Stories by Steve Frothingham

• Posted: Mon, Jun 30th
  VeloNews offers a variety of ways to follow the 2008 Tour de France online.
  It's almost July and the Tour de France season has begun. And this year, you can follow every move of the world's largest bike race, no matter where you are, on VeloNews.com. Say you are in line at your bank, or by the side of the road in St. André-de-la-Marche, with your ...
• Posted: Sun, Jun 29th
  Rock Racing launches fund to help injured bike racers.
  Michael Ball, owner of the Rock Racing team, says he and his companies will contribute "hundreds of thousands" of dollars to launch a fund to help elite racers who seriously injured while racing. "Let's do the right thing for these guys," Ball told VeloNews.
• Posted: Sat, Jun 28th
  Olympians head to Deer Valley, Utah, this weekend for the National Mountain Bike Series.
  With the Olympic team selections mostly settled (although not official) following last week's world championships in Italy, the North American mountain bike jet set is back in Utah this weekend for some high-altitude racing at Deer Valley Resort in Park City. The Deer Valley ...
• Posted: Tue, Jun 17th
  NBC invests in WCSN to create UniversalSports.com sports video site and a new TV channel.
  NBC Sports is investing in World Championship Sports Network, an online sports video provider that will be renamed UniversalSports.com. The companies also will launch a new television network called Universal Sports. “Universal Sports will provide a terrific year-round home ...
• Posted: Sun, May 18th
  Tina Pic and Andrew Pinfold charge to Hood River criterium wins; Sutherland and Beveridge lock up the overall titles.
  Colavita's national crit champ Tina Pic won her second Mt. Hood Cycling Classic stage on Sunday while 19-year-old Julie Beveridge (Aaron's) locked up the overall title despite a nasty crash in the last corner of the race. Jeanie Longo-Ciprelli (River City Bicycles) grabbed ...
• Posted: Sat, May 17th
  Mt Hood Stage 4: Manion wins stage, Sutherland retains lead
  Health Net-Maxxis reeled in a dangerous breakaway on Saturday to preserve Rory Sutherland's overall lead in the Mt. Hood Cycling Classic. The break went away at mile 35 of the 101-mile stage and contained Bissell's Edward King, who was just 1:41 behind Sutherland on GC. The ...
• Posted: Fri, May 16th
  Health Net's Rory Sutherland wins Mt. Hood's time trial stage, takes the overall lead
  After two brushes with the top of the podium, Health Net-Maxxis rider Rory Sutherland got the stage win he was looking for Friday in the critical time trial stage of the Mt. Hood Cycling Classic in Oregon. Sutherland won by about 25 seconds over Bissell's Ben Jacques-Maynes ...
• Posted: Thu, May 15th
  BMC's Lill and Tibco's Kiesanowski win Mt. Hood's circuit race and take the overall leads.
  BMC's South African, Darren Lill, won Thursday's second stage of the Mt. Hood Cycling Classic by peeling away from the remnants of the peloton on the final climb a bit less than a kilometer to go. Lill, who won the fifth stage at Mt. ...
• Posted: Thu, May 15th
  Colavita's Tina Pic and Toyota's Hilton Clarke take crit wins and the overall lead in Portland.
  The Mt. Hood Cycling Classic ventured into new territory Wednesday with a new venue for the sixth year of the event: a hilly criterium held in a verdant city park wrapping around a long-extinct volcano. The new event delivered large crowds and down-to-the-wire racing action ...
• Posted: Tue, May 13th
  Kiwi trackies clean up at Mt. Hood opener
  A pair of New Zealander track riders — in the States for some summer road racing to tune up before the Olympics — took the first two spots in the Mt. Hood Cycling Classic women's prologue on Tuesday. Joanne Kiesanowski of the Tibco team, a four-time national points race ...
• Posted: Tue, May 13th
  Mt. Hood: the prologue to the Prologue
  There are few active racers who can be described as a legend with no dispute. Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli, who has won 51 French and world championships, is at the top of the list. When Longo, a last-minute entrant at the Mt. Hood Cycling Classic, arrived at race headquarters ...
• Posted: Mon, May 12th
  2008 Mt. Hood Cycling Classic boasts top lineup
  Lingering snows in the high country have forced organizers to re-route a key stage of Mt. Hood Cycling Classic, but they promise the improvised route for stage 5 is just as challenging — maybe even more so. The six-day stage race gets underway Tuesday with a 1.7-mile ...