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Tech Report: What we didn't see in 'Vegas

This week, we're following up on a question from J.R. from New Hampshire,who asked about team contracts:"How is it that racers can negotiate deals for the following seasonwhen they are under contract with a team for the current season. When arider is thinking about jumping to another team it can't make for the bestteam chemistry. In professional leagues there rules against this, aren'tthere?"Lastweek, we looked at general American law. Unfortunately, general lawdoesn't mean much when you face league restrictions, such as this examplefrom the National Hockey League:TamperingAny action by an

Cipollini breaking Alfredo Binda's Giro record in 2003

The Russian Olympic Committee has filed an appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport seeking to strip American Tyler Hamilton of his Olympic time-trial gold medal and give it to Viatcheslav Ekimov because of a doping controversy. A committee statement issued Wednesday said its appeal was filed with the Lausanne, Switzerland-based court last Thursday. "The ROC insists on the disqualification of Hamilton," the statement said. Hamilton edged Ekimov in the Athens Olympics in August. (see"Hamilton takes Olympic TT") An initial doping test led to suspicions Hamilton had used a blood

The Mail Bag is a regular feature on VeloNews.com. If you have a comment, an opinion or observation regarding anything you have seen in cycling, in VeloNews magazine or on VeloNews.com, write to WebLetters@InsideInc.com. Please include your full name and home town. Letters may be edited for length and clarity.Literary foolsVelo,Hey, nice piece of writing, Hunter S. would be proud (see "Friday'sfoaming rant: Trick or treat").  Maybe it’s the water herein Colorado.Just one question, though: How the hell do you punks know about thereal Thomas Wolfe?Thanks,Phil StruveColoradoPhil, we have to

Congress Honors Mountain BikingIn an effort to get kids more active and help fight childhood obesity,the U.S. House of Representatives has passed a resolution officially declaring"National Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day." The legislation is in memoryof Jack Doub, a teenage mountain biker from North Carolina.Promoted by the International Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA),National Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day encourages adults and cycling clubsto introduce kids to the sport of mountain biking. The day is scheduledfor the first Saturday of October each year.The House adopted House

Will Pereiro be the last pro winner of the Classique des Alpes?

Tech Report with Lennard Zinn: More from 'Vegas

Tech Report with Lennard Zinn: More from 'Vegas

Tech Report with Lennard Zinn: More from 'Vegas

Show me the money

Tech Report with Lennard Zinn: More from 'Vegas

Cipollini may be looking for a new ride

Tech Report with Lennard Zinn: More from 'Vegas

Tech Report with Lennard Zinn: More from 'Vegas

Tech Report with Lennard Zinn: More from 'Vegas

Tech Report with Lennard Zinn: More from 'Vegas

Tech Report with Lennard Zinn: More from 'Vegas

Tech Report with Lennard Zinn: More from 'Vegas

Tech Report with Lennard Zinn: More from 'Vegas

Tech Report with Lennard Zinn: More from 'Vegas

Tech Report with Lennard Zinn: More from 'Vegas

Tech Report with Lennard Zinn: More from 'Vegas

Tech Report with Lennard Zinn: More from 'Vegas

The Mail Bag is a regular feature on VeloNews.com. If you have a comment, an opinion or observation regarding anything you have seen in cycling, in VeloNews magazine or on VeloNews.com, write to WebLetters@InsideInc.com. Please include your full name and home town. Letters may be edited for length and clarity. Rody Kickham was a decent fellow… is O’Grady?Dear editor,Well, you asked! To me, reading Patrick O'Grady's rant this week (see"Friday'sfoaming rant: Trick or treat") reminds me of inadvertently sittingnext to a schizophrenic on public transit.You know what I mean. The guy is obviously

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Cunego takes the World Cup finale

Tiralongo, Flecha and Quinziato in an early break

Basso, Evans and Boogerd on the Madonna del Ghisallo

Bettini wasn't letting Rebellin go anywhere without him

Nozal has a dig

There are worse places to wrap up a World Cup than around Lake Como

The champ enjoys a moment on the podium

Vanthourenhout puts the hurt on the field on Saturday

McConneloug in her first real 'cross ride of the season

McCormack has returned running to his training regimen

The Mail Bag is a regular feature on VeloNews.com. If you have a comment, an opinion or observation regarding anything you have seen in cycling, in VeloNews magazine or on VeloNews.com, write to WebLetters@InsideInc.com. Please include your full name and home town. Letters may be edited for length and clarity.Is a DNA test too ‘CSI’ for cycling?Editor:If the claim is that Tyler doped with someone else's blood, seems like the lab could extract the DNA of the other person from the blood samples and prove it conclusively. Then again, maybe I have seen too many episodes of “CSI” on TV. Larry

