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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.Armstrong has given hope to millionsEditor:I am writing in response to Mr. Ostermann's letter degrading Lance (See Wednesday’s Mailbag, “. . . but what’s with the trash talk?”). I must say, you are absolutely correct. Lance is a bully, and he is arrogant. He may even be cocky, as most

Raisin at this year's Tour de Langkawi

Voeckler takes the stage

Watch it jiggle

Stage finish and GC: Gilbert now leads Hushovd

While working on an upcoming profile on recent Dodge Tour de Georgia best young rider Trent Lowe, the young Aussie asked me, “Are you still doing your Web column, Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood?” It was at that moment that I realized that it had indeed been quite a while since I’d put together a collection of ramblings for velonews.com and called it my own. (Note: Our Web editor has also been hitting me up with a consistent barrage of “What gives?” for quite some time now, so he has been holding up his end of the deal, heartless, unsympathetic tyrant that he is.) The answer to Lowe’s question

Team TIAA-CREF is ecstatic to announce that it will be participating in the 2005 Route du Sud. After solid results in both the Tour of Normandie and the Tour de Georgia, the organization of the Route du Sud decided to invite The American based Continental team to the race who's former winners include Laurent Jalabert and Levi Leipheimer. This will be the major summer objective for Team TIAA-CREF, and will hopefully give a few of it's riders the opportunity to perform in front of ProTour teams looking for young talent. Former Route du Sud winner, and Team TIAA-CREF director Jonathan

Coming of success in Georgia, Danielson is ready for a support role at the Giro

Ribeiro at this season's team presentation

Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood: Playing catch-up, watching rock stars and answering questions

Tafi's a class act

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.You just know they’re out thereDear VeloNews,It’s nice the see the number of Euro pro teams with U.S. riders asteam leaders or serious contenders these days. I’ve had fun cheeringfor the Lion King et al for the last couple of years, but it’s also greatto see Floyd and Bobby and Levi out

The results are in and we were, to say the least, a bit overwhelmed by the response to our first request for submissions to the VeloNews.com weekly photo contest. This week's winning photo is Wade Newell's "Racing above the clouds, Cape Epic, South Africa, 2005," a remarkable shot of cross-country mountain-bikeracers working their way across a high plateau in South Africa. No, itwasn't an easy decision, as you might guess from looking at the completegallery of submissions.Wade will receive a signed copy of Graham Watson's "Landscapesof Cycling," which, as you might recall,

World Anti-Doping Agency president Dick Pound has faulted both theInternational Olympic Committee and the official lab of the Athens Olympicsfor mistakes he says enabled Tyler Hamilton to keep his individual time trial gold medal despite “strong evidence” that American was guilty of blood doping at the Games."As far as I understand...[the lab director] blew it and also the IOC blew it," Pound said in an interview with Greek private radio station Skai, broadcast on Wednesday.Pound insists that the former Phonak cyclist tested positive for a blood transfusion in August after winning the Olympic

The Giro d'Italia could face a snag on the first day of the three-week race this Saturday if the trade union representing professional cyclists decides to retaliate against organizers' plans to cut prize money. Eighty-seven professional riders from the CPA (Professional Associated Cyclists) signed a demand for an increase in the minimum wage structure during an assembly two weeks ago at Liège-Bastogne-Liège. It now appears the union could be on a collision course with Giro organizers, RCS, who want to reduce the total pot of prize money on this year's race. The CPA issued a

Ekimov won't make the Tour start this year

Hushovd edges Casper in Marcq-en-Baroeul

Racing above the clouds, Cape Epic, South Africa, 2005

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Real fans. Real racing. Real America,

IMBA Signs Breakthrough Agreement with National Park ServiceMay 2, 2005If you've ever tried to enjoy a National Park by mountain bike, chancesare you've been disappointed. With some notable exceptions, America's premierpark system is closed to off-road riding.That's going to change with a new five-year agreement just signed bythe IMBA and the National Park Service. For the first time, National ParkService leaders in Washington, D.C., have formally recognized mountainbiking as a positive activity, compatible with the values of our NationalPark system.The agreement offers

