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Liquigas rode an impressive race on a difficult course.

T-Mobile opted for spoked wheels. It may have cost the team.

Astana look poised to win it all... until Liquigas lit it up.

How much time did Disco' lose because of Popo's crash?

An unusual route to the day's start.

After the fall: No worse for wear, Popovych looks ahead for the next three weeks.

Haedo, who has already scored some impressive wins this season, is an unknown quantity at this year's Giro.

Boyd scores the first win of his career in style.

The stretch of gravel road played a decisive role on Saturday...

... especially here.

Marzot takes the Div. II title

UCI president Pat McQuaid rejected calls that Ivan Basso should be shown clemency or portrayed as a hero for his recent admissions that he was a key figure in the Operación Puerto doping scandal. McQuaid lashed into the disgraced Italian champion despite calls from some within the Italian cycling establishment that Basso should be dealt with a softer hand when it comes dishing out disciplinary bans for his recent confessions that he worked with controversial Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes. “He has admitted his guilt, when he lied to everyone for 10 months,” McQuaid said. “He lied to the

Larson played her cards right.

British cyclist Chris Hoy failed in a high-altitude bid in La Paz, Bolivia, on Saturday to beat Frenchman Arnaud Tournant's seven-year world record for the one kilometer time-trial. Hoy, the Olympic and world kilometre champion, set the sea-level record of 1:00.711 when winning gold in Athens Games in 2004. On Saturday, Hoy timed 0:59.103, 0.228 seconds off Tournant's record, which was also set at the Alto Irpavi velodrome in La Paz, the world's highest track at 3417 meters above sea level. The Briton, who hit speeds of 61 kilometers per hour (37.9mph), will launch another

Giro d'Italia race director Angelo Zomegnan sports a cap from the Garibaldi aircraft carrier's crew

L-B-L champ Danilo Di Luca walks the walk

Riders hitch a ride back on a ferry to get back to hotels to rest up before Giro start

These sailors were happy to see the Giro's podium girls show up

French attacker Thomas Voeckler hopes to win a stage

No one was happy waiting for the ferry ride back from Maddelena Island

Team CSC's Dave Zabriskie carried the team banner on the walk down the launch pad on the Garibaldi

Could Simoni win his final Giro?

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Fort Lewis's men took the Division 1 men's time trial

Tour de France champion Floyd Landis, who is fighting to keep his Tour de France title after a positive doping test, charged Thursday that U.S. anti-doping officials offered to go easy on him if he provided evidence incriminating seven-time champ Lance Armstrong. Landis said that Travis Tygart, general counsel for the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, approached his attorney, Howard Jacobs, with a deal shortly after learning of the American's positive doping test during the 2006 Tour. "That took place in the first conversation between USADA and my lawyer," Landis said at a press conference in

And the Fort Lewis women won their event, too

Olympic champion Chris Hoy will attempt to set a world record for the kilometer time trial on Saturday at the Alto Irpavo Velodrome in La Paz, Bolivia. The 31-year-old Scot, a multiple world champion over the distance and the world record holder at sea level, is attempting to beat Frenchman Arnaud Tournant's mark of 58.875 seconds, set at the same venue in 2001. The concrete track sits some 3407 meters above sea level. Hoy set the sea-level world record of 1:00.711 in taking the gold medal at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, meaning he will have to ride almost two seconds quicker on

Abbott leads the Whitman women to a D-II victory

Unibet manager Koen Terryn (L) and director Jacques Hanegraaf (R) have spent most of the season plotting legal strategies as opposed to putting a team on the road.

The UC-Santa Barbara mascot, the Gaucho, was out cheering on his team

Jill Kintner

CU rides to the runner-up spot

The varsity boys race

Defending champ UC-Davis rides to fourth place

The Discovery team rides what is proving to be a very unpopular TTT course

Paolo Bettini brings wife and daughter in tow for Friday's opening ceremony. With defending champ Ivan Basso out of the picture, the world champion will start with the No. 1 bib for Saturday's TTT

The public prosecutor in the northern Italian town of Busto Arsizio has opened a doping investigation into Italian cycling star Ivan Basso, the ANSA news agency reported on Thursday. And the public prosecutor in the German town of Göttingen wants to hear from Basso regarding an inquiry involving a doctor suspected of supplying drugs to Eufemiano Fuentes, the physician at the center of the Operación Puerto blood-doping scandal that rocked last year’s Tour de France. The new investigations come after Basso admitted on Monday before the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) that he was involved in

The 2007 route

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USA Cycling has named Jess Schwartzkopf director of sponsorship and business development. Schwartzkopf comes to USA Cycling from EchoStar Satellite L.L.C., (DISH Network), where he had been marketing manager since April 2004. “The addition of Jess to our staff represents a major step forward in the continuing evolution of USA Cycling and our business development goals,” said Steve Johnson, CEO of USA Cycling. “We are putting a great deal of emphasis on creating partnerships in the cycling industry and providing greater value for our members. Additionally, Jess’s appointment will greatly

