Nov. 15, 2004
Paris emerging as favorite to host 2012 Olympics The five cities looking to host the 2012 Summer Games submitted bids to the International Olympic Committee on Monday, with Paris the front-runner to ...
Sep. 23, 2004
Olympic case dropped against Hamilton; Still facing Vuelta sanctions Tyler Hamilton's Olympic gold medal may be safe after the International Olympic Committee dropped disciplinary proceedings against him, but the ...
Aug. 28, 2004
Olympic men's cross-country: A Casey Gibson gallery The men's cross country on Saturday rang down the curtain on the cycling events at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, and VeloNews photographer Casey ...
Aug. 27, 2004
Friday's mailbag: Olympics coverage, kudos to Muenzer, and O'Grady in Madison The Mail Bag is a regular feature on VeloNews.com. If you have a comment, an opinion or observation regarding anything you have seen in cycling, in ...
Aug. 27, 2004
Olympic cross-country: A Casey Gibson gallery VeloNews photographer Casey Gibson was braving the Athens heat once again on Friday, capturing the action in the women's cross-country race. Here's a ...
Aug. 25, 2004
Olympic double: Bayley gets keirin gold, too Aussie Ryan Bayley affirmed his status as world’s fastest man on a bike, taking his second gold medal of the 28th Olympiad by winning the keirin on ...
Aug. 24, 2004
Two days of Track: A Casey Gibson Gallery It's been an eventful two days at the velodrome in Athens. Photographer Casey Gibson has been there, documenting everything from Australia's team ...
Aug. 24, 2004
Olympic Track: Aussies seek additional medals for pursuiters The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) said on Tuesday it will ask Athens Olympic organizers to try and get medals for cyclists Peter Dawson and ...
Aug. 24, 2004
Olympic Track: Bayley scores sprint win for Oz; Ignatyev takes points race In a battle of grace and finesse versus brawn and power, the brute force of Australian Ryan Bayley was the ticket to gold in the men’s sprint at ...
Aug. 24, 2004
Olympic Track: Muenzer scores sprint gold for Canada Lori-Ann Muenzer earned Canada's first-ever Olympic cycling gold medal in the women's match sprint on the boards of the Athens Velodrome Tuesday. ...
Aug. 24, 2004
Olympics: Americans get first look at MTB course After warming up with a weeklong training camp in France, the American triumvirate of Todd Wells, Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski and Mary McConneloug arrived ...
Aug. 24, 2004
Technical Q&A with Lennard Zinn: The great Olympic coverup Olympic cover-upDear Lennard,After watching the Olympic road race and time trial, I noticed an abundanceof tape covering helmet, bike and component ...
Aug. 22, 2004
The Olympic Village: a Photo Gallery With all of the hype and excitement at the Athens Olympics, athletes still have to spend their down time getting ready for events, training or just ...
Aug. 21, 2004
Olympic track: A Casey Gibson gallery VeloNews photographer Casey Gibson is more than a shootist – occasionally, he's an ironist. In sending his shots from Saturday's record-shattering ...
Aug. 21, 2004
Olympic track: Another track gold for Brits; Germans win team sprint; U.S. day ends quietly As his mentor and one-time gold medalist Chris Boardman looked on from inside the velodrome at the Olympics in Athens, Bradley Wiggins scored the ...
Aug. 21, 2004
Pearce ready for Olympic debut Cycling was the teen-age Colby Pearce's therapy. He'd take long weekend rides in the Colorado mountains, a distraction from losing his mother to ...
Aug. 19, 2004
Olympics: Brits look to medal on track Britain, desperately searching around Athens for an Olympic gold medal, gets their big chance with an assault on the men's kilometer time trial on ...
Aug. 18, 2004
Hamilton wins Olympic TT; Julich takes bronze As the sun crept above the horizon, bringing dawn to a new day here in Athens, Tyler Hamilton awoke with a terrible case of nerves.
The afternoon ...
Aug. 18, 2004
Olympic Tech: Bobby J and his funky chainrings When Bobby Julich crossed the finish line just 26.45 seconds behind teammate Tyler Hamilton in Wednesday’s Olympic individual time trial, it ...
Aug. 18, 2004
Van Moorsel takes Olympic TT; Demet-Barry earns silver In the days leading up to women’s Olympic time trial, Dutchwoman Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel admitted she thought she might not be able to start. ...
Aug. 17, 2004
Olympic briefs: Zijlaard-van Moorsel wants to end with win; Rogers hopes to prove he's best; Reed skipping 500m Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel hopes to defend her Olympic time trial crowd on Wednesday despite a hard fall that knocked her out of Sunday’s road ...
Aug. 17, 2004
Olympics: Time trial on tap Following two off days for the cycling events here at the Olympics in Athens, the men’s and women’s time trials are up next at Vouliagmeni ...
Aug. 16, 2004
Olympic briefs: Arndt irked, Aussies elated; Wood gets her chance in ITT; bruised Zijlaard-van Moorsel to start ITT Arndt irked at German federation, not CarriganJudith Arndt says her hand gesture as she crossed the finish line in Sunday's women's road race in ...
