Track: Top Stories

• Mar. 27, 2008
  Bos eyes gold in sprint
  Reigning world sprint champion Theo Bos says he will not shy away from his rivals when the blue-ribbon event of the world track championships gets under way Friday in Manchester, England. And the flying Dutchman believes his main challenger, big ...
• Mar. 26, 2008
  Inside the pursuit
  The world championships began with an unscheduled event, early morning blood draw from the UCI. The Holiday Inn was targeted at an ungodly hour for our teenage son (7am!) and no doubt, no one else was happy either. In any case, the Brits, Aussies, ...
• Mar. 26, 2008
  Commentary: Mixed day for Brits in Manchester
  Until Wednesday morning, David Brailsford's ethical stance on Team GB's attitude to doping had been unquestioned. The British team's Performance Director has long championed clean and fair competition and maintained that any deviation from that ...
• Mar. 26, 2008
  Phinney sets PR and Junior world record
  Taylor Phinney continued his quest for a spot on the U.S. Olympic Team on Wednesday, lowering his personal best time in the men's individual pursuit by more than two seconds and recording a new world-record time for a junior. His mark of 4:22.358 ...
• Mar. 26, 2008
  Wiggins defeats Huizenga in finals
  Olympic pursuit champion Bradley Wiggins lifted British spirits by successfully defending his individual pursuit crown here at the world track cycling championships on Wednesday. Wiggins overpowered surprise Dutch finalist Jenning Huizenga in a ...
• Mar. 26, 2008
  Two riders bumped from worlds for hematocrit tests.
  Britain's cycling director Dave Brailsford admitted on Wednesday the world track cycling championships had begun under a cloud after endurance rider Rob Hayles failed a blood screening test. Britain is the team to beat at the championships, which ...
• Mar. 26, 2008
  Young guns!
  The world track championships begin in Manchester, England, on Wednesday with the host nation’s Great Britain team expecting to dominate the five-day event. As if home advantage wasn’t enough, Team GB can lean on the experience and talent of ...
• Mar. 25, 2008
  Connie Carpenter's report from Manchester
  The heat is on in chilly Manchester. The British press says it was the coldest Easter in 40 years but inside the velodrome it is definitely starting to warm up. You can feel the heat pouring from the vents. A hot track is a fast track: the air ...
• Mar. 25, 2008
  British team has home field advantage at track worlds
  Going back to the drawing board won’t be an option for Team Australia at the end of the world track cycling championships this week. With the Beijing Olympics just around the corner, the Australians — and fellow track giants Britain and ...
• Mar. 3, 2008
  Six-day track racing on tap for Vegas
  One of the legends of American bike racing is planning a 6-day-style track race for this fall in Las Vegas, to coincide with the Interbike trade show there. Jack Simes III, a member of the U.S. Olympic team in 1960, '64 and '68, and coach of the ...
• Mar. 2, 2008
  U.S. sending small squad to track worlds
  Just nine American track racers will journey to the 2008 UCI track world championships, held March 26-30 in Manchester, Great Britain. USA Cycling will send sprinters Jennie Reed, Michael Blatchford and Adam Duvendeck as well as endurance riders ...
• Feb. 17, 2008
  U.S. pads medal count at track World Cup
  Jennie Reed and the Madison team of Colby Pearce and Bobby Lea turned in a pair of silver-medal performances on Sunday as the Copenhagen Track World Cup concluded in Denmark. That raised the final U.S. medal count to five. After breezing ...