Analysis

The Schleck Brothers are our Disappointment of the Year, while Shelley Olds had the Mechanical (Failure) of the Year

Geoff Proctor is set to take nine juniors to Belgium this month to put their feet to the elite European ’cross flames

Stage 17 of the Vuelta is our Most Dramatic Day of Racing, while Alexander Vinokourov made our Comeback of the Year

Joe Dombrowski is our International U23 Rider of the Year, while Allan Peiper is our Best Team Director

Timmy Duggan's national championship win is our Ride of the Year, while Erica Allar is our Women's Crit Racer of the Year

Francisco Mancebo and Carmen Small are our Men's and Women's Stage Racers of the Year, Ken Hanson is Men's Crit Racer of the Year

The USA Pro Challenge is our Best Race of the year; Rory Sutherland's win atop Flagstaff Mountain is our Most Dramatic Day of Racing

The early start to the Pro XCT series will force some elite MTB riders to shorten their off-season, and puts 'cross worlds berths in doubt

Optum-Kelly Benefit Strategies is our Best Men's — and Women's — Domestic Team, while Jade Wilcoxson is our Breakthrough Rider of the Year

Georgia Gould is our North American MTB Woman of the Year

Aaron Gwin is our North American MTB Man of the Year

Nino Schurter and Julie Bresset are our International MTB man and woman of the Year

Jeremy Powers and Sven Nys are our North American and International CX Men of the Year

Telenet-Fidea's Amy Dombroski is confident of earning a selection to 'cross worlds in Louisville in February

Katie Compton is our North American Cyclocross Woman of the Year

The federation in Brazil has suspended its road manager after he made doping accusations against riders

'The Bullet' Lauren Hall is Velo's 2012 Domestic Breakthrough Rider of the Year

Liquigas invested $65 million into its team over eight years and claims that the brand recognition gained is worth at least $325 million

Three-time Olympian Inga Thompson says the only way to keep kids coming into cycling is to ride the sport of all former dopers

After her crash and spinal cord injury, Tara Llanes ultimately had to give up on her previous life to embrace and build a new one

With Compton and Powers absent, the Deschutes Brewery Cup is shaping up to be a wide-open affair

Can anyone step up to end Sven Nys' six weeks of domination in Overijse or Antwerp?

Despite his string of bad crashes and major recovery time, Craig Lewis says walking away from cycling would be a harder way to live

Leipheimer addresses former coach's confession, though the pair haven't spoken much in years

Riders' association president Gianni Bugno must now take the CCN summit's proposals to the principle players — the riders

Timmy Duggan faced down the odds and rode his way back from a horrifying 2008 crash to become the 2012 U.S. professional road champion

Cycling has a manifesto, a movement and a 'Charter of the Willing,' but appears set to start 2013 without much change

The stories of Tara Llanes, Timmy Duggan, Craig Lewis, Scott Nydam and Saul Raisin give new meaning to the term 'success'

Garmin-Sharp manager and AIGCP president talks openly about Bruyneel, Leipheimer, Tygart, Change Cycling Now and other topics

The three members of the UCI's independent commission come from legal and sporting backgrounds, and will make their findings known in June

The stories of Tara Llanes, Timmy Duggan, Craig Lewis, Scott Nydam and Saul Raisin give new meaning to the term 'success'

Exergy Twenty12 manager Nicola Cranmer reflects on the appointment of Tracey Gaudry to the UCI's top committee

After brilliant rides in Roubaix, Jasmin Achermann and Julien Taramarcaz are the torchbearers for Swiss ’cross fans bent on returning to the top

With six weeks to go to the U.S. ’cross worlds team selection, a handful of riders are qualified and the squad is wide open

British Cycling has built its empire on 'marginal gains' and come early February, Louisville will give U.S. riders a boost

Former Exergy director Tad Hamilton quit the team in August to run a printing press in his hometown of Boise, Idaho

The 2013 Giro is attracting big names and will likely see more by the time May 4 arrives

Kaitie Antonneau, Jasmin Achermann lead a generation of young female cyclocrossers in Europe that are benefiting from the sport's growth

Marianne Vos and Bradley Wiggins both had superb 2012 seasons, but only one could take home our top award for 2012

Matthew Beaudin reflects on the moments we're chin-to-stem, churning out the beat with our legs, when we are free and we are great

