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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. We get a lot of bike-commuting pictures – especially for a racing mag’ – and we’ve even picked a few as winners. None has captured the imagination as has Fred Hall’s “Commuter Parking – Train Station, Malmo, Sweden.” Wow… not a car in sight. How civilized can you get? Nice work Fred! Please drop us a note at Rosters@InsideInc.comto work out the details and we’ll send you a copy of our new Coors Classic DVD.

Jonathan Vaughters says the future of Slipstream-Chipotle is secure for the 2008-09 seasons. While Vaughters and Slipstream Sports chairman Doug Ellis currently shop for a title sponsor, the team has guaranteed funding to continue with their ambitious goal of pushing the U.S. squad into the Tour de France and the ProTour league within two years. “We have cash in hand to continue through 2008-09 no matter what,” Vaughters said. “Whether we find a big sponsor or not, we’re around next year and the next.” Unlike most cycling teams, which require a major title sponsor to pony up a large

Organizers of the 2007 Teva Mountain Games were quick to credit the “Floyd Factor” for the record number of participants registered for the Trek Hill Climb, a 9.8-mile road time-trial up Colorado’s Vail Pass. More than 150 elite and amateur cyclists showed up for the event — 40 more than in 2006. For all riders, the race was a unique chance to test their legs against that of Floyd Landis, the embattled 2006 Tour de France Champ. For Landis, the ride marked his first road race since he learned that he had tested positive for exogenous testosterone after stage 17 of the 2006 Tour. The

David de la Fuente made the most of his Tour in '06.

VeloNews Photo Contest: A new winner and a new gallery

Landis' appearance drew a lot of attention

At 51, Overend shows no interest in slowing down

1. Danilo Di Luca (I), Liquigas, 92:59:39
2. Andy Schleck (Lux), CSC, 1:55
3. Eddy Mazzoleni (I), Astana, 2:25
4. Gilberto Simoni (I), Saunier Duval, 3:15
5. Damiano Cunego (I), Lampre, 3:49
6. Riccardo Ricco' (I), Saunier Duval, 7:00
7. Evgeni Petrov (Rus), Tinkoff Credit Systems, 8:34
8. Marzio Bruseghin (I), Lampre, 10:14
9. Franco Pellizotti (I), Liquigas, 10:44
10. David Arroyo Duran (Sp), Caisse d'Epargne, 11:58
11. Emanuele Sella (I), Ceramica Panaria - Navigare, 13:08
12. Paolo Savoldelli (I), Astana, 13:30

Floyd Landis looked a little like a fish out of water as he slung his leg over a green BMC mountain bike and rolled to the starting line of the 2007 Teva Mountain Games cross-country race, held June 2 in Vail, Colorado. Sporting an orange jersey emblazoned the logo of Smith and Nephew — the British medical firm that gave him a new hip in September 2006 — Landis was competing in his first cycling race since learning that his urine sample from Stage 17 of the 2006 Tour tested positive for exogenous testosterone. But Landis — famous for his exploits on the road bike — was also racing in his

After 3442 kilometers and 21 grueling stages, Danilo Di Luca stood above all others atop the Milan podium Sunday, as overall winner of 90th Giro d'Italia.

Discovery Channel rider Vladimir Gusev won the overall title in the Tour of Belgium on Sunday. The Russian classics specialist finished 39 seconds ahead of Maaten Tjallingii with Leif Hoste nabbing third at 40 seconds back. Tom Boonen (Quick Step) snagged his first win since returning to competition after a three-week break to recover from injury after sprinting to victory in the 148.8km final stage from Aywaille to Putte. Kenny Van Hummel (Skil-Shimano) was second with Allan Davis (Discovery Channel) coming through third. Tyler Farrar (Cofidis) was 10th. “This morning I asked my teammates

Consolation was the theme for the winners of Sunday’s finale in the Mt. Hood Cycling Classic, the stage-6 Downtown Hood River Criterium. For men’s winner Heath Blackgrove of Toyota-United, the win was a welcome return to racing after a spring season derailed by a nagging knee injury. The win was also a gift to his Toyota-United team, which had not yet won a stage and was not able to land a rider on the podium overall. For women’s criterium winner Katherine Carroll, who collected her second stage victory, it was the next best thing to her Aaron’s Corporate Furnishings team winning the

T-Mobile’s Austrian sprinter Bernhard Eisel, fresh off his flight from Europe, shook off his jet lag by winning the first race of the Commerce Bank Triple Crown series, the Tom Bamford Lancaster Classic in Pennsylvania. Riders were greeted by rain as the remains of a tropical storm passed through the area, leading to numerous flats and a few tumbles over the early stages of the 13-lap race. Eisel first emerged with 3 laps of the 6.5 mile circuit remaining, going clear of the field in a seven-rider move that rolled away following a series of brief attacks. With Sergey Lagutin (Navigators),

Still in the spot-light.

