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There's a big difference in pay days when it comes to golf and cycling.
U.S. scene this week: Big time in Alabama, California & New York
RadioShack’s Sébastien Rosseler won Wednesday’s Brabantse Pijl out of a three-man breakaway in Belgium.
Theo Bos (Cervélo) kicked to victory in the opening stage of the 25th Vuelta a Castilla y León in a windy, cool stage across the meseta of northern Spain.
It’s another busy week in Europe, highlighted by the Vuelta a Castilla y León in northern Spain and the Amstel Gold Race in the Limburg region of Holland.
On Saturday and Sunday, April 10th and 11th, collegiate teams from the WCCC competed in the Golden Acorn Road Race and the Huennekens St. Criterium, hosted by the San Diego Cyclovets in conjunction with the budding CSU San Marcos Cycling Team.
The battle for Rocky Mountain Conference individual and team omnium points was in full swing this weekend at Colorado College’s Classic Criterium and Cheyenne Canyon Hill Climb.
In the last weekend before conference championships, the Atlantic Conference traveled to Clarksburg, West Virginia, for races hosted by West Virginia University.
The Eastern Collegiate Cycling Conference traveled to New Haven, Connecticut, this weekend for the Lux et Velocitas race weekend. Yale University hosted the three-event weekend with collegiate and USCF races for an ITT, circuit race, and criterium. Proceeds from the sale of socks and t-shirts were donated by Yale to the Connecticut Challenge, a cycling ride to support cancer survivors.
Whitman College hosted both races over the weekend as the Northwest Collegiate Cycling Conference finishes the fifth weekend of racing. The University of Washington was able to maintain a slight lead over Whitman College in the overall team omnium. Whitman College will be looking to regain the lead in Montana next weekend.
Rahsaan Bahati said Monday that UnitedHealthcare-Maxxis sprinter Jake Keough intentionally crashed him in the closing laps at the Dana Point Grand Prix criterium Sunday. But UHC's team director said it was Bahati who was riding dangerously.
HTC-Columbia owner Bob Stapleton expects that teammates Mark Cavendish and Andre Greipel will settle their differences personally.
HTC Columbia's Andre Greipel takes a stage 2 sprint win and retains his overall lead at the Tour of Turkey, while young American Tejay Van Garderen finished safely in the pack to retain second place.
Jonathan Cantwell (Fly V Australia) punched his ticket Sunday at the Dana Point Grand Prix, taking the bunch sprint in the $15,000 National Racing Calendar criterium.
American Lawson Craddock takes third in the juniors race at Paris-Roubaix.
Cervélo's Thor Hushovd finishes second and Brit Roger Hammond beats out two-time winner Tom Boonen for fourth — a good Paris-Roubaix, the team says.
An ill-timed crash on the cobbles undoes Tyler Farrar's Paris-Roubaix.
Fabian Cancellara wins Paris-Roubaix.
American Tejay Van Garderen slotted in second behind his HTC-Columbia teammate Andre Greipel at Sunday's Tour of Turkey prologue.
Uberti, Klofta qualify for NVGP with Hillsboro wins
Following a convincing overall win at the Redlands Classic in March, Ina-Yoko Teutenberg (HTC-Columbia) leads the individual standings of the Women’s Prestige Series.
Ask Sky’s Greg Henderson what he remembers about last year’s Paris-Roubaix, his first, and he won’t pull any punches with his answer.
He’s not the rider whose name is being bandied about as a podium pick, but HTC-Columbia’s Bernhard Eisel enters Paris-Roubaix Sunday with the support of his team and the confidence of a Ghent-Wevelgem victory two weeks ago.
Britain's David Millar and Dutchman Theo Bos could not come from more different cycling backgrounds. But both will set aside everything they know about the sport as they prepare for an unforgettable experience on Sunday's grueling one-day classic, Paris-Roubaix.
VeloNews managing editor Neal Rogers, on the scene in France, gives a preview of Sunday's Paris-Roubaix
He’s never won a cobbled classic, and he’s yet to figure out how to beat pre-race favorites Fabian Cancellara and Tom Boonen. But this weekend Team Sky’s Juan Antonio Flecha is taking the start at Paris-Roubaix intent on beating both for the win.
