Voigt finished 4:46 behind Leipheimer in the 55km Cognac - Angoulême TT at the Tour de France last month, but he has extra motivation this time.
Voigt put in a big effort to defend the jersey.
Ollett (left) and Koster prepare for another TransRockies stage.
Huff was the top U.S. finisher at last year's event.
A high calorie breakfast gets the riders through the day
A couple of disappointed Costa Ricans
Life ain't always easy on the TransRockies, but what the heck... they could be riding the subway in New York.
Lining up for another round
The ad hoc community waits at the finish
Koster finds his gear bag at the finish line
The dinner tent
The ability to pull off a river crossings is part of an essential skill set.
Sue Haywood tip-toes across slippery river rocks
BC has a whole lot of water...
...and the mud that accompanies that water.
But in the absence of rain means dust is a factor, too.
Share the road
Home is where the heart is...
.. and the massage tent.
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At least the start is easy...
... but things get difficult rather quickly.
Another day's start
The goal for each day is to get some rest.
Ciolek makes it two in a row
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Voigt did the jersey proud on Tuesday.
Even Unibet's effort to circumvent the whole betting issue didn't work.
Ciolek held off some of the best.
It was the '80s.
One of VeloNews's younger editors checks out a vintage MTB.
Technical Q&A with Lennard Zinn - Happy Anniversary!
Lopez Garcia handles the toughest climb of the Tour with style.
Voigt was inspired by the jersey.
Zinn Cycles isn't the only thing 25 years older. Both the company and its owner seem to be doing just fine.
Contador faced Puerto questions last week.
More than bikes, Zinn Cycles produced a lot of friends and tons of memories...
Valverde will skip the Vuelta a España to concentrate on world's, but the Vuelta a Burgos fits into his plan.
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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. This last round of photos offered up a nice selection, but Andy Berry’s “El Diablo in London” caught our eye. We’ve known the irrepressible Didi Senft for years and we consider him to be a real asset to cycling. For one thing, cycling fans can tell fans of nearly any other sport “our crazy superfan is cooler than your crazy superfan.” Andy, please drop us a note at Rosters@InsideInc.comto work out the details and we’ll
Cunego gets his first win at the Deutschland Tour.
El Diablo in London.
Sauser wins
Zabel wins
Dominguez nails the final stage
Nash makes a final charge to the line.
Kabush went head-to-head with JHK,
Gould sweeps the series
Kabush: Hey, a win's a win
The top two. Landis finished less than two minutes down on Weins
It looks like Petacchi is going to be fighting this for a while.
CSC powers to victory
Tour de France winner Alberto Contador publicly declared he’s a clean rider in the face of increasing suspicions about his alleged links to the Operación Puerto blood-doping ring. On Friday, Contador took the extraordinary step of making a public statement to try to counter growing media antagonism in the wake of his impressive Tour victory. Contador declined to take questions from reporters. “I have never doped and I have never participated in an act of doping,” said Contador, reading from his prepared statement Friday. “I won the Tour clean. I cannot understand the attacks against me by
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"Maybe I ain't funny no more, you know? Like, maybe I ain't angry at nothin', for real, in my heart. I'm just not mad about it. I don't get it. You mother(bleep)ers want to kill yourselves, that's your business. Just don't do it on my porch." — Richard Pryor, “Live on the Sunset Strip” Cycling’s been good to me. When I first started working for VeloNews back in the late Eighties, I thought I had finally fused profession with passion. Two years later, when I quit newspapering for the tenuous career of a free-lancer, I was certain of it. Cover the occasional bike
Contador has launched an effort to protect his reputation.
Tour winner Alberto Contador was fending off doping allegations in Madrid, as Discovery was folding up its tent in Austin.
Hincapie visits with T-Mobile manager Bob Stapleton at this year's Tour of California.
Förster gets the win
Kurt Vonnegut's picture of cycling
Tom Ritchey
Ready to ride in Rwanada
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The professional peloton is in post-Tour mode and turning its collective attention to the rest of the season and there's still plenty going on out there.
Gerdemann took the yellow jersey.
Gerdemann on stage 7 of the Tour de France.
Taylor Phinney, the new world junior TT champion
Manager Bob Stapleton will continue to lead the T-Mobile program.
Frommert fields questions at a Thursday press conference in Saarbrücken.
Bobby Julich will take aim for the U.S. national championships next month to earn the Stars ‘n’ Stripes jersey for what will likely be his final year as a pro. The 35-year-old said he’s close to penning a one-year contract extension that will keep him in a Team CSC jersey through the 2008 season. And he’d love nothing better than to win the national title, which has eluded him in his otherwise successful 15-year pro career. “I’d like to try to win a national jersey finally. Either the time trial or the road race, I don’t care. I’d take anything,” Julich said. “It would be fun to have the
Tour de France winner Alberto Contador has scheduled a press event this Friday in Spain, but says he will decline to answer reporters’ questions after he reads a prepared statement. Contador issued a release Wednesday notifying media of his plans to read a statement at the offices of Spain’s national sports council – the Consejo Superior de Deportes - in Madrid. Contador will be accompanied by Discovery Channel team director Johann Bruyneel. Since winning the 2007 Tour de France, Contador has been the subject of heightened scrutiny regarding his possible involvement with Eufemio Fuentes,
The Astana cycling team announced Wednesday that Kazakh Andrey Kashechkin tested positive for homologous blood doping following an out-of-competition test in Belek, Turkey on August 1. Kashechkin was suspended by the team pending the outcome of his B sample, should he request that the follow-up test be conducted. Kashechkin's teammate, Alexander Vinokourov was suspended following his own positive for homologous blood doping - the use of a donor's red blood cells to enhance endurance - during the Tour de France. "The positive test by Kasheckin is another blow to the credibility of
Julich wants to end his career in a slightly different kit.
Ask the Doctor: Ryan Cox and iliac artery endofibrosis
Vande Velde rode a solid Tour and is aiming to ride the Vuelta, too.
Fresh ‘Korn: The romance and adventure of the open road
Di Luca celebrated a win by teammate Leonardo Bertagnolli at the Clásica San Sebastián.
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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. This last round of photos offered up some exceptional images and you really need to take a look, but we have to celebrate the sheer cheekiness of the man in the black t-shirt in Brandon Dwight’s “The Message is Delivered.” Yeah, yeah, we could go on and wax poetic about the message and how we're not making any accusations and yada, yada, yada… but, bottom line is that it’s a great shot and it made a lot of us