. And they will have to respond to our impeccable ethical criteria. Only riders holding biological passports will be invited. And we will count on the sporting quality of the prospective teams.” Cordero, claiming the 2008 Vuelta will be less hard

A frigid start to the Agordo-Lienz stage, Giro d'Italia 2007

Dear Bob,Here’s a question for ya. I was wondering what the law is as far as in a group ride while crossing a street if the light changes to yellow then red with cyclists still in the street crossing: What is the law as far as a whole group crossing? Are the riders required to stop or does the whole group continue until the group is through the crossing. I live in Arizona and in the Scottsdale area north of Phoenix the lights are so fast you just cannot get even a small group through a light. I was just curious as to what you could find to enlighten me. Thanks and you have a great column,

Texas State University Stomping Grounds

Press Release: New Tour book by John Wilcockson

The Gavia awaits in the 2008 Giro

Roberto Heras en route to victory on the Angrilu in 2002

local crit break away

team louisville

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USA Cycling named Nick Adams as director of sponsorship and business development on Tuesday. Adams comes to USA Cycling from AG Edwards and Sons, Inc., a national financial consulting firm. He has also worked as director of athletics at the University of Illinois at Springfield and at Mesa State College in Grand Junction, Colorado — where he owns and operates the Grand Valley BMX Track — and served as associate director of athletics at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville. At USA Cycling, Adams will lead the national governing body’s sponsorship-sales efforts. He will be responsible

Caution - Lansing, IL ChiCrossCup

Victor Cordero, director of the Tour of Spain (Vuelta) speaks during the presentation of next year's route in Madrid

Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle announcing the stages for this

Frischkorn and Grajales are looking forward to Georgia '08

VeloNews Photo Contest: A new winner and a new gallery

The Milan Four-day featured some wild racing

Pippo Pozzato gave track racing a shot in Milan

One of the strangest marketing efforts we saw.

San Patrignano's bamboo bike

The Bianchi 9-2-8 Carbon SL monocoque

The new Selle Italia Monolink seatpost/saddle combo

Cipo' is still a big draw

The Cinelli Neo Morphe

The Deda Phazer

Retro in the modern world: the Deda Campione

After going into the Sydney round of the track World Cup with high hopes, a chest infection has forced Magnus Backstedt to withdraw from the second round in Beijing. "I was flying right up until the morning of the pursuit. When I woke up I just didn't feel 100 percent,” he said. “During my ride as soon as my heart rate hit anything close to my max I started coughing, which at full speed in a pursuit is not ideal. I was disappointed with my ride, but then I jumped straight up and rode the points race qualification and my legs just had nothing!" The big Swede spent the majority of the

Campagnolo’s professional issue red shifters.

2006 World Bicycle Trials Champion Vittorio Brumotti

SRAM’s Red shifter.

Fiera Milano trade-fair venue

SRAM’s Red cassette

Italian marketing relies on a tried and true method for a targeted audience

Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski’s Superfly

The Green City Bikes

JHK’s 45mm Dugast XL 29-inch/700c mountain bike tubulars mounted to prototype Bontrager carbon rims

You don't see this too often at trade shows

Pacocha gets a chance to beat up a pricey set of wheels

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Bruno Roy rides to a weekend sweep and the verge MAC title

Trebon gets his jersey back

Johnson saw the overall vanish again, but conceded that Trebon was a worthy winner

Trebon working the barriers in a driving rain

The national champ, suffering from a cold she brought back from Europe, abandoned

Gould leads Compton

Bos earns bronze in the Keirin

Glöss hit the deck after her bike came apart

Glöss survived the crash.

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Gould does the double

Germany's Dana Glöss is comforted by teammates after her fork broke (below) in competiton

A big score for the Commonwealth in the Team Pursuit.

Glöss's bike

Hoy tops the keirin podium

'08 Giro route announced

Johnson, the mudder, emerges triumphant

Gould shows the national champion her wheel

Trebon was short a little horsepower

Johnson scored himself a jersey

Compton had a mechanical and an off day

Portland's fans turned out in droves

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Yehaw! That's Tim Johnson in there someplace

The outlook is ... muddy

The course: Now imagine it brown and splattered with mud and possibly snow

Bessette, Gould and Compton, still clean at the start of last year's muddy Portland USGP

Carl Decker and Barry Wicks after the 2004 Portland USGP race

Trebon went to New Jersey wearing the stars and stripes, but left wearing the white USGP leader's jersey.

Psyching up

... and he's off.

Dear Readers,In my lastcolumn, I promised a report on the “WeAre All Traffic” rally in Portland. To recap a bit, in Bicycling& the Law, I wrote that "gaining the right to the road was thecycling cause of the late nineteenth century; securing that right willbe the cause of the early twenty-first century." To that end, I arguedthat "the time has come for a second civil rights movement for cyclists."Following a recent spate of collisions between drivers and cyclists inPortland (see “AFatal Bias?”), Joe “MetalCowboy” Kurmaskie called for a cyclist’s civil rights movement, andthe “WeAre All

Barry says he's remains confident going into '08.

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The Tour of Germany will go ahead as planned in 2008 despite the decision by Deutsche Telekom to end its sponsorship of the T-Mobile team after a succession of doping scandals. "The Tour of Germany will take place no matter what happens," said Kai Rapp, head of the organizing committee. "The most important thing for us is that television does not take cycling off air. The rest is secondary." The Tour of Germany is the biggest stage-based race organized in Germany, and is one of two that figure in the ProTour calendar. T-Mobile, the mobile phone division of German telecommunications giant

Andre Kashechkin’s suit challenging the authority of the UCI and WADA to conduct doping tests hit a hurdle Wednesday when the court in which he filed the case declared it had no jurisdiction in the matter. Kashechkin tested positive for homologous blood doping in August after submitting a sample in an out-of-competition test while on vacation with his family in the resort community of Belek, Turkey. His Astana team fired him later that month. Kashechkin has insisted on his innocence and filed suit seeking to bar the result on the grounds that the UCI, as a private organization, did not have

Glory days: With Riis and Ullrich, Telekom dominated the Tour in 1996 and '97.

Zabel and Ullrich in happier times.