By Jim Freibert Coloradan Tejay van Garderen, who has been pleasing American fans at this year’s race won the time trial stage in California on Friday. Now the BMC rider who first impressed fans at the Tour de France last year, has a one minute plus 47 seconds advantage over Mick Rogers of Saxo...
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AVILA BEACH, Calif. (May 16, 2013) – (Amgen Tour of California News) Jens Voigt made his second decisive attack of the day and struck out on his own to claim the Stage 5 of the big California stage race. The  German who rides for the RadioShack Leopard Trek Team has competed in seven of the...
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Final Blow to Cycling Groups Who Sought an Indoor Velodrome in the Bronx By Jen Benepe – New York -April 23, 2013 Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced today that the city will be transforming an old armory in the Bronx into the largest indoor ice facility in the world. The Kingsbridge National Ice Center  will...
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Boston police have updated the fatality number to three now for the total people killed at the Boston Marathon today. One of those three was an 8-year-old boy, and the third person died after being treated for their wounds. Although media reports have been fluid, between 138 and 144 people were wounded. Blood filled...
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Explosions rocked the Boston Marathon today, killing two  people and wounding more than 140. The series of explosions erupted near the finish line, sending the area into chaos. The Boston Police Department confirmed that they were looking into an explosion, but had no further comment according to a report by the NY Times. UPDATE:...
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New York, NY, February 1, 2013 The 2nd Annual Halachic Organ Donor Society Race will take place at 10 a.m. on Sunday, March 3, in Central Park to raise money for the Halachic Organ Donor Society, and they need at least two cycling escorts for the race. They are also welcoming participants to the race. The...
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By Jen Benepe (aka Dzidzia GoodSword) In an article yesterday, Kevin Heliker of the Wall Street Journal outed Lance Armstrong’s not so private previous alias, Juan Pelota as a Strava user. For those of you who do not know, Strava is an online tool for tracking your speed and distance, and by using the...
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In a recent interview Lance Armstrong the previous Tour de France champion said he would never have told authorities about the drug use of fellow cyclists. In response to a question from the reporter about whether he was protecting Dr. Michele Ferrari in his interview with Oprah last week, Armstrong said,  ”I wasn’t ‘protecting’ anyone....
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The second day of Armstrong’s taped interview with Oprah on OWN was met with skepticism from–guess whom–mostly men. The reactions ranged from cynicism, to disgust. But does the punishment fit the crime? So far, we have had hearsay, and testimony, including now Armstrong’s own, about his use of banned substances. We have no idea...
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You would have to  be dead, deaf and blind, or possibly crazy to have missed the crescendo of chatter about the upcoming Lance Armstrong appearance on Oprah tonight. The show will air at 9 PM on OWN, and will also be streamed at Oprah.com. Part II will air tomorrow night on the same channel....
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An article by David Browne in Men’s Journal examines the deaths in triathlons. An excerpt from the article: At last August’s Ironman U.S. Championship in New York, a 43-year-old Hong Kong man was pulled from the water near the end of the 2.4-mile Hudson River swim and died a short time later. “It’s terrible,”...
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Greg Lemond, the man who was the first American to win multiple Tour de France races says he is vying for the top post at the International Cycling Union. In an interview with French newspaper Le Monde about whether he was prepared to run for president of the Swiss based union against incumbent Pat McQuaid, the 51-year-old...
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Opinion, By Jen Benepe Umm excuse me everyone who objected to the Marathon, the Knicks held one of their big money games in the Garden last night, but I heard no chorus of objections. There is a lot of hypocrisy in that. A Knicks game will do nothing for the city, bring no money to...
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Sandy will not put a dent in the city’s plans to hold the NYC Marathon next Tuesday, reported the Huffington Post this morning. The biggest challenge for this New York City Marathon on Sunday could be getting to the start, not the finish. The mayor of storm-battered New York says the race is still...
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October 22, 2012 The European governing body for cycling sports has agreed to strip Lance Armstrong of his Tour titles. The seven-time Tour de France winner is now banned for life from competing in any internationally sanctioned cycling competitions following the report by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency that accused him of master-minding a doping...
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The Omega Pharma-Quick Step team has fired Levi Leipheimer after learning of his confession to doping as part of the Lance Armstrong investigation. Acting as Armstrong’s teammate for five years at the United States Postal Service, Astana and RadioShack teams, the 38-year-old Leipheimer joined Quick Step in 2012. Team management expressed surprise last week...
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In the News Michael Barry, the Canadian rider who was named in the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency’s investigation of Lance Armstrong, published a confessional –and a plea of sorts to the public in the NY Times today. Amid the general “mea culpas” , using words like “wrong”, and “code of silence,” Barry also struck at...
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