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Fleche Wallone is often decided on the Mur de Huy

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.

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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

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.

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

Gerolsteiner serves up a 1-2 punch

There were big names driving the peloton up the Cauberg.

Voigt and company posed a serious threat

With Boogerd, Bettini and Di Luca in the mix, it was almost certain that the winner would emerge from the lead group.

Wesemann and Voigt about to be caught

Schumacher takes it.

Rebellin was hoping for a win...

... but had to settle for the ProTour lead.

Breukink

Haedo makes it look easy

Demol at the Maastricht Markt Town Hall

odium girls beware! Georgia could signal a long string of big wins for the 23-year-old from Slovenia.

The home-town fans will be showing their colors on Sunday

With three riders in the final seven, Amstel was Gerolsteiner's to lose

Millar was aggresive all week...

Warm, but windy, the Amstel features 39 climbs ... and a 1000 turns.

... but Grajales got the prize.

The pace stayed high all day.

Chengyuan Ren is one of the few mountain-bike racers to beat Gunn-Rita Dahle Flesjaa

The day's first escape

José Antonio Hermida Ramos scores

Boogered and Sinkewitz dug deep on the Schweiberg

David Millar went off the front early, and worked on his time trial skills

The peloton in Stone Mtn park.

The peloton winds through rural Georgia.

Freddie Rodriguez find himself on the front of the peloton, where he does not like to be at this stage of the race.

The honor guard at the start.

Close... but Freddie gets it

Toyota sets the pace at the front of the chase.

Rodriguez takes a close one in Georgia

The day's most aggressive rider, Maarten Wynants, in the break.

CSC chases the break with 20 k to go

Wyants leads the break into the first circuit at Stone Mtn.

Johann and Eki are feeling pretty good.

Finishing ceremonies included 'America the Beautiful' on the fiddle.

A nice finish line crowd at Stone Mtn.

This finish line fan is very happy.

Keeping priorities straight: Good friends Freddie Rodriguez and George Hincapie and daughter wait for the podium.

Freddie leads out the sprint, 12 wide.

A welcome feed on a warm day.

Carl Menzies wins the day's first sprint and $2000.

Plenty of climbing ahead

Danielson gets busy

Leipheimer does it again

Devine cranking out the revs

Vande Velde and Brajkovic stuck close to each other

Millar towing Simoni

Colby's face shows the pain of making the podium on Brasstown Bald

The race leader and his shadow

Raisin leads the rollout — by quite a margin

That's all – for today

Saunier Duval on the front

The gritty Moos