Millward had reason to smile.
Millward had reason to smile.
Millward had reason to smile.
The women take on always-hairy Turn 1.
Dekker and Armstrong
Dekker takes the win
Dekker now has two World Cup wins in less than a year
The NetZero gang rejoices.
The after-dark scene in Athens.
There aren’t a many Americans who can claim to have beaten Olympic gold medalist Marty Nothstein at his own game. These days, there are just two American sprinters who have done so on an American track and, as luck would have it, both were at San Jose’s Hellyer Velodrome April 21, for round 2 of the American Velodrome Challenge when Nothstein made his first U.S. track appearance for Mercury. And, as luck and ability would have it, one of the two pulled it off again. Nothstein is something of the 800-pound gorilla of American track. Even when he’s not present, people keep him in mind and
Preview: Amstel Gold concludes spring classics
The top three, plus the world's most famous tire man.
Paolinetti exults.
Carney explains what happened to his leg.
For Tyler Hamilton, the 2001 Liége-Bastogne-Liége is probably something best forgotten. Unfortunately for the U.S. Postal Service rider, the reminders of the race will linger for a good part of the spring. Hamilton knows the roads around Liége as well as anyone else and as the peloton neared the small town of Stavelot, he began to move up in anticipation of the approaching climb up the Stockeu. "Everyone was battling really hard for position since it was such a critical part of the race," Hamilton told VeloNews. "A rider on my right side (Euskaltel's Igor Flores) swung drastically to
The board of directors of USA Cycling has endorsed a staff recommendation to end an appeal of a recent court decision overturning a major set of changes to the organization's by-laws passed in February of 1999. "We will not pursue an appeal in the case," USA Cycling chief operating officer Steve Johnson told VeloNewsThursday. Johnson said that in the course of a Wednesday conference call and follow-up calls on Thursday, the board endorsed a recommendation offered by USA Cycling CEO Lisa Voight and board president Mike Plant. In March, a three-judge Colorado appeals court panel
A criterium after the Tour of France, in which Lance Amstrong and about sixty American professional racing cyclists will take part, will be organized for the first time in New York in August. This 100 km criterium, informally baptized "The Tour of New York," will be contested on a loop of three streets in lower Manhattan on August 4 and will have a prize list of $50,000 dollars shared among the first 20 finishers. This race, intended like all post-Tour criteriums to appeal to spectators, "will be a great addition to the many sporting events that New York welcomes each year," commented mayor
For the first time in three years, the Navigators program will contest a European spring campaign, consisting of races in Belgium, France and Italy. Six members of the team left for Europe on Monday, and they will begin racing Thursday at the Circuit des Mines, April 26-May 1, in France. Following the Shelby and Athens criteriums, five more members of the team will fly over for the remainder of the European schedule: Cras Avernas in Belgium, May 6; Giro d’Abbruzzo in Italy, May 8-13; and GP Stad Vilvoorde in Belgium, May 13, as well as a couple of smaller races in Belgium. Among that second
LeBlanc will announce his decision May 2. Meanwhile speculation is rampant.
Sciandri and company were caught with 10km to go.
Camenzind stayed with Casagrande on the last climb and still had enough left for a sprint.
Spanish cyclist Javier Otxoa left intensive care on Saturday after being run over on February 15 in an accident that killed his twin brother, the Spanish sports daily Marca reported. The 26-year-old Otxoa has lost 44 pounds and is still unable to move his legs. He has been communicating with his family by writing notes and has apparently been asking for his brother Ricardo, disbelieving his family's assurances that Ricardo has been in another ward of the hospital. Javier Otxoa won the 10th stage of the 2000 Tour de France, after a long solo breakaway effort. The two brothers, members of
Former Italian cycling champion Salvatore Commesso has been suspended until mid-May after being caught in possession of banned substance, his Saeco team said on Saturday. The Saeco team, which has suspended the cyclist's salary, issued a statement noting that management has yet to make a decision over the 26-year-old Neopolitan's future. The Italian cycling federation imposed the ban after the 1999 Italian champion was stopped by police who stumbled upon the banned substances by chance almost a year ago. Reports say a vial of banned substances were found in the rider's
USA Cycling announced Monday that the organization has "released" NORBA managing director Leslie Klein. NORBA competition director Eric Moore has been named as acting managing director. In a release issued Monday night, USA Cycling CEO Lisa Voight cited declining NORBA membership numbers as part of the decision. NORBA membership has fallen 39 percent since 1997. "We are taking proactive steps to be responsible to our constituency and provide the customer service needed to succeed," Voight was quoted as saying. "Since USA Cycling's reorganization in early 2001, all staff members are now
Saturn's Eric Wohlberg
GT's Alison Dunlap
Postal's Hincapie was in all the right spots today, but couldn't pass the Domo brigade.
