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Wesseman managed to hold on for second.

Vande Velde returns to the peloton

Members of the U.S. men´s pursuit team on Saturday morning raced with an homage to Saul Raisin emblazoned on their helmets in the qualifying round. In a show of solidarity with the injured Raisin, the team wrote, “Raisin Hell” on their racing helmets. “We´ve been thinking about him all week,” said team member Mike Creed. “It´s hit everybody pretty hard.” Raisin, 23, is showing signs of improvement after coming out of a coma earlier this week. Raisin crashed in the Circuit de la Sarthe and nearly died when he suffered a brain hemorrhage. Vande Velde rides with eye on GiroChristian Vande

Mike Creed readies for the team pursuit

The Aussies blazing along

Bettini, 32, is at his peak

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A-Hoy: The Brit opens his nation's gold-medals account

The footwear of choice

Jenny Copnall prays to the mud god

Craig never fell ... instead, the mud came to him

The Mailbag is a regular feature on VeloNews.com. If you have a comment, an opinion or observation regarding anything you have seen in cycling, in VeloNews magazine or on VeloNews.com, write to WebLetters@InsideInc.com. Please include your full name and home town. Letters may be edited for length and clarity.Does that make us ... uhhhh... Fair and Balanced?Dear VeloNews,After your articles about former USA Cycling CEO Gerard Bisceglia (seepartone and parttwo) my thoughts were of never joining such an organization.The passion in his words left me feeling that we lost a vital part of USACycling

Is it just me, or has it been April Fool’s Day all month long? It seems like every time I go online to check the news, the headlines are straight out of The Onion. In some cases, they’re not at all funny, but are equally as hard to fathom. Just in the past 10 days, a report was published in the science journal Nature on fossil findings that supposedly prove the evolutionary link between fish and land animals. Another report claims that an early Christian manuscript has surfaced after 1700 years including the only known text of what is known as the Gospel of Judas, which postulates that the

Bartko clocks 4:23.115

Boogerd has been top 10 at Amstel for seven consecutive years

Say what?

Barry smiles through the pain

Brad Lewis, 1968-2006

Rock on, man

Moninger makes the funny papers

American cyclist Saul Raisin appears to be making progress toward recovery after medical staff removed him from a ventilator allowing him to breathe on his own Raisin emerged from a coma on Wednesday after suffering the effects of a life-threatening crash in a race in western France. Raisin, one of the Crédit Agricole team's up and coming riders, was placed on the ventilator a week ago to take pressure off his body, and improve his chances of recovering from the hemorrhage he suffered Team manager Roger Legeay said that the signs are good and that friends and family are beginning to

Di Luca, last year's Flèche and Amstel winner, will only ride at Liège this coming week before aiming at the Giro

Hammer tops the podium in Bordeaux

Hammer gave it all in the gold-medal round

The Mailbag is a regular feature on VeloNews.com. If you have a comment, an opinion or observation regarding anything you have seen in cycling, in VeloNews magazine or on VeloNews.com, write to WebLetters@InsideInc.com. Please include your full name and home town. Letters may be edited for length and clarity.Foundation rep outlines support for cyclingEditor:Your recent interview with Gerard Bisceglia (see part one and part two) made some accusations about the USA Cycling Development Foundation. I am one of the initiators of the foundation and I would like to shed some light on the foundation

Last week, USA Cycling chief executive officer Gerard Bisceglia discussedhis termination from the post with former VeloNews news editor CharlesPelkey. (see "Exit Interview: Bisceglia speaks" Part1 and Part2). At the time, we extended a similar invitation to a representativeof USA Cycling or its board of directors.Bisceglia's replacement, Steve Johnson, who was moved into the CEO postfrom the chief operating officer's spot, accepted our invitation and discussedhis new position, his assessment of the current state of the organizationand his hopes and expectations for cycling's

Hincapie after his craash

Boonen and Van Petegem in Sunday's Paris-Roubaix

The prototype... now all you have to do is shrink it.

