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Riding in his last LBL, Rabobank's Michael Boogerd is hoping for a good result.

Anthony nails the sprint

CSC rider Frank Schleck learned Saturday that he broke a vertebra in his fall at last Sunday's Amstel Gold Race, but he's riding anyway.

left to right: Christopher Jones, Javier Zapata, Nathan Bowman

Kabush takes his pull.... when it counts.

Cruz readying up for Paris-Roubaix

SWEEEEP! Luna does it again

A healthy gap. Di Luca has time to relish his win

Kiriyenka leads the day's early break

Floyd Landis claimed Sunday that electronically stored data from disputed dope tests conducted on his 2006 Tour de France stage 17 samples had been destroyed at a French laboratory. Simon Davis, a technical consultant for Landis, told the cyclist that "critical evidence stored as electronic data files had been erased from the hard drive and the original data destroyed at the Laboratoire National de Depistage du Dopage (LNDD)," according to a release issued by Landis spokesman Michael Henson on Sunday. "The existing data bears indication of alteration," the release said. Davis was at the

Often called the greatest of the one-day classics, Liege is marked by a series of tough, narrow climbs like the Cote St. Roche

The Future of the NMBS: A Conversation with Jeff Frost

Vinokourov was here to test his legs for his biggest goal of the year.

Gilberto Simoni is well suited to the roads of Liège-Bastogne-Liège .

Gerolsteiner gives chase on the Haute Levee

Horner calls La Doyenne 'the best one-day race in cycling.'

Bettini says he's recovered from the stomach problems that ailed him at Flèche

Bettini's right when he calls Liège 'the hardest classic by far.'

Evans says he may be riding in support of Horner

The Santa Ynez Classic is drawing more attention this year

Barry Wicks

JHK astride his 29-er

Gould has had an amazing early season

The men's break charges back to Bisbee

Holt, all alone out front and loving it

Zajicek driving the break

Nash, Plaxton score wins at Santa Ynez short-track

Nash, Plaxton score wins at Santa Ynez short-track

A former trainer who once worked with now-retired Jan Ullrich has claimed that the 1997 Tour de France winner was injected with erythropoietin during the 1996 edition of the race. Jeff d' Hont, a Belgian soigneur employed by the Telekom team from 1992 till 1996, claimed in the German weekly newspaper Der Spiegel that Ullrich took the banned blood booster in 1996. He also claims the German team's medical supervisors, who coninue to work for the team under its current name T-Mobile, encouraged use of EPO. D'Hont accused two doctors, Lothar Heinrich and Andreas Schmid, of having

Valverde won in 2006, taking a race that favors all-around talents

Liège-Bastogne-Liège - The Classic closer of the Ardennes

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Defending Giro d’Italia champion Ivan Basso’s career is on hold ashe awaits an appearance before an Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) investigatingpanel next Wednesday in Rome. The panel has reopened an investigation into alleged ties between the29-year-old Italian and Eufemiano Fuentes, the infamous sports doctor atthe center of the Operación Puerto scandal in Spain. Basso was among nine riders barred from participation in the 2006 Tourde France when notes seized in the police raids that marked the Puertoinvestigation appeared to link them to an apparent doping ring headedby Fuentes. While

Wrist healed, George is back!

“The Puerto Nine” (From top, L-R) Jan Ullrich and Oscar Sevilla (T-Mobile), Ivan Basso (CSC), Francesco Mancebo (AG2R), Joseba Beloki, Isidro Nozal, Australia's Allan Davis, Sergio Paulinho and Alberto Contador (Astana-Wurth).

Will Basso be in a position to defend his Giro trophy?

Basso's future may hang by a strand - so to speak.

Last September, Basso was elated after his last appearance before CONI investigators.

Holt starts her ride in downtown Bisbee

Collier climbs to the top of Mule Pass

GC leader Javier Zapata is congratulated by Staunton police chief Jim Williams.

(From left to right) Alejandro Borrajo, Jonathan Cantwell, Ben Raby.

Zapata holds his lead despite losing time on Thursday

With third-placed Bowman a minute down, the Tour of Virginia is shaping up to be a two-man race.