George Hincapie talks about Paris-Roubaix past and present and his chances this Sunday
Prior to Tyler Farrar’s win at the G.P. Scheldeprijs on Wednesday, VeloNews had a seat in the Garmin-Transitions car riding along with the team’s director, Australian Matt White.
Ina-Yoko Teutenberg (HTC-Columbia) on Thursday took her third straight win in the Drentse 8 van Dwingeloo in Holland, the first event in the Drenthe race series.
After thinking her days in Holland were over, Neben finds herself back — and actually enjoying the racing this time.
This week, the U.S. racing scene is about three things: dirt, criterium prize money and an amateur spot at Nature Valley.
Before the midday start in Antwerp, we got a (very) quick look at his Felt F1. With only a few minutes to spare, team mechanic Andrea Bisogno set Farrar’s bike apart for a few photographs.
The conference traveled to Boone, North Carolina, for a weekend of races hosted by Appalachian State University. Saturday’s Boone Roubaix road races held both collegiate and non-collegiate races raised funds for Haiti relief.
The spring classics could be in danger for Saxo Bank captain Frank Schleck, who crashed hard late in Wednesday’s stage at the Vuelta al PaÃs Vasco.
Francesco Gavazzi (Lampre) wins the third stage of Vuelta a PaÃs Vasco.
Garmin-Transitions' sprinter Tyler Farrar has won the 98th edition of the Scheldeprijs Vlaanderen in Belgium.
Lance Armstrong has been forced to pull out of the Circuit Sarthe cycling race before Wednesday's second stage because of illness, his RadioShack team said.
With the domestic pro cross-country season openers under his belt in California, Subaru-Gary Fisher's Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski has a few more trips ahead of him this spring.
IN: Jelly Belly, Kelly Benefit Strategies, Sky. OUT: Jamis, Bahati
Alejandro Valverde (Caisse d’Epargne) won Tuesday’s stage at the Vuelta al PaÃs Vasco, this time without a protest, at least not from his part.
The cobbled classics continue Sunday with Paris-Roubaix, however the pro peloton will first take on the 98th edition of Scheldeprijs Vlaanderen, the oldest race in Flanders, on Wednesday.
Book the Sacramento hotel rooms for Danny Van Haute and Jelly Belly-Kenda in May — they will be at the start line for the Amgen Tour of California. The team will have its fifth opportunity to improve on Alex Candelario’s two fifth-place stage finishes at California in 2006, their best showing in the United States’ premiere stage race.
The road is only so wide and there are only so many hotel beds in the Central Valley of California. Five U.S. Continental teams got the good news that they’ll have beds for their riders when the Amgen Tour of California leaves Nevada City on May 16. Six others did not make the cut.
Basque hills and French cobblestones dominate what’s sure to be an action-packed week of racing in Europe.
After three tough events hosted by Mesa State last weekend, the Rocky Mountain Conference thought it could breath a collective sigh of relief coming into this weekend’s short hill climb and criterium, hosted by the Colorado School of Mines. That was, until they woke up Saturday morning and took a look outside.
Purdue University’s Chris Uberti snagged his second win of the Midwest collegiate season in this weekend’s rainy criterium hosted by Marian University. The women’s race saw Marian’s Jacqueline Kurth take the win on her home turf after a strong effort off the front of the pack.
Ryder Hesjedal (Garmin-Transitions) sprinted to fourth as Oscar Freire (Rabobank) darted to an apparent victory in Monday’s opener Tour of the Basque Country (Vuelta ciclista al Pais Vasco in Spanish) in northern Spain, only to see judges award the win to Alejandro Valverde (Caisse d’Epargne).
Garmin-Slipstream’s David Millar: a man for the cobbled classics?
University of Colorado engineering student Kiel Reijnen is leading the GC at the Tour of Thailand.
Fabian Cancellara (Saxo Bank) solos to victory in the 2010 Tour of Flanders.
