American Christian Vande Velde is in the maglia rosa after his team, Slipstream-Chipotle, won the team time trial in impressive fashion Saturday in the opening stage of the Giro d’Italia. 

Vande Velde led the five surviving argyle-clad Slipstream-Chipotle riders across the finishing line…

With Americans prominent on Slipstream-Chipotle, CSC and Astana, Velonews.com previewed the Giro d’Italia and suggested that an American could end up in the maglia rosa Saturday after the Team Time Trial in the opening stage of the Giro d’Italia.

Velo…

Cycling friends,

The report on injured Tecos-Trek rider, Fausto Esparza, is sobering to say the least. I’ve exchanged e-mails with the Tour of the Gila organizers and I’m told that Esparza underwent surgery on Sunday night but that he apparently…

Fausto Esparza Munoz, the Tecos-Trek rider seriously injured Sunday in a crash on the final stage of the Tour of the Gila, rode for Tecos last September in the inaugural Tour of Missouri.

In the Tour of Missouri, he was listed as Fausto Marcelino Esparza. 

According to…

I found this on the website Timmy shares with former teammate Ian MacGregorng, who is racing in the Tour de Georgia for Team Type 1.

According to the website, Justgoharder.com Duggan is in intensive care in the hospital in Athens, Ga.,…

Timmy Duggan drives Slipstream-Chipotle on the first of two circuits in August.

U.S. national champion Levi Leipheimer grants an interview with Neal Rogers of Velonews after the stage.

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It happened in Italy, where Danilo Di Luca, the winner of the Giro d’Italia last year, was cleared by the Italian Olympic Committee.

Irregularities in an anti-doping sample from the Giro prompted the case, but further tests showed there wasn’t enough…

Twas a classic Classic on the pave in France for the Paris-Roubaix race.

The best two sprinters of the world (both on teams sponsored by U.S. companies) — Tom Boonen of Quick Step and Fabian Cancellara of CSC — duked…

Crediting Focus Online, a German web magazine, Velonews.com reports that 1997 Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich will pay a 1 million euro fine ($1.5 million U.S.) to settle the fraud case against him in Germany for allegedly doping and duping…

Velonews.com reports that Rock Racing has sued the Tour de Georgia Foundation, the owner of the Tour de Georgia, and event organizer Medalist Sports over its exclusion from the race, which begins April 21.

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