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Sports Nutritionist Monique Ryan Updates Best-Selling Nutrition Bookfor CyclistsNew edition provides nutritional strategies to improve performancein six endurance sportsBoulder, CO, USA - April, 2007 - VeloPress is pleased to announcethe publication of Sports Nutrition for Endurance Athletes, 2nd Ed., thelatest book from nationally recognized sports nutritionist Monique Ryan.The book is now available in bookstores and from VeloGear.com.Endurance athletes regularly push their bodies to the limits with astrenuous training regimen that demands smart nutrition. In Sports Nutritionfor Endurance

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Michele Scarponi (Acqua e Sapone) has been targeted by the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) in connection with his implication in the Operación Puerto doping affair which erupted last May. CONI this week announced that Giro d'Italia winner Ivan Basso, now under suspension from the Discovery Channel team, has been asked to attend a hearing on May 2 to answer charges on his implication in the scandal. Scarponi, who at the time of the Puerto investigation was a member of the Liberty Seguros team, has been ordered to appear on Wednesday as well, but at 8:30 in the morning. Basso is slated

Press Release - Ryan Updates Best-Selling Nutrition Book

Zabriskie remains the only American to win stages in all three grand tours.

Cruz gets ready for the rough road to Roubaix.

The Mule Mountains await on Stage 3

A warm day in the Ardennes

Valverde puts his team into the chase

Merckx steps it up

Gilbert gives it a dig

Di Luca joins a dangerous break

Rebellin and Kessler mix it up

Perhaps more than anyone, Team CSC manager Bjarne Riis is watching with interest the latest developments concerning defending Giro d’Italia champion Ivan Basso. On Tuesday, Discovery Channel was forced to suspend the ex-CSC captain after Italian authorities decided to re-open a probe into Basso’s alleged links to the Operación Puerto blood doping scandal. “I have no regrets. I couldn’t do anything else than what I did. It was my decision. I cannot change the past. I prefer to focus on the future,” Riis told VeloNews. “It was difficult to see Ivan leave the team because we worked so hard,

Riis and Basso faces painful choices on the eve of the 2006 Tour de France.

top 5 : 1. Vos, 2. Cooke. 3. Arndt, 4. Amber Neben, 5. kristin Armstrong (U.S. National)

Rebellin wins Fleche for the second time.

Rebellin adds to his list of Ardennes victories.

Fleche Wallone is often decided on the Mur de Huy

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Chicago IRO Sprints

Basso - seen here at the unveiling of the 2007 Giro route - won't be at Flèche Wallone or Liège-Bastogne-Liège and may not be at the Tour in July.

Enlightened: Former VeloNews editor Kip Mikler hit the trails with us, too.

Fred lights up: Planet Dirt editor Fred Dreier sees where he's heading

Freire has to be considered a favorite whenever he starts... no matter what he's riding.

Flèche Wallonne marked by no-shows, new hills

Flèche Wallonne marked by no-shows, new hills

Flèche Wallonne marked by no-shows, new hills

Floyd Landis said Monday that recent news leaks from the French national anti-doping laboratory underscore his claim that staff at the facility cannot be trusted to carry out their work in an unbiased fashion. Landis called an afternoon telephone press conference Monday to voice concern about procedures used in the testing of seven unexamined B samples left over from this year's Tour de France. The French sports daily L'Equipe reported Monday that "several" urine samples taken during Landis's contested win in the 2006 Tour have tested positive for the presence of exogenous

UCI president Pat McQuaid made his strongest appeal yet for resolution to the Operación Puerto doping scandal when he asked Spain’s sports minister Monday to allow samples from nearly 100 bags of blood and plasma be made available for DNA testing. In an open letter addressed to sports minister Jaime Lissavetzky, McQuaid insisted that Spanish authorities collaborate with the UCI to try to identify whose blood was found during police raids last May of offices and apartments used by controversial Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes. “The UCI wants to ensure that all the blood that was found in

Landis is congratualted by Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme after winning the 2006 edition of the race.