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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

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

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

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?

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

Heras in Madrid

Gimondi at last October's Tour de France route announcement

More goodies from Milan

More goodies from Milan

More goodies from Milan

More goodies from Milan

More goodies from Milan

More goodies from Milan

More goodies from Milan

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

More goodies from Milan

More goodies from Milan

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

Heras puts the hammer down

Nozal finally cracks

Valverde races his way onto the podium

Still in shock: Heras on the podium

Cardenas

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

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

Legally Speaking - with Bob Mionske: My stolen bicycle

Nozal still No. 1

Three's a charm for Diaz Lobato

CSC drives the chase

Madrid bound

Dear Bob;A year or so ago, my apartment was broken into, and my bicycle wasstolen. It was a classic Italian racing bike from the early 1980’s, soI didn’t get all that much money from my insurance company. Recently, I went to a century ride and started riding in a pacelinewith a group of cyclists I didn’t know. As I dropped back from riding onpoint, I looked over, and there was my old bicycle! I followed the guy back to the finish line, got his auto tag numberand called the cops. They say they are looking into it, but nothing sofar. What would have happened if I had just grabbed the bike,

The World Anti-Doping Agency appears to be taking steps to settle a dispute over news leaks that flared earlier in the week with the Union Cycliste Internationale and its president Hein Verbruggen. The dispute resulted in a UCI threat to ban WADA from future cycling events. The UCI threat came after the publication of portions of WADA’s Independent Observer Report on this year’s Tour de France in Monday’s edition of L’Equipe several days prior to the scheduled release of the largely complimentary report (see "WADAgives tentative nod to Tour doping effort"). The UCI and several other affected

Hot pursuit: Sevilla leads the chase

Training for world's

High speed across Andalucia

Landis and 18 others formed the day's first break.

Nozal looks more and more secure

Technical Q&A with Lennard Zinn - Treasures from Milan

Technical Q&A with Lennard Zinn - Treasures from Milan

Technical Q&A with Lennard Zinn - Treasures from Milan

Technical Q&A with Lennard Zinn - Treasures from Milan

Technical Q&A with Lennard Zinn - Treasures from Milan