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• Mar. 2, 2008
  Quick Step's De Vongh wins Kuurne
  Quick Step's Steven De Jongh beat out fellow Dutchman Sebastian Langeveld Sunday to win the Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne race in Belgium. De Jongh, who was second overall in the Tour of Qatar this ...
• 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 Sarah Hammer, Michael Friedman, ...
• Mar. 2, 2008
  Bettini hospitalized after Kuurne crash
  Quick Step's Paolo Bettini has been hospitalized after a crash in the first kilometers of Sunday's Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne race in Belgium. Team director Dirk Demol said the Italian world champion was taken to the hospital as a precaution. In ...
• Mar. 2, 2008
  Inside Cycling: ASO’s renegade Paris-Nice threatens pro cycling’s future
  As the most profitable race promoter in pro cycling, Amaury Sport Organisation wants to dictate how the sport is run. That’s why for the past three years ASO and its surrogates have resisted substantive changes in cycling, particularly those changes involving the ...
• Mar. 1, 2008
  Plaza wraps up Valencia, Petacchi takes finale
  Rubén Plaza (SL Benfica) wrapped up the overall in the 66th Volta a Valenciana after finishing safely in the pack behind sprinter Alessandro Petacchi (Milram), who bolted to victory in Saturday’s final stage. Runner-up Manuel Vázquez (Contentpolis-Murcia) was left without ...
• Mar. 1, 2008
  Attacking Gilbert solos to Het Volk
  Belgian rider Philippe Gilbert (FDJeux) won Het Volk for the second time in three years in the best style possible: with a dramatic solo victory. Gilbert, winner of the Belgian season opener in 2006, attacked a lead group of favorites on the Eikenberg climb with about 60km to ...
• Feb. 29, 2008
  Lorenzetto wins uphill sprint in Valencia
  Another stage at the Volta a Valenciana and another breakaway by a rider from Slipstream-Chipotle. For the fourth stage in a row, the American squad put a man into the main move in the five-day Valencia tour in Spain. This time it was Lucas Euser showing off the argyle with ...
• Feb. 29, 2008
  Reader Gallery
  We know it’s been a while, but our latest reader-submitted photo gallery is now ready for your viewing pleasure. We are all big fans of the gallery, but wanted to work it into our new structure here at VeloNews.com. Now that we’ve worked that out, we’ll once again be ...
• Feb. 29, 2008
  Belgian spring kicks off with Het Volk
  Major changes are in store for the unofficial kick off of the classics season with Saturday’s running of the 63rd Omloop Het Volk in Belgium. Narrower roads, more cobblestones and tougher climbs are on tap for the 199km Belgian season opener in what’s always one of the ...
• Feb. 29, 2008
  BMC invited to ride Tour of Romandie
  There’s more good news for BMC after the team secured its second major European race invitation of the week. Just days after scoring a bid to race Criterium International (March 29-30), the second-year American squad earned its first ProTour invitation from the Tour de ...
• Feb. 28, 2008
  VeloGear Warehouse Sale in Boulder Friday
  Boulder, CO, February 21, 2008 — VeloGear, the cycling and triathlon gear retailer, will hold its annual Warehouse Sale in Boulder on Friday, February 29 from 11am-2pm and Saturday, March 1 from 10am-3pm. Prices will be slashed up to 75% off VeloGear’s inventory of ...
• Feb. 28, 2008
  McQuaid: Teams are signing away their rights
  The Union Cycliste Internationale has warned teams aiming to take part in races run by the powerful race organizer ASO that “unjust” conditions in the company's contract completely eliminate fundamental rights. ASO runs a number of top events including the Tour de France, ...