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  • Lance Armstrong is relieved the federal investigation into doping allegations against him has ended, and says he always stayed confident he would not be charged.

    Armstrong says he’s happy investigation over Feb 9, 2012 12:00 AM
    As far as Lance Armstrong is concerned, it's all over. The stress, the waiting, the whispers about whether he doped during his stellar cycling career, all of it ended when — after nearly two years — federal prosecutors closed an investigation of him last week without bringing any charges.

     
  •  In this July 19, 2011 file photo, three-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador of Spain grimaces as he breaks away on the Col de Manse pass near Gap during the 16th stage of the Tour de France cycling race. Sport’s highest court banned Contador for two years on Monday after finding the Spanish cyclist guilty of doping, a decision that will strip the 2010 Tour de France champion of his title.

    Contador banned but was justice served? Feb 6, 2012 12:00 AM
    Stripping Alberto Contador of his 2010 Tour de France victory on the supposition that he may have eaten a dodgy food supplement is like jailing Al Capone for tax evasion: Yes, Contador’s accusers secured a conviction, but the verdict missed the point. Was this justice? Strictly speaking, it was. But it didn’t feel that way.

     
  •  Alberto Contador holds aloft the Spanish national flag during a victory lap after winning the 2010 Tour de France. He was stripped of the title Monday after sports’ highest court rejected his story that contaminated meat caused him to fail a drug test.

    Contador stripped of Tour de France title Feb 6, 2012 12:00 AM
    Three days after U.S. prosecutors dropped their investigation of doping claims against Lance Armstrong, fellow Tour de France champion Alberto Contador was stripped of his 2010 title when sports’ highest court rejected the Spanish cyclist’s story that contaminated meat caused him to fail a drug test.

     
  •  Fenton junior Konrad Witt sees a professional cycling career in his future.

    Fenton’s Witt forging his own athletic path Jan 25, 2012 12:00 AM
    Football, basketball, soccer — they all passed quickly through Konrad Witt’s life. Instead the Fenton junior stuck with cycling, a sport you won’t find on Fenton’s gymnasium banners or in its yearbook, “Highlights.”

     
  •  The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency has suspended nine masters athletes for positive tests so far in 2011. That accounts for more than one-third of the 25 sanctions the agency has announced this year.

    Older athletes get caught cheating, too Nov 24, 2011 12:00 AM
    The anti-doping police are sending out a new message to the AARP crowd: We’re keeping an eye on you, too. Looking more skeptically at events outside of elite and Olympic circles, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency has suspended nine masters athletes for positive tests so far in 2011.

     
  • Riders snake along Victoria Avenue during the Men's Category 1/2 race on the second day of the 2011 Alexian Brothers Tour of Elk Grove.

    Tour of Elk Grove joins elite races Sep 30, 2011 12:00 AM
    The Alexian Brothers Tour of Elk Grove professional men's three-day race has earned the highest ranking — 2.1 — from Union Cycliste Internationale. UCI is cycling's foremost governing body. It oversees the prestigious Tour de France and other international cycling races.

     
  • Tour De Des Plaines Bike Ride coming Saturday Sep 12, 2011 12:00 AM
    Des Plaines city, police and park district officials will participate Saturday in the third annual Tour De Des Plaines Bike Ride being held in conjunction with Des Plaines Fall Fest. The roughly two-hour ride entails a 9-mile, police-escorted tour of the city beginning and ending at Lake Park at Howard and Lee streets.

     
  • Bike-race organizers from Wisconsin are trying to convince Wauconda officials the village should hold an annual criterium race, drawing on the success that Elk Grove Village has had.

    Wauconda's roads, lake appeal to bike race organizersSep 9, 2011 12:00 AM
    Following a presentation, Wauconda residents, business owners and village leaders are pondering a proposal to host a local bicycle race. On Thursday, two representatives of a Wisconsin race series called the Tour of America's Dairyland talked to about 25 people about their proposal for an event in Wauconda, said Linda Kraniak, the village's director of economic and community development.

     
  •  The 2011 Winfield Criterium races through downtown Winfield on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 13 and 14. This is the 12th year the two-day racing event has been organized by the Athletes by Design Cycle Club.

    600 cyclists to race in Winfield Criterium Aug 11, 2011 12:00 AM
    More than 600 cyclists will take part of the 2011 Winfield Criterium, an annual bike race that draws cycling enthusiasts from across the suburbs, drawing a bond between riders and participants.

     
  •  Mike Welch, front, and Iraq War veteran Sgt. Dan Casera, complete a lap on Sunday.