Lampre's Dierckxsens (right) faced the same troubles as Hincapie -- too many Domo jerseys.
Knaven adds his name to the list of tough men to win Paris-Roubaix.
Remember, this is a closed course with professional drivers. Don't try this at home.
Can't you hear the warranty claim now: 'I was just riding along...'
Hincapie first raced Paris-Roubaix as a 20-year-old.
Prologue: Alison Dunlap zips up Skinner's Butte
Prologue: Hey, it's Eugene. What did you expect from that crowd?
Stage 1: This wasn't the only climb of the stage, or the only stage with a climb.
Stage 1: Lysle Wilhelm of 800.com
Stage 2: Mari Holden, loving life and just waiting for the TT on Saturday.
Stage 2: Pate, riding his road bike where there really isn't a road.
Stage 3: Why do people think it always rains in Oregon?
Stage 3: And more rainjackets.
Stage 3: The long and lonely road.
American George Hincapie of the U.S. Postal Service joined a prestigious list of winners that includes Eddy Merckx and Bernard Hinault on Wednesday. Hincapie outsprinted Leon Van Bon (Mercury Viatel) to win the 63rd edition of Ghent-Wevelgem in Belgium. Hincapie was part of a five-man group that escaped without about 30km to go in the 214km race. A complete report will be posted shortly.
A classic smile from George!
The break that worked.
Hincapie was easily on the wheel of Telekom's Steffen Wesemann on the second climb of the Kemmelberg.
Blatter's sensational climbing ability won her another race.
Say who? Hermida, Bui and Hanisch lead at Napa.
The British Cycling Federation (BCF) has appointed Canadian Peg Hill as its national women's endurance coach. Hill will start her new job on April 20. She will be working for the lottery-funded World Class Performance Plan, which steered British riders to their best ever total of Olympic and worlds medals last year. Hill's charges will include world pursuit champion Yvonne McGregor, Ceris Gilfillan, who won Canada's GP Feminin last year, and Sarah Symington who placed sixth in the world’s road race. U.S.-born Hill represented the U.S. at three world championships in the 1980s,
Recent moves to stamp out doping from the peloton claimed its first statistic Sunday, as Italian rider Fabiano Fontanelli was ruled out of the Tour of Flanders following a suspect blood test, according to a race official. Fontanelli, who rides for Mercatone Uno, was excluded after a the "traditional" race-morning blood test showed a suspect hematocrit level. Because his red blood cell count exceeded 50 percent, Fontanelli was declared unfit to take part and excluded from racing for a minimum of 15 days. While the morning test has been used since 1997, Fontanelli will be the first pro rider
Former winners head list of favorites for Flanders
Canada's Chrissy Redden rode the Gary Fisher Sugar to a TT win.
Marco Bui slipped on the new Tissot-UCI World Cup yellow leader's jersey.
