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Landis spent another day in a lawyer's kit... an unwelcome and uncomfortable uniform for this time of year.

You could almost hear the “delete” buttons being tapped in the Giro d’Italia pressroom in Cagliari on the Island of Sardinia on Monday. All of those stories about how Milram’s Alessandro Petacchi was a washed-up version of yesterday’s news were sent to the trash can as the man known as Ale-Jet scored his 20th Giro stage win at the end of a largely flat, 181-kilometer stage from Barumini to Cagliari.

Perhaps more than anyone, Óscar Pereiro will be watching Monday's start of the Floyd Landis disciplinary hearing with keen interest. The 31-year-old Spanish rider has the most to gain if Landis loses in his bid to clear his name of allegations that he cheated his way to the 2006 Tour de France victory. Pereiro finished second to Landis and would be awarded the 2006 maillot jaune if things don’t swing Landis’s way. VeloNews caught up with Pereiro earlier this year to gauge his feelings on the Landis case, his own brush with scandal and what he was thinking when he jumped right back into

Floyd Landis moved a step closer to finding out whether his name will go down in Tour de France history or infamy. Landis’s scheduled 10-day arbitration hearing to determine whether he used synthetic testosterone to win the 2006 Tour commenced in the moot-courtroom of the Pepperdine University Law School in Malibu, California, with science — not cycling — taking center stage. If he wins the case he’ll avoid becoming the first Tour champion in 100 years to be stripped of his title. If Landis loses the win is no more, and he faces a two-year racing ban, and an additional two-year exclusion

Not to be denied: You just knew Petacchi had to win one of these days again.

Di Luca says he's cool with it.

A great day for the Giro's final stage on Sardinia.

The day's escape formed early

Ignatiev and Visconti go on their own...

The chase got serious with 50km to go.

Liquigas just wanted to protect the jersey.

They almost made it.

Ouch! Hushovd apparently suffered only cuts and bruises. He'll ride again on Wednesday.

Landis and wife Amber arrive at Pepperdine Law School

Christopher Campbell (L), President Patrice Brunet (C) and Richard McLaren listen during the Landis hearing.

Landis attorneys Howard Jacobs (L) and Maurice Suh listen during the hearing on the doping allegations against the 2006 Tour de France champion.

It was weekend devoted to road racing at the USA Cycling Collegiate Road National Championships in Perry, Kansas, Saturday and Sunday. In addition to hundreds of riders, our guy, Casey Gibson, was there to record it all for posterity.

Robbie McEwen doesn’t speak much Italian, but he knows enough to tell TV reporters at the finish line in a hot and challenging 205km second stage along the west coast of Sardinia that was he was tickled pink with his 12th career Giro d’Italia stage victory. The Australian pocket rocket bolted past a wilting Alessandro Petacchi (Milram) and held off a late burst by Paolo Bettini (QuickStep) to notch his 153rd career victory.

More than nine months after Floyd Landis was crowned 2006 Tour de France champion — and subsequently charged with illegal doping — the American will attempt to clear his name when his arbitration hearing begins Monday at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. The stakes are simple — and very high. If Landis and his attorneys can convince at least two members of the three-person arbitration panel that he did not use synthetic testosterone to win the ’06 Tour, he’ll retain his title and could re-commence his racing career. But if the U.S. Anti Doping Agency successfully prosecutes its

British cyclist Chris Hoy broke the high-altitude 500-meter world record at the outdoor velodrome in La Paz, Bolivia, on Sunday. Clocking a time of 24.758sec, Hoy's time knocked a massive 1.092 seconds off the previous record set by Frenchman Arnaud Duble at the same Alto Irpavi velodrome venue in 2001. Hoy had earlier failed for the second day in succession to beat the high altitude one kilometer record set by another Frenchman, Arnaud Tournant, seven years ago. Hoy, the Olympic and world kilometer champion, clocked 0:58.880, missing out on that record by just 0.005 of a second. It

Stanford University claimed the Division I road racing national championship this weekend in Lawrence, Kansas, while Western Washington University took the Division II crown at the 2007 USA Cycling Collegiate Road National Championships. After three days of racing, May 11-13, Stanford didn’t win any of the individual events – the team time trial, road race nor criterium – but instead won the Division I championship by the virtue of the consistency of its finishes. “We finally had the depth in both men and women to do it,” Stanford’s Devin Flaherty said. “Usually it’s one or the other, but

Mara Abbott, truly the hitman of Whitman.

Abbott scored her third-straight stars-and-stripes jersey, winning the women's Div. II road race

Boyd nails the men's Div. I title...

... and Dad's there to share the moment.

The view from the back of the D1 race

The dirt road, 1.5 miles of crushed limestone, certainly made it interesting. Over 100 flats, by some counts.

