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Lance Armstrong Announces 'Retirement 2.0': A Timeline of the Top Cyclist's Career

By Torie BoschFeb 16th 2011 – 10:08AM
AP

AP

It's the end of an era: Lance Armstrong is hanging up his cycling shorts. He's calling this "Retirement 2.0" because he previously retired and then re-entered the sport. But this time, he says, he's not coming back. Armstrong's professional career has been filled with so many twists, turns, hills and valleys that it...

Cycling in New York Is No Longer an Extreme Sport

By Ethan RouenSep 11th 2010 – 10:20AM
Spencer Platt, Getty Images

Spencer Platt, Getty Images

(Sept. 11) -- One might think that riding a bicycle through the horn-honking, taxi-swerving streets of New York City would scare away even the bravest of the spandex-clad set. But in fact some 6,000 cyclists will mount carbon-fiber racing machines, commuting clunkers and the occasional unicycle on Sunday for the 21st...

bicycling News From the Web

  • 05/30/12 Burley's Thwaites powers to victory at Oxford Source: Wharfedale & Airedale Observer - West Yorkshire - UK Following his win at Kirkcaldy and second place at Durham, Scott Thwaites led home a rampant Endura Racing team at the third round of the professional Tour Series on a testing circuit in Oxford.
  • 05/28/12 Duggan is surprise winner of US road race title Source: Times Leader - Wilkes-Barre PA Tim Duggan held off a chasing group of about a dozen riders Monday to win the USA Cycling Professional Road Race Championship.
  • 05/27/12 Wheelers get their Australian Pursuit series underway Source: Dromore Leader - Dromore - County Down - UK LAST Tuesday night 40 riders from four different clubs took part in West Down Wheelers' first round of the Australian Pursuit series.
  • 05/25/12 Meares leads inexperienced Aussie team to London Source: Taipei Times World and Olympic champion Anna Meares is aiming to be the first female cyclist to win four Olympic track medals when she leads an inexperienced Australian squad to the London Games.
  • 05/25/12 Josh storms away to take first win Source: Melton Times - UK MELTON Olympic Cycling Club junior Josh Snodin left his rivals in his wake to record his first win at the latest round of the Mallory Park Circuit Race League.

Background on bicycling

Cycling, also called bicycling or biking, is the use of bicycles for transport, recreation, or for sport.

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