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From road racing to mountain biking, and from BMX to cyclocross, Central Oregon has been a bicycling hotbed for years.

Norway has won the men's and women's cross-country World Cup sprints, while American Andrew Newell finished sixth in the men's race.

University of Evansville freshman Colt Ryan is Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Newcomer of the Week.

The International Olympic Committee has made another couple ill-advised decisions regarding the program for the Summer Olympic Games.

Alison Shanks wins gold in the Elite Women 3000m Indivdual Pursuit Final at the 2010 Oceania Cycling Championships, in Invercargill, last month.

Olympic leaders approved major changes Thursday in track cycling - including elimination of the sport's signature endurance race - and the addition of mixed doubles in tennis for the 2012 London Games.

Eds: APNewsNow. Will be LED. By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer Taylor Phinney's best event is off the 2012 London Olympics cycling program, a significant blow to the 19-year-old American phenom.

Britain's Victoria Pendleton is set to benefit from men and women both having five events at the London 2010 Olympics Photograph: Bartlomiej Zborowski/EPA The next 48 hours could be the moment that Britain's women track cyclists have been waiting for, with the International Olympic Committee set to give female track racers complete parity with ...

Taylor Phinney is getting some last-minute help in the quest to keep his specialty event on the Olympic cycling program.

The past 18 months have been a whirlwind for young New Zealander Jesse Sergent - an Olympic bronze medal and a season on the Trek-Livestrong team have catapulted the 21-year-old to prominence and he's aiming to use that momentum to continue the success for the folks from 'Aotearoa'. New Zealand's performance in the team pursuit at last year's ...

Sign up for Alison Are you angry? I am. Imagine becoming a world champion and then being told your event is in danger of being axed from the Olympics.

The Royal Belgian Cycling Federation have joined calls urging the International Cycling Union to reconsider a proposal that would see the individual pursuit, points race and Madison removed from the Olympic track program.

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A week ago, I wrote an open letter to the Union Cycliste Internationale and International Olympic Committee regarding potential changes in the track-racing schedule at the 2012 Olympic Games in London - especially the proposed elimination of the individual pursuit.

The verdict on the fate of pursuiting events at the London Olympic Games will be met with mixed emotions by World Cup gold medal-winning cyclist Lauren Ellis.

Road race world champion Cadel Evans is predicting bigger things for seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong in 2010 than he achieved in his comeback to professional cycling this season.

Cycling's governing body confirmed Wednesday it will deliver proposals to the IOC for a track race program at the 2012 London Olympics that offers equal gold medal opportunities for men and women.

Minutes after pedaling off the Olympic track in Beijing, American cycling standout Taylor Phinney was already talking about winning a gold medal at the 2012 London Games in the individual pursuit.

While recovering at home after having his tonsils removed, Taylor Phinney is busy putting together his 2010 racing schedule.

Photograph: Bryn Lennon/Getty Images The individual pursuit's status as an Olympic event is in the balance, but it can still bring a crowd to its feet, as Geraint Thomas of Wales found at the World Cup in Manchester when he set the second fastest time ever in competition over the 4,000m distance in qualifying.