Slipstream-Chipotle heads into this weekend’s Tour of Flanders and next week’s Paris-Roubaix motivated to rise to the challenge in its debut in cycling’s most punishing one-day races. If the team’s ride at Milan-San Remo last month is any indication, when Will Frischkorn worked into the day’s main breakaway and Julian Dean finished in the top 25, the team should be right in the mix for its first run over the cobblestones of the northern classics.
Leif Hoste’s dream of winning the Tour of Flanders is turning into a nightmare. Three times second in the past four years, Hoste has come as close as a Belgian rider can get to heaven without riding through the pearly gates.
Catch me if you can - you too Daddy!
Former Coors Light great Michael Engleman has a chat with some of his riders from the US Women's Cycling Development program.
Anne Samplonius is still out there racing, with dripping sweat showing the effort.
Dominique Rollin was the surprise of the prologue, hauling his sprinters body up the hill to 3rd place.
Hincapie™ Sportswear, Inc., a leading manufacturer and marketer of distinctive clothing for the performance cyclist, has been chosen as the official cycling apparel supplier for the 2008 Tour de Georgia presented by AT&T (Tour) for the third consecutive year. Hincapie will provide premium, Tour-custom cycling apparel for stage winners, race leaders and souvenir sales. Designs for the 2008 award jerseys were provided for a fourth consecutive year by Bigelow Advertising, based in Atlanta, Ga.
Handmade bicycle exhibit opens TODAY at PDX More than three million airline passengers are expected to see the showcase of frames designed and built in Oregon
Eleven Elite Cycling Teams from around the United States have been selected from over fifty applications to compete in the American Eagle Outfitters Tour of Pennsylvania Presented by Highmark Healthy High 5®, a U-25 cycling stage race taking place from June 24 thru June 29, 2008. The lucky eleven will face the seven international squads from Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Ireland, Netherlands and South Africa that were named on March 18.
Hamilton, behind Jeremiah Wiscovich, oversees the chase at stage 2 at San Dimas last weekend.
Thousands Are “Legal to Ride” at the start of the 2008 Cycling Season in Colorado May 30 to June 1 in Castle Rock REGISTRATION is now more than half full; May 14 is mail-in deadline; May 28 is regular deadline Where can you find an 8-mile family course, 32, 50, 65, 100-mile road rides, a 25-mile off-road course and a 24-hour ride during a weekend? The annual pilgrimage to Castle Rock, Colo.,marks the first major cycling festival of the season for participants from near and far.
Continuing the excitement generated last year throughout the national cycling community, Carrera de San Rafael announces important changes to its 2008 event. Project Sport, LLC, one of the largest sports marketing companies in the San Francisco Bay Area, has acquired this premier cycling event that will return to the streets of downtown San Rafael on its new date of Saturday, August 9, 2008.
The Redlands Classic, which begins Thursday April 3 in Southern California, marks the opening of the USA Cycling NRC series. By this time of the year, the NRC competition is usually well under way. But with the MERCO races in Merced and the Central Valley Classic in Fresno not having NRC status this year, the race for the NRC crown is off to a late start.
After my posting about Cristina’s accident, I was flooded with emails from friends encouraging me to keep riding. It was really great to get all the support from home and to know that you were all still tuning in, despite my unofficial ranking. You will all be happy to know I’m still competing in my own personal race here at the Cape Epic. Today was stage 6 and the last of the really long stages. The last two will both be less than 100km.
Two-time Tour of Flanders winner Tom Boonen wants to make it a hat trick this weekend on home roads. A winner in 2005 and 2006, Boonen couldn’t meet expectations last year and finished 12th as Alessandro Ballan (Lampre) pipped Leif Hoste (Silence-Lotto) for a career-defining victory. This year, Boonen has taken a quieter route to the northern classics and he’s hoping it will pay off with a strong ride Sunday.
For the first time since winning the prologue, the MTN Energade team of Kevin Evans and David George won Thursday's 130km Absa Cape Epic stage in a sprint with two other teams. The previous day's stage winners, the Bulls team of Karl Platt and Stefan Sahm, were second, followed one second later by the Cannondale Vredestein team, Roel Paulissen and Jakob Fuglsang, who aggressively defended their overall lead. On stage 5 Paulissen had to ride the final 18km on a bare rim and the team finished in fifth position, losing about half of its overall lead.
Dutch flier Joost Posthuma (Rabobank) pulled the double in Thursday’s time trial finale at the Three Days of De Panne to claim the stage and the overall crown in one hard effort. Posthuma had just enough in the tank to erase a 27-second gap to overnight leader Enrico Gasparotto (Barloworld) to vault from eighth to the top spot on the podium.
Riders Get Chance to Earn A Spot on The Nature Valley Cycling Team and Compete in The 2008 Nature Valley Grand Prix
The International Council of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has named Italian Mino Auletta to be its president. Auletta has been interim president since the death of Judge Ke?ba Mbaye last January. Mbaye was the president and founder of the organization. Outspoken Canadian Dick Pound, the former president of the World Anti-Doping Agency had been lobbying for the position.
Professional endurance competitor Rebecca Rusch has tackled her fair share of adventure races and 24-Hour mountain bike races throughout the years. Now, the Idahoan is in South Africa, at the Absa Cape Epic, a nine-day endurance mountain bike stage race across the country’s scenic Western Cape. Following an accident that resulted in a broken collarbone, teammate Cristina Begy withdrew from the race, but Rusch decided to continue, albeit unofficially, on her own. — Editor
David George and Kevin Evans of MTN 1 sprint to victory during stage 6 of the 2008 Absa Cape Epic Mountain Bike stage race from Bredasdorp to Hermanus in the Western Cape, South Africa.
Eugene A. Sloane, the author of the 1970s Bike Boom bestseller The Complete Book of Bicycling, died in Illinois this weekend. He was 91 and died for complications from pneumonia, according to the Chicago Tribune. Sloane published his first cycling book in 1970. It was followed by Sloane's Handy Pocket Guide to Bicycle Repair and Sloane's Complete Book of All-Terrain Bicycles. Sloane's sons told the Times that their father had many interests that, variously, bordered on obsessions, including sailing, motorcycling and photography. Services will be private.
For the second day in a row, British sprinter Mark Cavendish bested the pack in Belgium’s Three Days of De Panne. The High Road fastman out-kicked Francesco Chicchi (Liquigas) to win Thursday’s 119km morning sector as part of the two-stage finale. Slovenian Borut Bozic (Collstop) came through second with Danilo Napolitano (Lampre) fourth. Like he did in Wednesday’s stage, Cavendish won once again in a long sprint. Italian Enrico Gasparotto (Barloworld) conserved his leader’s jersey going into the afternoon’s decisive 14km individual time trial.
Editor's note: the following is an essay written by 1984 Olympic gold medalist Alexi Grewal. A full article on Grewal and his admitted use of performance enhancing drugs appears in the April 15 issue of VeloNews. Sons have a propensity to follow in their father’s footsteps. For that very reason I write this. My son, your son or daughter, should have the right to find the sport better than it is now or was in our day.
The pro racer’s association is threatening legal action within a week if portions of prize money from the 2007 Tour de France being withheld by the French cycling federation are left unpaid. The Professional Cyclists Association (CPA) issued the threat Wednesday in the face of more stalling from the French cycling federation, which is charged with handing out of the Tour prize money. According to a CPA communiqué, the entire prize money allotment totally more than $4 million should have been paid by Oct. 27, 2007, but the French cycling federation has yet to release all the money.