Cancellara is relaxed and confident heading into the Tour of Flanders.
Bbox has enjoyed an excellent four-week run, with a stage victory by William Bonnet at Paris-Nice, a stage victory and the overall at Critérium International with Pierrick Fédrigo and two stage victories to open the Three Days of De Panne this week.
Mattia Gavazzi (CSF) won a mass sprint in the second stage of the Settimana Ciclista Lombarda in northern Italy.
Easter Sunday’s 70-percent chance of rain and forecast temperatures in the upper-40s won’t likely dampen what is expected to be one of the most hotly contested and wide-open editions of the Tour of Flanders in years.
Farrar gets stage win at De Panne
Peter Stetina is making the most of his rookie year at Garmin-Transitions.
Sprint star Mark Cavendish will skip the Giro d’Italia in order to race in this year’s Tour of California, his team announced Wednesday.
Steve Chainel (Bbox Bouygues) won out of a breakaway to claim victory Tuesday in the opening stage of the Three Days of De Panne in Belgium.
For some cycling fans, and especially Belgian fans, this is the best week of the year.
How much power does it take to hang with the pros in a big American stage race? For the Redlands Bicycle Classic, we put an SRM power meter on the bike of Eric Marcotte, a 30-year-old chiropractor who races as a Cat. 1.
The teams of the Rocky Mountain Collegiate Cycling Conference headed west across the Continental Divide for the first time this season, squaring off at Mesa State’s Mad Cow Classic road race, criterium and individual hill climb.
The 4.2-mile ITT was almost a pure power course: smooth as glass with only a couple shallow rollers and two wide turnaround points that kept the speed high. The crit would prove to be tougher than it looked on paper, though, largely due to a rough road surface that was even punctuated by a few cobbles.
Rather than the traditional short-track length of 20 minutes plus three laps, Fontana promoters shortened the event to fifteen minutes plus one lap, guaranteeing that competitors would give an all-out effort for the entire race.
HTC-Columbia's Evelyn Stevens wins the final stage at Redlands as teammate Ina-Yoko Teutenberg takes the overall victory.
Frenchman Gregory Bauge defends his sprint crown at track worlds.
Simona Krupeckaite wins the women's keirin at the world track cycling championships.
Olympic team pursuit champion Ed Clancy wins the men's omnium at the world track cycling championships.
Canada's Tara Whitten wins the women's points race title at track worlds, her second gold of the championships.
Bernard Eisel (HTC-Columbia) takes Ghent-Wevelgem.
Joaquim Rodriguez (Katusha) wins the 90th Tour of Catalonia.
Specialized Factory Racing's Todd Wells and Lene Byberg take first ProXCT race of the season in California.
Hilton Clarke (Bahati Foundation) and Theresa Cliff-Ryan (Colavita-Baci) won the stage 2 criteriums at the Redlands Bicycle Classic.
Track cycling speed queen Victoria Pendleton eased the pressure on medal-shy Britain by winning her fourth consecutive and fifth career sprint title at the world championships Saturday.
France's Samuel Dumoulin of the Cofidis team won the sixth stage of the Tour of Catalonia, a 161.9km run between el Vendrell and Barcelona in north-eastern Spain on Saturday.
Will Ghent-Wevelgem gain prestige with its new position on the international calendar that puts the Belgian semi-classic in the spotlight this weekend? Race organizers sure are hoping so.
Australian Cameron Meyer claimed his third gold of the world track cycling championships when he teamed up with Leigh Howard to win the men's Madison crown on Saturday.
France's defending world champion Gregory Bauge drew first blood in the battle for men's sprint supremacy when he dominated qualifying at the world track cycling championships Saturday.
There was a time when New Zealand's dreams of Olympic gold in track cycling revolved around the endurance and pursuit teams. But that is about to change.
Amber Neben became the first rider to defend the Redlands leader's jersey on the Beaumont circuit Friday, finishing at the same time as stage winner Ina-Yoko Teutenberg (HTC-Columbia), who now sits 14 seconds behind Neben on the GC.