    Tour of Elk Grove adaptive athlete race to return in 2012 Aug 11, 2011 12:00 AM
    After a successful inaugural race at the 2011 Alexian Brothers Tour of Elk Grove, the The Heart Of A Marine Foundation’s adaptive athletes’ race will return next year with a larger field of hand cyclists competing, officials said.

     
  • Lake Villa resident Felicia Stancil, an incoming junior at Grayslake North, recently won her 10th world title in BMX racing.

    Stancil’s priority is BMXcellence Aug 10, 2011 12:00 AM
    Despite winning her 10th world title July 28, when she captured the BMX World Cup in Copenhagen, Denmark, and despite her 18 national championships overall, Felicia Stancil is hungry for more.

     
  • Riders pile up with one lap remaining in the third stage of the Tour of Elk Grove's men's professional race Sunday afternoon.

    Johnson: Tour of Elk Grove finished strong despite crash Aug 8, 2011 12:00 AM
    This weekend's sixth annual Alexian Brothers Tour of Elk Grove finished out strong despite a crash in the final lap of the men's professional race Sunday. While observers initially speculated a pothole or wet road conditions may have been to blame, witnesses said it was caused by a rider getting out of line.

     
  • A pack of nine riders break from the rest during the men's stage 3 race Sunday afternoon at the 6th annual Alexian Brothers Tour of Elk Grove.

    Images: Tour of Elk Grove, Day Three Aug 7, 2011 12:00 AM
    Sunday marked the final day of the Tour of Elk Grove cycling competition. Featured races on the last day included the Heart of the Marine Foundation Adaptive Athlete race and the third stage of the pro men's and women's circuit race.

     
  •  Leah Kirchmann of Winnipeg, Manitobam is the winner of the Pro Women’s Stage 2 Road Race on the second day of the Tour of Elk Grove.

    Pro women cyclists grab attention at Tour Aug 6, 2011 12:00 AM
    This year, for the first time, the Alexian Brothers Tour of Elk Grove features a three-day, three-stage professional women’s race that has drawn the largest number of elite women cyclists the race has ever seen, officials said.

     
  •  Leah Kirchmann of Winnipeg, Manitoba is the winner of the Pro Women’s Stage 2 Road Race on the second day of the Tour of Elk Grove.

    Images: Tour of Elk Grove, Day Two Aug 6, 2011 12:00 AM
    Racing continued Sunday during the second day of the Tour of Elk Grove. Some of the featured races included the stage two of the Women's Pro Circuit Stage and stage two of the Men's Pro Road Race.

     
  • Jessica Prinner of South Elgin is off like a flash as she rides in the women's time trials during Friday's Tour of Elk Grove 2011.

    Images: Tour of Elk Grove Cycling, Day One Aug 5, 2011 12:00 AM
    The Tour of Elk Grove kicked off Friday with the Mayor's Charity Time-Trial. This marks Mayor Craig Johnson's return to the race after missing it last year due to a cycling injury. Other races included the Women's Cat. 1/2 Time-Trial and the Pro Men's Time-Trial.

     
  • Riders make a turn during the Pro Men Criterium to finish out the 2010 Tour of Elk Grove.

    Tour of Elk Grove draws record number of pro cyclists Aug 4, 2011 12:00 AM
    The 2011 Alexian Brothers Tour of Elk Grove has a record number of professional men and women cyclists registered for the race, which begins Friday, Aug. 5.

     
  • The Pro Men Criterium finishes out the 2010 Tour of Elk Grove.

    World's best cyclists coming to Elk GroveAug 4, 2011 12:00 AM
    Some of the best riders on Earth will be in Elk Grove Village Friday-Sunday, Aug. 5-7, for this year's Tour of Elk Grove, the internationally-sanctioned bicycle races that have put the village and the Northwest suburbs on the world's bicycling map.

     
  • Champion Cadel Evans, middle, is flanked by second-place Andy Schleck, left, and his older brother Frank on the award podium Sunday in Paris.

    Evans' victory caps a Tour classic Jul 27, 2011 12:00 AM
    It was a Tour de France many hailed as a classic. There were crashes, dropouts, surprises and, above all, a new champion. With Cadel Evans becoming the first Australian to win cycling's most prestigious race, the Tour de France had a completely new look this year.

     
  • Patrick Dimpsey, a Roselle college sophomore, biked for 50 days from New Jersey to San Francisco. The journey totaled more than 3,600 miles and ended Sunday, July 3.

    Roselle man bikes cross-country for Huntington's disease Jul 25, 2011 12:00 AM
    For 19-year-old Patrick Dimpsey of Roselle, a cross-country summer road trip meant a little less gas, a little more endurance and a lot of pedaling. The Winona State University sophomore completed a more than 3,600-mile bike ride with seven of his friends to help raise awareness about Huntington's disease.

     
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