All things on earth point home in old October: sailors to sea, travelers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.–Thomas Wolfe, Of Time and the River It’s finally October, and like you I’m hoping for a few treats come Halloween, because we’ve already gotten more than enough tricks this racing season. Actually, the entire year has had a costume-party air to it, with dope fiends dressed up as pro bicycle racers, George W. Bush masquerading as the president of the United States and Iraq all tricked out like

Our editor at large dressed up as a journalist at Interbike ... a bit early for Halloween, it's true, but he drew cheers anyway

Jullien Absalon's gold medal rig

Who said the carbon trend is getting out of hand? You’re telling me you don’t need a carbon (or white carbon) razor?!?!?!

The past two months haven’t been easy for Phil Zajicek. On August 18, threeweeks after the easygoing 25-year-old Tucson, Arizona, resident took thebiggest stage race win in the 12-year history of the Navigators Insurancecycling team when he won the overall at the UCI 2.3 Tour of Qinghai Lake,Zajicek received word that he had failed a drug test after stage 6, onJuly 22, while wearing the leader’s jersey. No, Zajicek didn’t test positive for the red-blood cell boosting Erythropoietin(EPO). It wasn’t Human Growth Hormone (HGH), anabolic steroids or a diureticmasking agent, either. Zajicek

In this week’s column we explore Part 1 of a two-part answer to a reader’s question about professional sports contracts. While the analysis is a bit in-depth, should make for good and informative reading now that a lot of you are on break.Dear Bob,How is it that racers can negotiate deals for the following seasonwhen they are under contract with a team for the current season. When arider is thinking about jumping to another team it can't make for the bestteam chemistry.In professional leagues there rules against this, aren't there?J.R.New HampshireDear J.R,Yes, there are rules against it in

Wearing the leader's jersey at the Tour of Qinghai Lake

Specialized’s Kevin Franks gives a sneak peek at at 2005 1/2 S-Works Roubaix which is said to weigh in at less than 1000 grams (for a 56cm).

Want lighter? Sub 10 pound project bikes were the rage this year-note the carbon chainrings on this Litespeed

Chistophe Sauser’s 20.5 pound raceable full suspension Scalpel

Cedric Gracia’s pink team issue Prophet

JHK’s Olympic Tomac Buckshot, complete with fresh Athens dirt

Geoff Kabush’s custom Turner Nitrous

The Mail Bag is a regular feature on VeloNews.com. If you have a comment, an opinion or observation regarding anything you have seen in cycling, in VeloNews magazine or on VeloNews.com, write to WebLetters@InsideInc.com. Please include your full name and home town. Letters may be edited for length and clarity.How about amnesty followed by lifetime bans?Editor:While it may never be possible to eliminate the use of performance-enhancing illegal substances in sports in general, and cycling in particular, perhaps we need a clean start. Anyone who confesses that he or she has used banned

Stung by criticism of its action, a high school district has reversed a decision to disqualify cross country runners for wearing Lance Armstrong LiveStrong wristbands. The decision was reversed because “adequate prior notice had not been given to the participants,” Bruce Biehl, Kellam High School's principal and chairman of Beach District cross country, said in a statement released Tuesday. More than 20 runners were declared ineligible in a meet last Wednesday for wearing the popular LiveStrong bands, sold for $1 apiece. Proceeds go to the Lance Armstrong Foundation, which provides

Johnson negotiates the deeper sandpit

Schwartz skirts the edge of the sand to avoid a traffic jam in mid-pit

Verbruggen

The Mail Bag is a regular feature on VeloNews.com. If you have a comment, an opinion or observation regarding anything you have seen in cycling, in VeloNews magazine or on VeloNews.com, write to WebLetters@InsideInc.com. Please include your full name and home town. Letters may be edited for length and clarity.Tell us, TylerEditor:It’s easy — Tyler Hamilton should simply say that he has never had a blood transfusion, using these words: “I did not have a transfusion of blood. I did not and do not cheat. Not by yesterday’s rules, today’s rules or tomorrow’s rules!” We all cheer the American

Bettini had a lot at stake.

Dekker was in the early break, too

The chase is on.

Cofidis in pursuit

Adam Craig gets away

Kabush

Kabush leads on the run-up

Craig, Hall victorious in Tacoma 'cross

Even in white, everyone stayed clean in these conditions

Zdenek Mlynar

Mlynar went down, too, but managed to chase back

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Dekker holds them off

Both men have made the podium quite often this season

Knapp fights her way up through the mud