Lennard Zinn, bicycle frame builder and technical guru, will host a clinicon mountain bike maintenance and repair at the Denver Flagship REI storeon May 5 at 7:00 p.m.Sincethe first edition of Zinn & the Art of Mountain Bike Maintenance in1996, thousands of mountain bikers have depended on this well-organizedand clearly illustrated reference guide. The newly-released fourth editionincludes the most recent technology from leading mountain bike manufacturers,along with even more tips and detailed illustrations to keep your bikeready for the trail.Lennard Zinn is author of several books

We cycling fans are a rare breed. Most sports spectators live within that privileged bubble of absolute full coverage. Ball-sport fans are atop that most-spoiled list – they sit comfortably ensconced in theater-like seats, while the game’s jump shots, Hail Mary passes and pickle plays unfold in full view before their eyes. Indeed, an orb-sports fan’s only real excuse for having missed critical action would generally have to revolve around beer – either by standing in line to buy one or by standing in line to expel one. In this relationship there is no secret to proscribed roles: Athletes

McEwen finishes last year's Tour de France time trial to the top of l'Alpe d'Huez

Tuesday's EuroFile: Exhausted Rebellin rules out Giro; Lotto's leaders from Oz; Casagrande bows out

...and warming up for Athens

Lining up for Athens....

Football? Basketball? Bike race? Who cares?

Home of the Bulldog...

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.Don't bet on the appealDear VeloNews,I have read the various Mailbag e-mails in support and against Hamilton as well as the entire text of the arbitration memorandum. Personally, I have no particular bias, one way or the other, toward Hamilton. His case is simply interesting given

DiLuca got a big boost in the Ardennes

Monday's Mailbag: Dueling lawyers; Enough is enough and a strange resemblance?

Monday's Mailbag: Dueling lawyers; Enough is enough and a strange resemblance?

Botero takes final stage and overall at Romandie

Tech Talk with Matt Pacocha: Hutchinson Bulldog tubeless tires

Tech Talk with Matt Pacocha: Hutchinson Bulldog tubeless tires

RENO, Nevada (Associated Press) -- On a farm about six miles outsidethis gambling town, Jason Chamberlain looks over a flock of about 50 smellysheep, many of them possessing partially human livers, hearts, brains andother organs.The University of Nevada-Reno researcher talks matter-of-factly abouthis plans to euthanize one of the pregnant sheep in a nearby lab. He can'twait to examine the effects of the human cells he had injected into thefetus' brain about two months ago.''It's mice on a large scale,'' Chamberlain says with a shrug.As strange as his work may

Now this is the Santiago Botero we all remember.

Despite losing the jersey at Romandie, Cunego seems ready to take on the Giro.

McGee powers in for second

Cipollini says goodbye at a press conference on Friday

Contador solos to a stage win

Dekker leads the break

Moncoutie and Zberg on the move

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Garate and Voeckler give chase

Zberg leads

Going up

Piepoli attacks

And so does Cunego . . .

. . . en route to the overall lead

Discovery Channel's Viatcheslav Ekimov was injured Friday during a crash while riding with Lance Armstrong, and the Russian’s Tour de France may be in jeopardy. Armstrong escaped injury in the Austin mishap, but the 39-year-old Ekimov was rushed to a nearby hospital, where he was diagnosed with a broken sternum. According to www.thepaceline.com, Armstrong's fan-club website, Ekimov hit a hole in the road, lost control of his bike, hit the stem with his chest and landed on his back. Ekimov hopes to be transported back home to St. Petersburg, Russia, for rehabilitation, according to

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.The real issueEditors,Whether or not Tyler is guilty or innocent of blood doping is not thereal issue.The bottom line is that the test has not been scientifically validated.Nor, from any of the statements I've found or the press coverage I've read,does WADA claim that it is. On

Here is just a small reminder that the Outdoor Life Network will broadcasta two-hour summary of the best and biggest stage race in America, the Dodge Tour de Georgia this Sunday, May 1, starting at 5:00 p.m. (eastern time in the U.S.) (Not to spoil the surprise ending, but we think the kid from Colorado did pretty well.)

America’s “breakthrough” professionals in the early 1980s, Greg LeMond and Jonathan Boyer, both developed their stage-racing skills at Colorado’s Red Zinger Bicycle Classic, which became the Coors Classic in 1980. No other bike race in the United States has had so much influence on the sport. Not only did it develop riders, it brought new ones into the sport, provided untold publicity (local, national and international), and made Boulder one of the epicenters of American cycling. While it was the race that was responsible for all those important developments, it was the man behind the race —

Popovych at Paris-Nice