Landis toes the line for the first time in many months

Petacchi wins his fifth stage of the 2007 Giro

Di Luca had a relaxed ride into Milan

At last, the prize

The engineer and his train

The champ finishes

Eisel takes a soggy win

And just think — the weather only got worse

Lagutin up front

The men's podium

O'Neill had to defend from the front

The women's break . . .

. . . and the narrow victory

Teutenberg won the women's race

The peloton in the park

Maglia rosa Danilo Di Luca's victory in the 90th Giro is all but assured after his performance Saturday, which saw him finish eighth to Astana's Paolo Savoldelli in a 43km time trial to Verona. With an enviable two-and-a-half minute advantage to Team CSC's Andy Schleck at the start of the day, Di Luca was never really in danger of losing his overall lead. The Liquigas captain finished just 29 seconds slower than the young Luxembourger, with Schleck also doing more than enough to retain his second place overall.

Olympic chief Jacques Rogge said Saturday that former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich could be stripped of his Olympic gold and silver medals from the Games in 2000. Ullrich won the men's Olympic road race in Sydney, where riders from his Telekom team also took the silver and bronze medals, and also claimed silver in the time trial. However, the German is among several top cyclists on whom suspicion has fallen in the wake of a series of doping confessions and revelations from former doctors, trainers and cyclists with links to the Telekom cycling team. Although Ullrich, now retired,

The Mt. Hood Cycling Classic’s Wy’East Road Race lived up to all expectations, delivering suffering, anguish and heartbreak for many of the day’s stage and overall contenders, and ultimately relief for the GC leaders of the pro men’s and women’s fields. Saturday’s epic 89.5-mile slog from Cooper Spur Mountain Resort to Mt. Hood Meadows Ski Resort dished up 9200 feet of elevation gain and saw a pair of first-time Mt. Hood stage winners in Darren Lill (Navigators Insurance) and Felicia Gomez (Aaron’s Corporate Furnishings). Neither rider was able to take over the general classification,

Rashaan Bahati delivered his first-year Rock Racing team its biggest win yet on Saturday afternoon in Arlington, Virginia, blazing to the head of a field sprint to take home the 10th edition of the CSC Invitational. Laura Van Gilder (Cheerwine) won the women’s race, outsprinting race-long breakaway companion Rebecca Larson (Aaron’s Corporate Furnishings). Sarah Uhl (Cheerwine) was third. Bahati in the heatWith temperatures hovering around the 90-degree mark, it was once again a race of attrition on the notoriously difficult 1km, five-turn course, which winds its way through Arlington’s

Italian Fabiana Luperini (Menikini-Selle Italia-Gysko) ignited the definitive break and outsprinted American Mara Abbott (Webcor) to win the sixth round of the Women's World Cup series in Montréal on Saturday. Luperini rode Abbott's wheel into the finishing straight and easily came around her in the final 100 meters for the win. Once again, the quality of the Montréal course came to the forefront. With 11 laps of an 11km circuit, including the famed climb up Mont Royal, attrition is always the name of the game here. Numerous attacks always take place, but it is a difficult course to

Savoldelli rides to victory in Verona.

Mazzoleni slots in for a 1-2 Astana finish

Zabriskie makes the podium in third

Di Luca rode a respectable race to defend his maglia rosa

And to the victor (well, come Sunday, anyway) go the spoils

Schleck rode the ITT of his life

Bahati saw his chance and jumped at it

CSC was running its train toward the finish, hoping to set up Haedo

Toyota United's Stevic hoped to pull off the win, but a miscue cost him the V

Luperini takes the win

O'Neill remains in yellow going into Sunday's finale

Goldstein, a former Israeli soldier and kickboxing champ, took a pummeling

Abbott rides to second in her first international race

The men's break

Health Net masses at the front of the bunch

Lill was clearly the strongest

The women's break

Gomez guts it out to the win

Gomez congratulates a 'very, very tough' Goldstein

Navigators powers the break through the feed zone

The race's namesake looms in the background

Friday's foul weather did nothing to curb the inner aggression of Basque Iban Mayo (Saunier Duval-Prodir), whose beautiful pedaling motion returned, to the bane of his breakaway companions, on the 19th stage of the Giro, triumphing with a solo victory in Comano Terme. Not content to sit in a seven-man lead group after the midway climb of the Pian delle Fugazze, especially with Acqua & Sapone's Stefano Garzelli by his side, Mayo chose fellow Spaniard Alberto Losada (Caisse d'Epargne) as his partner in crime.

