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- Tour of Utah
Aug. 13, 2008
- Olympic Games
Aug. 9, 2008
- Saturn Rochester Twilight Omnium
Aug. 8, 2008
- The Welland Race
Aug. 3, 2008
- Clásica San Sebastián
Aug. 2, 2008
- Cascade Cycling Classic
Jul. 9, 2008
- Tour de France
Jul. 5, 2008
- Fitchburg Longsjo Classic
Jul. 3, 2008
- New England Race Week:
Jun. 28, 2008
- American Eagle Outfitters Tour of Pennsylvania
Jun. 24, 2008
- Tour de Nez
Jun. 18, 2008
- Tour de Suisse
Jun. 14, 2008
- Nature Valley Grand Prix
Jun. 11, 2008
- Tour de Beauce
Jul. 19, 2008Hamilton leading Tour of Qinghai Lake
Rock Racing’s Tyler Hamilton on Saturday defended his overall lead in China's Tour of Qinghai Lake, holding a ten-second lead going into Sunday's final stage.
Hamilton won Friday's stage 8 — his first race win in four years — by ...
- Jul. 19, 2008Evans will face a new race when the Tour begins some tough climbing stages starting Sunday.
The sponsor of Cadel Evans' team on the Tour de France is known for products that allow noisy snorers to doze off and enjoy a good night's sleep.
But if there was ever a time the Australian needed his Silence teammates to wake up, it will be on ...
- Jul. 19, 2008Duenas blames Spanish doctor for positive dope test
Spanish rider Moises Duenas, kicked out of the Tour de France, has blamed a Spanish doctor for his positive test for the blood booster erythropoietin (EPO), the ...
Jul. 19, 2008Inside the Tour, with John Wilcockson - Mark Cavendish, the Manx Flyer
Until Mark Cavendish came on the pro scene just over a year ago, the most successful British Tour sprinter was Barry Hoban, who won eight stages between 1967 and 1975. Hoban was not a natural sprinter, but he could sustain a long finishing effort ...
Jul. 18, 2008Casey Gibson 2008 Tour de France gallery, stage 13
- Jul. 18, 2008Mark Cavendish Profile: The joker gets serious
He's known for being a joker among a cosmopolitan team that came to the Tour de France proclaiming their "clean" approach to racing would help smooth their way to success.
But when it gets serious in the hectic bunch sprints, curly-haired Briton ...
Jul. 18, 2008Will Frischkorn's Tour de France diary, stage 13
The first radio communication, not one minute after we rolled through K0 was from Millar: “We’ve got a CBF’d Friday boys, it’s bloody wonderful!” The neutral was stressful with a strong crosswind threatening to make the race a crazy one, ...
- Jul. 18, 2008Pinfold and Grain win the Vancouver stop of the USA CRITS Series
Canadians Andrew Pinfold and Gina Grain did their countrymen proud at the BC Cancer Foundation’s Tour de Gastown in Vancouver, this week, the sixth stop in the 2008 USA CRITS Series.
Pinfold, an Ontario native, is a former elite Canadian ...
- Jul. 18, 2008Andrew Hood's Tour de France Notebook, stage 13
Cavendish in good company:
With his fourth sprint victory in this year’s Tour de France, Mark Cavendish moved into some pretty heady company.
After out-kicking three-time green jersey winner Robbie McEwen on the road into Nimes in ...
- Jul. 18, 2008Stage 13 - By the numbers
Stage 13, Narbonne to Nimes, 182km
WeatherSunny, brisk northwesterly winds up to 40kph, temperatures in low 90s
Stage winnerMark Cavendish (Team Columbia) used his team early to help shut down some late ...
- Jul. 18, 2008Phinney takes third in world junior TT
Taylor Phinney wrapped up the his world junior world championship run Friday with a third-place finish in the individual time trial, 8 seconds off the winning pace of Poland’s Michal Kwiatkowski.
Phinney
Jul. 18, 2008Casey Gibson 2008 Tour de France gallery, stage 12
Jul. 18, 2008Riccò held, charged with using poisonous substance
Italian racer Riccardo Riccò, kicked off the Tour de France for doping, has been remanded in custody for "using a poisonous substance," the public prosecutor at Foix said on Friday.
Prosecutor Antoine Leroy said Riccò had been remanded for ...
- Jul. 18, 2008Live Coverage - Stage 13 Tour de France, 2008
12:55 PM: Good day and welcometo VeloNews.com's Live Coverage of the 13th stage of the 95th edition of the Tour de France, a ...
Jul. 18, 2008Columbia's Cavendish takes his fourth Tour stage win
Team Columbia's Mark Cavendish won his fourth stage of this year's Tour de France, sprinting into Nimes ahead of Silence Lotto's Robbie McEwen.
McEwen took a brief respite from protecting team leader Cadel Evans' overall lead to contest the ...
- Jul. 18, 2008Liquigas: Basso looking better all the time
Disgraced Italian cycling star Ivan Basso deserves a second chance of resurrecting his career, the Italian's future manager at the Liquigas team said Friday.
Basso is nearing the end of a ban handed down after he admitted, without having tested ...
Jul. 18, 2008Riccò and Piepoli sacked by Saunier Duval
Saunier Duval has sacked Riccardo Riccò and Leonardo Piepoli for infringing the Spanish team’s code of ethics, it was announced on Friday.
Riccò was dismissed following his positive doping control for EPO (erythropoietin) at the Tour de ...
Jul. 18, 2008Inside the Tour, with John Wilcockson - Doped and duped
While the news media were massed around the pale yellow Saunier Duval team bus in Lavelanet Thursday just as stage 12 was setting out farther down the street, Philippe Brunel stood back from the crowd watching the spectacle. I felt sorry for him. As ...
- Jul. 17, 2008Special VeloNews.com Mailbag: Riccò edition
Riccardo Riccò's departure from the Tour de France produced a stack of emails and letters to the editor. Here is a sampling:
Zero Tolerance
Editor,
This little gem was in your one of your Ricardo "Vegetable" Ricco articles: ...
Jul. 17, 2008Riccò flames out at Tour a la Pantani
Riccardo Riccò always wanted to be like his hero, Marco Pantani.
The self-styled "Cobra" got his wish Thursday and made a Pantani-esque implosion as two French gendarmes hauled him away after he failed a doping control from stage four at ...
- Jul. 17, 2008Tour leader Cadel Evans says critics of cycling need to look at other sports
Australia's Cadel Evans has called on cycling's detractors to take a long hard look at what is being done in the sport to clean up its image.
For the second consecutive day the Tour de France was rocked by controversy following the news that ...
Jul. 17, 2008Mr. Rogers' Tour - Riccò case a setback for "new cycling"
Tour de France organizers ASO may be regretting the choice of music played after the peloton rolled out of Lavelanet at the start of stage 12 Thursday.
Only 45 minutes after the news of Ricardo Riccò’s positive test for red-blood cell booster ...
- Jul. 17, 2008Garmin-Chipotle's Will Frischkorn reports on another day in the Tour peloton.
We’re officially more than half way through! Unfortunately it was a day kicked off with less than great news in the start area. We were parked right beside the Saunier-Duval bus (the most impressive tonka-toy-ish beast that instills jealousy in ...
- Jul. 17, 20082008 Tour de France. Stage 12 by the numbers
Stage 12, Lavelanet to Narbonne, 168.5km
Weather: Cloudy at start, sunny at finish, strong westerly winds up to 45kph, highs in 80s
Stage winner: Mark Cavendish (Team Columbia) had enough spring in his legs after ...
