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Never shy to attack, Elliott's main quality was working hard as a domestique

Davis wins

Scheuneman leads the break

Liberty keeps things under control

Gerolsteiner hoped to set up Hondo

Lopez tries a solo

Leipheimer enjoys a soggy day in the saddle

On the road

Leipheimer can take solace in that it's still early in the year...

... as can Damiano Cunego. Cunego is hoping for a win on Saturday.

Hondo is enjoying his time in the jersey.

Cunego at Murcia

Hondo's win surprised even Hondo.

Plaza could only manage second.

Gutiérrez takes third

Murcia in springtime

Gerolsteiner was active all day.

Leipheimer starts his season with Gerolsteiner

Cunego and Tafi on the attack

Tafi tries his luck with Wuyts

Two-time cross-country world champion Roland Green announced Tuesdaythat he has been retroactively suspended for six months after testing positivefor a banned substance at the Houffalize, Belgium round of the World Cuplast May (see "Paulissen,Dahle rule Houffalize World Cup"). Green's suspension commenced July 4, 2004 and will conclude April 4th of this year. That is obviously longer than six months, but the suspension includes the UCI's pre-defined "inactivity period" for mountain bike racers, which runs from November through January. A hearing was recently conducted through the

Cunego has big goals this season

Former three-time world cyclo-cross champion Mario De Clercq has been banned from the sport for four years and cyclo-cross rider Ben Berden for 15 months, the Belgian cycling association (LRVB) announced Wednesday. De Clercq, who retired in November 2004, was involved in the so-called"Jose Landuyt affair," a scandal involving a veterinarian who admittedselling performance-enhancing drugs. Berden is banned until April 2006 after testing positive for the bloodbooster EPO (erythropoietin) in a cyclo-cross competition in Essen, Germanyin December. De Clercq's lawyer Peter Callebaut said

Beloki is still on the road to recovery

Sayers

Hondo gets the jersey today and may pass to teammates tomorrow

The sponsorship of domestic cycling teams is a volatile venture. In the past few years, it seems that almost every brand-name team lost its marquee sponsor. Saturn and Mercury, for example, were dismantled and their riders, some of the most competent and successful racers in America, were scattered to the four winds. But turmoil, as tough as it can be, almost always leaves a vacuum. And a vacuum can be an opportunity in the right hands. One group of racers and their sponsors taking advantage of this vacuum is Health Net-Maxxis. Formed only three years ago on a shoestring budget and around

Map2

Leipheimer's season is just starting

Sayers photo

Green at Calgary

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...more time on the trainer?!?!?!

Sayers photo

De Clerq leads a Belgian sweep at world's in Zolder in 2002

Sayers on the march

Sayers: Leading by example

Hondo - and Gerolsteiner - get their first big win of the season

Julich's season was highlighted by a medal-winning performance in Athens

John Tomac was on-hand in Gran Canaria, Spain to show off Manitou's R-Seven

Tech Report: Manitou comes back to cross-country

Tech Report: Manitou comes back to cross-country

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’s up with OLN?Editor:What is going on with OLN's 2005 cycling coverage? Last year they dropped daily coverage of the Vuelta late in the season, and now this year the only decent coverage of a race is going to be of the Tour. Major cuts include dropping daily coverage of the Giro

With last year’s needle-prick and transfusion tube scandals still fresh in my mind, the big question surrounding all of that hubbub remains unanswered: What is the proper way to punish a doper? Sure, you can slap ‘em with suspensions, fine their bank accounts dry, drag their names through a trough of mud and make their public image darker than an Angus steer’s tuckas on a moonless prairie night. But will it do any good? Of course, the teams, too, have their own “Don’t do it” policies. But with the pressure to win augmented by the long list of hungry replacements (who will do anything to

This story originally appeared as Timothy Carlson’s weekly column onthe website of our sister publication InsideTriathlon. Because the issue of doping seems to transcend sportingdisciplines, we decided that Mr. Carlson’s column was worthy of a seriouslook from interested parties outside of the sport of Triathlon. - Editor "No, no!' said the Queen. “Sentence first - verdict afterwards.”“Stuff and nonsense!” said Alice loudly. “The idea of having the sentence first!'”“Hold your tongue!” said the Queen, turning purple.“I won't!” said Alice.“Off with her head!” the Queen shouted at

Julich has found a happy home at CSC

"Cycling in the News" is a regular service of VeloNews.com. Readers,reporters and friends are encouraged to send links to current stories aboutcompetitive cyclists and cycling that appear in the mainstream media. Ifyou come across a news item that you believe may be of interest to otherVeloNews readers, we would be grateful if you choose to send it to Rosters@InsideInc.com.Khaleej Times - March 14, 2005UAE plans continental cycling teamDUBAI — UAE is planning to form a continental cycling team toparticipate in all major championships around the world. The proposed teamof 16 cyclists, will

Nuyens celebrates his bold victory

CSC's Tristan Hoffman broke his left leg in a crash while descending the Mur de Grammont

The Piil escape

Eki' at the front

Nuyens goes it alone

Up the Grammont

. . . in this case, custom Conti' tubies

Bigger chain rings

And top-mounted brake levers

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.We got the predictable ton of letters regarding Fred Dreier’s inaugural column on a pair of ugly motorist-cyclist conflicts. Some readers proposed vengeance via violence and/or vandalism, others counseled peace, still others recommended leaving enforcement to the law, and a few even

Last week, I wrote about some of the pioneer American racers who had ambitions of professional careers in Europe. One of them was Michael Hiltner, who was sampling the Italian cycling scene in the early 1960s at the same time as several cyclists from the British Isles were already breaking into the then-exclusive ranks of continental pro racing. Among the most successful were Englishmen Brian Robinson and Tom Simpson. Robinson was the first English-speaking rider to win a stage of the Tour de France (in 1958), while Simpson was the first to win a monumental classic and the first to wear the

Flecha clings to a nine-second lead and gets the win

Peter Van Petegem celebrates his third win at Het Volk

Johan Museeuw winning Het Volk in 2003

Another lousy day for a tech editor . . . .

Saunier Duval's Paris-Roubaix machine

More clearance for bigger rubber . . .

Ullrich at team camp in January

Phil turned on the charm at Adega

Aranaga takes the win

Working together, Blanco and Aranaga built their lead to 15 minutes

Petacchi begins to realize the gap may be too big

Fassa Bortolo begins to chase...

... with help from Saunier Duval and Liberty Seguros

Iban Mayo is here to get in shape for July

Dear Readers,Over the last two columns, (see "Part1" and "Part2" )attorney Bruce Epperson has been describing how Colonel AlbertPope, the “Rockefeller of Bicycles,” used the 1866 Lallement patent, thebasic patent covering all bicycles made in the United States, to monopolizethe then-infant bicycle industry, and how this monopoly was threatenedby an obsure patent lawsuit dealing with, of all things, whale-oil lamps!This week, in the last of three parts, we look at how Pope’s lawyers triedto save the Lallement patent by creating a monopoly that would not onlylast until the patent expired in