Americans Fail to Qualify in Cycling
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Their times were fast. So were their exits. American cyclists were simply overmatched on the speedy Olympic velodrome Saturday, all getting bounced in the preliminaries.
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The most consistent rider in cycling, Erik Zabel (Germany), once again had to settle for a second place as he was beaten by Oscar Freire in the final sprint of the Elite Men&#39;s Road Race in Verona yesterday.
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ATHENS, Greece - The United States took gold and bronze in the men&#39;s Olympic cycling individual time trial on Wednesday with Tyler Hamilton topping the podium and his team Bobby Julich finishing third.
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STUTTGART, Germany  - Cycling's road world championships will begin on Wednesday with Alejandro Valverde's participation still in doubt and no clear favorites for the rainbow jerseys in the men's elite races.
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Rebecca Much of the United States won the silver medal in the junior time trial Monday at the road cycling world championships. Tereza Hurikova of the Czech Republic was the winner, following her bronze medal on a mountain bike Sept.
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There are times when the Americans just can't win, such as the Ryder Cup. And sometimes, they don't even have to wait for the matches to get under way.
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GRAND FORKS, North Dakota -- And so the freefall continues for Team USA. Roughly 24 hours after losing to Belarus and missing an opportunity to clinch top spot in Group A, the United States slipped from first
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Jan Ullrich was denied entry in the Tour de France, a race he won in 1997, after his name surfaced in a Spanish doping investigation.
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ATHENS, Greece - The preliminaries in the 100 meters were perhaps just a sample of what's to come Sunday, when a talented group of qualifiers - including Americans Shawn Crawford, Justin Gatlin and defending champion Maurice Greene - will try to turn their competition into the fastest show at the Athens Games.    Five men broke 10 seconds in qualifying Saturday, led by Crawford's time of 9.89...
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ATHENS : America&#39;s hopes of salvaging its badly bruised Olympics pride suffered a major setback when for the first time in history their men failed to qualify for the 100m freestyle swimming final.
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MADRID : American cyclist Tyler Hamilton, who won the Olympic time trial gold medal last month, faces a two-year ban after becoming the first ever athlete to give a positive test for blood doping.
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MONTREAL A series of errors and misunderstandings led to the botched drug test that resulted in Tyler Hamilton, the American cyclist, retaining his gold medal from the Athens Olympics, the World Anti-Doping Agency has said in a report.
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Well, at least that one's out of the way. Happened pretty quick, too. Turns out the Americans can't play singles very well, either.
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The Phonak cycling team have lost their appeal to be reinstated for next season&#39;s ProTour. The Swiss team had appealed against the International Cycling Union&#39;s decision last month to reject their application.
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The United States proved there is more to US 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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American Bobby Julich crashed in the Tour de France on Saturday, losing control of his bike while negotiating a bend during the long time trial, and the Tour&#039;s news service said he had dropped out of the three-week race.
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For the second straight year, no rider is expected to dominate the Tour, in part because many of the cyclists who would have been expected to compete for the victory are not here.