Following the bankruptcy of its European division, the owners of the Schwinn/GT Corporation announced plans to sell the company, retaining Credit Suisse First Boston as an advisor in discussions with several potential buyers of both the cycling and fitness businesses. Last month, Schwinn/GT's European division ceased operation and went into receivership, leaving several retailers and suppliers uncertain as to the entire company's future. In particular, the European difficulties put into doubt the firm's relationship with bike suppliers in Taiwan. Schwinn has faced financial
José "Chepe" Gonzalez has been fired by his team, Selle-Italia-Pacific, after Italian authorities charged him with doping offenses, his team announced Friday. The 32-year-old Colombian, a mountains specialist, was found in possession of a range of doping products at his team hotel last week. Team officials also fired Colombian doctor Nino Alberto Beltran, who was also found with a number of illegal growth hormones and anabolic steroids when police carried out a routine search of his car on March 23. Following the discovery in Beltran's car, police, acting on a recently-passed law making
Gabriela Gonzalez de Ferrat, a 28-year-old native of Mexico who now lives near San Diego, will don the colors of Team RONA and join Geneviève Jeanson and Manon Jutras in the three-day Tucson Bicycle Classic this weekend. At the Mexican national championships in 2000, Ferrat was second in the time trial and fourth in the road race. As a member of the national team, she wore her country’s colors at the 1999 world championships in Verona, Italy. This year Ferrat was 39th overall at the Redlands Bicycle Classic. At the Sea Otter Classic in Monterey, California, she was 18th out of 68
The Italian city of Verona on Tuesday officially launched its bid to stage the 2004 world road championships, ANSA news agency reported. Former cyclist Francesco Moser and bid committee co-presidents Teofilo Sanson and Giovanni Rana handed over the formal application documents to Dominique Raymond and Agostino Omini of the UCI. Sanson, president of the 1999 World Championships organizing committee, said: "No-one can beat the splendor of Verona and its lake (Lake Garda)." Verona faces competition from both home and abroad. Three other Italian cities, Cuneo, Imola and Caneva are all in the
Three cyclists with the Italian-Colombian cycling team Selle Italia have been placed under formal investigation by Modena magistrates after doping products were discovered in the team's car, judicial sources said Tuesday. The riders are José Gonzalez, Freddy Gonzalez, and Ruber Marin. Team manager Gianni Savio, sporting directors Fabio Becherini and Enzo Erluison, and team doctor Nino Alberto Beltran, who was driving the car, have also been charged. On March 22 the car was stopped for a routine police check but the officers found chemical products including anabolic steroids, corticoids
Former U.S. Junior national team coach René Wenzel has formally denied charges that he doped his riders 11 years ago in papers filed in U.S. District Court in Colorado, in response to a lawsuit filed against him by Greg Strock, a one-time member of the team. Wenzel is also seeking damages from Strock and a U.S. Olympic Committee official for public statements they made in connection with the case. In a lawsuit filed late last year against Wenzel and USA Cycling, Strock outlined a series of charges, including allegations that Wenzel and another coach had on several occasions in 1990 injected
Wenzel says Strock's illness wasn't serious enough to end career.
Verbrugghe won two of three stages to take the win
The field passes the Meuse River
On Friday the UCI became the first sports federation to announce the employment of a test for EPO, to be introduced on April 1. The test has been developed primarily as a response to revelations of widespread EPO use in professional cycling. Former French Cycling Federation president Daniel Baal called the validation of a test for the endurance stimulant EPO "historic" and said that it will change the face of drug abuse in cycling. "Everything we've gone through the past few years would not have happened if, technically, this method of testing had been available," Baal told AFP shortly
The UCI announced Thursday that it will unveil a new drug to detect EPO (erythropoietin) on Friday. According to a report by AFP, the new test will employ both blood and urine sample testing, and will first be used at the Tour of Flanders World Cup race on April 8. UCI president Hein Verbruggen announced in December that the problem of finding an acceptable test for cyclists would be "resolved before April." EPO has, until now, been relatively undetectable. Under current procedures, a rider who exceeds the hematocrit (red blood cell) threshold of 50 is given a 15-day "warning" in order to
Laurent Jalabert has chosen the April 25-29 German stage race, the Tour of Lower Saxony, as the place to start his comeback. The 32-year-old Frenchman, world No. 1 from 1995 to 2000, is putting in three to five hours of training per day after the freak accident on February 12, when he fell off a ladder and fractured three vertebrae. Jalabert says his morale is "high" and if his Danish team CSC-Online is invited, he should be ready for his main focus of the season, the Tour de France. "I'm happy, I've got back to some semblance of normal activity," said Jalabert, talking to a few
Peat explains how he did it.
Chausson looks good here, but it wasn't good enough.
Dunlap won the sprint, but Alexander won the war.
It wasn't the plan, but Alexander wasn't complaining.
The top three in the men's GC -- Van Dooren, Brentjens and Green.
Bartoli and Rebellin on the Poggio
Colombo on the Poggio
Lopes knocked off Bootes, last year's Sea Otter champ.
Giove was ahead here, but Chasson was ahead when it counted.
Bootes knocked off King and Carter to advance to the finals.
Gracia got knocked out in the second round, but hung around to compete in the big-air contest
Ellsworth's John Jesme didn't win, but this back flip got the biggest big-air applause
Brentjens was all smiles after the short track