American cyclist Chris Horner of the Predictor Lotto team got to wear the yellow leader's jersey going into the the final stage — an individual time trial — of the Tour of Romandie on Sunday.
Horner, 35, finished 7th in the 12.6-mile time trial around Lausanne, on Sunday, dropping to a 5th place finish overall. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/05/06/american-horner-loses-tour-de-romandie-lead-in-final-stage/
You'll be able see the Graeme Obree story on the big screen beginning Friday if you live in Seattle, Boston, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Toronto or Washington DC.
Those are the “selected cities” where theaters will show “The Flying Scotsman,” a movie about the Scot who twice broke the bicycling world record for distance covered in an hour.
Here in the Seattle area, theaters showing the movie this weekend are AMC Pacific Place 11, Renton Village 8 and Lakewood Town Center 12; Regal Bella Botega 11, South Sound Cinema 10, Alderwood 7 Cinemas, and South Hill Mall 6; Landmark Metro Cinemas; Bellevue Galleria Stadium 11; and Galaxy Tacoma 6. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/05/03/the-flying-scotsman-cycling-movie-opens-friday/
It looks like Levi Leipheimer is back in the driver's seat for the Discovery Channel pro cycling team after Italian cyclist Ivan Basso, left, asked to be released from his contract to fight doping allegations.
Leipheimer, of Santa Rosa, California, was considered to be the next team boss until Basso came on board last fall. Basso rode in support of Leipheimer during the latter's successful Amgen Tour of California in February, as the Italian cyclist was preparing to win the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France.
A reopened doping investigation in Italy, however, has prompted Basso to drop his Discovery contract. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/05/01/discovery-cycling-team-says-arrivederci-basso/
The Discovery Channel pro cycling team did great at the Tour de Georgia without Italian cyclist Ivan Basso — 3 stage wins and the overall title. That might be a look of things for the near future.
The team on Wednesday asked Basso not to race pending a hearing into a new doping investigation by the Italian Olympic Committee. That casts an uncertain pall over his season; the Giro d'Italia is coming up in May and the Tour de France is in July.
It's that off-again on-again muddle started with Spain's Operacion Puerto blood doping investigation that broke right before the 2006 Tour de France. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/04/24/basso-sidelined-from-discovery-channel-for-now/
Canadian cyclist Svein Tuft won the inaugural US Open Cycling Championships on a snowy day in Virginia on Saturday.
The rider for the Symmetrics team bridged a gap to solo breakaway cyclist Jonathan Patrick McCarty (US) of the Slipstream team, and attacked on the last of eight 5.5-mile circuits around Richmond.
Tuft crossed the finish first, followed by McCarty then Argentinian Alejandro Borrajo of the Rite Aid team. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/04/07/canadian-wins-snowy-us-cycling-open/
If you're working on your income taxes this weekend instead of bicycling, you might want to flip on the TV for the inaugural US Open Cycling Championships on NBC on Saturday or the Tour of Flanders on Sunday on the Versus (OLN in Canada) cable network.
NBC is televising the road race championships from Virginia from 2:30 to 5 p.m. ET (11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. PT) on Saturday. Coverage of the Belgium's Tour of Flanders spring classic runs from 7 to 8 pm. Sunday (ET) as part of Versus' Cyclysm Sunday series.
It is quite a coup for the US Open to get same-day coverage on network television. Cable sports stations rule the roost for cycling in the US and abroad; the last time network TV offered same-day domestic cycling coverage was 1996, an organizer told VeloNews. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/04/06/double-dose-of-pro-cycling-on-tv-this-weekend/
The film adaptation of two-time bicycling one-hour world record holder Graeme Obree's life is scheduled for release May 4 in Seattle, Boston, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Toronto and Washington DC.
The year's first US screening, however, will be Friday night at the 16th Philadelphia Film Festival. Here's a two-and-a-half minute trailer for the film:
Obree's accomplishments are amazing, considering that he broke the world record as an amateur racing on a bicycle that he designed. He also battled bicycling federation bureaucrats who disapproved of his riding style, and his own inner demons, as he was later diagnosed with bipolar disorder. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/04/05/the-flying-scotsman-bike-movie-opens-in-select-cities-in-may/
Organizers of the Tour of Utah cancelled the week-long bicycle race this year due to a lack of sponsors.
Sounds like a familiar refrain? The Tour of Georgia is going ahead without a title sponsor but is depending on smaller sponsors and a hoped for $1 million infusion from Georgia taxpayers.
The inaugural Tour of Missouri also is seeking a title sponsor as is the Montreal-Boston Tour. The only big US tour flush with money this year was the Tour of California, which was sponsored by drug-maker Amgen for the second straight year. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/03/31/tour-of-utah-is-scratched/
There's going to be another French-speaking bicycle race this summer, and it's happening in North America.
The Montreal-Boston Cycling Tour runs from Aug. 5 to 12, beginning with four stages in Quebec, followed by one stage in Vermont, two stages in New Hampshire and the final stage in Massachusetts for the finish in Boston.
This makes four stage races in the US and Canada this summer that are sanctioned by the Union Cycliste Internationale, which means the top professional teams can send riders to compete. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/03/22/parlez-vous-montreal-boston-cycling-tour/
Spain's Alberto Contador staged a last-ditch attack on the final mountain of the Paris-Nice bicycle race Sunday to win the 8-day Race to the Sun.
The Col d'Eze was the perfect place for the 24-year-old Contador to make his bid to win the race. He won Thursday's mountaintop finish in Mende to put himself within 6 seconds of the overall race leader Davide Rebellin.
Rebellin, a Gerolsteiner rider from Italy, fought hard to catch up to Contador, but finished about 22 seconds behind to fall to second place overall. Contador's Discovery Channel teammates kept the pressure on Rebellin and the Gerolsteiner team to give Contador a chance at the win. …
Permanent link to this article: https://www.bikingbis.com/2007/03/18/discovery-channels-contador-wins-paris-nice-bike-race/
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