This Saturday, the modern Merckxes and Gimondis will be contesting a much shorter time trial, over one lap of a hilly circuit on the other side of town, but it could have great significance in the outcome of this Tour de Suisse.
A drought of world-class mountain biking in the States won't happen again, as Windham Mountain, New York has signed a contract with the UCI to host a World Cup over the next three years.
The Lyons Outdoor Games is a three-day multi-sport event that includes mountain biking.
Horner: ‘I will be Lance’s guardian angel’
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Staff was a member of the gold-medal winning team sprint squad at the Beijing Olympics. His other accolades on the track include a keirin world title (‘04) and team sprint world titles (’02 and ’05). The 38-year-old got his start in BMX, winning a world title in that discipline in 1996 and attaining world number one status in 2000 and 2001. He will begin his tenure with USA Cycling in July.
Team TIBCO/To the Top will be one of the participants in the first edition of La Grande Visite de Gatineau, two days of UCI-sanctioned races in Gatineau, Quebec, just across the Ottawa river from the hometown of Team TIBCO founder and managing director Linda Jackson.
VeloNews.com readers will find live daily text reports from the Tour de Suisse, June 12-20. The site also will feature daily race reports, complete results and photo galleries by Graham Watson.
Team RadioShack announces its Tour of Switzerland roster
RadioShack sports director Alain Gallopin says no one can stay with Contador when he is in top form
Former Tour de France King of the Mountains Mauricio Soler is in doubt for next month's race because of a knee problem, his Caisse d'Epargne team said Thursday.
Danny Pate has gone to the Tour de France for the past two years, but he’s not sure if he’s going back for a third.
Four-time RAAM winner Jure Robic is in a familiar position — out in front and pulling away.
Singletrack.com readers have spoken: The winner of the May Phat Phat-Tire Photo Contest is Anthony Fry's entry.
Austrians drop trafficking charges against Kohl and Rasmussen
Vogondy takes stage at Dauphiné, Brajkovic keeps lead
Cervelo TestTeam directors have released a 12-man pre-selection roster for the Tour de France. The team will make the final nine-man selection before the July 3 Tour start in Rotterdam.
Edvald Boasson Hagen is back from an Achilles injury and hoping for a Tour start with Team Sky
2010 Critérium du Dauphiné results
Once again, the NRC is split between the mid-Atlantic and the Midwest. And another event in Oklahoma will draw the speedsters.
The Explainer offers a follow-up on a case involving a fatal encounter with a seriously bad driver.
Team Milram on Wednesday, announced six of the nine riders it will bring to the Tour de France next month. The remaining three will be chosen based on their performances at the Criterium du Dauphine, the Tour de Suisse and the riders' respective national championships.
Zack Vestal gives Time's new carbon-sprung I-Clic pedals a spin
Ray's Indoor Mountain Bike Park partners with Trek Bicycle to open second location in Milwaukee. Opening set for November 2010.
The Swiss rider underwent surgery Wednesday. He is being replaced by Portugal's João Correia on the Tour de Suisse team roster.
A bike fitter asks why so many clients require spacers for their left pedal spindles.
RAAM's first starters roll out of Oceanside, California
VERSUS' coverage begins on Saturday, June 12, with daily one-hour stage recaps from June 14-18, as well as a two-hour show on June 20 that will feature highlights of stage 8 and full coverage of the final stage.
Among the 500 racers to start the seven-day MTB stage race on June 27 in Vancouver are Catharine Pendrel, Geoff Kabush, Manny Prado, Melanie McQuaid and Chris Sheppard.
Brajkovic takes over at Dauphiné
Landis, Lance, motors and the code of silence
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Hilton Clarke, overall winner this year of USA Crits SpeedWeek, has signed with UnitedHealthcare-Maxxis for the remainder of 2010. Clarke, who was released by the Bahati Foundation team last week, will officially join his new team June 10th and will add needed firepower to the UHC sprint train.
Cycling super-sprinter Mark Cavendish explains his phenomenal rise to stardom in his new book, Boy Racer: My Journey to Tour de France Record-Breaker.
Cervelo TestTeam announces its Tour de Suisse squad and reveals more information about Carlos Sastre's injuries.
Slovakia's Peter Velits is all but certain to miss the Tour de France after fracturing his collarbone in a fall on the second stage of the Citérium du Dauphiné on Tuesday.
If you think France is all about the Tour, think again. Get on a mountain bike and ride alpine singletrack under the sunshine of the Côte d'Azur in France's Alpes-Maritimes region.
