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Abbott rides to second in her first international race

The men's break

Health Net masses at the front of the bunch

Olympic chief Jacques Rogge said Saturday that former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich could be stripped of his Olympic gold and silver medals from the Games in 2000. Ullrich won the men's Olympic road race in Sydney, where riders from his Telekom team also took the silver and bronze medals, and also claimed silver in the time trial. However, the German is among several top cyclists on whom suspicion has fallen in the wake of a series of doping confessions and revelations from former doctors, trainers and cyclists with links to the Telekom cycling team. Although Ullrich, now retired,

Lill was clearly the strongest

Savoldelli rides to victory in Verona.

The women's break

Mazzoleni slots in for a 1-2 Astana finish

Gomez guts it out to the win

Zabriskie makes the podium in third

Gomez congratulates a 'very, very tough' Goldstein

Di Luca rode a respectable race to defend his maglia rosa

Navigators powers the break through the feed zone

And to the victor (well, come Sunday, anyway) go the spoils

The race's namesake looms in the background

Schleck rode the ITT of his life

Bahati saw his chance and jumped at it

CSC was running its train toward the finish, hoping to set up Haedo

Toyota United's Stevic hoped to pull off the win, but a miscue cost him the V

Luperini takes the win

Jacques-Maynes prefers a flatter course

Zajieck: Little drag, big power

Goldstein rips it

Harper slots into second

Mactier rides into third, sans sunglasses

Two decades of American presence in the European peloton are under threat by cycling’s credibility crisis in the face of a non-stop barrage of doping scandals. For the first time since 7-Eleven paved the way with its pioneering start in the 1985 Giro d’Italia, there is a very real possibility there will not be a U.S.-sponsored team in the ProTour European peloton next season. Why? Because U.S. corporations seem less willing to take a multi-million risk on cycling’s bad-boy doping image. Two major American teams are scrambling to find sponsors for the 2008 season, and both are finding a

Mayo's win capped off an aggressive ride.

Safely tucked in the peloton, Di Luca rode one stage closer to an overall Giro title.

This early dig had just a little too much horsepower for some people's taste.

Liquigas had one job... protect the guy in pink.

Losada and Mayo form a temporary alliance.

Petrov chases the two escapees.

Just keep the gap small... and try to stay dry.

Riis's confession might be good for the soul, but how does it affect the bottom line? Only his American sponsor knows for sure.

O'Neill wins, as expected

The yellow jersey gets personally involved in the pursuit

Top three on the stage

Jacques-Maynes retains the leader's jersey

Sanders sails solo

Even with his lead-out train derailed, Petacchi nails it.

Mactier finds herself isolated and forced to chase

Tyler Farrar, pictured here with his girlfriend, Stephanie, in their adopted hometown in Ghent, is back racing at the Tour of Belgium this week.

Gentlemen, start your engines

Horrilo leads the escape

Milram's pursuit gets a little TV time

A long day at the office for Ale-Jet

Chadwick takes a close one

Carroll took the stage and the leader's jersey

Priority riding on the front

Toyota stacks a break

Mactier's teammates doing the domestique thing

Louder navigates the twisty backside descent

Jacques-Maynes takes a win for his twin

. . . and the Health Net chase

The women's field

The doomed break . . .

It was tough news for Tulsa Tough Ride and Race—300 Schwinns destined for school-age kids tackling a special Tough Kids 10km ride on Sunday have gone missing. A 40-foot steel shipping container containing the bikes was apparently stolen last weekend from the Pacific Cycles shipping yard. The youngsters earned the bikes through the Tough Kids Challenge, a program in which middle- and high-school students either participated in Tulsa’s Little 100 cycling event or completed a bicycle-safety education course. Tulsa Tough Ride and Race launched the youth health and fitness initiative this year

Simoni and Piepoli celebrate together

Di Luca guts it out toward a hard-fought fourth

Ardila leads the escape

The Dolomites

Piepoli sets the pace

Cunego and Di Luca fight their way up the mountain

Chechu and Co. couldn't close it down

Garzelli takes two, Di Luca safe as Zoncolan awaits

Vigus surprised the field with his victory

O'Neill, who took second, is glad he won't have to defend the jersey straight away

Jacques-Maynes, who finished third, suspects a timing error

Erik Zabel’s tearful confession that he doped in the 1990s won’t end his career as a professional racer. Milram announced Tuesday that the German sprinter will keep his place on the ProTour team for the remainder of the 2007 season despite his admission last week that he used the banned blood-booster EPO in the 1990s. “Team Milram’s management and its main sponsor, Nordmilch AG, have decided that Erik Zabel is allowed to continue riding for Team Milram,” the team said in a statement released Tuesday. “Last week Erik Zabel admitted that he once tried performance-enhancing substances in 1996

Mactier en route to the women's win

The management of the Spanish team Euskaltel-Euskadi said on Tuesday they had dropped Aketza Pena from the squad based on a positive result from an April 24 test for nandrolone, taken after the first stage of the Tour of Trentino. A statement on the team’s official website said the UCI had informed the team of the result and that Pena was suspended effective immediately. Tests on the A sample found higher-than-permitted levels of nandrolone, a banned anabolic steroid often used by body builders to augment muscle mass, though no figure was mentioned.

Regional honch' Weldon slotted into second

Garzelli gets his second stage.

Carroll rides into third

Garzelli wins on a day that saw a slow and chilly start to the stage.

Trebon is out of the saddle and driving hard to the uphill finish

The long march

It's hard to get the legs moving when you need to get the blood flowing first.

Individual aspirations may have kept the chase from succeeding.