The Liquigas cycling team, captained by Italian Danilo Di Luca, won the opening day team time trial at the Giro d'Italia on Saturday on a twisting course around the island of Sardinia.
While teammate Enrico Gasparotto finished first and received the pink leader's jersey, Di Luca will get the same time, putting him 16 seconds ahead of former Giro winner Paolo Savoldelli and the Astana team.
Di Luca has been named among the possible winners of this wide-open Giro d'Italia. The odds-on favorite of the race, Gilberto Simoni, finished 1-minute, 28 seconds behind with the Saunier Duval team. Another favorite, Damiano Cunego, fared better with Lampre, which finished 42 seconds behind the leader. …
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Three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond is scheduled to participate in next weekend's Tour de Cure activities at Marymoor Park in Redmond.
The one-day bike ride on May 19 is a fund-raiser for the American Diabetes Association. Ride participants who have raised and submitted $2,500 or more by Saturday, May 12, will each receive two invitations to a reception held by LeMond on the evening of May 18.
Although LeMond makes his home in Minneapolis, he makes business trips to the Seattle area about every six weeks or so to visit the LeMond Fitness company headquarters …
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Who's going to wear the pink leader's jersey on the podium in Milan at the close of this year's Giro d'Italia? It's anybody's guess.
Defending champion Ivan Basso was a sure favorite until he dropped out, and American Tyler Hamilton (Tinkoff) wanted to make a strong try for it until he was yanked out.
What's left are the winners from 2000 through 2005, and a host of young talent. The race begins Saturday and runs through June 3. …
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The pink jersey signifies the overall leader of the Giro d'Italia.
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Memo to the US Anti-Doping Agency: You do not ask someone who has just won the Tour de France to rat out a former teammate who has won it 7 times and whose reputation is up there somewhere next to Mother Theresa.
But, according to Floyd Landis, the USADA lead attorney Travis Tygart approached Landis' attorney Howard Jacobs with such an offer last year.
Landis said Thursday that Tygart had told Jacobs that Landis could walk away from these doping allegations with “the shortest suspension they've ever given an athlete” if Landis could provide information on Lance Armstrong. …
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Is there a way to improve the detailed maps of the passage to the Pacific Coast charted by Lewis & Clark's Corps of Discovery more than two centuries ago?
The Adventure Cycling Association says there is. Five years after printing the first set of Lewis & Clark Trail maps for bicycles, the bike touring organization has reprinted the maps with improvements. The updates include:
— More cycling-friendly routing in places, including off-road bike paths and freshly paved rural roads;
— More accurate elevation profiles;
— Added alternative gravel routes;
— Updates to route services, which now include libraries …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/05/10/new-and-improved-bicycle-touring-maps-for-lewis-clark-trail/
Parked bicycles along the Lewis and Clark Trail. Photo at Clarkwheel at flickr.com
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Next week's LiveStrong Day on Wednesday, May 16, isn't about the bike, it's about cancer.
The Lance Armstrong Foundation says its a day for grassroots advocacy to raise awareness about cancer issues on a local and national level.
In addition to more than 140 events across the US — four in Seattle, for instance — a group of 200 cancer …
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Attention bicycle travelers: Remember to call home often this summer on your wide-ranging forays into back-roads America.
Poor Clive “Les” Ruddle of Aldbourne, England, didn't keep in touch on his way down the Pacific Coast and touched off a search by Oregon state police. One British paper says he “sparked an international manhunt.”
The Englishman had flown to Seattle in mid-April for a bike tour from Port Angeles, Washington, to San Diego. He last contacted home on April 30 …
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American cyclist Tyler Hamilton has been suspended from the Tinkoff Credit Systems team until his involvement with Operacion Puerto is “sorted out.”
Hamilton and teammate Jorg Jaksche already had been dropped from the starting roster of the Giro d'Italia, which begins Saturday, because their names had been associated with Eufemiano Fuentes, the doctor targeted in the Spanish blood-doping probe. …
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