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The Mail Bag is a regular feature on VeloNews.com, appearing each Monday, Wednesday and Friday. 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.Study, study, study... and boycott, tooVeloNews,Regarding Burton Hathaway's letter, "Dumb Jocks versus law studenton a bike," (see "Monday's mail bag") I applaud your efforts, but it won'ttake you far. Concentrate instead on your second-year

Absence makes the legs grow stronger?

No repeat for Moreau

Colorado Springs, Colo. (May 4, 2004)--USA Cycling announcedtoday the athletes that will represent the United States at the final roundof the UCI Track World Cup in Sydney, Australia May 14-16, 2004. The final selection was made following USA Cycling’s World Cup Qualifierin Frisco, Texas this past weekend.Athletes receiving a start based upon their victories in Frisco includeMike Tillman (Santa Monica, Calif.) in the men’s individual pursuit, JameCarney (Boulder, Colo.) in the men’s scratch race and Andy Lakatosh (Trexlertown,Pa.) in the men’s keirin.Completing the men’s squad based upon

Colorado Springs, CO – SRAM, RockShox and Avid® enter the season with arguably the strongest collection of officially sponsored athletes ever assembled. The 2004 contingent will be comprised of more than 25 Olympic, World, World Cup, National and NORBA Champions. Riders will race an expanded calendar in ’04 in addition to the Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. SRAM, RockShox and Avid are proud to sponsor the following athletes and teams as they embark on another season of inspired competition. Be sure to look for this dominating force atop podiums worldwide. Cross-Country – Marathon Barbara

The Tour of Romandie went better than we had hoped or imagined it would. Together, we were able to drum up victories in stages 3 and 5, win the overall individual and team classifications. It was a really nice feeling. We have been working hard all spring and it was great to finally see all of the collective efforts of the team and staff pay off. My teammates rode like men on a mission throughout the race. Many of them were competing in their own backyards and were extra motivated to make the most of their home court advantage. With these guys setting the tone, the rest of us followed suit

Tyler Tunes: One step at a time

Will they be kissing him in July?

Technical Q&A with Lennard Zinn - Leg length; Mixing and matching

Technical Q&A with Lennard Zinn - Leg length; Mixing and matching

That fourth stage was a bear!

Kim Anderson, Amber Neven and Brook Ourada round out the top-three

Health Net worked to protect Moninger's jersey

The day's early break would not survive the “Gila Monster”

Swenson won the Cima Pantani prize at the summit of Anderson Vista

Frattini and Moninger drive the lead group

Swenson tries to leave the lead group in the final miles of the stage

The Mail Bag is a regular feature on VeloNews.com, appearing each Monday, Wednesday and Friday. 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. Dumb Jocks versus law student on a bikeDear Velo,In reference to the letter about the dumb-ass radio station in Atlanta, here are the clips: I have personally begun the process of filing a formal complaint with the FCC regarding their lack

Moninger had a chance to relax while Sayers went off the strut his stuff

Wherry, Jones and Lokkesmoe in control.

Sayers scores!

The women's cresting the hill on Cooper St.

Rubelt was the only one who could follow Sayers.

Holden drives what became the winning move.

Hamilton's reprise

... but Hamilton got them both.

Scholz set the early standard...

... topped by McGee...

Danielson: Ready for a Giro start?

The Col Ovronnez

Hamilton's in charge with the final time trial on deck

Al Stiller, a leader in U.S. road and track racing from the late 1940s to the early 1960s and who had witnessed one of the Tour de France’s epic finishes, died April 20 in Boulder, Colorado. He was 80 and suffered from heart problems. Chicago born and bred, Stiller recalled in a 1991 interview that he became intrigued with cycling as a youngster in the late 1920s after watching six-day racers whirling around a steeply banked wooden velodrome in Chicago Stadium. “I joined a local club in 1939, and won my first race—a 400-yard event on the grass in a park. I was 16. There was no holding

Moninger patrolling in pink

Health Net masses at the front

Neben keeps a grip on the lead

Who says pros are spoiled? Joseba Beloki (La Boulangere) adjusts his seat before the start.

The big Pole -- aka Darius Baranowski (Liberty Seguros) -- is ready to help new team captain Roberto Heras take on Lance Armstrong in July's Tour de France.

