Bonnie Desimone

Chicagoan Rebecca Much finished second in Monday's junior women's time trial at the cycling world championships in Italy. The 18-year-old former triathlete, who graduated from St. Ignatius earlier this year...

Lance Armstrong's dance card is full for the next few days, but the coming months yawn conspicuously and consciously empty. This week Armstrong will compete in a round of criterium...

This may be England's third-largest city, but Manchester thinks of itself as second. The birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, one-time processor of 80 percent of the world's cotton, Manchester has...

The Tour de France peloton reunited in Carcassonne on Sunday--the first morning of what's left of the race. Team buses lumbered through the narrow downtown streets, parked and disgorged dozens...

The Tour de France's Stage 9 started Tuesday in the hometown of Raymond Poulidor, whose name is synonymous with "hard-luck case." It ended with a young French rider, Thomas Voeckler,...

His right hand is bandaged like a boxer's across the knuckles. It's nothing that will keep Levi Leipheimer from riding another 1,200 miles in the Tour de France, but it...

A massive crash near the finish of Stage 6 caused a big scare but few casualties Friday in what quickly is becoming the Tour de Ambulance. As the Tour de...

The stretches of worn, uneven stones that await Tour de France riders Tuesday were laid with ox carts, not bike races, in mind. They're called cobblestones, or pave in French,...

The Tour de France doesn't start until Saturday, but five-time champion Lance Armstrong already has confronted one of his opponents. Armstrong is fighting on the legal and public relations fronts...

1. Jan Ullrich, Germany It's hard to trash a guy who's never finished lower than second in the Tour, but the same maddening consistency that has made the '97 winner...