Work at the UCI's South African center is paying off with results and contracts for riders from the continent

Travis Tygart believes fans want sport, not for-profit entertainment, from cycling, questions why athletes wouldn't want an amnesty restart

Young Luna rider says she's honored to be closing her first year with Luna and is learning from her three world-class teammates

Kudus Merhawi is racing in his first big UCI event, while Darren Lill is racing his last

The men behind the Mosaic custom shop talk about craft, group rides and racing

The veteran American ’crosser talks unfiltered about U.S. cyclocross and bailing on work at REI as an 18-year-old to race

Matthew Beaudin hops in the Omega Pharma-Quick Step car at the Tour of Utah for a look inside a day with sport director Brian Holm

On National Day of Listening, the 2010 Giro champ talks about her struggles with self confidence and health, and plots her 2013 comeback

Brian Worth is everywhere in the cycling world that is worth being

With Vos debuting and the World Cup hitting Koksijde, our man in the Belgian mud previews the weekend and answers reader questions

Love them or hate them, time bonuses have a history of impacting overall races and the chase for early stage wins

Canadian Bruno Langlois has found success and a new world of bike racing in Rwanda

From Gabonese riders suffering and thinking of university to promising young female riders, Gregor Brown finds African cycling in west Rwanda

American ex-pat's work in Rwanda is bearing fruit, as his first rider contests Olympic mountain bike race

The fan-favorite veteran checked another box on his comeback sheet Sunday with a big-time podium at Gavere

An expert on sports doping living in Austin wants to help guide cycling's future and it’s not the guy who raced a bike for a living

Dan Seaton answers reader questions on the Albert/Nys rivalry, the best mud tires, and the chances for the U.K. to host a World Cup

The U.S. champion brings 100 points to Bjarne Riis with his late signing, and it could be enough to keep the Dane's team in the WorldTour

Top riders and officials say the Louisville worlds venue is very difficult, but some say it could better suit Americans with some changes

In a companion piece to Velo magazine's "Danger Issue," we explore the lonely ground ridden by pros who crash out of the sport

Skins' chariman Jaime Fuller says his company's suit against the UCI is an effort to force change in the UCI and in the sport as a whole

Lampre-Merida waits for Mantova shoe to drop, as Bardiani-CSF lacks Pro Continental license and Acqua & Sapone shuts its doors

Emily Batty escapes her injury-marred 2012 season on the dirt bike, re-setting for 2013 and building handling skills in the process

Our man in the Belgian mud previews Belgian 'cross racing on the coming weekend of Armistice Day

Alex Dowsett moves from Sky to Movistar, Sylvester Szmyd joins Movistar from Liquigas, and José Serpa joins Lampre-Merida

Steve Brown of Iceman Cometh says the race began in 1990 as a 35-entrant epic spawned by 'a simple ride through the forest'

The sandy course at Zonhoven allowed Bart Aernouts to break the podium stranglehold of Nys, Albert, and Pauwels

Having discovered his talent for marathon races, newly crowned world champion Periklis Ilias turns his focus exclusively to longer distances

Dr. Phil Skiba argues that responses to the Armstrong case highlight our worship of celebrity and a collective "win at all costs" mentality

Our man in the Belgian mud answers reader questions on the difficulty of the Koppenberg hill and why U23 racers jostle with the elites

South African Pro Continental team MTN-Qhubeka is set to break into European racing in 2013, with eyes on the Vuelta in 2014

Lampre and Wilier have split, leaving the latter out of the WorldTour in 2013, but with Mantova and Padua looming, the team is under fire

Rabobank's withdrawal from cycling has pushed the effects of the Armstrong scandal into mountain biking

David Chauner says that since a U.S. team was at the heart of cycling's worst doping conspiracy, Americans should lead the battle

Lance Armstrong's star frequently eclipsed Bobby Julich's, but last week the Coloradan did something the Texan might never: tell the truth

Sean Yates headed the most successful stage racing outfit in history in 2012, but Sky must start from scratch after his sudden departure

While recovering from a hand injury, Meredith Miller has turned her focus to breast-cancer awareness through Hope Lives

U.S. officials aren't sure how or to whom prize money should be redistributed in the Armstrong Affair

Reporter Matthew Beaudin laments believing the unbelievable

Top women's team bosses urge separation from men's cycling for the women's peloton