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French coach Florian Rousseau has blasted the race tactics of Australian Mark French, who was disqualified from the men's keirin at the track world championships in Palma de Majorca, Spain. French was disqualified by race officials at the world track cycling championships Friday after a potentially dangerous maneuver that effectively ended the medal hopes of Rousseau's star keirin rider Kevin Sireau. Eventual gold medalist Chris Hoy of Great Britain won the second-round heat, in which the top three go through to the finals, ahead of defending Dutch champion Theo Bos and another

Llaneras blazes towards the points-race gold

The Bulls celebrate their victory.

Creed was still suffering the effects of a bad cold and didn't make the medal round

Meares rips the 500, beating her own world record

Bourgain advanced in the sprint

Pollack celebrates his first victory of 2007

Chiappa didn't

A sloppy, scary sprint

Pendleton prepares herself for another run at gold

Quinn thought she had made the right move to get the medal

Lining up for the points race

Meares burning up the boards

Kabush wrangles the holeshot in the men's event

Quinn is a killer bike handler and that may have cost her on Saturday.

women’s warm up, Georgia Gould, Shonny Vanlandingham, Katerina Nash

Llaneras takes an emotional victory for the host nation

Gould off on her own

Quinn before the bad news.

Sydor chasing with Nash in tow

Quinn shares a moment coach Colby Pearce after hearing of the judges' decision.

Craig at the front

The podium

But not as much as these guys regret laying it down on the unsanded boards

Britain blazed the team-pursuit qualifier and then won gold in the final

The men's podium, sans Schnell and Craig

Hammer focuses pre-ride

JHK took a brief detour through the cactus

And off she goes

The women's podium

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Celebrating with coach and manager Andy Sparks

The 2007 Tour of Utah will be canceled due to a lack of sponsorship, and its executive director has stepped down, the race’s board of directors announced Friday in Salt Lake City. The six-day, six-stage, 400-mile race had been scheduled for July 2-7. “In assessing our current staff, meeting personally with community stakeholders and business leaders, and observing the Tour of California bicycle race, I believe that we have the foundation in place to build a well-respected and successful event,” said board chairman Greg Miller. “We hit the ground running in January, and after getting up to

Huff racing in his scratch-race heat

Organizers on Friday released the list of 21 teams slated to race the U.S. Open Cycling Championships April 7 in Virginia. The 112-mile men’s race, a stop on the UCI Americas Tour (UCI 1.1) and the national USA Cycling Pro Tour, starts in Williamsburg and finishes in Richmond. A nine-lap women’s race in Richmond will use the western section of the men’s course. Among the athletes bound for Virginia are Ivan Dominquez and Henk Vogels (Toyota-United); Svein Tuft (Symmetrics); Fausto Marcelino Muñoz (Tecos de la Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara); and Danny Pate

Henderson racing his heat

Wiggins leads the British pursuit squad as it charges to a sub-4:00 qualifier.

Hoy takes the keirin

Having played a major role in Felicia Ballanger's five-year win streak, Daniel Morelon is now helping China establish a program.

Wong powers away, carnage in his wake

Guo's 11.149 in Friday’s qualifying round was the best of the day

The national anthem plays

Hammer races into the gold-medal round

Bos in the keirin prelims

The podium after Stage 7

The gold went to a happy Hoy

Hammer wins her second consecutive world title

There's power for you: The top six legs in the keirin

Celebrating on the podium

The winning British pursuit team had fans in the Spanish stands

Reed wound up 15th in the sprint and now looks ahead to the keirin

Third place Rafal Ratajczyk regrets not chasing Kam-Po Wong in the scratch race

Flat tires suck, for sure, but at least it offers a chance to get some rest.

Wiggins is quite comfortable on the podium. He's done this before.

Stage 6 finished at a tractor museum in Villiersdorp

Press awaits the British Women's sprint team.

...dreaming of lunch

Riding the omnium, Huff takes on the points race...

Millar - seen here in the yellow jersey at Paris-Nice - says that doping reform will only happen if teams get serious.

... and the pursuit.

Our boy Fred eventually recovered.

The media room is there to keep track of all of it.

Wiggins beat Bartko in the final

The track in Mallorca is the world's newest

Sarah Hammer burst onto the international scene last year with her breakthrough gold medal in the women’s individual pursuit. It was a surprise to everyone except Hammer, who was quietly confident she could mine the first U.S. gold medal in a decade and calmly delivered the goods. The 23-year-old no longer enjoys the benefit of being the unknown American and will be in the crosshairs this weekend as she takes aim for two gold medals, first in the pursuit on Friday and the points race on Sunday. VeloNews.com sat down with Hammer after her Thursday afternoon training session on the track to

James' Cannondale: He liked it so much, he bought the company... at least part of it.

The author shows great enthusiasm at the start... he'd get over it soon enough.

Hammer won the pursuit title in Bordeaux in '06

The 'easiest' stage: a Cape Epic diary

Huff podiums despite a cold, the trots and 'bad legs'

The 'easiest' stage: a Cape Epic diary

Huff grits his teeth and guts it out in the points race

The 'easiest' stage: a Cape Epic diary

Huff starts the pursuit

The 'easiest' stage: a Cape Epic diary

Czech fans celebrate their first track gold medal ever.

The 'easiest' stage: a Cape Epic diary

French coach encourages the French team to victory.