Aug. 15, 2004
Olympic briefs: Och' fined; men gripe over road-race scheduling; Aussie irked at substitute status Och’ fined for water handup outside feed zoneU.S. Olympic road coach Jim Ochowicz was fined Sunday for giving a bottle of water to a rider outside ...
Aug. 14, 2004
Olympic men's race: A Casey Gibson gallery It was a hot one out there in Athens on Saturday, and not just for the riders – Casey Gibson found himself schlepping a few jillion pounds of ...
Aug. 13, 2004
Olympic Notebook: Sydney’s golden girl ready for Athens Four years ago she was the toast of Olympic cycling, after winning three gold medals at the 2000 Games in Sydney. But this time around Dutchwoman ...
Aug. 13, 2004
Olympics: UCI thwarted in testing attempt Just 24 hours before some of top European road pros get down to business in the hunt for Olympic medals, confusion was the order of the day after the ...
Aug. 12, 2004
Olympic Notebook: It’s Thorburn for the TT The final selection for the U.S. road team has been made, and it will be Christine Thorburn joining Dede Barry as America’s representatives in the ...
Aug. 12, 2004
Olympics: Photo gallery More sights from the lead-up days to the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.
Aug. 11, 2004
Athens Games: A Casey Gibson gallery Photographer Casey Gibson is in Athens for the 2004 Summer Games and sent us these glimpses of the U.S. team as they practice for the weekend's ...
Aug. 11, 2004
Olympics: Photo gallery Here's a look at some of the sights on the days leading up the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.
Aug. 11, 2004
Olympics: Tyler and crew ready to roll With just three days until the first of 18 cycling gold medals are handed out at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece, Tyler Hamilton and the rest of ...
Aug. 6, 2004
Haywood loses final Olympic appeal After six months of chasing UCI points, a weeklong delay in the initial announcement, an arbitration hearing and an appeal of that decision, the ...
Jul. 30, 2004
Australians drop Dajka from Olympic squad Cyclist Jobie Dajka was dropped from Australia's Olympic team after being found to have lied to a doping inquiry involving the country's top ...
Jul. 26, 2004
Australians still wrestling with Olympic track selections Australian trackster Ben Kersten will have his appeal to be reinstated to the Athens Olympic team heard by a Cycling Australia (CA) tribunal on ...
Jul. 20, 2004
McConneloug wins arbitration case and Olympic spot In a classic truth-is-stranger-than-fiction tale Mary McConneloug has won her arbitration case and been awarded the lone women’s start spot on the ...
Jul. 19, 2004
Voeckler earns French Olympic spot Tour de France race leader Thomas Voeckler, of the La Boulangere team, has won his place on France's Olympic team for the men's road race in ...
Jul. 16, 2004
With single-point margin, Haywood gets Olympic nod After a week of counting, recounting and recalculating UCI points, USACycling announced the formal nomination of Sue Haywood to the 2004 U.S.Olympic ...
Jul. 14, 2004
Leipheimer added to U.S. Olympic squad With Lance Armstrong declining his spot on the U.S. Olympic road team, USA Cycling on Wednesday officially nominated Levi Leipheimer as Armstrong’s ...
Jul. 12, 2004
Jeanson bumped from Canadian Olympic team Genevìeve Jeanson has been left off the Canadian Olympic team bound for Athens, according to The Toronto Star.
The 22-year-old from Lachine, ...
Jul. 8, 2004
Armstrong to skip Olympics Five-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong has bowed out of this year’s Olympics in Athens according to a team spokesman. The announcement ...
Jul. 2, 2004
Friday's EuroFile: Court rejects Armstrong appeal; No Olympics for Millar; Mayo softpedals chances; so does Simoni Lance Armstrong on Friday lost his appeal against a ruling denying him the right to insert a denial against accusations of doping published in a book ...
Jun. 21, 2004
Armstrong heads U.S. Olympic squad Five-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong heads the list of cyclists named to the U.S. Olympic team for the Athens Summer Games August 13-29, a ...
Jun. 16, 2004
Olympic slots on the line at Redlands America’s top cycling talent competes this week for a chance to representthe United States at the Olympic Games. Three athletes will earn that ...
May. 18, 2004
MTB News and notes: Getting focused on the Olympics Concerns about venue readiness at this summer’s Olympics have been well documented, but it appears that at least the cross-country mountain-bike ...
May. 8, 2004
Freedman challenges UCI points tally with eye toward Olympics Nicole Freedman, the 2000 U.S. national road champion and Sydney U.S. Olympic team member, filed an appeal Saturday against the UCI with the Court of ...
Mar. 31, 2004
MTB News and Notes: Olympic hunt; The Webcast and Jeep's back There have already been showdowns in Cyprus, Waco, Puerto Rico and Italy,and now comes word that the battle for spots on the U.S. Olympic team ...
Jan. 20, 2004
MTB News and Notes: Olympic spots announced; U.S. championships in Mammoth The UCI released the start spot list for next summer’s Olympic cross-country races on Tuesday, making it official that the U.S. will be sending ...
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