Tyler Hamilton and Jörg Jaksche will not race the 2007 Giro d’Italia and have been suspended indefinitely “until the competent authorities ... have finally sorted out all the implication of the riders in Operación Puerto,” their Tinkoff Credit Systems team announced on Wednesday. In a press release, team management said the decision was aimed “at relieving pressure created around the Giro … and on the team itself” after statements made by other squads that decided to deny Giro starts to riders thought to have been implicated in the Spanish blood-doping inquiry. German sprinter Danilo Hondo

Carol Hutton, winner Mara Abbott and Anna Milkowski after last year's women's D-II event

Ft. Lewis drives to a TTT win last year

Hamilton is benched again

Ivan Basso said Tuesday that even though he had planned to blood dope for the 2006 Tour de France, he had actually never taken banned drugs or used blood transfusions. Basso's comments at a press conference follow his admission on Monday to the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) that he was involved in the Operación Puerto blood doping scandal that rocked last year's Tour de France. "I have never taken banned substances and I have never employed blood doping," last year's Giro d’Italia champion told reporters in an emotional statement he read prior to the start of a press

"I experimented with marijuana a time or two. And I didn't like it, and didn't inhale, and never tried it again." — Bill Clinton, The New York Times, March 31, 1992 Anyone expecting great things following Ivan Basso’s solemn confession that he was the “Birillo” named in Operación Puerto should sit down, take a deep breath and a deeper drink, and recall how he or she felt when told that Santa Claus, the Easter bunny and compassionate conservative George W. Bush weren’t for real. This guy won’t even do a proper job of ratting himself out, much less anyone else. "I have never taken

Basso readies to meet the press.

Basso said he is willing to accept the consequences

Ivan Basso on Monday confessed to the anti-doping prosecutor of the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) that he was involved in the Operación Puerto blood doping scandal. CONI said the 2006 Giro winner came to them of his own accord and offered to cooperate with their investigation and clarify his part in the scandal. Basso will face the media Tuesday at a midday press conference at Milan's Michelangelo hotel. The 29-year-old Basso now faces a ban from cycling of up to two years and an additional two-year exclusion from riding on ProTour teams. If his doping is connected to his 2006 Giro

Last Friday, we noted the impending limited release of the Graeme Obree biopic “The Flying Scotsman” and asked for your capsule reviews. We got that and more — several of you wrote to remind us of works we had overlooked in our abbreviated list of cycling films, including “6 Day Bike Rider,” a 1934 comedy starring Joe E. Brown; “Deux Secondes,” a Canadian film about an aging downhill racer who takes a job as a bicycle courier; “Le Vélo de Ghislain Lambert,” a comedy-drama about the misfortunes of a Belgian cyclist; and “Tracks of Glory,” an Australian mini-series about the legendary champion

Basso

'The Flying Scotsman': Your reviews

Gould hit the front and stayed there

Trebon tearing it up

The men's podium

Moninger wins the stage and takes third overall

O'Neill celebrates his overall victory

Asplund wins the women's finale

The women's podium

Jonathan “Jock” Boyer may be best known as the first American cyclist to compete in the Tour de France. But these days, the 51-year-old has focused his passion on the central African nation of Rwanda. Along with longtime friend Tom Ritchey, Boyer is one of the key members of Project Rwanda, which aims to use cycling to accelerate Rwanda’s economic and social recovery from a brutal civil war and genocide. Ritchey’s involvement with the project centers on designing affordable bicycles to help Rwandan coffee growers distribute their crop. Boyer’s job is to establish and develop a team of elite

The men's podium

The women's podium

Boyer and Adrien Niyonshuti prepare for the first stage of the 2007 Absa Cape Epic

Team Rwanda riders Adrien Niyonshuti (right) and Rafiki Jean De Diu Uwimana

The team takes a training ride on Park Avenue in Moab, Utah

The team as it prepared to race the Tour of the Gila in Silver City, New Mexico

Dekker wins the finale and the overall

Horner rode well enough to stay in the top five overall

The podium at Spartanburg

Dekker gestures as Anton goes for the win

Horner in yellow

Horner, Dekker and Gadret

Going up

Gould rode away from the competition

Kabush struggled on the climbs, but still had enough in the tank to take the win

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"Breaking Away." "American Flyers." "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure." "The Triplets of Belleville." Cinematic history is replete with paeans to the sport of bicycle racing. Okay, so those are the only four we could think of. And to be honest, "Pee-Wee" is pushing the envelope. But this weekend brings a new cycling flick — the Graeme Obree biopic "The Flying Scotsman — and we'd like to know what you think of it, if only because we can't see it ourselves (it's being released in a few select cities, one of which ours is not). Send your capsule reviews to us at