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In today’s Tour de France news, Spaniards attack!, Contador wanted “psychological” blow, Hushovd back in green and other bicycle racing news.

In today’s bicycle racing news, Amaran still atop NRC, Xacobeo Galicia heads to Poland, suspended sentence for Ricco, surgery for Haussler and more…

In today’s Giro d’ Italia news, yet another epic stage, Greipel calls the Giro “a disaster”, Weylandt drops out, Pineau takes over points classification & more

In today’s cycling news, Rasmussen to Miche, Millar back in good graces of Scotland’s Commonwealth Games committee, USA Cycling wraps up second BMX devo camp and more…

In today’s cycling news, Katie Compton leads the UCI ‘cross rankings, Marianne Vos makes her season debut, dopes continue to dope, transfers and more.

Day One of the World Track Championships took place in not so sunny Poland. With four golds on offer there was a lot of racing to get through, it’s just a shame there was no one in the stadium to watch the racing.
First up was the Women’s 500TT. No longer an Olympic event, the gloss has been taken off the 500TT, or so we’re told. But this isn’t a lacklustre event by any stretch of the imagination. We were treated to the first world record of the series as …

Five races on the calendar for this week, Milram’s doctor on the defense, Elite Junior event coming to Kentucky, Armstrong and Contador will take on Castilla y Leon, U.S. track worlds team named, Cycling.tv apologizes and more…

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A weekend of records and crashes just about sums up the three days the worlds best had at Copenhagen.
Star of the show has to be Taylor Phinney, setting, or should that be smashing the US records in both pursuit and kilo. Not only has Phinney set down a benchmark for future performances, but he may well have set the trend for future years with pursuiters racing the shorter event.
If Phinney walked away with a smile on his face Chris Hoy left the track with something else. A gold in the …

Copenhagen World Cup – Day 1
Talking point of the day was Taylor Phinney’s impressive ride of 4.15 to qualify fastest in the men’s individual pursuit. Taking a full 4 seconds off the US record (has a record ever been beaten by so much?) Taylor went on to gold, in a ride that he described as ‘Slayin’.
If Taylor’s ride was the surprise of the day it was pretty much business as usual on the rest of the track.
The men’s team sprint qualifying round saw the French and British each qualify two …

The Track World Cup round-up.
With just one round of the World Cup to go (Copenhagen 13-15 February) it’s well worth seeing how things stand and more importantly looking at some of the arguments made against the current format.
The World Cup is the key component for any squad hoping to get riders to the World Champs and as such will see different teams target different events in an effort to gain the points required to get their riders on the Poland bound plane.
But each year there are complaints that certain rounds …