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La Vuelta Femenina Stage 3: Echelons, tension, crashes, and a big sprint win.
Dygert powers Canyon-SRAM to fifth in Vuelta opener, solid rides by EF Education-Easypost, Human Powered Health.
Paul Manning brings gold-medal pedigree both as a racer and a coach as he takes over for the retiring Gary Sutton as USA Cycling already begins building for the 2028 Olympic Games.
American rider shows real promise in her first participation in iconic race: ‘I’m just happy to finish with the best’.
Kopecky, Longo Borghini, Niewiadoma, Van der Breggen, Vos and others cross swords Sunday in Flanders in an early season highlight.
Tour de France champ stoked for big spring classics push: 'Omloop forces you into that fighting mindset needed for the whole spring.'
Wollaston and Schmid deliver morale-boosting victories for FDJ–Suez and Jayco AlUla at the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race.
The Tour Down Under served as a stage for some young riders to break out, as well as for one big name to remind us what she's capable of.
Tour de Hoody: The stakes are high in the early season races, even if the prestige is not. Here are the hottest story lines and hype I'm most stoked about to open 2025.
Attack after attack went off on the stage, but nothing would stick until the final sprint.
Chloe Dygert, Geraint Thomas, Michael Woods, and Ruth Edwards part of a strong lineup for men’s and women’s events.
Rogla revenge, Pogi on the pavé, a French Tour de France winner: Here are 5 wacky race predictions for 2025 that might just happen.
Reusser, Žigart, Uttrup Ludwig, and Moolman Pasio latest major moves as SD Worx-Protime brings on former pro Mondini as new DS: 'This is a dream job for me.'
Rosa Klöser to balance life as gravel privateer with contract to race on the road alongside Tour de France Femmes champion Kasia Niewiadoma.
American rider bounces back from fractured nose but ultimately has to settle for silver medal after earlier exertion takes its toll.
American Chloé Dygert lands runner-up slot at cycling's world road championships Saturday, putting in a stubborn, spirited performance.
Defending champion Kopecky wins six-woman sprint as Dygert scoops silver with tenacious ride.
A mid-season escape to the Colorado Rockies gave her space to reflect on her double-gold Olympic Games and to reload for a season-closing run at the rainbow jersey: 'It will be a race of attrition.'
Key contenders, course details, the TV guide, and more: Here's all you need to know about the Zürich women's road race on September 28.
Demi Vollering misses out again on a major target but gives unexpected reaction.
Australian rider Brown beats Demi Vollering and Chloé Dygert in gripping race, taking final world championships of her career.
Women’s champion Chloé Dygert still missing her 2019 sensations: ‘I’m waiting to feel like my old self.”
Who will win time trial rainbows on Sunday? Here's a look at the favorites and the course for Zürich's race against the clock.
USA's world TT champion Dygert extends for two years, fellow American Skylar Schneider takes big decision to return to Europe with SD Worx-Protime.
Labous, Vas, Niewiadoma and more protagonists react to carnage that transforms GC; Faulkner moves into second but prioritizes stage wins.
As the Tour moves towards hillier ground, unexpected time trial success may intimidate new race leader’s competitors.
Missing team buses at end of stage 2 cause frustration, as riders sound off on throwback day and insiders lift lid on logistics of the Tour’s longest day.
Dygert grateful to be making Tour debut after setbacks; Canyon-Sram leader Niewiadoma reacts to 30-second time loss and is ready for fight in Wednesday's 'insane' Ardennes finale.
Defending race champion Vollering aces time trial to lead GC, Americans Chloe Dygert and Kristin Faulkner take second and fifth.
American women dominate Paris Olympics with record-breaking medal haul for Team USA: 'There's nothing better than this.'
Who will deny Demi Vollering in the race toward the infernal bends of Alpe d'Huez? Here's all you need to know about ASO's showstopper stage-race.
Team USA nips New Zealand by 0.621 seconds to win the elusive gold medal in women's team pursuit that the team's been chasing since 2012.
After beating longtime foe Great Britain, Team USA will square off against New Zealand to race for gold Wednesday evening.
Tour de Hoody: From the Eiffel Tower to Sacré-Coeur, road racing in Paris will be hard to match in scale and grandeur in future Olympic Games.
Canyon claims there are no huge steps forward, just hard work and incremental gains that come from listening to winning athletes.
Triathlete Taylor Knibb gave up her spot on the two-rider Olympic squad to gold medalist Faulkner: 'It was as easy decision to make.'
'We have a limited hand, but we have a pretty good hand': Team USA brings outsider hopes of disrupting the favorites to mine Olympic gold in this weekend's road races.
Top favorites get a preview of the three passages up the Côte de la Butte at Montmartre on the final circuit that could be a make-or-break point for the Olympic Games: 'Harder than I expected.'