Tim Johnson (Saunier Duval) rolls out. The team's half-joking wish that the cold, snowy stage would be canceled went unfulfilled in Saturday's fourth stage of the Vuelta a Castilla y Leon.

Tim Johnson (Saunier Duval) strikes the perfect pose fully kitted out in his team colors for a cold day in the saddle.

The next Ekimov? Vladimir Karpets (Illes Balears) - fresh off his victory at the Tour of the Rioja last weekend - looks not-too-pleased to talk to the Russian media before the start of Saturday's stage.

How cold will Koldo Gil (Liberty Seguros) get? The rising Spanish star hopes not very much.

Spain's Alejandro Valverde (CV-Kelme) is content after winning Friday's third stage. Castilla y Leon is his last major race before taking a break to build up for the Olympics and the Vuelta.

Jeker takes the win; Hamilton takes the overall lead

Jeker sets the pace

But things will be smooth as silk, eventually

Check out the corner

Hey, dude, when can we ride?

The Mail Bag is a regular feature on VeloNews.com, appearing each Monday, Wednesday and Friday. 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. What’s up with Sevilla?Editor:I just saw the overall standings for Romandie, and I noticed Oscar Sevilla was present, but well down in the ranks. Is he being prepped as a "super-domestique" for Tyler's Tour bid, like Roberto Heras was for

With two full months of the USCF's National Racing Calendar in the books, it's a good time to look at how the numbers stack up on the NRC circuit. The most recent NRC standings up on the USA Cycling Web site are from April 18, before the start of the Tour de Georgia, so they really only tell part of the story of the 2004 season. Those standings, taking Sea Otter into account, show Chris Horner with a commanding lead over Cesar Grajales in the individual standings, and Horner's Webcor team with a big cushion over Health Net-Maxxis in the team standings. The women's standings show Lyne Bessette

Look on the bright side. Someday, we'll all be dead.Anonymous Even considering that this is an election year, the national discourse seems to have sunk to a new low – to somewhere around my level, actually – and it pains me to see all these teensy little feet mincing about on my muddy turf. If I enjoyed company, frankly, I’d try being a nicer person. Nevertheless, here you all are, shoving and elbowing and trying to drown each other out, each of you telling me and all the other readers of VeloNews.com just what, in your feeble opinion, sucks. Missy Giove sucks. People who think Missy

Ever wonder just what’s under the boards under your tires when you race on a wooden track? Thanks to the folks at the Home Depot Center and photographer Greg Page, we can give you a sneak peek at a work in progress – the ADT Event Center on the campus of California State University-Dominguez Hills in Carson. The ADT Event Center, billed as the first and only permanent indoor track of international standard in North America, is scheduled to host USA Cycling’s Junior National Championships June 28–July 3. The actual grand opening will come during the UCI Junior Track World Championships,

Danielson hopes to make a good impression riding at Romandie this week

Breakthrough performance: Winning Langkawi in 2003 got Danielson noticed

Moos is ecstatic at his stage win

Defending champ Hamilton shows his strength

Poetry in motion

Moos owns the podium today, but says the overall is for Hamilton

The underpinnings of the new track

It's a hard-hat area ...

... especially if you try riding this section

Scott's vice president of U.S. bicycle sales Scott Montgomery shows off the hyper-light (895 gram) Team Issue CR1 carbon road frame

The complete Dura-Ace 10-speed equipped Team Issue CR1 will be available later this year

Thomas Frischknecht piloted this RC-10 at Sea Otter. Notice the funky Scott pull shock.

Manzano's recent testimony has closed the door to the Giro for Kelme

It was supposed to be a quiet day in the idyllic Swiss countryside

Hamilton on the offensive

McGee defends his jersey

A quiet day in the idyllic Swiss countryside

Hamilton on the offensive

McGee defends his jersey

The Mail Bag is a regular feature on VeloNews.com, appearing each Monday, Wednesday and Friday. 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. This reader doesn't miss MissyHey Velo,What's the deal with keeping your readers informed on Missy Giove? (see "MTBNews and Notes: Missy on being Missy") Nobody wants to hear abouther spats with Anne-Caroline Chausson, or her marital

See ya! Astarloa's stint in his Cofidis kit was short-lived