Track: Top Stories

• Mar. 2, 2008
  U.S. sending small squad to track worlds
  Just nine American track racers will journey to the 2008 UCI track world championships, held March 26-30 in Manchester, Great Britain. USA Cycling will send sprinters Jennie Reed, Michael Blatchford and Adam Duvendeck as well as endurance riders ...
• Feb. 17, 2008
  U.S. pads medal count at track World Cup
  Jennie Reed and the Madison team of Colby Pearce and Bobby Lea turned in a pair of silver-medal performances on Sunday as the Copenhagen Track World Cup concluded in Denmark. That raised the final U.S. medal count to five. After breezing ...
• Feb. 15, 2008
  Final World Cup kicks off in Denmark
  The final round of the 2007-08 UCI Track World Cup Classics got underway in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Friday as the U.S. contingent collected a pair of bronze medals on opening night of the three-day competition. Sarah Hammer placed third in the ...
• Feb. 7, 2008
  Track News: Meares may miss Olympic defense; Aussie Nationals
  Australia’s Anna Meares, Olympic champion in the 500-meter sprint at the 2004 games in Athens, miss her chance to defend her title after suffering a crash at the Los Angeles round of the 2007-08 UCI World Cup. The 24-year-old, who hails from ...
• Feb. 6, 2008
  Duvendeck eyes sprint in Beijing
  Santa Barbara, California’s Adam Duvendeck turned heads with his eighth-place finish in the men’s sprint at the Los Angeles round of the World Cup, held January 17-20 in Carson City, California. The result stood as the top finish by an American ...
• Feb. 5, 2008
  Alfred banned for life
  Track cyclist Stephen Alfred has been handed a life-time ban from sport after refusing to submit to an out-of-competition doping test last November. The violation was Alfred’s third breach of anti-doping rules. The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency ...
• Jan. 21, 2008
  Reed scores gold in L.A.
  American Jenny Reed owns a trophy case full of World Cup medals — 17 to be exact. But before Sunday night, only one of them was gold. The 29-year-old Reed doubled that Sunday night by winning the keirin, holding off a hard charging Willy Kanis of ...
• Jan. 21, 2008
  Q&A: Pat McDonough
  Pat McDonough has faced his share of ups and downs since taking control of the U.S. track program after the 2004 Olympics in Athens. The lowest of the low came at the 2005 world championship, where the U.S. earned no medals at its home track, the ...
• Jan. 20, 2008
  Aussies have big day in L.A.
  Scott Sunderland’s ride of a lifetime in the men’s 1000 meter time trial netted the young Australian his first-ever World Cup gold medal, and smashed his existing personal best time by nearly one second. The effort also sent the hulking ...
• Jan. 18, 2008
  Phinney scores pursuit gold in L.A.
  Seventeen-year-old Taylor Phinney can pen another page in his quickly growing book of cycling successes. Riding just the seventh individual pursuit of his career, the high school senior rode with the calculated panache of a veteran to grab his ...
• Jan. 18, 2008
  A conversation with Sarah Hammer
  American Sarah Hammer, the two-time defending world pursuit champion, posted the fastest time of the day in the women’s pursuit at the opening day of the UCI track World Cup at the ADT Events Center in Carson, California. Unfortunately for ...
• Jan. 18, 2008
  Confident Friedman heads to L.A. World Cup
  When American Mike Friedman takes to the ADT Event Center Velodrome in Los Angeles for the qualifying round of the men’s World Cup scratch race Saturday afternoon, he’ll do so with the confidence that comes with winning a gold medal at the ...