Women's Cycling

Evelyn Stevens went into the nine-day Route de France on a back foot and left with two feet on the top step of the podium

Defending Olympic champ Armstrong heads the list of women's time trial gold medal hopefuls after jumping a succession of hurdles since Beijing

Spain-based American sprinter says that making the Olympic team is satisfying, but she is capable of medaling

Australian Tiffany Cromwell went on a solo ride for over 100km during stage 5 of the 2012 Giro Donne

Vos uses wild downhill attack to ride back into pink in the women's Tour of Italy

August event will coincide with USA Pro Cycling Challenge in Colorado

Lechance laps field with five-man break, takes sprint at inaugural Lake Bluff crit near Chicago; Gorry wins women's

Amber Neben checks in after her Specialized-lululemon team taught stage-racing class at the Exergy Tour over Memorial Day weekend

1. Claudia Häusler, Greenedge-AIS, in 2:04:08 2. Evelyn Stevens, Team Specialized-Lululemon, at s.t. 3. Jasmin Glaesser, Canadian National Team, at 0:00:55 4. Carmen Small, Optum Pro Cycling P/b Kelly Benefit Strategies, at s.t. 5. Megan Guarnier, Team Tibco - To The Top, at s.t.

Cycling legends were in front of and behind the curtain at the inaugural Exergy Tour

Images from stage 3 of the 2012 Exergy Tour

1. Ina-Yoko Teutenberg, Team Specialized-lululemon, in 2:29:23 2. Leah Kirchmann, Optum Pro Cycling-Kelly Benefit Strategies, at s.t. 3. Megan Guarnier, Team Tibco-To The Top, at s.t. 4. Inga Cilvinaite, Diadora-Pasta Zara, at s.t. 5. Claudia Hausler, Greenedge-AIS, at s.t.

German makes it two stages in two days for Specialized-lululemon

1. Amber NEBEN, SLU, in 21:37 2. Evelyn STEVENS, SLU, at 15 3. Clara HUGHES, SLU, at 20 4. Shara GILLOW, GEW, at 29 5. Gillian CARLETON, CAN, at 31

Images from stage 2 of the 2012 Exergy Tour, through the lens of John Pierce

Neben, Stevens, Hughes sweep Exergy Tour TT Saturday, and sit atop the overall standings as well heading into Sunday's stage 3

Gallery: Behind the scenes prior to the start of the Exergy Tour 2012 stage 2 as seen through the lens of Axie Navas

Exergy Tour 2012 stage 1 through the lens of John Pierce, PhotoSport International

1. Theresa Cliff-Ryan, Exergy Twenty12 at 3:16:08 2. Ina Yoko Teutenberg, Team Specialized-lululemon at s.t. 3. Rochelle Gilmore, Faren Honda Team at s.t. 4. Leah Kirchmann, Optum Pro Cycling p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies at s.t. 5. Alison Powers, NOW and Novartis for MS at s.t.

Cliff-Ryan delivers much-needed stage win after team captain Kristin Armstrong's race-ending prologue crash

Behind the scenes before the start of stage 1 of the Exergy Tour through the lens of Axie Navas

Images from the prologue of the 2012 Exergy Tour, through the lens of John Pierce

Tara Whitten wins by a hair, as Canadian riders sweep top three spots in Thursday's opening prologue at Exergy Tour

Images from the start of the Exergy Tour prologue

With the Exergy Tour kicking off in Boise, we go to the archives to revive the story of the last HP Women's Challenge, in 2003

The Exergy Development Group has supported women’s cycling in a big way with the new Exergy Tour, but is the new energy sustainable?

Team missing time trial bikes, spare bikes and race wheels after early morning break-in

Ten years after the last HP Women's Challenge, the Olympic champ returns to Boise to fight for UCI points, $100,000 prize purse

U.S. squad sweeps Quebec UCI races ahead of the Exergy Tour

Olympic champ Kristin Armstrong tops all comers in the Bakersfield women’s TT at the Amgen Tour

For the first time, starting in 2013, men and women will share one stage for nationals

Startlist for the 2012 Exergy Tour

UHC left no doubt when it delivered Clarke to victory at the Presbyterian Hospital Criterium, but Wangsgard was the surprise of the night

Giant Bicycles has upped the 29er ante with the introduction of Anthem X Advanced carbon/aluminum 29er and all-aluminum women's Anthem X 29er models

A Talk with Exergy-Twenty12 Pro Kristin McGrath

Victoria Pendleton and Jess Varnish produced two world record-winning performances for Britain Friday

Friday morning saw a women's team sprint record broken, just to have it broken again in the afternoon

The pair beat their own record, clocking a time of 32.828sec

• 1. Anne Samplonius, Now Cycling/now And Novartis For Ms, in 59'06
• 2. Kristin Armstrong Savola, Peanut Butter & Co. Twenty 12, at s.t.
• 3. Lauren Hall, Colavita / Forno D'asolo, at s.t.
• 4. Kristin McGrath, Peanut Butter & Co. Twenty 12, at 3
• 5. Kristin Sanders, Colavita / Forno D'asolo, at 6

ASPEN, Colo. (VN) — With the excitement of the incoming 2011 USA Pro Cycling Challenge as a backdrop, Olympic champion Kristin Armstrong of the Peanut Butter & Co.-Twenty12 team rode to overall victory in the inaugural 2011 Aspen/Snowmass Women's Pro Stage Race Wednesday before tens of thousands of cycling fans on the streets of downtown Aspen.