That's got to hurt. The chase group in the D2 men's race piles it up on the gravel.

Larson wins the Division I women's race,

Marzot wins the sprint for D2 Men's Road champ.

...and celebrates the moment in style.

Why so many flats? Crushed limestone and light tires don't mix.

Three of the best and McEwen emerges on top

McEwen phones home with the news

Di Luca takes the jersey

Spectacular scenery

Early escape, lots of work... and the inevitable catch.

Popovych is a bit sore, but 'okay,' says Discovery

First, the Villanova Monterleone trimmed the group to three...

... then Brutt tried his luck.

The peloton starts to pick up the pace...

Rebellin, Bettini and Gasparotto.

McEwen tears it up.

The Landis case enters a new phase on Monday

Landis hearing begins Monday

Antonio Gallegos

CSU's Mann adds points to his school's tally

Mara Abbott takes a corner in the D2 crit.

Mara Abbott leads the field through a corner, after being involved in the earlier crash.

Natalie Klemko of Midwestern State taking a corner...

... and winning

Jennifer Bodine picks her wheel to ride with one lap to go.

Bodine celebrates her win in the D2 crit.

D1 men's omnium winner Mark Hardman of Virginia repeats.

Charles Gallegher of Virginia Tech shows the signs of an earlier dust up.

Phil Mann of CSU

D1 Men's winner Phil Mann of CSU.

The Giro d’Italia just wouldn’t be the same without a good dose of polemica, the favored pastime of this passionate nation of 60 million souls, and there was plenty of it in Saturday’s opening stage of the 90th corsa rosa. [nid:38529]UCI president Pat McQuaid got things off to a good start when he showed up an hour before the team time trial between the Caprera and La Maddalena islands to tell Italian journalists there would be no deal-making for scandal-marred Ivan Basso (see "McQuaid:No breaks for Basso").

UCI president Pat McQuaid rejected calls that Ivan Basso should be shown clemency or portrayed as a hero for his recent admissions that he was a key figure in the Operación Puerto doping scandal. McQuaid lashed into the disgraced Italian champion despite calls from some within the Italian cycling establishment that Basso should be dealt with a softer hand when it comes dishing out disciplinary bans for his recent confessions that he worked with controversial Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes. “He has admitted his guilt, when he lied to everyone for 10 months,” McQuaid said. “He lied to the

British cyclist Chris Hoy failed in a high-altitude bid in La Paz, Bolivia, on Saturday to beat Frenchman Arnaud Tournant's seven-year world record for the one kilometer time-trial. Hoy, the Olympic and world kilometre champion, set the sea-level record of 1:00.711 when winning gold in Athens Games in 2004. On Saturday, Hoy timed 0:59.103, 0.228 seconds off Tournant's record, which was also set at the Alto Irpavi velodrome in La Paz, the world's highest track at 3417 meters above sea level. The Briton, who hit speeds of 61 kilometers per hour (37.9mph), will launch another

Now that Saturday’s team time trial has sorted out the field, the peloton in the 2007 Giro d’Italia hits the road with a 205-kilometer stage from Tempio Pausania to Bosa on the island of Sardinia. The stage offers a prime opportunity for renowned sprinters like Alessandro Petacchi, Robbie McEwen and Paolo Bettini, but the outcome is by no means a forgone conclusion. The favorites are joined in the field-sprint stakes by several impressive talents, including Thor Hushovd, Danilo Napolitano and Giro newcomer J.J. Haedo. These and others are likely to be the names we'll see contesting

Managing the heat and an aggressive peloton, Midwestern State University’s Alex Boyd captured the men’s Division I road race national title Saturday in Perry, Kansas. Racing a rolling, 28-mile circuit for three laps (84 miles), Boyd remained dormant through most of the race, the second race of the 2007 USA Cycling Collegiate Road National Championships, which began on Friday and wraps up Sunday. An eager peloton unleashed attack after attack on the country roads of east Kansas, but no riders could open up any significant gaps early on. Under an unforgiving sun, fatigue set in, and the

Enrico Gasparotto gets the first leader's jersey of the Giro.

Hoy came close in La Paz

Liquigas rode an impressive race on a difficult course.

T-Mobile opted for spoked wheels. It may have cost the team.

Astana look poised to win it all... until Liquigas lit it up.

How much time did Disco' lose because of Popo's crash?

An unusual route to the day's start.

After the fall: No worse for wear, Popovych looks ahead for the next three weeks.

Haedo, who has already scored some impressive wins this season, is an unknown quantity at this year's Giro.

Boyd scores the first win of his career in style.

The stretch of gravel road played a decisive role on Saturday...

... especially here.

Marzot takes the Div. II title

Larson played her cards right.