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World's No. 2 Katie Compton will lead the women's team to Treviso

USA Cycling has announced the first round of nominations to the U.S. national team for the 2008 UCI Cyclocross World Championships in Treviso, Italy,January 26-27. Sixteen athletes were nominated to the squad in the elite women’s, U23 men’s and junior men’s categories based on their competitive performance over the course of the last year. The elite men’s nominations will be announced on January 14 following the next two rounds of the UCI’s World Cup in Belgium and France.

Officials in Scotland are campaigning to have cycling's premier event, the Tour de France, come to Scotland within the next few years. The summer marathon on two-wheels staged a major success this year with huge crowds turning out to see the prologue time-trial in London followed by a first stage down to the Channel coast. And with cycling a boom sport north of the border, the national events agency EventScotland believes the time is ripe to lure the Tour. The organisation's corporate communications manager Leon Thompson told The Scotsman newspaper that negotiations are underway to

The French national anti-doping laboratory at Châtenay-Malabry has confirmed the positive doping test for Spanish rider Iban Mayo, the daily sports newspaper l'Equipe reported on Wednesday. Mayo, of the Saunier Duval team, was originally cleared by the Spanish cycling federation (RFEC) for the same offense. The Spanish cycling federation in October cleared Mayo, who tested positive for blood-booster EPO during the 2007 Tour de France, claiming his second sample was negative. However cycling's world governing body the UCI said at the time the second sample needed to be reanalysed.

So here you are in the middle of December and perhaps you already have a few holiday parties under your belt. How many rides or workouts have you already missed this month due to the change in season and a busy schedule?

American Floyd Landis, stripped of his 2006 Tour de France title for doping, was on Wednesday banned from all competitions in France by the country's anti-doping agency AFLD. Landis tested positive for testosterone on July 20 last year and was suspended from competition for two years by a three-member panel organized by the North American Arbitration Association in September. Landis has appealed the ban, which expires on January 29, 2009, to the International Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Mayo still faces a long road back to the peloton

Feel a little bloated over the holidays? Don't freak.

Landis, at last summer's USADA hearing, lost a round in France on Wednesday.

The Worlds First Ironbridge Shropshire England

cinder track

Smiles fro a Clyesdale at Folsom Lake, CA

Race leaders with 3km to go on Brasstown Bald TdG 2007

Yoga for Athletes

CX- SoCal style!

LAKE FOREST and SAN CARLOS, Calif. - Dec. 18, 2007 - GT Bicycles and Ritchey Design Inc. today announced the signing of sponsorship agreements with the Jelly Belly Pro Cycling Team, a continental road cycling team. As a direct result of a strategic partnership with Jelly Belly Pro Cycling Team's apparel sponsor Champion System, GT Bicycles signed a deal to become the exclusive bicycle frame supplier for two years starting January 1, 2008. Ritchey Design will be the exclusive provider of handlebars, stems and seatposts to the Jelly Belly Pro Cycling Team for the 2008 racing season.

Organizers released details of the 2008 Tour de Langkawi on Monday, with the riders facing the formidable hors categorie stage to the Genting Highlands on the second day of the race. The Malaysian state of Johor is expected to play a major role in the 13th edition of the Tour de Langkawi when the southern state hosts three of the nine stages in a revamped route for the race scheduled for February 9-17. The route takes a significant departure from past editions, with the stage to Genting now longer and appearing earlier than it ever has before.

Our latest reader-submitted photo gallery is now ready for your viewing pleasure. Of course, a new gallery also means the naming of the winner of our most recent contest.

The chief counsel of the Italian National Olympic Committee (CONI) has asked the organization’s disciplinary committee to impose a life-time suspension for former Tinkoff rider Ruggero Marzoli. The 31-year-old Marzoli was named in the ongoing "Oil for drugs," scandal. The panel’s attorney noted that the rider had already served a four-month suspension for doping in 1999 and should, therefore, be banned from sport for life, in keeping with the World Anti-Doping Code. The panel will review the case and determine whether or not to act on the recommendation. The prosecutor’s office also

The Health Net-Maxxis team made one final roster addition this week by re-signing veteran sprinter and one-day specialist Kirk O’Bee for the 2008 season. “We’re really fortunate and excited to have a rider of Kirk’s quality back with the squad for the coming season,” noted team directeur sportif Mike Tamayo. O’Bee said he, too, is pleased to be back in Health Net – Maxxis colors for next season. “I’m really comfortable working with this team,” he said. “I know everyone. I had fun racing with these guys last year. We have a good squad and I want to help keep things going.” After a

Big changes in store for 2008

CX...SoCal style!

Health Net inks deal with O'Bee

Cyclocross Nationals 35 39

My Honeymoon in Esmeraldas, Ecuador

Mike B. climbs San Juan Trail

Saul Raisin 2007 Tour of California Prologue

Alberto Contador greets fans at Tour of Mo stage 1

Lance-2007 LiveStrong Challenge, Dripping Springs, TX

Fremont Peak on a Chilly Morning

On our way to the Col Du Tourmalet

OKHT 30th edition

Julie Sroka/Bear Naked Cannondale at the KC Cyclocross (Ice) Nationals

Dacia last push up Ventoux

Team Paisano TTT Champs 2006 Ike Park

KISSCROSS - Ridgepoint Church, Holland, Michigan

Snow Much Fun

Ivan Dominguez - Stage 6 Tour of Missouri

Team Cycle Depot 2007 Central New Hampshire Road Race

Trebon taming the Green Monster in KY

Hand Cycle Race at the Wichita Cyclefest Scare Crow Crit

On the way home from Junior Track Natz somewhere in Colorado off the 70, I guess the kids kicked up some dust

Toto Cyclocross Race

Snow in Ohio???

dan dead serious at the 13 hrs of santos

Matt the MT Biker

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Italy’s Olympic committee has handed down a life-time ban to Carlo Santuccione, the doctor at the center of the “Oil for Drugs” investigation that has involved several high-profile athletes, including Giro d’Italia winner Danilo Di Luca. A disciplinary panel of Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) on Monday ruled that Santuccione could no longer associate himself with athletes, sporting events or organizations for the remainder of his career because of his involvement in the distribution of performance-enhancing substances. Santuccione had already served a five-year suspension from cycling,

Suffering through an LT Test

Go, man, go! Young fans at Le Grand Depart, London 2007

B-Dwight "racing" at Fruita Fat Tire 2003

Pre-Decent - Copper Canyon, Mexico

Jake and Linda Wells/Happy Ending at Nats

It’s been a busy year for Georgia Gould. The 27-year-old swept the National Mountain Bike Series, grabbed her first podium finish at a UCI World Cup, a top-10 at the UCI mountain-bike world championships and won the Crank Brother’s U.S. Gran Prix of Cyclocross series. And now, the Luna rider is taking on the Union Cycliste International, asking for equal minimum prize money payouts for the top finishers in both women’s and men’s races.

To: Union Cycliste Internationale (U.C.I.)

It took Tim Johnson seven years to return to the top of American cyclocross, and it was fitting that the Massachusetts native grabbed his second-career elite ’cross title on a snowy day in Kansas City.

The snow stopped, the sun came out, but conditions were still tough on the final day of the 2007 USA Cycling cyclocross national championships. [nid:41624]Mud, wind and cold aside, our man Casey Gibson braved the elements to document events as he saw them.

Georgia Gould believes in equal minimum payouts for men and women.

Gould en route to victory in Park City, Utah.

Johnson wins in KC again....

Page was on track for a win... but ran into trouble.

Page gave chase, but...

Off she goes....