Former IndyCar and Formula 1 star Alex Zanardi won gold in the 2012 Paralympic handcycling race around Brands Hatch circuit on Wednesday.
The 45-year-old was competing 11 years after losing his legs – one at the knee and one above – in a horrific Champ Car crash at the Lausitzring. He previously won silver in the 2011 World Road Para-Cycling Championships, his first medal since moving into the sport following his race-winning spell in the World Touring Car Championship with BMW   … More
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USA Cycling on Friday announced the riders that will represent the United States at the 2012 UCI Road World Championships in Limburg, Netherlands. The event spans Sept. 16-23.
The five men who donned the red, white and blue in the Olympic Games will do so again as automatic nominations to contest the elite men’s race. The United States earned nine spots in the elite men’s road race, the maximum number for any country. Among the nine Americans slated to contest the race are the five Olympians: Timmy Duggan (Nederland, Colo./Liquigas-Cannondale), Tyler Farrar (Wenatchee, Wash./Garmin-Sharp-Barracuda), Chris Horner (San Diego, Calif./RadioShack-Nissan-Trek), Taylor Phinney (Boulder, Colo./BMC Racing) and Tejay van Garderen (Boulder, Colo./BMC Racing). Those five will be joined by discretionary selections Brent Bookwalter (Athens, Ga./BMC Racing), Matthew Busche (Wauwatosa, Wisc./RadioShack-Nissan-Trek), Lucas Euser (Boulder, Colo./Spidertech p/b C10) and Alex Howes (Golden, Colo./Garmin-Sharp-Barracuda). Phinney and van Garderen are slated to contest the time trial  … More
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Lance Armstrong was back on his bike on Saturday, urging his supporters not to ‘cry’ for him a day after the United States Anti-Doping Agency’s (USADA) decision to strip his seven Tour de France titles and ban him for life.
In his first public appearance since announcing he would no longer fight doping charges brought by USADA, Armstrong finished second in a 36-mile mountain bike race in Aspen, Colorado, five minutes behind a 16-year-old rider, Keegan Swirbul  … More
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The International Cycling Union will wait for the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency to explain why Lance Armstrong should lose his seven Tour de France titles before commenting on the case.
The sport’s governing body said Friday it expects USADA to submit documents ”to the parties concerned,” as the case threatens to wipe a cycling icon almost out of the record books.
”The UCI recognizes that USADA is reported as saying  … More
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