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90-Year-Old Cyclist Stripped Of World Record After Failing Anti-Doping TestLast July, 90-year-old cyclist Carl Grove was the lone competitor in his age group at the U.S. Masters Track Championships, where he set an age-group world record in the individual pursuit with a time of 3:06:129. Sadly, Grove subsequently popped a positive for the banned steroid epitrenbolone in a ...

Katie Compton Is An All-Time American AthleteThis weekend, American rider Katie Compton dusted the field to win the 2018 national cyclocross championships. It was a dominant performance; she overtook hotshot young rider Ellen Noble on a gutsy descent during the first lap, and was then unseen for the remainder of her almost one hour out on the ...

Longtime Tour de France commentator and former pro rider Paul Sherwen is dead at 62 of heart failure. He covered the Tour for English-speaking audiences alongside Phil Liggett for 33 years. Neal Rogers has a great obituary for Sherwen up over at CyclingTips....

Floyd Landis Is Using Lance Armstrong's Settlement Money To Start A Cycling Team

Of the $5 million that Lance Armstrong agreed to pay the federal government in April to settle a protracted legal battle, $1.1 million went to Armstrong’s former teammate Floyd Landis for his service as a whistleblower. Landis, who famously turned on Armstrong in 2010, told the Wall Street Journal t...

Vandals Turn Idyllic Hillside Bicycle Sculpture Into Idyllic Hillside Dick Sculpture

A small town in Devon, England called Ilfracombe decorated its Capstone Hill with a bicycle made out of recycled plastic and other materials, to celebrate both the Tour de Britain, which is happening right now, and the region’s efforts to reduce the use of plastic. Then some vandals went and turned ...

Errant Helicopter Causes Real Dumb Bike Crash

Wayward helicopters are probably very low on the list of things professional cyclists have to worry about, right down there with crashing in the finishing chute. However, a scatterbrained helicopter pilot managed to combine both at the Vuelta a España yesterday....

The Strangest, Hardest Stage Race Of The Cycling Season Is Here And It's Going To Kick Ass

Among cycling’s three longest and most important stage races of the season, the Vuelta a España has always been the odd Grand Tour out. The Tour de France is the sports’ grandiose showcase bid for mainstream attention, while the Giro d’Italia’s extravagant pageantry and deep history have positioned ...

Two Americans Among Group Of Cyclists Murdered By ISIS Affiliates In Tajikistan<em></em>

Lauren Geoghegan and Jay Austin wrote that they were trying to see the world by bike. The couple quit their jobs last summer to begin a transcontinental bicycling odyssey of sorts. Their goal was not to break any records, nor even attempt to encircle the entire globe. “We have neither a firm route ...