SPORTS NEWS

Single-Speed Race for Multitude of Pedaling Eccentrics

At the Single Speed World Championship, the top rider wore a revealing “Borat”-style swimsuit he wore during the entire grueling and technical ride.

Posted Saturday, August 30, 2008 2:22 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Bicycles and Bicycling, Tattoos

Barbara Warren, Winner of Endurance Competitions, Dies at 65

Ms. Warren was a champion endurance athlete in the over-60 age group, who crashed during the bicycling portion of a triathlon three days before her death.

Posted Friday, August 29, 2008 9:18 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Deaths (Obituaries), Bicycles and Bicycling, Triathlon

BMX at the Olympics: ‘The Coolest Thing Ever’

At the first BMX cycling competition in Olympic history, there were neatly groomed dirt mounds and rap music.

Posted Thursday, August 21, 2008 12:37 AM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Olympic Games (2008), Bicycles and Bicycling, X Games, USA Cycling

Champion Cyclist and Now Champion Guzzler of Austin Water

Lance Armstrong’s household has been revealed as one of the biggest individual users of water in a city definitely short on rain.

Posted Friday, August 15, 2008 11:03 PM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Bicycles and Bicycling, Armstrong, Lance, Austin (Tex), Drought

A ‘Relaxing’ Ride, but Not for the Faint of Heart

What would happen if you took away an Olympic cyclist’s finely tuned, aerodynamic, carbon-fiber racing bicycle and asked him to do battle on the streets of Beijing?

Posted Thursday, August 14, 2008 9:17 AM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Olympic Games (2008), Bicycles and Bicycling

When It Comes to Masks, Cyclists Are Still Apologizing

At a USA Cycling news conference in Beijing, attention centered almost exclusively on the four cyclists — two of whom were in attendance — who wore masks at the airport last week.

Posted Tuesday, August 12, 2008 11:01 AM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Beijing (China), Olympic Games (2008), Bicycles and Bicycling, United States, International Olympic Committee, United States Olympic Committee, Masks, USA Cycling

A Ride Like No Other: Glimpsing China, New and Old

The Canadian cyclist writes about his experience competing in the Olympic men’s road race Saturday.

Posted Tuesday, August 12, 2008 12:39 AM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Olympic Games (2008), Bicycles and Bicycling, Barry, Michael

Sports of The Times: On the Great Wall and Lost in the Fog

On Saturday the fog exhaled its hot chemical breath into the nose and mouth of all the cyclists who dared to climb the hills near the Great Wall.

Posted Saturday, August 09, 2008 9:19 AM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Beijing (China), Olympic Games (2008), Bicycles and Bicycling

Spain’s Sanchez Wins Exhausting Men’s Road Race

Spain’s Samuel Sanchez won gold Saturday at the men’s cycling road race, an event where athletes in the Beijing Games had to confront the area’s notorious pollution in an endurance event.

Posted Saturday, August 09, 2008 8:36 AM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: China, Olympic Games (2008), Bicycles and Bicycling, Air Pollution, Jonathan Bellis

Making the Olympic Team: It’s Like Riding a Bike for Hincapie

Sixteen years and four Olympic Games after his first Olympic competition, George Hincapie will ride in a road race Saturday that finishes at the Great Wall.

Posted Friday, August 08, 2008 1:55 AM from NYT > Sports | 0 Comments

Filed under: Olympic Games (2008), Olympic Games, Bicycles and Bicycling, Hincapie, George

A Sport Hopes It Turned a Corner on Doping

The British rider David Millar said the rift between cycling’s leadership and race organizers is leaving riders isolated and vulnerable in a sport already burdened by doping scandals.