Floyd Landis, who last month admitted doping throughout his cycling career and accused Lance Armstrong and others, has hired a law firm that once represented cyclist Greg LeMond. The UCI also has sent a "strongly worded" letter to Landis asking him to stop making claims that Lance Armstrong conspired with UCI official to suppress an alleged positive doping test.
David Millar concedes finishing on the podium at the week-long Dauphine Criterium would prove a considerable morale boost to his Garmin-Transitions squad ahead of its biggest test of the season next month.
Tejay Van Garderen (HTC-Columbia) is hoping to cap the first half of his successful debut with a strong showing overall at the Critérium du Dauphiné.
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Saxo Bank's Juan Jose Haedo sprinted to victory in the second stage of France's Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré on Tuesday.
Lennard rode the Look Cyclosportive in Nevers, France, and saw Bernard Hinault pedaling a football!
International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge has presented an Olympic gold medal to a Belgian cyclist, 62 years after he won it, London's Times newspaper reported on Tuesday.
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Legends turned out for the race in Fairfax, California, including Ned Overend and local Marin mountain bike pioneers Joe Breeze and Otis Guy.
Cervélo TestTeam has ended speculation about Carlos Sastre's inclusion in this year's Tour de France by telling the former champion to get ready for the July 3-25 event.
Responding to a flood of recent inquiries CrossVegas organizer Brook Watts reminds everyone that registration for the early cross season classic opens August 1st.
A conversation with Mountain Khaki's Neil Bezdek on his first season as a pro.
Haimar Zubeldia's Tour de France campaign is under threat after the Spaniard suffered a fracture in a crash on Monday at the Dauphine Criterium.
Cervélo TestTeam's Thor Hushovd will return to racing Saturday, at the Tour de Suisse, his team announced Monday.
Brian Jensen and Coryn Rivera win the final event of the Tulsa Tough omnium, as Brad Huff and Jennifer Purcell wrap up their overall omnium wins.
Lampre's Grega Bole scored the biggest win of his career after countering Geraint Thomas (Team Sky) to claim the first stage of the Dauphiné Criterium stage race Monday.
Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski and Georgia Gould win Teva Mountain Games cross-country MTB race.
The UK's Gee Atherton takes first place at World Cup downhill stop in Scotland while sister Rachel just misses first in women's event.
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Philly 2010: A Casey B. Gibson gallery
Sparling takes wet Mt. Hood criterium as de Maar seals overall
2010 Philadelphia International Championship results
2010 Mt. Hood Bicycle Classic women's results
Matthew Goss finished off the HTC-Columbia double in Philadelphia Sunday afternoon, taking out the bunch sprint from a group of approximately 30 riders at the Philadelphia International Championship. Goss edged Peter Sagan (Liquigas-Doimo) for his first Philly win, less than a month after taking a stage at the Giro d'Italia.
Contador wins the prologue in 8:34, while American Tejay Van Garderen is just 2 seconds back in second place.
HTC-Columbia's Ina-Yoko Teutenberg takes her fourth Liberty Classic road race in Philadelphia. Next up Sunday: The TD Bank Philadelphia International Cycling Championships.
Matteo Carrara takes the Tour du Luxembourg as Gorka Izaguirre wins the final stage.
The USA national team finished off the Volta Ciclista Provincia Tarragona in Spain in fine style on Saturday, winning the final stage and taking the second spot overall at the national-event level race.
2010 Liberty Classic results
Jelly Belly's Brad Huff wins his second consecutive race at the Tulsa Tough omnium, and Cari Higgins wins her first.
As they pedaled side by side during the 2006 Giro d’Italia, American Pat McCarty and Dutchman Marc de Maar probably would not have guessed that four years later they would both taste success at a national-level stage race at Mt. Hood, Oregon.
The TD Bank Philadelphia International Cycling Championship just got more exciting. SugarHouse Casino, a new sponsor in 2009, has come back in 2010 with an gambler’s twist to the race -- a SugarHouse Jackpot sprint competition with a prize purse totaling $10,000.
Kenda Pro Cycling is offering a unique chance to get a spot on the UCI team via an internet competition. Kenda partnered with Strava, an online GPS-based cycling software company, to select a rider for a spot on the 2011 team.
Reigning Tour de France champion Alberto Contador will count Ivan Basso among his biggest challengers this year after the Italian's impressive victory in the Giro d'Italia.
2010 Giro Donne stage 3 results