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Another Rumsas family member tests positive for doping

ROME – Fifteen years after his father got entangled with drugs at the Tour de France, Raimondas Rumsas has been provisionally banned by Italy’s anti-doping agency. Nado Italia say...

DATE: Oct 4, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Italian cyclist Pirazzi gets 4-year ban for pre-Giro doping

AIGLE, Switzerland – Italian cyclist Stefano Pirazzi was banned for four years for a positive doping test ahead of the Giro d’Italia. The International Cycling Union says the 30-y...

DATE: Oct 3, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Durango’s Carmen Small retires from professional cycling

Durangoan looking forward to new role as cycling director

DATE: Sep 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Devastating concussion helps lead to end of Carmen Small’s cycling career

Carmen Small remembers hearing a rider shout an expletive and her name. More than a minute later, she woke up. The 37-year-old road cyclist from Durango retired from the sport thi...

DATE: Sep 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Animas, Durango mountain bike teams in hunt for titles

Durango’s Robbins unbeaten in varsity girls races

DATE: Sep 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: High School Sports

Swiss Epic mountain bike race pinnacle of racing for Durango’s Nick Gould, Caleb Thompson

Gould, Thompson top-American finishers ever at team race

DATE: Sep 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

French challenger Lappartient takes over as UCI president

BERGEN, Norway – French official David Lappartient has beaten British incumbent Brian Cookson in a vote to become president of the International Cycling Union. Lappartient, the Eu...

DATE: Sep 21, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

3-time Olympic cyclist Sarah Hammer retires from riding

COLORADO SPRINGS – Three-time Olympian Sarah Hammer, one of the most decorated track cyclists in U.S. history, is retiring after a prolific career spanning more than two decades. ...

DATE: Sep 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Tom Dumoulin tops Chris Froome for cycling time trial world title

BERGEN, Norway – Giro d’ Italia champion Tom Dumoulin won the time trial world title on Wednesday, beating runner-up Primoz Roglic and Tour de France and Vuelta de Espana winner Chris Froome...

DATE: Sep 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Durango cyclist Sepp Kuss signs with Team LottoNL-Jumbo for World Tour

Days after his 23rd birthday, Durango’s Sepp Kuss took a big leap in his professional road cycling career. Kuss, a 2013 graduate of Durango High School and 2017 graduate of the Un...

DATE: Sep 20, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

UCI reduces field size in road races to improve safety

BERGEN, Norway – Cycling’s governing body has decided to reduce the number of riders in major road races in an effort to improve safety. There will now be a maximum of 176 riders ...

DATE: Sep 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Van Vleuten captures world cycling time trial championship

BERGEN, Norway – Dutch cyclist Annemiek van Vleuten, whose harrowing crash at the Rio Olympics left her with a broken back, won the women’s time trial at the road cycling world championships...

DATE: Sep 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports