British sprinter Mark Cavendish won the Milan-San Remo race on Saturday at his first attempt as Lance Armstrong finished well off the pace.
The 23-year-old fastman outpowered German Heinrich Haussler to notch his first major Classic victory by less than half a wheel after 298 km of racing. Norwegian Thor Hushovd was third.
Seven-times Tour de France winner Armstrong lost touch with the leading pack …Â Details
Police in Austria have arrested an unidentified professional cyclist for allegedly supplying doping substances to other riders over an extended period of time.
Public prosecutors in Vienna on Friday said a 32-year-old Austrian cyclist, who was only identified as “K,†was arrested on charges of systematically supplying others with banned performance-enhancing substances EPO and testosterone.
Prosecutor Gerhard Jarosch said the cyclist was …Â Details
Lance Armstrong was only trying to help Alberto Contador when he said last week that the Spanish rider “still has a lot to learn.â€
“I didn’t mean it as a criticism per se,†Armstrong said Friday in a news conference ahead of the Milan-San Remo, his first race in Europe following 3 1/2 years of retirement.
Last week, Contador lost 3 minutes and the yellow jersey on the penultimate day of the Paris-Nice. Contador said he ran out of energy, forgetting to …Â Details
Bicycling has come a long way since you pedaled the old neighborhood on your Sting Ray with the sissy bar and purple banana seat.
Just as you eventually graduated to a 10-speed, road bikes have evolved significantly, and then there’s the highly popular category of mountain biking, which combines the pleasures (and pain) of road trips with the yee-haw attitude of wilderness adventure.
Whether you choose a mountain bike or a road bike, isn’t it time for you to venture outside of the neighborhood and … Details