Spanish star Alejandro Valverde finds himself treading increasingly dangerous water in the face of increasing speculation that he might be one of the unnamed riders among the Operación Puerto papers that continue to haunt cycling. Valverde admitted that he knows controversial doctor Eufemiano Fuentes, the alleged ringleader at the center of the Puerto doping scandal, during his tenure at Kelme from 2002-04 when Fuentes worked as the team’s doctor. Valverde even said he has a dog named Piti, but denied it links him to the ongoing doping scandal. “I know Fuentes from my time at Kelme, but

The individual time trial is often referred to as the race of truth, and after two time trials in four days at the Mt. Hood Cycling Classic, Health Net-Maxxis rider Nathan O’Neill has a pair of yellow leader’s jerseys to testify to his dominance over the pro-1-2 field assembled in Hood River, Oregon. As expected, the race’s defending champion won the 18.5-mile Scenic Gorge individual time trial on Friday. But the eight-time national Australian time-trial champ didn't quite dominate the stage as had been predicted by many, including O’Neill. Instead O’Neill’s time of 40:25 narrowly beat

Two decades of American presence in the European peloton are under threat by cycling’s credibility crisis in the face of a non-stop barrage of doping scandals. For the first time since 7-Eleven paved the way with its pioneering start in the 1985 Giro d’Italia, there is a very real possibility there will not be a U.S.-sponsored team in the ProTour European peloton next season. Why? Because U.S. corporations seem less willing to take a multi-million risk on cycling’s bad-boy doping image. Two major American teams are scrambling to find sponsors for the 2008 season, and both are finding a

Mayo's win capped off an aggressive ride.

Safely tucked in the peloton, Di Luca rode one stage closer to an overall Giro title.

This early dig had just a little too much horsepower for some people's taste.

Liquigas had one job... protect the guy in pink.

Losada and Mayo form a temporary alliance.

Petrov chases the two escapees.

Just keep the gap small... and try to stay dry.

Riis's confession might be good for the soul, but how does it affect the bottom line? Only his American sponsor knows for sure.

O'Neill wins, as expected

Jacques-Maynes prefers a flatter course

Zajieck: Little drag, big power

Goldstein rips it

Harper slots into second

Mactier rides into third, sans sunglasses

On a summery Thursday afternoon in Riese Pio X, 33 year-old La Spezia speedster Alessandro Petacchi (Milram) avoided a final corner crash to claim his fourth victory in the 18th stage of the Giro d’Italia. Largely unaided up to the line, Petacchi, seemingly unperturbed after what happened in front of him, closed the gap to Quick Step's Matteo Tosatto with casual aplomb, launching himself down the finishing straight with nearly 600 meters remaining and charged to the line largely unchallenged.

Exactly a week after his EPO confession, German cyclist Erik Zabel admitted he was emotional after claiming his first victory of the season when he won the second stage of the Tour of Bavaria on Thursday, AFP reported. It has been an emotional week for the six-time winner of the green jersey in the Tour de France, who confessed last Thursday that he took the banned blood booster erythropoietin (EPO) while competing for German team Telekom in 1996. His current employers, Team Milram, only announced Tuesday they would honor his contract for the remainder of the 2007 season after a crisis

Tyler Farrar is racing his “home tour” this week in his adopted country of Belgium in his return to major European competition since crashing out of Ghent-Wevelgem in April. The budding Cofidis classics rider sprinted to third in Thursday’s second stage at the Tour of Belgium and fourth in Wednesday’s first stage in a clear sign that he’s doing better than expected after his nasty fall on the notorious Kemmelberg cobblestones last month. “After my crash, I went back to the U.S. to see a specialist and tests showed it wasn’t as bad as first that, so I was back on the bike after three weeks

The Mountain States Cup held its premier event, the Chile Challenge, May 26-27 at New Mexico’s Angel Fire Resort. For 2007 the event hosted the second round of the National Mountain Bike Series gravity competition. With around 1600 participants, the event is one of the largest off-road races on the continent. Those numbers aren’t a surprise — with seven events, the Mountain States Cup will attract in the neighborhood of 10,000 race starts this year, making it arguably the best-attended off-road racing series in the country. The series will also hand out $125,000 in cash and prizes — another

With just 10km remaining of the Mt. Hood Cycling Classic’s hilly stage 3 Cooper Spur Circuit Race, Navigators Insurance rider Glen Chadwick was the virtual race leader on the road, nursing a 45-second lead over a dwindling peloton. But the final climb proved to be a few kilometers too long for Chadwick to take the yellow jersey from Ben Jacques-Maynes (Priority Health-Bissell) — and almost a bit too long for Chadwick to take the stage win. Chadwick entered the day seventh on GC, 24 seconds behind Jacques-Maynes. Three and a half hours later, the Aussie attacked off the front of a dwindled

Even with his lead-out train derailed, Petacchi nails it.