USA Cycling saw its women’s development initiatives pay off over the weekend as Mara Abbott (Boulder, Colo./Peanut Butter & Co TWENTY 12) grabbed the overall classification at the Giro Donne stage race. The national governing body continued its women’s development initiatives in BMX last week as well, hosting up-and-coming women at a world championships prep camp in California. On the grassroots side of USA Cycling’s programs, a regional development camp took place at St. Mary’s College for aspiring young road cyclists … Details
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Several naked bicyclists were stopped by police and told to cover up Friday night on Capitol Hill during a World Naked Bike Ride event.
Officers told the cyclists they were in violation of indecent exposure laws. The riders were ordered to get dressed or risk prosecution, according to bike ride organizers.
But the bicyclists themselves say they were merely exercising their First Amendment rights and were carrying out Seattle’s longstanding naked cycling tradition …Â Details
There are two days in every great athlete’s comeback that somehow still catch us by surprise.
The day he announces it. And the day that removes any lingering doubts whether it was a good idea in the first place.
Lance Armstrong suffered through one of the latter Sunday at the Tour de France. His comeback isn’t officially over; the race still has two weeks left to run. But Armstrong would need a handful of younger, fitter rivals to all take a wrong turn—then stay lost for nearly 15 minutes—just to make up the ground he’s already lost … Details
This year’s Tour de France will cover 3,600 kilometres [2,236 miles], including some of the most fearsome climbs in the Alps and the Pyrenees. It’s one of the toughest Tours in years, and yet perhaps the moment the peloton has been fearing most will arrive at about 4.30pm today, in between one bleak post-industrial town in southern Belgium and another in northern France. This is when the Tour hits the cobbles. Lance Armstrong predicted last week that there would be carnage and he wasn’t exaggerating. Â
Riding on cobbles might not sound as difficult as all that, but these are far from the perfectly ordered rows of neatly carved elongated ovals you might find in any city centre seeking to give itself an olde-worlde air. Rather they will  … Details