This is the third year I have raced the Breck Epic stage race. The last two seasons I have really enjoyed racing here. By "really enjoyed racing here," I mean that I suffered like a beaten dog, and then about a week later when the pain had faded from my memory, I thought about all the pretty singletrack I rode, and decided I wanted to come back next year. It's funny how bike racers don't really remember pain.
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SNOWBIRD, Utah (VN) — After winning the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah as a solo rider last year, Levi Leipheimer brought his RadioShack teammates with him for 2012.
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Trying to get a leg up on the competition (and over obstacles) 35 cyclocross racers attended the FasCat Coaching-Jeremy Powers Cyclocross Camp August 12-14 in Boulder, Colorado.
Todd Wells Leadville bike setup
Mountain bike racing is traditionally a solo endeavor. But this year's Leadville 100 may buck that trend thanks to a quartet of Team Cannondale pros lining up at the start on August 13.
Graham Watson captures the action at the 2011 London-Surrey Cycle Classic, the official test event for the 2012 Olympic road race.
2011 LT 100 Mens finish and post race interviews. Finish live video and sound with Todd Wells and Albin Lakata M's 1st and 2nd.
2011 LT100 Womens finish and post race interviews. Finish line video and sound from Rusch, Reeves, W's 1st and 2nd.
Edvald Boasson Hagen (Team Sky) won the final stage and the overall at the Eneco Tour on Sunday.
Great Britain's Mark Cavendish won the Olympic road race test event in London on Sunday.
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SALT LAKE CITY (VN) — By the end of the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah’s stage 4, the sweat – if there was any fluid left in the peloton – was dripping in buckets.
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2011 Leadville Trail 100 results, top 50 men and women
LEADVILLE, Colo. (ST) — Rebecca Rusch's nickname is the Queen of Pain, but perhaps the Diesel Diva would be more fitting.
LEADVILLE, Colo. (ST) — Todd Wells is a different rider than he was last year. Eight pounds different to be precise. And that's not including a lighter bike.
LEADVILLE, Colo. (ST) — Todd Wells and Rebecca Rusch (both on the Specialized team) won Saturday’s Leadville Trail 100. Rusch shattered the women's record she set last year, while Wells made up for a frustrating ride last year in which an early mechanical kept him out of the hunt for the top of the podium
LEADVILLE, Colo. (ST) — Todd Wells and Rebecca Rusch (both on the Specialized team) won Saturday's Leadville Trail 100 on a sparkling clear warm day in the Rockies.
Flu knocks Jesse Anthony out of the Tour of Utah.
Matteo Bono (Lampre-ISD) won the fifth stage of the Eneco Tour here on Saturday as Edvald Boasson Hagen (Sky) retained the overall lead.
Saxo Bank-Sungard has confirmed that it will have no Spanish riders in its line-up for this year's Vuelta a España, which starts next Saturday in Benidorm.
Gallery of the 2011 Leadville 100 MTB Start
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Video of Ken Chlouber talking with racers at the Leadville 100 pre race meeting.
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Pre race interview with Pua Mata
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Among a handful of fast women set to face-off with Rusch are top riders such as Jenny Smith, Kelli Emmett, Gretchen Reeves and Sari Anderson.
TOOELE, Utah (VN) — Happy Birthday, Tejay Van Garderen. You are finally a professional bike race winner.
Pro rider Nate Whitman gives us the daily update on the Leadville Trail 100 from the Herbalife24 Basecamp. Hear the latest weather and trail conditions.
Cadel warns Thor off the Tour; an attitude adjustment; Boxer comes clean on Armstrong comment & more
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (VN) — David Clinger was issued a lifetime doping ban by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) on Friday after testing positive during a random test while serving a prior doping ban.
How many Olympic gold medalists are racing the 2011 Leadville 100 on Saturday? One for sure. That's Bart Brentjens, winner of the first ever Olympic cross country mountain bike race at Atlanta 1996. Bart-man also won bronze at Athens 2004, plus a ton of World Cup races during his long and prestigious pro career.
Go time is near. The start of the 2011 Leadville 100 is less than a day away. Soon you'll be on your bike, facing down a 100 miles (actually 103) of high-alpine mountain biking along with about 1,800 of your new best friends.
ROERMOND, Netherlands (AFP) - New Zealand's Jesse Sergent claimed victory in the fourth stage of the Eneco Tour Friday as Norwegian Edvald Boasson Hagen took over the race lead from Belgian champion Philippe Gilbert.
There is just one race in the United States garnering attention this week and all eyes are on the newly upgraded Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah. The seven-day 2.1-rated race began Tuesday at the Utah Olympic Park and concludes Sunday atop the steep, 16km climb to Snowbird resort. Best Utah Rider Jeff Louder (BMC Racing) will head into Saturday’s Salt Lake City circuit race with double motivation from his jersey and the memories of times spent riding Louder Loop with his dad.
LEON, Spain (VN) — Call it the "rebound and reload tour."
2011 Vuelta a España preliminary startlist
PARIS (AFP) — Former professional Allan Peiper has joined Garmin-Cervélo as director of competition for 2012, the American cycling team announced Friday.
TOOELE, Utah (VN) — Before the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah even began, most observers were pointing to Sunday’s epic stage from Park City to Snowbird as the race that would decide it all.
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The Scott FOIL: An aero road frame without compromise
Editor's Note: Earlier this year VeloNews tech editor Nick Legan rode with the Rapha Continental team to scout the stages of the 2011 USA Pro Cycling Challenge in Colorado. VeloNews and Rapha partnered to produce videos about the stages. In today's video, the crew tours the Moots bike factory in Steamboat Springs, which hosts the finish of stage 4 and the start of stage 5. Watch for the rest of the videos to be posted over the next week.
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Hear the latest weather and trail conditions. Nate also gives advice for athletes how to prepare in the last days before the race.
PROVO, Utah (VN) — It was supposed to be a fairly uneventful day designed to throw a bone at the sprinters during the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah.
Reigning world champion Thor Hushovd will not be racing the Vuelta a España with Garmin-Cervélo, a decision that team boss Jonathan Vaughters strongly defended for "what's best for the team."
Among the names on the potential winners list of the 2011 Leadville 100, Alban Lakata's will be the least familiar for most. Unless you're a true devotee of the mountain bike racing game, you may not know that this 32-year-old Austrian won the 2010 world marathon title and is his country's reigning cross-country national champ.
Caley Fretz rides Shimano's new electric group. Is it better than its big brother Dura-Ace Di2?
ANDENNE, Belgium (AFP) - Belgium champion Philippe Gilbert of the Omega Pharma team won the third stage of the Eneco Tour on Thursday to take the overall race lead from American Taylor Phinney of BMC.
Olympic Games organizers say they will hold a road racing test event a scheduled Sunday despite growing violence in London suburbs.
UCI Press Release on Gerard Vroomen comments
PARIS, Aug 11, 2011 (AFP) - World cycling's ruling body has angrily hit back at suggestions by Cervélo co-founder Gerard Vroomen that the UCI has lacked bite in implementing its own biological passport program.
MELBOURNE (AFP) — Tour de France champion Cadel Evans arrived back in Australia on Thursday for a victory parade after spending "the best part of his life" working for the historic cycling victory.