Czech rider Hurikova wins first gold medal at cycling worlds
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BARDOLINO, Italy (CP) - Tereza Hurikova of the Czech Republic won the junior time trial to take home the first gold medal and rainbow jersey of the world road cycling championships Monday.
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SALZBURG, Austria  - Kristin Armstrong of the   United States blitzed her rivals to win the women's time trial   title at the world road race championships on Wednesday.
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Belarus&#39; Yuliya Nesterenko became the fastest woman in the world, winning the 100m gold medal at the Olympic Games here Saturday evening.
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SALZBURG, Austria  - Kristin Armstrong of the   United States blitzed her rivals to win the women's time trial   world title on Wednesday.
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BORMIO, Italy  - Austria's Benjamin Raich won the  men's combined at the world championships on Thursday with two  superb slalom runs delivering him his first gold medal.
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Svetlana Kuznetsova could have been competing for a cycling gold medal at the Athens Olympics two weeks ago, instead she has become the first Russian women&#39;s singles champion at the US Open.
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Alexandre Vinokourov wins the first individual time-trial of this year's Tour by more than a minute.
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The United States proved there is more  to U.S. cycling than Lance Armstrong on Wednesday and Leontien  Zijlaard-van Moorsel of the Netherlands became the most  successful woman in Olympic cycling history.
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Bradley Wiggins claimed Great Britain&#39;s second cycling gold at the Athens Olympics with victory in the individual pursuit. Australian Brad McGee took the silver with Sergi Escobar of Spain in the bronze medal position.
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Hermann Maier won the giant slalom Thursday for his first gold medal at the Alpine Skiing World Championships since 1999, two years before he nearly lost his leg in a motorcycle accident.
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ATHENS : New Zealand&#39;s Sarah Ulmer smashed her second world record in as many days on the way to claiming the 3000-metre individual pursuit cycling gold medal at the Athens Olympics.
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ARE, Sweden  - Norwegian Aksel Lund Svindal powered to victory in the men's giant slalom on Wednesday to bag his second gold medal of the Alpine skiing world championships.
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German Linus Gerdemann takes the yellow jersey by winning the first mountain stage of this year's the Tour de France.
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Didier Cuche of Switzerland won the next to last World Cup downhill of the season on Saturday to clinch his first discipline title in the event.
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Edmonton&#39;s Lori-Ann Muenzer defied two of the world&#39;s best cyclists Tuesday to top the field of 500-metre sprinters, laying claim to the first gold medal ever won by a Canadian track cyclist.
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BARDOLINO, Italy Michael Rogers, a 24-year-old Australian, received two gold medals Wednesday at the bicycling road world championships.
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ATHENS - An Olympic medal finally dangling from her neck, New Zealand&#39;s Sarah Ulmer was today crowned track cycling&#39;s peerless female endurance rider after obliterating her own world record en route to completing a golden individual pursuit treble.