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Freire in Zolder in 2002

Marcus Fothen

Michael Creed

Bianca Knöpfle

Alexandr Bespalov

A bit of a breeze and lots of sunshine

The Moose from Belarus

An arbitration panel with the Court of Arbitration for Sport has recommendeda six-month suspension for T-Mobile's Amber Neben after she tested positivefor nandrolone metabolites following the UCI World Cup race in Montrealon May 31.Neben accepted a provisional suspension on July 13, when she was informedof the positive test, which is now regarded as the starting point of hersix-month penalty.The United States Anti-Doping Agency announced interim decision by thethree-member panel of the American Arbitration Association (AAA)/NorthAmerican Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Monday.Neben

What's good for the Goose...Editor;Funny how los ditto heads want to slag all over Bryan Jew fordoing in a cycling forum (see "TheMail bag: Of Rush, Wheat Thins, lawyers, world's and flat repairs")exactly what Limbaugh did in a football forum (see "Notesfrom the road: From foolishness to food"). I guess opinions aregreat until someone shouts theirs a little louder, huh? I'm sure when BryanJew oversteps the bounds of decency as determined by VeloNews, he'llfind the exit, too.Until then, shut up and ride.Jose Martinez,Boston.That dreaded liberal cycling mediaMr. Jew;Having read the bashing that

A windy day on the way to Tours

Zabel celelbrates, Petacchi still looked surprised

Unhappy ditto headTo Bryan Jew:While you are entitled to your opinion, I really don't want to knowwhat your political views via your Rush Limbaugh commentary (See "Notesfrom the road: From foolishness to food") This is not why I reada cycling magazine. So stay with your core competency which is cyclingand leave the adult stuff like politics to us adult, common working stiffs. Thinking your opinion is uninformed,MSRush likes Lance, so we should like RushEditors;Brian should stick to cycling commentary.  If he had ever listenedto Rush Limbaugh, he would know that Rush has praised Lance for what

Escape

One-time Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich is set to return to his old Telekom squad, the team confirmed on Saturday. Negotiations broke down earlier this week after Telekom director Walter Godefroot had refused to accept the return of his former deputy, Rudy Pevenage. But that problem was solved after Ullrich agreed to employ Pevenage directly. "Telekom and Ullrich have reached agreement on a long-term contract," the team, which will call itself T-Mobile in 2004, announced. The German daily Bild suggested Ullrich's annual salary would be in the region of 2.5 million euros (2.9 million

No Zolder repeat for Mario

So, Rush Limbaugh resigned from ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown just four weeks into the NFL season. If you ask me, he was overrated from the start, and ESPN was just desirous for a slow, fat, white, conservative pundit to have success … In the days following his racially tinged comments regarding Eagles’ QB Donovan McNabb being overrated, Limbaugh declined interview requests, including a request to appear on ESPN’s SportsCenter. All these years, and we’ve only now found a way to get him to clam up? * * * Turns out Lance is overrated, too. Those five Tour wins were just the U.S. media hyping

The parent company of Cannondale Corporation has sacked three vice presidents, including the son of the company’s founder, according to the trade journal Bicycle Retailer & Industry News. Those dismissed Wednesday by majority stockholder Pegasus Capital Advisers include Scott Montgomery, vice president of marketing and son of Cannondale founder Joe Montgomery; Dan Alloway, vice president of sales and a 15-year Cannondale employee; and Len Konecny, vice president of purchasing, according to the trade journal. Attempts to contact Scott Montgomery were unsuccessful. Cannondale's Tom Armstrong

MTB News and Notes: Bon Jovi in, Green out

Pantani cleared of criminal charge

Former Tour de France winner Marco Pantani has been cleared of sporting fraud for a case of doping during the 1999 Giro d’Italia, by a court in Trentino on Thursday. Pantani was charged after high hematocrit levels were found in his blood on the penultimate day of the 1999 Giro d’Italia. The hematocrit limit was imposed in 1997 as an indicator that a rider might be using the endurance-enhancing drug EPO. The Italian, winner of both the Giro and Tour de France in 1998, had already served a six-month ban for his failed drugs test but faced prosecution charges as doping in Italy is a criminal

Dear Bob,My local cycling club posted a notice on its website that a chain ofradio stations was instructing their disc jockeys to tell listeners tothreaten cyclists or do violence against them. Do you know anything aboutthis, and can anyone do anything to stop them?R.B.,Texas Dear R.B.On September 22 and 23, two DJs on a morning show on radio stationWDCG ("G105") inRaleigh, North Carolina, held a listener call-in where listeners were encouraged to relate violent activities they participated in against cyclists, including running them off the road, hitting them with cars or throwing objects

Vinokourov: 'There are hills in this race?'

