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Tim Johnson (Jittery Joe's) heads down the descent

Basso struggled in the finale

Dominique Perras (Kodak-Sierra Nevada) earning the best climber's jersey

That's one packed peloton

McCartney bellies up to the rolling Discovery bar

Fassa finishing fast

Baldwin leads his Navigators mob through a corner with five laps to go

Davidenko early in the race, looking relaxed

Tim Johnson rippin' it early on

Geoff Kabush airing out his sideburns

The submissions continue and we've posted another new Photo Gallery., the fourth one this week. As you know our winner from last week's contest was "Ace assaultsHogpen," by Ronnie Fields, an excellent shot that reflects both great composition and creative "dark room" work in PhotoShop. Congratulations to Ronnie Fields, who will receive a signed copy of Graham Watson's "Landscapes of Cycling." As we said, it was a difficult choice and there were several photoswe thought worthy of mention. Our list of honorable mentions includes:Jay Christy's "Giro d'Italia 2004: Stage 4,

An early crash has everyone sorting out bike parts

After Thursday’s mountainous throw-down, it looks as though the Giro d’Italia is coming down to a two-man battle, eh? Funny, for all the hype built up around the double-pronged danger of Lampre’s Damiano Cunego and Gilberto Simoni, the winners of the past two years, it’s now CSC’s Ivan Basso, a rider who has never won a grand tour, wearing the maglia rosa. While the Giro is far from over, it appears Basso is the strongest man in the race, with only Discovery Channel’s Paolo Savoldelli, the 2002 Giro winner, able to hang with him in the mountains. And while no one wins a grand tour by luck,

Grishkin and Haedo hassle for the same space

Fassa's fast man does it again

.... with Davidenko and Artacho waiting behind

Who is that man in the plain white jersey?

Navigators on the front with two to go . . .

Basso enjoys a day in the pink

. . . and Davidenko wins

Going up

Hey, mate... are those mountains up ahead?

Schnyder goes for a little free publicity

McEwen and friends in a happier moment, before the sprint was lost, the law called and his ticket for home punched

A fine day for a bike race

Cunego had a disastrous day

Basso, Savoldelli and Simoni showed their strength

Joachim on the move

Savoldelli came around at the right moment

It's good to be king

Tony Cruz and Davis Phinney have a chat pre-race

Mayo is taking things more slowly this spring

Savoldelli gets the stage . . .

. . . and Basso gets the shirt

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.Nice to see a wide-open GiroEditor:I don't know if anybody else feels this way, but the first week of this Giro has been much more interesting than last year. Sure, I like to see the Silver Train line up and deliver Alessandro Petacchi every now and then, but not winning every stage.

The hilarious and inspiring film – The Tour Baby! – chronicling filmmaker Scott Coady's amazing journey following the entire Tour de France, began its 2005 world tour in Ghazni, Afghanistan! U.S. troops who are diehard cyclists and big-time pro cycling fans serving in Afghanistan have a hard time getting any miles or pro race coverage. One committed cyclist, Master Sergeant Pat Gleason, is finding ways to get his cycling fix. His wife, Jill, wrote to The Tour Baby! filmmaker Scott Coady to order a copy of the film for her cycling-starved husband. In honor of Master Sergeant Gleason’s

McEwen by a hair

Darth Basso

Master Sergeant Gleason and his platoon

As the big teams set up their trains, Vogels brought McEwen into the mix

Wednesday's pace reflected the prospect of hard days ahead

TV time for Raffaele

Di Luca holds on to the lead

T-Mobile may not have set Zabel up for the win, but McEwen seemed to benefit

Di Luca likes the color

The U.S. Olympic Committee has asked a federal judge to take over a state-courtlawsuit filed by the organization's former drug czar.Wade Exum, who served as the Colorado Springs-based agency's directorof drug control administration for nine years until he resigned in 2000,sued the organization in El Paso County District Court in February, revivingclaims that a federal judge refused to consider in a previous lawsuit.Exum's attorney, John Pineau, hadsubpoenaed two women to testify at a hearing next week about theirknowledge of athletes who tested positive for performance-enhancing

When Jan Ullrich first met his girlfriend Gaby Weiss it was her modest and unobtrusive demeanor that attracted him. “She was different than the other girls”, he wrote in his autobiography, “in that she was quiet and confident. She didn’t need to draw attention to herself.” Eleven years later the quiet girl has moved out of the Ullrich’s house in Scherzingen, Switzerland, with their two-year-old daughter Sarah and one of the reasons may be, that Gaby had become a little too quiet for the sports star. In his autobiography “Ganz oder gar nicht” (“All or nothing”), Ullrich describes how he

Di Luca has the jersey - how long can he hold it?

A day at the office

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The day's escape went early

Krauss and Christensen continue on their own

Coming down the Muraglione

The chase is on...

Still in the lead, Di Luca keeps the jersey on the first rest day

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When Greg LeMond and Jonathan Boyer became teammates on Renault-Gitane at the start of 1981, there were expectations that America’s top two riders would form a winning alliance. But their contrasting personalities and different styles of racing saw them grow apart rather than connect. Although Boyer was the first American to ride the Tour with Renault that year, he soon moved with another American, John Eustice, to Sem-France Loire, a French team led by Irish star Sean Kelly. At the same time, LeMond established himself as the heir apparent to Bernard Hinault at Renault. After winning the

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.Where are Zabriskie’s stars and stripes?Editor:Congratulations to David Zabriskie for his fantastic performance in the first Giro TT. I am disappointed, however, that unlike the Europeans, Zabriskie was not wearing a national-champion skinsuit. Zabriskie should be recognized for his

A delighted Miller

Abbott meets the press

Western Washington University's 1-2 punch

Basso's performance moved him out ahead of the major GC contenders

Savoldelli takes third

Zabriskie takes Giro TT, Di Luca holds on to jersey

Zabriskie takes Giro TT, Di Luca holds on to jersey

Karpets' strong performance moved him up on GC

Di Luca keeps the jersey for another day

Simoni thins out the herd

Di Luca is back in the jersey

Gil savors his win