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While European biking was suffering the drug debacle at the Giro d'Italia, Sunday's U.S. pro cycling championships in Philadelphia were a wildly successful affair. "The roar out there reminded me of the Champs-Elys�es at the end of the Tour de France," said the U.S.'s Fred Rodriguez (above), who successfully defended his title in front of an estimated 750,000 spectators. Said Germany's Petra Rossner, who won her fifth women's crown, "You will see more European teams coming over to race. Sponsors are seeing good things for cycling in the States."...

Doug Flutie wasn't the only NFL star to enter a recent triathlon. On June 3 safety Pat Tillman of the Arizona Cardinals completed the Black-water EagleMan Triathlon in Cambridge, Md., in a respectable six hours and 10 minutes. "It would be an insult to triathletes to compare the fatigue you feel in a triathlon to the fatigue you feel in a football game," says Tillman, who was competing in his first half-Iron-man. "The stamina you need is so much greater, especially when you're trying to finish your run."...

Eric Simonson's climbing team didn't recover Sandy Irvine's body (or the camera that might shed light on whether he and George Mallory were the first to reach Everest's summit, in 1924), but they did save the lives of three climbers, two Russians and a Guatemalan, whom they found near the summit suffering from oxygen starvation.