Category: Racing

Bicycle racing barely mentioned in Sports Emmy awards

Wasn't Lance Armstrong's seventh straight Tour de France bike race championship a big deal last summer? I remember lots of non-bicyclists following it on TV and in the newspaper, and OLN scoring its highest ratings ever during the event.
In spite of that, competitive cycling was mostly ignored for nominations in the Sports Emmy Awards. The 27th annual awards event for TV sports is scheduled May 1. …

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Cyclist Floyd Landis takes a break during Giro d'Italia

Floyd Landis, the 30-year-old American bicyclist, already has two big victories under his belt in 2006: the inaugural Tour of California in February and this month's Paris-Nice.

So, instead of jumping into the Giro d'Italia in May, the team leader of the Swiss Phonak team is going to skip that three-week race to concentrate on the Tour de France in July. …

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Where in the world is cyclist Jan Ullrich?

German cyclist Jan Ullrich will be back in the saddle at the Giro d'Italia in May, but just to tune-up for the Tour de France in July.

Ullrich, touted by Lance Armstrong as the best candidate to win this year's Tour de France, was said to be in outstanding shape when he arrived at the T-Mobile camp this spring, but has yet to race. Hmm…

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Six top cycling teams in Tour of Georgia bike race

Next month's Ford Tour of Georgia bicycle race will feature six ProTour cycling teams in what organizers are touting as the only 2. Hors Classe race in North America.

Signed to compete are Team CSC (Denmark), Phonak (Switzerland), Davitamon-Lotto (Belgium), Prodir-Saunier Duval (Spain), Discovery Channel (USA), and Quick.Step (Belgium).

Although team rosters are not due until April, TdG organizers say they have commitments from 2005 winner Tom Danielson (Discovery), and 2006 Tour of California and Paris-Nice winner Floyd Landis (Phonak). …

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Milan-San Remo bike race results; watch it Sunday on OLN

Not surprisingly, Milan-San Remo reads like quite a battle, with a 24-year-old QuickStep cyclist taking control of the sprinters at the close of the 6 1/2-hour race over 180-some miles.

Italian Filippo Pozzato (QuickStep) won the classic, followed closely by Alessandro Petacchi (Team Milram).

The only American in the bike race, Guido Trenti, played a part in helping teammate …

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Redlands Bicycle Classic hosts public ride again

Weekend warriors can ride where the pros ride during this year's Redlands Bicycle Classic in southern California later this month.

After a year's hiatus which left 700 potential cyclists without an event, the public bicycle ride returns on March 25 during the three-day pro cycling event, scheduled March 24-26. …

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Bicycle quote: 1 dead and 8 serious injuries in bike tour

“Thanks to cyclists being cautious and conscientious, the accident rate was lower than expected. Even with the rain we had 121 incidents. The average is between 120 and 160. …

“These injuries, from falling, are par for the course and nothing unexpected.” …

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Floyd Landis wins Paris-Nice: “It's becoming a bit of an American bike race”

As it turns out, the nine second lead US cyclist Floyd Landis gained on Wednesday was enough to lead all the way to the finish in Nice, four stages later.

The Pennsylvania native has become the second American ever to win The Race to the Sun; the first was Bobby Julich who accomplished the feat in 2005 on Team CSC. …

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Floyd Landis needs 1 more stage for Paris-Nice bike race win

US cyclist Floyd Landis held onto his slim 9 second overall lead in the Paris-Nice bike race on Saturday.

If he and his teammmates on the Swiss Phonak team can hang on for one more day, he'll become the second American to win The Race to the Sun.

The bike race was first run in 1933 and became a permanent cycling feature in 1951. …

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Floyd Landis leads Paris-Nice bike race with 2 stages to go

Two more stages in the week-long Paris-Nice bike race until Floyd Landis can claim his second overall pro cycling victory this year.

The US leader of the Swiss Phonak team retained his 9-second lead in Friday's 124-mile stage from Avignon to Digne les Bains. Danger loomed when his tiring Phonak teammates abandoned Landis on the day's final climb on the …

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