May. 16, 2008
How it happened: Live Coverage archive10:43 PM: Good morning . . .. . . and welcome to VeloNews.com's Live Coverage of stage 7 of the 2008 Giro d'Italia, a mountainous 180km leg from Vasto to ...
May. 16, 2008
Bosisio takes 1st summit finishGabriele Bosisio (Team LPR) leapt away from a disintegrating breakaway to win stage 7 of the Giro d’Italia on Friday.
It was the first summit finish for the Giro – the mountainous 180km leg from Vasto to Pescocostanzo served up the category-3 Valico di Macerone, the cat. ...
May. 16, 2008
Team Type 1 Chadwick victorious at Tour of Arkansas stageTeam Type 1’s Glen Chadwick soloed to victory on the opening stage of the inaugural Tour of Arkansas Thursday while his teammate, Moises Aldape, finished third.
Chadwick won the “Epic Road Race,” a 110-mile (177 km) race that featured 10,592 feet of climbing. In doing ...
May. 16, 2008
Q&A with Astana's Sean YatesAstana is looking to make the most of the unexpected trip to the Giro d’Italia. With its marquee lineup that includes Levi Leipheimer, Alberto Contador and Andreas Kloden, the team would normally be expected to dominate the race.
But Astana’s invite didn’t come until a ...
May. 16, 2008
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May. 16, 2008
Like Savoldelli at this Giro, Astana director Yates still likes going fastIn every generation, it seems, there is someone in the peloton that all the other riders point to when asked: Who’s the fastest descender? Who’s the man who can race down mountain roads seemingly effortlessly and leave the rest behind?
When I first started reporting the ...
May. 15, 2008
BMC's Lill and Tibco's Kiesanowski win Mt. Hood's circuit race and take the overall leads.
BMC's South African, Darren Lill, won Thursday's second stage of the Mt. Hood Cycling Classic by peeling away from the remnants of the peloton on the final climb a bit less than a kilometer to go.
Lill, who won the fifth stage at Mt. ...
May. 15, 2008
Bennati’s long road to a custom Super Six
Bike fit is no joking matter for a professional racer. Fit is the single most important aspect of the bike. If the bike doesn’t fit, it really doesn’t matter how light or technologically advanced it is — it’s not going to be very fast.
Take the case of Liquigas rider ...
May. 15, 2008
Tour of Atlanta, a first-year event, set to begin May 22
The highly anticipated Tour of Atlanta, May 22nd through the 26th, is less than two weeks away from its first event. This inaugural stage race will feature 7 stages in 5 days in, and around, the Atlanta area. The stages provide an exciting mix of time trials, criteriums, ...
May. 15, 2008
Giro d'Italia 2008 Stage 6: Live Coverage06:10 AM: Good morning . . .. . . and welcome to VeloNews.com's Live Coverage of stage 6 of the 2008 Giro d'Italia.
May. 15, 2008
Visconti seizes lead at Giro as Priamo wins stage 6
For the second day in a row, a breakaway stayed clear of the peloton, with another unsung hero from a smaller team in the form of Matteo Priamo (CSF-Panaria) taking center stage.
Unlike yesterday, the attackers had enough rope to end Franco Pellizotti’s four-day run in the ...
May. 14, 2008
Colavita's Tina Pic and Toyota's Hilton Clarke take crit wins and the overall lead in Portland.
The Mt. Hood Cycling Classic ventured into new territory Wednesday with a new venue for the sixth year of the event: a hilly criterium held in a verdant city park wrapping around a long-extinct volcano.
The new event delivered large crowds and down-to-the-wire racing action ...
