Taylor Phinney won the Stage 4 criterium at Tour of the Gila on Saturday. A member of the Trek-Livestrong development team, it's the second win in a row for the under-23 development team.
Phinney's teammate Jesse Sergent won Friday's individual time trial.
After Saturday's 43-mile criterium, Levi Leipheimer had the overall lead by 59 seconds. Tom Danielson was second …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/05/01/taylor-phinney-wins-stage-4-at-tour-of-the-gila/
If you're Lance Armstrong with nearly 2.5 million followers in the Twittersphere, this is how you issue a pending birth announcement:
“Getting ?'s today about someone I'm following, a certain @CincoArmstrong. What to say? Yet another blessing in our lives. I cannot wait!”
Suzanne Halliburton at the Austin-American Statesman quickly deciphered the message and got a confirmation from the hometown cycling hero Thursday night.
It will be Armstrong's fifth child …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/30/cinco-armstrong-lances-fifth-child-is-on-the-way/
Levi Leipheimer won the leader's red jersey in the Tour of the Gila after the first stage in 2009; he's still wearing it in the New Mexico bike race after Stage 1 in 2010.
Riding once again for Mellow Johnny's (a proxy team for the RadioShack pro cycling team), Leipheimer took the Stage 1 mountaintop finish on Wednesday ahead of No. 2 finisher Tom Danielson, a member of the DZNuts team (a proxy for Garmin-Transitions pro cycling team) …..
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/29/leipheimer-continues-to-dominate-tour-of-the-gila/
Lance Armstrong helped shine an international spotlight on the Tour of the Gila in New Mexico last year when he showed up to compete in the five-day race with two compadres from the Astana team.
He's returning to the bike race again this year from April 28 through May 2 with defending champ Levi Leipheimer and Jason McCartney from the RadioShack pro cycling team. They'll be joined among the elite cyclists with three from Garmin-Transitions — David Zabriskie, Danny Pate and Tom Danielson.
The arrival of the pros will definitely spark more interest in the race located in southwestern New Mexico near the Gila National Forest …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/04/21/lance-armstrong-returns-to-tour-of-the-gila-next-week/
When someone clued Lance Armstrong about comments made by the host of a sports call-in show, he didn't like what he heard. His reaction on Twitter:
“Disgusting, ignorant, foolish. What a complete f-ing idiot.”
The “f-ing idiot” was Tony Kornheiser, long-time sports commentator who had already been suspended from ESPN once this year for commenting on an outfit worn by a female co-anchor.
What drew Armstrong's anger was Kornheiser's comments about how motorists should hit bicyclists with their cars. He was running-off at the mouth ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/03/19/armstrong-confronts-bicyclists-public-enemy-no-1/
For cycling enthusiasts, March Madness continues with Italy's Milan – San Remo bicycle race on Saturday.
Considered the opening day of the Spring Classics series, the one-day race will be streamed live on Universalsports.com beginning at 10 a.m. (ET), following by replays and highlights. The race will be broadcast on Universal Sports cable at 3 p.m. (ET), with repeats at 8 p.m. Saturday and 1 a.m. Sunday.
Americans cycling at the 185-mile slog include sprinter Tyler Farrar (Garmin) and George Hincapie, Brent Bookwalter and Jeffrey Louder (BMC Racing).
Lance Armstrong was scheduled to lead the Team RadioShack contingent…
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/03/19/watching-milan-san-remo-online-and-on-air/
Lance Armstrong knows all the details of the epic l'Alpe d'Huez and the Tourmalet climbs in France. Now he can say he knows about the howling winds at the Cape Argus too.
Armstrong finished in 9th place among the elite cyclists riding at the Cape Argus Cycle Tour in South Africa.
The 7-time Tour de France winner traveled to South Africa immediately after the Vuelta de Murcia in Spain to ride to raise funds for a South African charity.
The Cape Argus is a massive charity bike ride that boasted some 35,000 participants this year. It has an elite cyclist element, however ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/03/15/windy-south-african-bike-race-for-lance-armstrong/
Lance Armstrong finished the Vuelta de Murcia on Sunday in 7th place behind winner Frantisek Rabon of HTC-Columbia; Armstrong's plans include adding another race to his Tour de France preparations.
Meanwhile, his Team RadioShack teammate Levi Leipheimer opened the Paris-Nice bike race with a third place finish in the prologue, 6 seconds behind Lars Boom of Rabobank. The race will roll across France through Sunday.
More action unfolds this week as the Tirreno-Adriatico rolls out Wednesday for seven days across Italy. Highlights will be streamed live on the Universal Sports website.
Regarding his 7th place finish, Armstrong told reporters:
“Worried would be too strong of a word. ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/03/07/murcia-ends-with-armstrong-in-7th-paris-nice-begins-with-leipheimer-in-3rd/
HTC-Columbia's Czech time-trial champion Frantisek Rabon won Stage 5 of the Murcia bike race on Saturday and took the overall lead, as Lance Armstrong climbed into 7th place.
The Vuelta Ciclista a la Region de Murcia across southern Spain ends Sunday with a 75-mile stage that's expected to end in a mass sprint.
Elsewhere, the week-long Paris-Nice bicycle race starts Sunday in France, and Tirreno-Adriatico rolls out Wednesday for seven days across Italy.
While top racers struggle for top finishes in the Murcia bike race, most eyes are on Armstrong. RadioShack manager Johan Bruyneel made headlines …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/03/06/team-columbias-rabon-leads-murcia-armstrong-climbs-to-7th/
Lance Armstrong returned to pro cycling at the Vuelta Ciclista a la Regiona de Murcia on Wednesday, more than a month after completing the Tour Down Under.
But it was Robbie Hunter, riding for US-based Garmin Transitions, who supplied the sparks to the first stage of the race across southern Spain that ends Sunday.
The South African won a bunch sprint at the end of stage 1, beating the likes of Graeme Brown (Rabobank) and Daryl Impey (RadioShack), among others ….
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2010/03/03/armstrong-rides-again-at-murcia-hunter-wins-stage/
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