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The winds forced the field into echelons for the second day

Unique hazards at the Tour of Qatar

A new leader

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Casero, after winning the 2001 Vuelta.

Deja Vu all over again

Michael Barry and Tom Danielson discuss plans before the stage

Discoverys Michael Creed shows off a few of his battle wounds from the big pile-up

Discovery mechanic Geoff Brown makes a few on-the-road adjustments

Discovery DS Lorenzo Lapage hands off bottles to Patrick McCarty

Thomas Voekler and friends

Its January and Qatar is warm...

...although a touch on the windy side

Canadian researchers working in conjunction with the World Anti-Doping Agency announced Tuesday that they have discovered a new “designer” steroid developed along the lines of THG, the drug at the center of the BALCO case in the U.S. Acting upon an anonymous tip e-mailed to WADA officials this past summer, scientists said they have reproduced a drug that appears to have been designed to avoid detection in standard drug tests. WADA science director Olivier Rabin and Christiane Ayotte, director of Montreal's anti-doping lab, told reporters in a conference call on Tuesday that the agency

Are the Panaria boys the only ones trying for the line?

Another reminder that this is not the Tour de France

Ed Beamon handing out water and sage advice from the team car

Cesare Grejales after another hot day on the road.

Phonak manager John Lelangue and Nicolas Jalabert, at the Tour of Qatar, now know what they will be doing in July.

Boonen makes it look easy

Rodriguez is in Qatar for early season prep work...

... and McEwen is there, perhaps recovering from a string of wins Down Under.

Cipollini missed the key break and finished out of the money on Tuesday.

True-to-form: O’Neill was expected to do well and he did.

Cox held his own and remains a favorite for the overall

Barry is happy with his form, especially after training on frozen gravel.

Prime viewing from the Motorworks

Beppu is still Asian despite the jersey, right?

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Perez in happier times

Vanthourenhout and Mourey

Jonathan Page finishes 14th...

Hanka Kupfernagel takes her third world title

... and Ryan Trebon two seconds back in 15th.

Kupfernagel battles Frances Maryline Salvetat on the run-up

Fukushima takes a page from the Jacky Durand playbook: Attack, attack, attack... and some day it pans out.

Melchers rode a strong race to take third

Fukushima only has 172 km to go

Former world champion Leboucher took fourth

Panaria gives chase

Top American, Ann Knapp finishes seventh

ONeill struggles on the climb. The slope, coupled with heat, humidity and that fur coat made for a hard time.

Sabine Spitz makes it One-Two for Germany

Welcome to Malaysia

Kupfernagel in a familiar jersey

Stage 4

Cyclo-cross is a big draw in Germany

Page had to fight traffic

Kupfernagel on her own

Nijs has had a spectacular season

Knapp

Vervecken and Vanthourenhout round-out the top-three

Nijs Wins

Nijs and Kupfernagel tops at world cyclo-cross championships

Vervecken leads

Belgian, Belgian and Belgian... but why does Nijs get a Cycle Ball jersey?

The junior podium

Malacarne on the march

The start of the juniors race

Espoirs on the podium

The U-23s tackle the staircase

Powers had a poor first lap, but bounced back into the top 20

Simunek leads the U-23s

Stybar wins the U-23 title

Langkawi - Stage 1 Photo Files