Paolo Bettini defended his world road racing title, taking the sprint victory Sunday in Stuttgart. Bettini edged Alexandr Kolobmev of Russia and hometown boy Stefan Schumacher.Bettini repeated as road champion, just as Fabian Cancellara successfully defended his title in the…

What a loaded field for the world road race championship on Sunday morning in Stuttgart. Italy and Spain have loaded their teams for the one-day, winner-take-all race that covers 165 miles. The 198 riders will race 14 laps on a…

It’s official. As Kathleen Nelson reports in the Saturday Post, the Tour of Missouri is on the next year’s  UCI calendar (use drop-down menu under Calendar; click America Tour).  So raise a glass of Missouri wine and drink a toast:  the successful…

Defending champion Fabian Cancellara won the individual time trial at the World Championships on Thursday in Stuttgart, Germany, finishing the 27.9-mile  course in 55 minutes, 45.35 seconds for an average speed of just over 30 miles per hour. Runner-up  Laszlo Bodrogi…

The new edition of Bicycling magazine also goes in depth with Tyler Hamilton, who failed a doping test  in the 2004 Vuelta A Espana. Like Landis, Hamilton lost his appeal to the American Arbitration Association by a 2 to 1…

2006 Tour de France winner Floyd Landis has posted a letter on his website  thanking fans for supporting him in  the fight to clear his name  and to expose what he calls a “corrupt, inefficient and unfair” anti-doping system.

Last week,…

Denis Menchov’s victory in the Vuelta a Espana was most appropriate and well-deserved, considering what the Russian cyclist has been through the past two years.

Two years ago, Roberto Heras, riding for Liberty Seguras, won the Vuelta on the roads…

After cross-referencing the start list for the world championships this week with the start list from the Tour of Missouri, we came up with 16 riders of the 116 starters here who will travel to Stuttgart this weekend. The riders…

What do cage fighting, bull riding, hockey, hunting,  fishing and college football have in common with cycling?

Not much, except that all are done by people … and are programming on the Versus network.

So tune into Versus at 3…

The 110-page Landis ruling — the 84-page majority opinion and the 26-page dissent — demonstrates one thing loud and clear.

The tests on Landis’ A-sample were so fraught with errors that even the majority opinion stated that Landis’ positive T-E results (testosterone…