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Rogers

(L-R) Rogers, Millar, Peschel

Nozal got passed by Millar, but still finished fifth

Is Millar still the favorite?

Rapinski in Hamilton

Julich

view from the press room

Warmup

TT Profile

TT Map

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Dutch

Soma

Longo

Focused

Jeanson. Home-field advantage didn't help.

So the world road championships are officially under way, and as you may have noticed, the seventh-place finisher in the men's under-23 time trial was Belarussian Viktor Rapinski, who spent the 2003 season racking up wins for Saturn, including overall victory in the Fitchburg-Longsjo Stage Race and the International Cycling Classic (Super-Week). It was announced Tuesday that the former junior world champion has signed with Navigators for 2004. With a return to Europe planned in the spring, team director Ed Beamon thinks Rapinski may just find his niche in the classics. “Viktor is absolutely

Armstrong: You had to be mentally strong

On goatheads and tech-headsEditor;Andrew's musings on 'cross (see "Acrisp in the air?") are a nice sign that our "fringe of a fringe" sportis growing up. I like to think I've earned the right to have a 'cross bikethat makes my road bike look like old tech. There must be some joy in workingeveryday and if it takes the form of a "more-money-than-brains" 'crossbike, then so be it.After three decades of active 'crossing I've watched tire technologyrun the gamut from Clement Grifos and homemade cross clinchers (think oldGrifo tread glued to Michelin Elan tires) in the '70s  to the modern-dayTufo

Happy Birthday, Dede!

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Ignatiev

Dear readers;As cyclists we are all familiar with those occasional and quite memorable moments of enmity between motorists and cyclists.  For many, this is not a particularly new subject, but in view of several examples of cyclist-bashing comments recently broadcast by radio stations across the country, there is concern that some misguided motorists may have acted or will act upon this encouragement (See "Legally Speaking - with Bob Mionske: Shock jocks"). The letters we've received on the subject, prompted us to wonder ifyou have been harassed, threatened or even assaulted by a motorist

Cozza

Technical Q&A with Lennard Zinn - Repair, replace, restore?

Road rage. Do you have a story?

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

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

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

A windy day on the way to Tours

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

Zabel celelbrates, Petacchi still looked surprised

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

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

No Zolder repeat for Mario

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

MTB News and Notes: Bon Jovi in, Green out

Pantani cleared of criminal charge

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

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

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That's a lotta racks...

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

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

Vinokourov: 'There are hills in this race?'

Shoot, this California native could probably run for Governor

Heras in Madrid

Gimondi at last October's Tour de France route announcement

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

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

Manolo Saiz

Dede and me in Madrid

It's not all motors in Milan

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