Shoot, this California native could probably run for Governor

Thanks, thanks, yes, it’s good to be back. You may have noticed — or not, as the case may be — that the “Neighborhood’ has been on hold for the past few weeks while I took an almost perfect vacation in my previous hometowns of San Francisco and Santa Cruz following the T-Mobile International, September 14. The week after the race was spent in a flurry of cab rides, cocktail napkins and late breakfasts, as any good city vacation should — the kind you enjoy but afterwards wonder how you could ever possibly maintain. All that came to a screeching halt last Tuesday when I returned to an

That's a lotta racks...

Olympic and world champion Leontien Zijlaard-Van Moorsel established a new world women's hour record at the Olympic velodrome in Mexico City on Wednesday, covering 46.065km in an hour, surpassing the earlier record of 45.094km set by Jeannie Longo on the same track in December of 2000. Cycling's world governing body, the UCI, originally credited Zijlaard-Van Moorsel with a distance of 46.397km but officials later said that there had been a measurement error. The 33-year-old Dutchwoman, who is fresh from defending her individual pursuit title at the world track championships in Stuttgart in

With three power settings and built-in fuel gauge, the FlameThower might be the most technical bike light ever produced

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Endless Summer: Do you think the Aussie locals are going to let this guy drop in on them?

Ullrich: Where to now?

Celebrating the new mark

Now, that, my friend, is style: JHK and Heather Irminger

Mr. Rogers' neighborhood: It's Good to be Here

Berlinger (left) and Clinton earning their pay

Heras in Madrid

The United States Anti-Doping Agency has announced the suspensions of two cyclists this week, a track racer who tested for an elevated testosterone-epitestosterone ratio and a former world masters downhill champion who tested positive for the presence of THC. USADA announced Tuesday that Chesen Frey, 29, accepted a two-year suspension after tests conducted at the American Velodrome Challenge in his home town of Colorado Springs in June showed an elevated T/E ratio. USADA and other proponents of the test say the result is an indication of the use of exogenous testosterone, a practice banned

Gimondi at last October's Tour de France route announcement

It's not all motors in Milan

More goodies from Milan

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We were all hoping, but no one wanted to say it was possible.

More goodies from Milan

Manolo Saiz

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Dede and me in Madrid

Slow ride to Madrid; Heras takes time to raise a toast to Nozal (l) and Valverde (r)

Valverde races his way onto the podium

Still in shock: Heras on the podium

Cardenas

Heras puts the hammer down

Nozal finally cracks

Grading the world's: So far, a B

Cipo's leadout man gets a win for himself

Heras and Landis put some time on Nozal

Mark McCormack was among the Saturn strongmen

Race leader Nozal and Gonzalez de Galdeano enter the house of pain

Møller and Simeoni punch it

Can he or can't he? We'll know after tomorrow

The U.S. Cycling Federation’s 2004 Elite National Road Championships, to be held June 16-19 in and around Redlands, California, will determine three members of the 2004 U.S. Olympic team, USA Cycling announced Friday. Nominations will go to the winners of the elite women's time trial and road race, and to the winner of the USA Cycling Team Selection Race, an invitational with a field limited to the top 150 U.S. athletes in the USCF National Racing Calendar standings as of June 1; the top 50 U.S. athletes in the UCI road rankings on that date; and the top five U.S. finishers in the Armed

With the recent announcement that Saturn has ended its sponsorship of its men’s and women’s cycling teams, I think everyone — besides being a little saddened by the news — has taken a trip down memory lane and come up with some of their best recollections and stories about the team. After 11 years and countless race wins and national championships, everyone will have their own special memories about the team. In looking back, it seems to me that one aspect of the team’s incredible history has been brushed over: its great success in American cyclo-cross, in particular the dominance of Frank

Two days to go and Roberto is within striking distance of the golden jersey. With each accent in the course the last few days he has been able to take back some time from Nozal. The uphill time trial tomorrow will decide the race. Although the course is tough and very steep in sections, it may not be long enough for Roberto to take back close to two minutes from Nozal. Over the last week Roberto has become stronger while his rivals have weakened. And we are all hoping there may be a chance he’ll be able to win the race. Yesterday’s stage from Las Rosas-Las Rosas was easy looking on the

CSC drives the chase

Madrid bound