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Friday's escape.

Nozal still up there.

Perez, Beltran and Cardenas

Fixing the 4-Cross

Coffee with the rainbow club

Millar's time stood up to all but one

Gonzalez rode well, but couldn't match Millar and Nozal.

Landis finished in 30th at 4:33

Galdeano was expected to end the day in gold

Two-time Vuelta winner Alex Zülle (Phonak) finished 13th

Dear Bob;I was hit by a car while riding my bike. The driver had insurance,but his insurance company told me that while I can get my medical billspaid, I can’t collect for anything else because I chose the “verbal threshold”on my car insurance. How can my policy affect my ability to recover againstthe other driver?B.G.,New JerseyDear B.G.,Unfortunately, it may be difficult for you to sue the driver or hisinsurance company in New Jersey for so-called non-economic medical injuries—whichinclude such things as pain and suffering, scarring, loss of sexual functioning,or even the temporary loss of

I had an incredible week between the two mountain-bike world championships. It was very hectic, but I enjoyed every minute of being the marathon world champion. I can't really say I was recovered perfectly, but I had big motivation to give it all again in the cross country. Unfortunately, my race went wrong before it even started. The UCI was too lazy to update the world-ranking list after the marathon world championship, which had a huge impact for me. With my points from the marathon I should have been ranked as the best Swiss rider and started in the first row. Instead, I was 11th,

Frischy had a bad start and a disappointing finish in the cross-country ... but he's still the marathon world champ

That hurt!

Madrid bound?

A long finish line celebration today

The escape

Bobby J and the Telekom squad in pursuit

Nozal gets another day in the jersey

That's us on Stage 4...

...and us on Stage 5.

Barry on the bus

Quite a bit of attention is being given to this weekend’s T-Mobile International (formerly the San Francisco Grand Prix). With Tour winner Lance Armstrong, Alexander Vinokourov (Telekom), Gilberto Simoni (Saeco) and Stefano Garzelli (Vini Caldirola-Sidermec) expected, the demanding course should be as exciting as a World Cup event. “Possibly the best field ever gathered in the U.S. for a one-day race,” suggested T-Mobile’s sports manager Herwig Reus. But for all the attention that is being paid to the men’s race, it should be noted that the women’s field stands to see some of the bigger

Evans on Monday, after his crash

The break

Evans on Monday

Jeker

The jersey is still in ONCE's hands

FIR was just one of a few compaines exhibiting all-carbon clincher wheelsets

Casco's new TT helmet (as modeled by VeloNews' own Nick Ramey)

A twenty pound race rig is hard to ignore

Carbon for 'cross? Yep-you betcha'

Clean lines for Shimano levers

Shimano stopped SRAM cold in its trigger-shifting tracks in Germany

The boys on the bus

Floyd before spending a day in the rain

Hit 'em wear it countsEditor;In my humble opinion, the rule to adopt for all pro sports is simple:You test positive (A and B) for drugs, your annual earnings are cappedat 10-percent of what you are making or $1,000,000 a year, whichever isless (see Especially at the higher echelons, this still allows an athlete to makea substantial - albeit reduced - income from his or her talent. However,the kicker - a second positive test gets a lifetime ban from professionalsports - anywhere. Doesn't matter the sport you start out in or want toplay - cycling, baseball, anybody's national type of football

Jonas Carney

Money in the bank

Pay day

Petacchi had room to spare

Day 2 in gold for Rodrriguez

Leipheimer finished 5:13 back and is now 19:06 off the lead

After the fall: Cipollini at the Giro

Perez edges Sastre

The break

Igor Gonzalez de Galdeano spent just one day in gold.

Julich rode in 8:02 back.

The jersey remains in ONCE's hands.

A day in Asturias

After three days of sitting around in a hotel and counting the hours and then minutes until the start, the Vuelta is finally under way. The course around Spain this year takes us first through the Pyrénées, then along the east coast toward the southern peaks, and then up to Madrid. The course suits our team, with six mountain stages where Chechu, Roberto and Triki can shine, some flatter potentially windy days where the rest of us can control the race from the front, and some sprint stages where Max can show his strengths. The team has come to the Vuelta this year with perhaps the

ONCE shows Spain how a team time trial is done

Postal finished 10 seconds down

Gonzalez de Galdeano sports the first leader's jersey

Too much Metallica for Hincapie, y'think?

