Track: Top Stories

• Apr. 11, 2008
  British track star re-instated
  The UCI is allowing British track cyclist Rob Hayles to return to competition, two weeks after he was disqualified from the world track championships for having a high hematocrit level, the British cycling federation says. "British Cycling is ...
• Mar. 31, 2008
  Reed's pleasant surprise; Brailsford's crisis
  If Jennie Reed couldn't quite believe her world title, then neither could the home crowd at the Manchester velodrome. Reed's jubilant gold medal in the women's keirin, the climactic event in five days of racing, was greeted with stunned silence ...
• Mar. 30, 2008
  At last: Oh, say, can you see
  God has indeed saved the queen, judging by the number of times we heard the British national anthem during the world track championships in Manchester. I don’t know the lyrics, so I kept singing our domestic knockoff, “My country ’tis of ...
• Mar. 30, 2008
  Reed crowned keirin champ
  American Jennie Reed ended Britain's gold rush when she overpowered Victoria Pendleton to win the keirin in the final event of the world track cycling championships on Sunday. Defending champion Pendleton, a gold winner in the team sprint and ...
• Mar. 29, 2008
  Reed medals in Manchester
  A beaming Jennie Reed, cheered on by her American teammate, Taylor Phinney, stepped down from the medal podium in Manchester after claiming the bronze medal in the women's sprints, to pronounce herself "very pleased" with her third place, behind ...
• Mar. 28, 2008
  Reed works her way toward medal rounds
  Far from the hullabaloo and pre-Olympic hype surrounding Great Britain’s track team, Jennie Reed of the United States was quietly making her resolute way into the medal positions in the women's sprint finals. Reed, 29, has maintained the good ...
• Mar. 28, 2008
  Hoy makes history with sprint win
  Britain's Chris Hoy made a mark in track cycling’s history books by winning his first try at a world sprint title in Manchester, England, on Friday Hoy, the reigning world keirin champion and a former kilometer and team sprint champion, claimed ...
• Mar. 28, 2008
  Wanted: Strong fast women
  If I were to write the perfect classified ad to recruit top female athletes to track cycling it would look like this: Tired of your current sport? You might have an Olympic future in Cycling! Oarswomen, listen up – Rebecca Romero of ...
• Mar. 28, 2008
  Meares secures sprint spot for Beijing
  Australia's reigning Olympic 500 meter time trial champion Anna Meares is celebrating after hearing she has qualified for the sprint event in Beijing. Australia's sole women's sprint spot at the Games was under threat because of Meares' place ...
• Mar. 27, 2008
  Romero dips her oar in new waters
  When newly crowned world women's pursuit champion Rebecca Romero first climbed onto a track bike, she fell off. Any hardened trackie knows that such a tumble is not an unusual experience, but it is a measure of the former Olympic rower’s ...
• Mar. 27, 2008
  French sprinter Arnaud Tournant remains a powerhouse
  On or off the track, you don’t mess with Arnaud Tournant, the powerhouse French sprinter who remains one of the most feared sprinters in the world and perhaps the best kilometer rider ever to take to the track. After 13 years at the top of the ...
• Mar. 27, 2008
  Britain sets world record in winning team pursuit
  Reigning champions Britain defended their team pursuit title in a new official world record time of 3:56.322 at the world track cycling championships in Manchester England on Thursday. Denmark finished second to claim the silver medal while ...