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Tuesday's EuroFile: Cooke at GP Marseillaise; Valverde in Mallorca; Boonen in Qatar

If bikes are outlawed...Editors,Bravo to Selz and Magas for seeing the case in Trotwood to the end(see "LegallySpeaking - with Bob Mionske: You gotta fight for your right to slooooowdown"). I've long since lost track of how many times I've explainedto non-cycling friends that it is not illegal for me to rideon the road at a slower pace than cars, as long as I don't break the lawsregarding impeding traffic (such as by holding up a line of five or morecars unnecessarily).Darcy AdamsCovington, Washington...only (really slow) outlaws will have bikesDear VeloNewsThank you for publishing Steve

Jean-François Lamour outside of Interpol Headquarters on Monday

Zülle

Monday's EuroFile: Freire in Mallorca; Ventoso in Qatar; Zülle keen on Hamilton

French women go 1-2 at ’cross world’s

Pontoni leads Dlask. The Italian was the only non-Belgian to break into the top six

Page and Jacques-Maynes (front)

A familiar sight

Kupfernagel sure wasn't getting any help from Salvetat

Leboucher wanted to win at home

Knapp turned in a strong performance

UCI president Hein Verbruggen, road committee chief Pat McQuaid and cyclo-cross committee chair Sylvia Schenk emerged from an all-day session of the UCI management committee on Friday evening to reveal large-scale changes to both the world road-racing and cyclo-cross calendars, while Verbruggen made a scathing appraisal of the current doping situation in cycling. The most far-reaching proposals concern the much-trumpeted UCI Pro Tour that will start in 2005. McQuaid confirmed that only 20 teams will compete on this circuit, which replaces both the UCI World Cup and UCI world rankings system.

Gil, Pauwels and Zlamanik (l-r) took a rough and tumble U23 race.

The U23 men's race got off to a rough start

Minard

Pauwels

Powers

Niels Albert

Lhotellerie

Driscoll, tops for U.S. in 22nd

... but Bart Wellens has to be the favorite to defend his title

Chris Kovarik: Intense, Haro – or sidelined?

Aussie Niki Gudex has signed up with Intense

Alison Dunlap is ready to race, come rain or shine

Dear Readers,In this weeks column I have chosen to highlight a critical bicycle rights case handled by fellow “bike attorney” Steve Magas. I am including Steve’s personal account of this important case for cyclists throughout the U.S. in its entirety.Enjoy,BobDear Bob,In the summer of 1999 I was asked to become involved in the case ofa young man who had received a traffic ticket for “impeding traffic” inTrotwood, Ohio. Little did I know that the case would ultimately garnerinternational intention, cause countless e-mails to be sent to the Cityof Trotwood, and generate an appellate court

There’s plenty happening around VeloNews headquarters in Boulder, Colorado, as our editorial crew ramps up for the upcoming season. We’re just midway through production of issue No. 2, a packed preview of the international road season, but already production has begun on issue No. 3, our Buyer’s Guide. Good thing those Buyer’s Guide pages will be glossy, my friends, because you’re guaranteed to be drooling over the gear splashed across the pages. Carbon, titanium, aluminum – oh my! Myself, I’m trying to get all my ducks in a row, finishing up assignments for both issues while preparing for

With the race calendar about to kick off, it’s season preview time here at VeloNews. Over the next couple of issues, the print magazine will feature previews of the European road season, the European and U.S. mountain-bike seasons, and the domestic North American road season. We’ll have first looks at the new teams, all the key players and the races. Since that territory will be covered ad nauseam, I thought that this week I’d present a season preview from a little different perspective. So, without further explanation, here’s the Notes from the road “to do” list for the upcoming year: Get

Surfer dudes Chris Wherry and Walker Ferguson at the Health Net camp

T-Mobile's lineup

Landis meets the press

Demonic possession? No, it's just Creed being Creed

Mario DeClercq was getting extra practice in on Friday ...

Photo Editor Galen Nathanson and Stylist-To-The-Stars Miguel Santana rig-up another bike

Nathanson lines 'em up, and knocks 'em down

Former Cofidis pro Marek Rutkiewicz has been suspended by the Polish Cycling Federation over his alleged role in the ongoing drugs scandal in France, it was revealed on Wednesday.The 23-year-old was arrested on January 12 by French police along with compatriot and Cofidis soigneur Bogdan Madejak after former team member Robert Sassone, who won a world track title in 2001, was placed under judicial investigation when a cache of drugs were found in his home during a police search."Marek Rutkiewicz has been suspended until his part in the Cofidis affair has been clarified," said federation

McGee storms Paris in 2003

WADA president Dick Pound is once more taking UCI president Hein Verbruggen to task in the wake of the Cofidis doping controversy, France’s Le Monde newspaper reported on Tuesday. World Anti-Doping Agency boss Pound of Canada has continually been focusing on cycling as a problem area and Verbruggen, the world's top cycling official, is once more in his sights. "Even the UCI president must admit there is a problem in cycling and that it has been going on for a 100 years," Pound was quoted in Le Monde as saying. "To eliminate doping is a challenge generally but cycling is a sport where the

Gaumont contends cycling is still a dirty sport

A full field in the warm-up for world's

Another Belgian Sweep

Cooke and McEwen - a familiar battle

81km in Adelaide

Jonker glides into retirement

Vervecken

Wellens chases after mechanical

Sven Nijs

Tom Vannoppen

Holland's Gerben de Knegt

The Clif bar duo of Jackson Stewart and Andy Jacques-Maynes

Jesse Anthony (Hot Tubes)

Andy Jacques-Maynes (Clif Bar)

Andy Jacques-Maynes (Clif Bar)

Michael Cody (NCC-BikeReg.com)

Jackson Stewart (Clif Bar)

Cover model

Attack early if you're with the sprinters

Summer time and the livin' ain't all that easy

Figueras and Tiralongo set a tough pace on the climb up Willunga

Jonker: Almost there

U.S. national champion Alison Dunlap (Luna)

U.S. national champion Jonathan Page (Selle Italia-Guerciotti)

Carmen D'Aluisio (Clif Bar)

Matt White (NCC-Bikereg.com)

A year ago this time I was predicting parity for the 2003 U.S. men’s road-racing scene. On paper, it looked like just about all the main U.S. teams had strengthened their rosters: Navigators had added Chris Wherry and Henk Vogels to a team that had a lot of success in 2002; Prime Alliance had signed a couple of Euro’ vets in Jonathan Vaughters and David Clinger; Schroeder Iron brought Chann McRae back to the U.S., to go along with Miguel Meza and young Aaron Olson; and Health Net looked on the fast track to respectability with the signings of Mike Sayers and Gord Fraser. Well, we know what

The United States Postal Service Pro Cycling Team presented by Berry Floor unveiled its 2004 squad Friday during its annual training camp in Solvang, California. The media day began with a half-hour press conference with defending five-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong, followed by a more casual, open-forum session with the remaining 24 members of the team. Absent was the team's directeur sportif, Johan Bruyneel, whose wife delivered a baby girl on Tuesday. Seated alone, a tanned and relaxed Armstrong sounded as determined as ever as he took questions from the 50-odd reporters,

More attentive Friday

Kirsipuu

Jonker: Poised to take it all?

Armstrong meets the press in California