Evans stage 3

Evans stage 3

"Tales from the gutter" made great readingEditor:I have really enjoyed Jed Schneiders’ "Tales from the gutter.” He gave a very real account of racing in Europe, both the up and the down side. I especially liked his latest, hopefully not his last, article. I grew up in England and raced in the early 1970s. There was not a "that guy" that I could remember, but I had always wanted to follow the footsteps of Tom Simpson and Barry Hoban. I eventually took the big step and went to Brittany thinking I would show those Frenchies a thing or two. I even used to practice going over an imaginary finish

Editor’s note:VeloNews.com received the following letter from Amber Neben, of the T-Mobile women’s team, today. Neben is currently ranked 25th in the world, the highest ranked American and, until now, a favorite to land a spot on the U.S. team for next year’s Olympic Games in Athens, Greece.After testing positive for nandrolone metabolites in samples taken May 31, 2003 during competition in Montreal, Neben has voluntarily suspended herself from competition, pending the resolution of further test results and appeals. The decision will, of course, mean that she will not participate in this

The way I see it, my vacation is coming not a minute too soon. Inside Communications’ headquarters is in full renovation/office-shuffle mode, making for a few, uh, inconveniences. With our kitchen sink out of commission today, the last straw for me was having to step into the men’s room to rinse out the coffeepots before making some joe. It was almost enough to kill my appetite for this morning’s glazed donuts. Almost …. The coffee was another matter. On the other hand, vacation took me out of the rotation for next week’s T-Mobile International in San Francisco, which has been one of the

Amber Neben, of Irvine, California, today informed USA Cycling that she has decided to voluntarily suspend herself from competition, pending the resolution of medical control test results from samples taken May 31, 2003 during competition at the Montreal World Cup event. The tests conducted by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) indicate the presence of trace amounts of the banned substance nandralone that is above the limits set forth by the UCI's anti-doping regulations. In light of this announcement, Ms. Neben is ineligible for nomination to the 2003 Road World Championship Team and

Mr. Rogers' neighborhood: Lyne gets her bell rung; Am I really gonna drink that?

Czech Jaroslav Kulhavy was all alone after the first lap

Swiss uncramps to take U23 gold

Michael Prokop outs his BMX skills to work

Chausson's won all the gated-racing titles

Readers who caught DedeDemet-Barry’s diary from the eighth round of the women's World Cupheld in Nürnberg, Germany, may have been concerned about the statusof Saturn rider Lyne Bessette, who was taken down in a crash just 2km intothe race and landed squarely on her head and right shoulder.Although her helmet was shattered and she remembers none of the crash,Bessette emerged relatively unscathed.“I just came back from the doctor and it’s really positive,” Bessettereported Thursday afternoon. “My head and neck are fine. It’s just a broken[right] collarbone, but nothing else. It’s broken

Dear Bob,I was on a ride when a pick-up truck loaded with fence posts hangingover the side passed me. The posts hit me and knocked off my bike. I fracturedmy wrist and my bike was totaled. The driver of the truck blames the storethat loaded the posts and suggested I make a claim against them. Is thestore liable?B.R.Fla.Dear B.R,Let me break down your inquiry into two different questions:1) If I sued the lumber yard, could I win?In Florida, you would have a fairly good chance.2) Should I ignore the driver and go after the lumber yard?No way.There was a 1992 Florida case with many of the same

Belgian police raided the homes of 21 cyclists Thursday, including that of former world champion Johan Museeuw in a search for banned performance-enhancing drugs. An official at the public prosecutor's office in the western town of Kortrijk said detectives took Museeuw to headquarters for questioning. Spokesman Tom Janssens said police found quantities of suspicious drugs when they staged coordinated raids on the homes of professional riders, including former world cyclo-cross champion Mario De Clercq, OJ Planckaert, Chris Peers, Nico Hendrickx and Oliver Penny. "In all these places,

Five-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong and his wife have again separated and are now planning to divorce, according to a report in the Austin American Statesman. Armstrong and wife Kristin separated two weeks ago, soon after they moved back to Austin from their European home in Girona, Spain, according to a story published in Thursday editions of the Texas newspaper. The couple is currently in mediation to reach a divorce settlement, while maintaining separate homes in Central Austin, the newspaper reported. "It's an unfortunate situation," Kristin Armstrong, 32, told the