Stage

• 1. Kristin Armstrong Savola, Peanut Butter & Co. Twenty 12, in 1.35'58"
• 2. Janel Holcomb, Colavita / Forno D'asolo, at 40  
• 3. Anne Samplonius, Now Cycling/now And Novartis For Ms, at 2:37  
• 4. Kristin Mcgrath, Peanut Butter & Co. Twenty 12, at 2:37  
• 5. Andrea Dvorak, Colavita / Forno D'asolo, at 2:37  

SNOWMASS VILLAGE, Colo. (VN )— Kristin Armstrong (Peanut Butter & Co.-Twenty12) soloed to victory in Tuesday's 35 mile stage 2 road race to take the overall lead in the 2011 Aspen/Snowmass Women's Pro Stage Race.

• 1. Kristin McGrath (Peanut Butter & Co. TWENTY 12) 0:29:15.50
• 2. Kristin Armstrong-Savola (Peanut Butter & Co. TWENTY 12) 0:00:03.52
• 3. Janel Holcomb (Colavita / Forno D'Asolo) 0:00:16.34
• 4. Amanda Miller (HTC Columbia Women's Team) 0:00:46.93
• 5. Kelly Crowley (Metromint Cycling) 0:00:47.83

ASPEN HIGHLANDS, Colo. (VN) — Kristin McGrath of the Peanut Butter & Co.-TWENTY 12 team won the opening stage of the three-day Aspen Snowmass Women’s Pro Stage Race on Monday, completing the 7.8 mile course from the Aspen Highlands ski resort up Maroon Bells Road in 29 minutes and 15 seconds, climbing about 1,500 feet in altitude along the way.

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HTC-Highroad ended the three-day Giro di Trentino stage race on a high note as Judith Arndt fended off her rivals to claim the overall victory on Sunday.

Specialized's new carbon hardtail is billed as the first race-ready 29er rig built specifically for women.

After a 23-year hiatus, Aspen, Colorado, will once again host international professional men’s cycling this summer, when the USA Pro Cycling Challenge comes to town. But two-time national champion and Aspen resident Jessica Phillips wasn’t content to simply watch the men. She wanted women to have a chance to race as well.

2011 Women’s Tour of Flanders

• 1. Annemiek Van Vleuten (Ned) Nederland Bloeit, in 3:36:03
• 2. Tatiana Antoshina (Rus) Gauss, at 0:01
• 3. Marianne Vos (Ned) Nederland Bloeit, at 0:10
• 4. Emma Johansson (Swe) Hitec Products-UCK, at 0:10
• 5. Judith Arndt (Ger) HTC Highroad Women, at 0:10

The Women's Prestige Cycling Series kicks off Thursday with the Redlands Bicycle Classic in California.

• 1. Emma JOHANSSON, (SWE) Team Hitec Products Uck, in 3:38:05
• 2. Andrea BOSMAN, (NED), at s.t.
• 3. Chantal BLAAK, (NED) Leontien.Nl, at s.t.
• 4. Loes GUNNEWIJK, (NED), at s.t.
• 5. Elisa LONGO BORGHINI, (ITA) Top Girls Fassa Bortolo Raxy Line, at 4

Final Overall:

• 1. Judith ARNDT, (GER) HTC-Highroad, at 11:50:56
• 2. Catherine CHEATLEY, (NZL), at 4
• 3. Ruth CORSET, (AUS), at 12
• 4. Shara GILLOW, (AUS), at 1:05
• 5. Emily COLLINS, (NZL), at 1:29

Luna's new Sport clothing line was inspired by the women on the Luna Pro Team, which consists of mountain and road riders and triathletes.

After thinking her days in Holland were over, Neben finds herself back — and actually enjoying the racing this time.

Grace Verbeke wins the women's Tour of Flanders.

Grace Verbeke (Lotto) wins the women’s Tour of Flanders.

Contested Sunday alongside the Ronde Van Vlaanderen will be the seventh running of the women’s Tour of Flanders, or Ronde Van Vlaanderen Vrouwen, which begins in the town of Oodenarde and loops east, also ending in Meerbeke, near Ninove.

The women’s 10-round World Cup series continues Sunday with the 7th Tour of Flanders in Belgium.

Fontana Pro XCT 2010: Pro men and women short-track results.

Shelley Evans (Team USA) takes the final stage and the overall title as the Women's Tour of New Zealand concludes.