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These one-week stage races help us through the winter months. They can also provide key indicators of who will be winning big come summer.

Corporate acquisitions spell the end of Team Sky's salad days. The world's dominant cycling team may be forced to trim its budget in coming years.

The late Paul Sherwen's legacy extends well beyond the world of pro cycling. He devoted his life away from the races to helping the Ugandan people.

Running is wildly popular in America. Cycling? Not so much. With new leaders at the helm of EF and USA Cycling, can cycling take a cue from foot races?

Cycling's tactical nuances lend themselves to confusion over what is corrupt and what is harmless sportsmanship.

McLaren's arrival in cycling might not be the surprise influx of new cash some are expecting.

Our editorial staff names star American cyclists who are likely to make waves in the 2019 pro cycling season.

The new season of cycling is dawning, and there are plenty of intriguing storylines to follow as 2019 gets underway.

The pro peloton has a number of young up-and-comers who are in line to emerge as new superstars in 2019. Here are our five favorites.

We remember favorite rides from 2018, with everything from wine tasting in Italy to riding 100 miles on a 35-year-old MTB.

WADA is at a turning point. The next few months will be both a challenging time and a time of opportunity for the anti-doping agency's leaders.

Following Sherwen's death at 62, we remember his gritty performance to finish the 1985 Tour de France.

Frank Vandenbroucke lived in a world of excesses, which was fitting for cycling's go-go doping era of the late 1990s and early 2000s.

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For part of an afternoon back in 1989, I belonged to the inner circle of Donald Trump.

Recovering from a hip fracture, Steve Maxwell turns to a high-tech solution to get a bike fit to reduce the risk of further injury.

After years of coming close, Alejandro Valverde finally wins a rainbow jersey. His checkered past makes it a complicated race for cycling fans.

Once heralded as cycling's wunderkind, Jan Ullrich never got accustomed to the glare of the media spotlight.

Samuel Abt remembers how the Tour de France awarded him for 20 years of service in the most French way possible.

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Running a wildly successful bike shop is one thing — building a velodrome? That was a new challenge.

Speaking to the Play the Game conference, Jens Sejer Andersen explains why elite athletes need to stay vocal and involved.

The Belgian riders' union, Sporta, votes to withdraw from the CPA international union of pro cyclists.

WADA’s very foundation is cracked and can no longer support its ivory tower of fairness, transparency, and moral justification.

The complicated situation revolving around Chris Froome and his Salbutamol case has highlighted major issues with the WADA code. Is it time for a change?

By settling the Federal lawsuit for a relative bargain, Pascal’s Wager was Armstrong’s safest bet.

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The Rio men's road race was the best. Race. Ever. Or certainly, it was the best of the season, with riveting, unpredictable action.

Cycling fans are left with many questions and only a few murky answers as to why Briton Lizzie Armitstead missed three doping tests.

Sally Jenkins says Lance Armstrong and other riders popped for doping should be treated leniently, but to Fred Dreier, that's a garbage take.

Our anonymous columnist writes about playing the role of a GC rider's other half while preparing for a grand tour.

Dan Cavallari reflects on the rare experience of becoming a cycling fan once again. And he does so riding alongside Tom Boonen into the Roubaix velodrome.

The Red Hook Crit has detractors, but it remains a tremendously popular and successful event, attracting fans and sponsors alike.

No matter how unhinged the skeptics seem, no matter how outlandish the conspiracy theories, pro cycling continues to prove them right.

Froome releases VO2max, threshold power, and more, but will he convince critics? The move toward transparency is still a positive step.

USA Cycling's move to merge NRC and NCC calendars is a good one, but now the organization needs to develop a clear vision for the future.

What's the line between a simple gentlemen's agreement and out-and-out collusion, and how often does it get crossed in races?

Pro cycling faces several obstacles to making its coverage more compelling, widely available, and more interesting to the general public.

Here's what the world of pro cycling has to learn from the $900 million Ironman triathlon deal.

In the wake of Tom Danielson's failed doping test, there have been calls for Jonathan Vaughters to step down. But the truth is cycling might need him more than he needs cycling.

Dan Wuori decides to start yelling at cyclists — but not the epithets we usually endure. Instead, he finds a creative way to spread love

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Managing editor Chris Case describes the agony and ecstasy of taking on the incomparable Taiwan KOM Challenge.

The beauty of this type of event is that it frees you, the participant, to define the experience in your own way

For many insiders, the sudden departure of Belkin as a title sponsor underlines a permanent anxiety that exists for most major teams

Seven women ride the Tour of California, in reverse, and discover inspiration in the commonalities across a wild range of ability levels

In Notes from the Scrum, Matthew Beaudin reflects on his experience at the Tour of Qatar and the race's role in cycling's non-stop calendar

Cycling's independent commission is a big step toward repairing the sport, but Steve Maxwell points out a number of shortcomings in its charter

Matthew Beaudin lays out his thoughts on the 2014 cycling season, and they include a Richie Porte win at the Giro d'Italia

American's win in Argentina has a lot of cycling observers asking, "Who is Phil Gaimon?"

There’s a swelling, pounding, throbbing block of meat inside my skull. Am I going to die, or is this just cyclocross?

Cyclocross in the States doesn't closely resemble its Belgian counterpart, and in some ways, that's just fine

You're a thirty-something elite cyclocross racer. Should you contest the masters category at nationals?

Andrew Hood reviews his 10 biggest stories of the year, from Horner to Froome, and everything in between

Ours is a sport that seems to fetishize suffering, but to believe so is to miss the point entirely

Swiss, Frenchwoman take top honors in our 2013 off-road awards

Cross-country, gravity athletes take top honors for North American mountain bikers

In Rwanda, the bike provides a platform for self discovery for an American icon, an attempt at redemption for another, and more

Despite the media following his trail in early 2013, Ryder Hesjedal held out on a doping admission — and the new Omerta shows us why

With a mountain lion lurking in the brush, Spencer Powlison rekindles some old fears on Oregon’s wild trails

Chris Case makes another Case for Suffering as he burns across the Utah and Nevada desert and learns even more about pain and perseverance

Standing in rising flood waters, The Torqued Wrench thinks about suffering and urges you to do so on your bike today

Current president Pat McQuaid and his challenger Brian Cookson have been locked in a fierce campaign all summer

In search of the perfect dirt-road link-up, Chris Case celebrates the Zinn Fondo with 20,000 feet of climbing, many of them on back roads

BrakeThrough Media photographer Iri Snow Greco opens a window into how she loves the job she does on the road with VeloNews

When alone and beaten down by the wind and the Flint Hills, a constant stream of calculations keeps a rider moving toward 205 miles

The listless ship that is professional cycling demands new leadership and we lay out the case for new energy

VeloNews contributor Mark Johnson writes that, if knowledge is power, Lance Armstrong has plenty to wield through truth and reconciliation

Velo reporter Matthew Beaudin resurrects an old, silent friend and its creaking bottom bracket, and brings his family together on the road

Sometimes a gran fondo is actually a race, which one VeloNews reporter discovered recently

VeloNews' Belgium-based cyclocross correspondent Dan Seaton explored the spring classics this years and rediscovered his attachment to racing

When you reach the "epic" point of a ride and it's not enough, just keep pedaling

Bike racing flows through every pocket of life and reporter Matthew Beaudin finds himself with a towed car, no phone, clinging to the raft