Ben Delaney
BACKGROUND: Delaney is editor in chief for VeloNews. A journalism graduate of the University of New Mexico, Delaney is responsible for all editorial content online and in the magazine.
Delaney joined VeloNews in 2005 as managing editor, having worked previously for The Santa Fe New Mexican, Bicycle Retailer & Industry News and as a freelance writer for various titles. He's a former (but never very good) Cat. 1 racer. He lives in Boulder, Colorado, with his wife and two children.
BIKES IN THE GARAGE: '09 Cannondale CX9, '09 Specialized Tarmac SL2, '08 Giant TCR Advanced, '00 Santa Cruz Roadster, '02 XS Trek 4500 (the wife's), '08 20-inch Trek (the boy's), '04 Chariot Cougar (the baby's).
Stories by Ben Delaney »
Posted: Mon, Aug 24th
LiveStrong Global Cancer Summit - Another type of raceHealth, government and corporate officials from around the world met Monday in Dublin for the LiveStrong Global Cancer Summit. The Lance Armstrong Foundation held the three-day, international conference to facilitate collaboration among the various groups battling the widespread ...
Posted: Sun, Aug 23rd
Downing sticks it to ProTour teams, wins Tour of IrelandRussell Downing (Candi TV) stuck it to the ProTour squads at the Tour of Ireland Sunday, escaping on the weather-shortened circuits of Cork to take the overall win and second on the stage behind Norway’s former road and cross-country champion Lars Petter Nordhaug ...
Posted: Sun, Aug 23rd
German champ rides for Irish teammateMartin Reimer isn’t a household cycling name. Yet.
The 22-year-old Cervélo TestTeam rider captured his first pro win in his rookie year at the German national championships in June.
This weekend he’s riding in the Tour of Ireland, where on Saturday he placed sixth on ...
Posted: Sat, Aug 22nd
The wily veteran Lance Armstrong isn’t the only man racing at the Tour of Ireland who has already retired once from the sport. British rider Malcolm Elliott came back in 2003 at the age of 41, and he doesn’t intend to quit after this season, either.
Elliott turned pro in 1984 with ...
Posted: Sat, Aug 22nd
Cavendish scores win in Irish TourMark Cavendish (Columbia-HTC) did what he does best at the end of stage 2 of the Tour of Ireland. After a fast, slightly downhill leadout from his man Bernie Eisel, Cavendish turned on the afterburners to take the victory ahead of Rabobank’s Michael Van Staeyen and Saxo ...
Posted: Fri, Aug 21st
Armstrong fever hits the Emerald IsleMedia and fans swarmed Lance Armstrong before the start of the Tour of Ireland, which kicked off at the Ritz-Carlton in Powerscourt, just south of Dublin. The hundreds of people pressing in on the Tour de France star confirmed what Leadville Trail 100 organizers already knew: ...
Posted: Fri, Aug 21st
Downing wins stage 1 as Astana, Saxo split pelotonRussell Downing (CandiTV) outkicked two Saxo Bank riders out of a small group to win the first stage of the 2009 Tour of Ireland. Astana and Saxo Bank drove the peloton hard up and over the day’s categorized climbs, shattering the field and setting a group of 23 riders free ...
Posted: Thu, Aug 20th
Irish national rider buried a day before the Tour of IrelandThe Irish National Team will begin the Tour of Ireland with one rider missing from the roster. Paul Healion, who won the sixth stage of the FBD Insurance Ras this year, was killed in a car crash Sunday. His funeral was Thursday, the day before the Tour of Ireland kicked off. ...
Posted: Thu, Aug 20th
Rwandan rider Niyonshuti faces a new future at the Tour of Ireland.At any given pro bike race, there are hundreds of hard-life stories that line up at the start every day. The story of Adrien Niyonshuti (MTN-Energade), however, is unusual among them.
Coming from Rwanda, where six of his brothers were killed in the 1994 genocide, Niyonshuti ...
Posted: Wed, Aug 19th
Columbia returns in force to Tour of IrelandLast year Team Columbia dominated the Tour of Ireland, taking four stages and the overall title. Shortened from five to three days this year, the Irish tour will again host Columbia’s powerhouse squad, with star sprinter Mark Cavendish, world time trial champion Bert Grabsch, ...
Posted: Fri, Aug 14th
Levi strikes back at Lance: the Leadville trash talk continuesBack in June, Levi Leipheimer and his Astana teammate Lance Armstrong were joking about using the Tour de France as training for the Leadville 100. But things got sideways when Leipheimer crashed and broke his wrist on stage 12. Still in a cast, Leipheimer will not be racing the ...
Posted: Fri, Aug 14th
Leipheimer signs with RadioShack team, source tells VeloNews.Levi Leipheimer signed yesterday to ride with RadioShack in 2010, a source close to the team told VeloNews.
“It’s not 100 percent, but it looks pretty likely on (Chris) Horner as well,” the source said.
(Horner later told ...
