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World Road Championships

2008

Oct. 3, 2008Spokesman regrets saying Levi Leipheimer was "too tired."
USA Cycling and American Levi Leipheimer have clarified the events surrounding the Astana rider’s non-participation in the world road championship ...
Oct. 1, 2008Michael Barry's Diary: Attacks, crashes and goodbye kisses
The crowd roared as we, the handful of riders that was once over 200 riders large rode slowly around the course on the final lap of the six and a ...
Sep. 29, 2008End of the road for smiling Bettini
Handing his coveted world title to countryman Alessandro Ballan was the second-best send-off Italian great Paolo Bettini could have wished for, he ...
Sep. 28, 2008Spain laments lost opportunity
Italy will be the toast of Europe tomorrow, but back in Spain, the national team is going to get roasted. Spain was favored to win gold Sunday ...
Sep. 28, 2008Cozza leads young U.S. team
Steven Cozza had never raced anything longer than 230km and he had never raced against the big boys in a world championships. Now the 23-year-old ...
Sep. 28, 2008Ballan powers to gold
Alessandro Ballan started Sunday’s men’s elite road race as a helper for the team’s biggest stars but ended the day world champion. Ballan ...
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Sep. 28, 2008Riis defends Schleck as doping rumors swirl
CSC team manager Bjarne Riis has spoken out against recent doping suspicions over one of his top riders, Luxembourger Frank Schleck, calling for the ...
Sep. 27, 2008Australia's Wood and Bates set to retire
Two of Australia's champion cyclists Oenone Wood and Natalie Bates raced their final event today at the World Championships in Italy bringing to an ...
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Sep. 27, 2008Bettini will retire after worlds road race
Two-time defending world champion Paolo Bettini of Italy confirmed on Saturday he will retire after the final race of the world road race ...
Sep. 27, 2008The Bettini, Freire show on Sunday?
If cycling team coaches were like their brethren in American football they would be studying tapes of all the races that have been held on the ...
Sep. 27, 2008Cooke strikes gold again
Nicole Cooke’s perfect season just got better. Just six weeks after winning the Olympic gold medal in Beijing, the 24-year-old Welshwoman ...
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Sep. 27, 2008McQuaid: ‘Schleck can race’
UCI president Pat McQuaid says cycling’s governing body is powerless to stop Frank Schleck from starting Sunday’s elite men’s road race. The ...
Sep. 27, 2008Schleck under scrutiny at worlds
Luxembourg's plans for success in the men's road race at the world championships have been hampered by a police raid on the team’s hotel, and a ...
Sep. 26, 2008Colombian pips favorite Italians
With three Italians in the eight-up sprint at the end of Friday’s heated 173km Under-23 world championship race, odds were stacked against Fabio ...
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Sep. 26, 2008Leipheimer pulls out of road race
Levi Leipheimer has pulled out of the world championship road race in Italy, it was announced Friday. Leipheimer, who last week finished runner-up ...
Sep. 26, 2008Milram reports Zabel to retire
German sprint great Erik Zabel, a six-time winner of the Tour de France green jersey, will retire in early October, his professional road team Milram ...
Sep. 25, 2008John Wilcockson previews this weekend's world road race championships
When the world road championships last came to Varese, Italy, in 1951, an estimated 1.5 million fans thronged the hilly course north of the city and ...
Sep. 25, 2008Universal Sports webcasts 2008 World Road Championships
Universal Sports Presents Live Coverage of UCI Road World Championships Tune in September 24 - 28 on Universal Sports Network and ...
Sep. 25, 2008Grabsch claims world ITT title; Zabriskie takes bronze
German workhorse Bert Grabsch won Germany’s first world time-trial title since 2001 on Thursday as Canadian Svein Tuft delivered the surprise ride ...
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Sep. 24, 2008Michael Barry's Diary - Head down and go
As the road climbed uphill into the lower Alps the peloton began to shatter. Riders attacked, while others drifted against the flow of the group. ...
Sep. 24, 2008Neben grabs gold in women's ITT at world championships
The U.S. women’s team struck gold in Wednesday’s time trial at the Varese world championships, but it wasn’t Olympic gold medalist Kristin ...
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Sep. 24, 2008O'Grady, Kirchen won't race worlds
Luxembourg's Kim Kirchen has pulled out of the world road race championships after citing a lack of form. Kirchen was regarded as a medal ...
Sep. 23, 2008Kristin Armstrong: She's in it to win it
Kristin Armstrong is enjoying the success that comes with winning the gold medal at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, but she brings her game face to ...
Sep. 23, 2008Italy's Malori wins U-23 ITT
Host nation Italy started the 2008 world championships in winning fashion on Tuesday as Adriano Malori scored a gold medal for the home team in the ...
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Sep. 23, 2008Previewing the world TT championships
With Olympic gold medalist Fabian Cancellara deciding not to defend the world titles he won in Stuttgart and Salzburg, and with the other 2007 TT ...
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Sep. 22, 2008Cancellara takes a pass on worlds
Although he could potentially earn his third successive rainbow jersey in the individual time trial, Olympic medalist Fabian Cancellara has announced ...
Sep. 22, 2008Bettini, Freire look to make worlds history
The chance of making history by winning a third consecutive road race crown at cycling's world championships this week has been keeping Paolo Bettini ...
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Sep. 16, 2008Kristin Armstrong and Levi Leipheimer will headline world road teams in Varese Italy.
Olympic medalists Kristin Armstrong and Levi Leipheimer will headline a strong U.S. team for the upcoming Varese world road cycling championships ...
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Sep. 15, 2008Bettini to lead Italian squad at worlds
Reigning world champion Paolo Bettini will spearhead the Italian team's bid to keep the coveted rainbow jersey in Italian hands at the world road ...
Sep. 12, 2008Boonen, Gilbert head Belgian worlds team
Former world champion Tom Boonen and Philippe Gilbert will spearhead Belgium's bid for the world road race championships' rainbow jersey later this ...

2007

2006

Sep. 24, 2006Bettini earns his stripes
Cycling’s history is full of racers who wilted under the curse of the rainbow jersey after winning the world championships. Perennial pre-race ...
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