Cycling World Championships

Cycling World Championships - September 26th

Fabian Cancellera is having a good couple of years.

2006 saw him winning Paris-Roubaix over the previously dominant Tom Boonen and winning the Worlds Time Trial competition later in the year.

He won the prologue and Stage 3 of this year's Tour de France and held on to the yellow jersey for 8 days.

Now he overcomes pressure, rain and a tougher course to repeat as the World Champ. He finished nearly a minute faster than Laszlo Bodrogi of Hungary and Dutchman Stef Clement.

American Dave Zabriskie has been having good performance at time trials this year, but only managed 12th place today.

Racing News - Friday September 21st

Stage 18 : Luis Perez Rodriguez goes out with a bang, closing out his 13 year career with a stage win in his home country. 4 riders dropped out before the start of Thursday's, the most notable of which was World Chamion Paolo Bettini. 24 riders tried to make an early escape today, but were captured by the peloton at 40km. Soon after, another group of 19 riders broke away. Even that group splintered, and we ended up with a group of 12, consisting of chasers and breakers at the 56km mark. Some of the notable names in the break were Menchov, Sastre, Evans, Sanchez and Mosquera. Chasing closely behind (38 seconds back at 76km) was a 10 man group containing Efimkin and others. At 93km, the second group was caught be the peloton, while the leaders extended their advantage to 2 minutes and 45 seconds. The leaders cooperated well over the final climb and kept their lead. With 13km to go, Rodriguez put the hammer down and quickly pulled out to a 26 second lead. He managed to keep ahead al

The Fixed Gear Revolution Goes Upscale - The Opera Mercurio

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Bicycling News Digest - August 2, 2007

All the news that's fit to sprint.... Patrick Sinkewitz admitted to using testosterone gel during the Tour. T-Mobile has fired him and the German police searched his house . Jonathon Vaughters continues to build his Slipstream team , with an eye on obtaining a wild card entry to the 2008 Tour. David Millar is coming over from Saunier Duval-Prodir and Dave Zabriskie and Christian Vandevelde are joining from CSC. Stuttgart will still host the 2007 World Championships after receiving agreements for addtional doping controls. USA Cycling names its team for the UCI BMX Supercross World Cup event in Beijing. Great photo gallery from the Tour on ESPN's web site Until tomorrow, keep the rubber side down.

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