Category: Racing
Levi Leipheimer is wearing the golden jersey at the Vuelta a Espana after winning the 26-mile individual time trial on Wednesday.
The cyclist from Santa Rosa is the only US rider in the three-week stage race around Spain. His commitment to compete for Team Astana made him one of the few to miss the US pro cycling championships in Greenville, South Carolina, last weekend.
Winning the time trial and donning the overall leader's golden jersey will surely take some of the sting out of not being able to defend his US Pro cycling title …
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Tyler Hamilton is the new US pro road champion after winning in Greenville, South Carolina, on Sunday by the width of a tire.
VeloNews calls it one of the biggest wins of his career.
It's significant because it comes in the second season after Hamilton completed a two-year doping suspension. It's also significant because Hamilton is 37 and considered retiring after last year. Does anyone expect him to retire while holding the US title?
Finishing with the silver was Blake Caldwell of Garmin-Chipotle, followed by teammate Danny Pate with bronze. …
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David Zabriskie successfully defended his time trial title at the USA Cycling Pro Championships in Greenville, South Carolina, on Saturday.
That's an amazing feat, considering the 29-year-old from Utah suffered a broken back during Stage 2 of the Giro d'Italia this spring.
About 120 US cyclists are expected to compete Sunday for national road champion, which will be streamed live over the web at the USA Cycling Championships website …
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At last count, 113 cyclists from the US are converging on Greenville, South Carolina, on Saturday and Sunday to compete in the USA Cycling Pro championships.
I could list the roster here, but suffice to say it's every current pro cyclist in the US that I've ever heard of (and many I haven't) except Levi Leipheimer and Jason McCartney, who are on assignment in Spain and Germany for their respective teams, Astana and CSC.
That's a big sacrifice for Leipheimer, because he's the defending road race champion in the US. The defending time trial champ, David Zabriskie, will be riding in that event on Sunday.
With Leipheimer out of the picture, the most well known competitors on the road become George Hincapie and Christian Vande Velde…
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If you like watching live or same-day cycling coverage, there's a new website to check out.
A newly rebranded sports programming broadcaster is launching its free, online video-streaming cycling coverage on Friday with the Tour of Germany, followed by the Cycling Grand Prix, Doylestown Criterium, Tour of Missouri, and UCI Road World Championships.
Universal Sports, formerly WCSN, is making this foray into cycling to determine its popularity for online viewing. If it gains traction, I'm told, they plan to expand their cycling coverage with more and bigger races.
They've signed former US cyclist Frankie Andreu as one of their commentators …
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/08/28/where-to-find-live-video-streaming-of-tour-of-missouri-and-other-cycling/
Wouldn't it be cool if the Vuelta a Espana boiled down to a mano a mano contest between Carlos Sastre, winner of this year's Tour de France, and Alberto Contador, the 2007 Tour winner who was unable to defend his title in 2008?
After winning in the Tour de France in 2007, Contador and others on Team Astana were disappointed to learn they had been uninvited to the Tour de France. The team channeled its anger into winning the three-week Giro d'Italia.
Now the Vuelta a Espana has released the rosters for this year's three week race, rolling out Aug. 30 through Sept. 21. Sastre's Team CSC and Contador's Astana team will both be racing …
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Two of the best obliterated the field in the Leadville Trail 100 mountain bike race in Colorado on Saturday, with David Wiens pulling away from Lance Armstrong near the finish for the win.
In spite of the loss, it shows that the 7-time Tour de France winner is still in incredible shape. With all the travelling, speaking engagements, high-profile dating, etc., 36-year-old Armstrong finished within 2 minutes of the now six-time Leadville winner.
The same can be said for the fitness level of 43-year-old Wiens. Last year he held off a challenge by former mountain biker and Tour de France competitor Floyd Landis. VeloNews said Wiens' victory this year was 13 minutes faster than last year's course record that he set against Landis, who fell during the race …
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Hungry to dine at the Tour de France but not allowed a seat at that table, Levi Leipheimer took his appetite to the Cascade Cycling Classic in Bend, Oregon, and gobbled down the competition.
The US cyclist who won the Tour of California in February is a member of Team Astana, which Tour de France organizers jilted from the world's biggest race. Not wanting his top form this year to go to waste, Leipheimer headed back to the 6-stage Cascade bike race where he won his first stages in the late 1990s.
Among the Astana team members, he was joined only by Chris Horner. The domestique to Australia's Cadel Evans before switching to Astana, Horner will be remembered for helping another cyclist to a mountaintop finish — on his back. Something he never did for Evans …
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The Bend Memorial Clinic Cascade Cycling Classic coming up July 9-13 in Bend, Oregon, has turned into the top alternative for US riders who cannot compete in the 2008 Tour de France.
Heading the roster at the Cascade Classic will be Levi Leipheimer, left, and Chris Horner of Team Astana, which was banned by Tour organizers.
Also competing: Tom Danielson of Garmin-Chipotle, as well as that team's Tyler Farrar of Wenatchee, Washington, and Tom Peterson of North Bend, Washington. Those three were passed over by their team. …
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Photo by Aaron Teasdale
Adventure Cycling AssociationJune must be the month for extreme ultra-endurance bicycling events.
Cyclists took off June 8 for the 3,000-mile Race Across America. Last Saturday, 17 mountain bikers set off from Banff, Alberta, on the inaugural 2,711-mile Tour Divide mountain bike race.
This coming Saturday, more mountain bikers will start the 5th annual Great Divide Race, that rolls out from the Canadian border for the Mexican border, 2,490 miles away.
They call RAAM “the world's toughest bike race.” What can you call these two north-south races? How about, “The world's most drop-dead insanely challenging bike races.” ….
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Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2008/06/19/great-divide-route-hosting-two-mountain-bike-races/
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