Tech Talk: Mr. Zinn rides SRAM's new road groups

Tech Talk: Mr. Zinn rides SRAM's new road groups

Tech Talk: Mr. Zinn rides SRAM's new road groups

Tech Talk: Mr. Zinn rides SRAM's new road groups

Tech Talk: Mr. Zinn rides SRAM's new road groups

Tech Talk: Mr. Zinn rides SRAM's new road groups

Tech Talk: Mr. Zinn rides SRAM's new road groups

Tech Talk: Mr. Zinn rides SRAM's new road groups

Bisceglia at the Tour of California route announcement

Lopes

After four years in the post, USA Cycling chief executive officer, GerardBisceglia, was fired last week by board president Jim Ochowicz. Biscegliawas replaced by the organization's chief operating officer, Steve Johnson,who is also the executive director of the USA Cycling Development Foundation.Bisceglia agreed to sit down with former VeloNews news editor,Charles Pelkey, and discuss his time at the head of the national governingbody, the reasons behind his sudden departure and what he sees as the challengesand opportunities facing the sport of cycling in the United States. In Part1 of

Kintner

The Mailbag is a regular feature on VeloNews.com. If you have a comment, an opinion or observation regarding anything you have seen in cycling, in VeloNews magazine or on VeloNews.com, write to WebLetters@InsideInc.com. Please include your full name and home town. Letters may be edited for length and clarity.What goes around...Dear Gerard,You raised my eyebrows when you seemed surprised by not receiving ananswer to why you were fired. The occasion should have reminded you ofmy dismissal a year ago when the exact same thinghappened to me. When you, and your immediate office, refused to

Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell announced Sunday that Philadelphia?s 22nd annual International Cycling Championship on Sunday, June 11, will continue with the help of a $400,000 state investment. "For more than a generation, the world?s best cyclists and their fans have flocked to Philadelphia to enjoy this great athletic competition. And, it pumps $15 million into the local economy," Governor Rendell said. "Losing it was not an option because it means so much to the Delaware Valley. It would be like Boston losing the Boston Marathon." "Pennsylvania is proud that it could help this

The Rival road group.

Tech Talk: Mr. Zinn rides SRAM's new road groups

A second crash took him out of the race for good

Tom Boonen (Quick Step), Fabian Cancellara (CSC) and Vladimir Gusev (Discovery Channel)

Saul Raisin remained in a coma Sunday in a French hospital and Crédit Agricole team officials were cautiously optimistic the 23-year-old could see improvement this week. “His condition hasn’t changed, but it’s stable, and that’s good in a situation like this,” Crédit Agricole team manager Roger Legeay told VeloNews before the start of Sunday’s Paris-Roubaix. “Every day he is stable, it’s better,” Legeay continued. “Thursday was the critical day. It was very bad and every day from that point is better if he does not become worse. We can only hope.” Raisin crashed in Tuesday’s first stage at

And then Cancellara, solo

Raisin celebrated his first professional victory at the 2006 Tour de Langkawi

Hoste, Van Petegem and Gusev charging toward the finish

Cancellara crosses the line alone in Roubaix

Pardon me, boys, is that the Paris-Roubaix choo-choo?

Hincapie crashed after a mechanical

Ahead, Cancellara had plenty of time to celebrate

Boonen and company saw their chances derailed by a passing train

The effort and relief are etched into his face

Hincapie's bike

Hoste and Van Petegem battle for second, not knowing they would be disqualified

Through the throngs of fans

Rock on, Fabian

And out in the open

Killeen washes the taste of a disappointing short track out of his mouth wiith a win in the cross country

Cancellara hoists the winner's trophy

Dahle-Flesja was passing the semi-pro men before the day was over

No rain today – but that doesn't mean it will be easy

Troisvilles

Nicolas Portal (Caisse d'Epargne) and Stephan Schreck (T-Mobile) were part of an early escape

Juan Antonio Flecha (Rabobank) takes the lead

Hincapie took his turns, despite an earlier crash that hurt his hand

It will take brains and brawn to beat Boonen

Bless you, boys.

Proud papa Travis Brown and his brown 69er

Attack, caught, attack, caught... and she still wins!

Fisher's Race Days

They come in pink, too

The Anthem Composite