Road: Top Stories

• May. 11, 2008
  Lees-McRae riders ace their finals
  Tiny Lees-McRae College in Banner Elk, North Carolina, can finally say it owns the best collegiate road cycling team in the United States. After a series of near misses at collegiate cycling’s biggest race, the Bobcats finally grabbed the coveted ...
• May. 11, 2008
  2008 Giro d'Italia, stage 1: Team Time Trial Tech
• May. 11, 2008
  2008 Giro d'Italia, stage 2: Live Coverage
  01:47 PM: Good day and welcometo VeloNews.com's Live Updates from the second stage of the 2008 Giro d'Italia, a 207km race ...
• May. 11, 2008
  Vande Velde's day in pink
  Christian Vande Velde stepped off the Slipstream-Chipotle team bus Sunday morning along the beach at Cerfalù with a big smile on his face. Proudly decked out in the maglia rosa, Vande Velde was clearly enjoying his moment as the first American ...
• May. 11, 2008
  Zabriskie crashes out of Giro
  VeloNews staff and wire reports David Zabriskie’s 2008 Giro d’Italia ended Sunday when he was caught at a pileup with about 55km to go in the 207km second stage from Cerfalù to Agrigento. Zabriskie, 29, went down with several ...
• May. 11, 2008
  Zajicek, Abbott win Colorado series kickoff
  Phil Zajicek (Health Net-Maxxis) and Mara Abbott (Team High Road) won the kickoff to the 2008 Tour of Colorado race series on Saturday in Boulder. The 9.14-mile Excel Sports Sunshine Hill Climb up Sunshine Canyon served up 3226 feet in elevation ...
• May. 11, 2008
  Stephane Auge wins the Four Days of Dunkirk, as Hushovd wins the final stage.
  Cofidis rider Stephane Auge of France claimed overall victory in the Four Days of Dunkirk cycling race on Sunday. Norwegian Thor Hushovd, riding for the Credit Agricole team, won Sunday's sixth and final 128.4km ...
• May. 11, 2008
  2008 Giro d'Italia: Pellizotti in pink after Ricco wins stage 2
  Riccardo Riccò (Saunier Duval-Scott) uncorked a tremendous sprint in the final 100 meters to win Sunday’s exciting 207km second stage, but Franco Pellizotti (Liquigas) snuck into ...
• May. 11, 2008
  Lees-McRae riders snap up wins in the Div. 1 men's and women's road races.
  Carla Swart clung to the back of the elite seven-woman breakaway in the waning minutes of the 2008 Division I women’s road championship, held Saturday in Fort Collins, Colorado. Outnumbered and without teammates, the Lees-McRae sophomore didn’t ...
• May. 10, 2008
  'Baby' Haedo takes Joe Martin stage — An Action Images Gallery
  Lucas Sebastian Haedo (Colavita-Sutter Home) took the stage 2 sprint win at the Joe Martin Stage Race in Arkansas. Action Images photographer Kurt Jambretz was there to catch all the action.
• May. 10, 2008
  Inside Slipstream's team time trial preparation
  Slipstream-Chipotle’s victory in Saturday’s team time trial began weeks ago. The building blocks of the team’s historic victory that put Christian Vande Velde as the first American in the pink jersey in 20 years started with the team’s ...
• May. 10, 2008
  Graham Watson photo gallery: The 2008 Giro d'Italia team time trial