In a bold move to expand cycling to the ‘new world’ the organizers of the Giro d'Italia (Tour of Italy) is heavily considering a start in Washington DC. I applaud it.

When I heard of the Belgian cyclist, Frank Vandenbroucke found dead in a Senegalese hotel room I was sadden.

Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli is the longest reigning female professional cyclist. At a very sprite 50 years of age, she can still mix it up with riders half her age. I was not surprise to hear of the amazing Frenchwomen’s exploits on Wednesday at the women’s World Championship Time Trial in Mendrisio, Switzerland.

Canadian riders’ are well represented at the 2009 Vuelta a España. Never in any of the cycling grand tours (Tour de France, Giro d’Italia & Vuelta a España) has the Maple Leaf been boldly represented.

The International Cycling Union Pro Tour closed with new doping scandals and with the sport's governing body vowing to crack down.

Danilo Di Luca, Giro d'Italia champion, risks to be excluded from road race at the world championships for the new inquiries into his alleged links with doping.

Though Floyd Landis' drug tests weren't handled properly it doesn't negate the findings. Pound said that despite Landis' contention that the test procedures were less than perfect, there was no escaping the fact that banned substances were found.

Colombian cyclist Leonardo Duque has won the 16th stage of the Tour of Spain while Denis Menchov of Russia retained the overall lead.

Team CSC/Marcello - which is set to leave South Africa on Wednesday, August 29, to compete in next week’s Tour de Korea - continued to deliver winning performances as its riders filled the podium this past weekend, August 25 and 26, 2007.

A group of top South African cyclists have been selected to participate, for the first time, in the Tour de Korea which is scheduled to take place from September 1 to 9, 2007.

Five time Tour de France winner Eddy Merckx believes that cycling will recover from its recent doping scandals.

Spanish cyclist Alberto Contador Sunday won the drug-tainted Tour de France. The Tour has been plagued by scandals over doping, and this was the worst year yet.