Mega-long courses, no race radio, tiny teams, and super-sized egos will produce unpredictable, chaotic, and ultimately spectacular road races.
'She's a competitor:' Dygert coach Kristin Armstrong confirms the US star will start next Sunday's road race and team pursuit on the track despite crashing hard.
'I felt early I didn't have super legs': Dygert makes no excuses after crash foils her gold medal chances. Taylor Knibb also crashes on wet roads to finish 19th.
British rider Anna Henderson nets silver, less than a second ahead of Dygert, on greasy course in Paris.
USA Cycling is predicting up to 4 medals, but perhaps even more: 'We have athletes who can be competitive every day.'
Evenepoel or Van der Poel? Kopecky or Dygert? Velo editors Jim Cotton and Andrew Hood lay their bets for the Olympic time trials and road races.
Threat of rain and a choppy urban course on the flat roads of Paris make an already wide-open race even more unpredictable.
From Dygert and Van Dijk through Ganna and Evenepoel, here are all the start times for Saturday's fast and furious 34km 'race of truth.'
Dygert and McNulty along with Taylor Knibb and Magnus Sheffield give Team USA its first chance to earn a medal in road racing in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
Ten men and 13 women will represent the United States across the five Olympic disciplines of road, mountain bike, track, BMX racing, and BMC freestyle.
A slate of familiar professional WorldTour road riders is joined by professional triathlete Taylor Knibb.
USA Cycling qualified six riders for women’s team pursuit, women’s Madison, women’s omnium, and men's omnium.
KT Tape Pro Ice, Dygert’s new go-to recovery tool, is infused with cooling menthol and helps her get back on the bike even faster
Human Powered Health duo hopes to bring home prestigious jersey after a consistent and competitive European campaign: 'The goal is always to win.'
The winners of the women's and men's time trials will earn an automatic berth to race the Olympic Games in Paris.
Tour de Hoody: Americans keep impressing, Lidl-Trek is cycling first 'super team,' and heartbreak and heroes abound in fastest-ever Tour of Flanders.
Thrust into the leadership role at injury-plagued Visma-Lease a Bike, on-form American is the ultimate outsider: 'There is no lack of motivation.'
World champions Lotte Kopecky and Mathieu van der Poel headline the Belgian monument with some key route alterations: 'The Kortekeer and the Kanarieberg will not be included in the course this year.'
Spring classic will see many key names fight it out over the famous bergs of Flanders.
World TT champion to the fore in season debut, eyes Gent-Wevelgem this weekend.
In this latest installment of Velo's predictions for 2024, European editor Andrew Hood looks into cycling's crystal ball for sweeps, doubles, triples, and other new historic markers.
Ruth Edwards also returns with Human Powered Health, with Biniam Girmay, Caleb Ewan, Elia Viviani, and Filippo Ganna confirmed for the WorldTour opener next month.
A climb-heavy final circuit will deliver explosive racing for the 2024 road cycling world championships.
Race will mimic the Olympic Games courses and the winners will earn automatic berths to Paris. The dates are set for May 15-19.
Follow all the news and updates for the UCI Cycling World Championships.
How she won the stripes: Race analysis, unconventional buildup, and a secret Strava account.
Dygert already won two rainbow jerseys at the 'super worlds' and Stephens says that Team USA will be in full support behind the 26-year-old.
Tour de Hoody: The world championships are among the hardest, longest days of racing for a reason, and that's a good thing.
Reusser and Vollering were TT favorites, but the Swiss rider quit the race citing mental fatigue while Vollering managed just sixth place.
The American hasn't raced a road worlds since her horror crash in Imola in 2020.
American wins her second world title after a stunning comeback from horrible injury and long list of challenges dating back to 2020.
Dygert roars to her fourth career IP title, and will race next in team pursuit as well as in time trial and the road race: 'I am so happy to be on the top step.'
Here is every US starter across all age groups and disciplines who will compete in Glasgow during the UCI Cycling World Championships.
32 athletes, including Neilson Powless, Quinn Simmons, and Chloe Dygert have been selected to compete at the 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships in Glasgow, Scotland Aug 5-12.
Canyon-SRAM shredded the bunch on the rise to the finish line but Vas had the pace to take the win.
Some riders were able to get out before the rain began but the stage had to be called off.
Annemiek van Vleuten and Chloé Dygert go out early while Elisa Longo Borghini risks the rain by going out late.
Longo Borghini, Skjelmose, Kopecky among other big winners in blockbuster weekend of national road championship racing.
Dygert and McNulty power to US titles against the clock as time trial racing across the globe sees the cream rise to the top.
The US rider says that second surgery on her leg has been 'life-changing' for her.
The US star is grateful to be back racing on the road after two years in cycling purgatory, and she's keen to keep pushing her limits. US road nationals are up next.