Hitting the deck during the UCI Track World Cup in Beijing(Image credit: AFP)
Bradley Wiggins made history as the first British winner of the Tour de France(Image credit: AFP)
A Tour de France fan states his case for cessation of doping in the professional peloton(Image credit: AFP)
The BMC team sets tempo on the dirt road ascent of Cottonwood Pass during Colorado's USA Pro Challenge.(Image credit: AFP)
Shut up legs! Jens Voigt rode alone for nearly the entire 4th stage of the USA Pro Challenge en route to victory.(Image credit: AFP)
The USA Pro Challenge peloton gets encouragement from some cowboys.(Image credit: AFP)
Rory Sutherland (UnitedHealthcare) took the biggest win of his career as he soloed to victory on Flagstaff Mountain in the USA Pro Challenge.(Image credit: AFP)
BMC's George Hincapie finishes the final race of his professional career in the USA Pro Challenge's concluding time trial in Denver.(Image credit: AFP)
The final jersey winners at the 2012 USA Pro Challenge, won overall by Christian Vande Velde.(Image credit: AFP)
Bradley Wiggins is propelled to victory in the Olympic Games time trial by a wall of sound.(Image credit: AFP)
Kristin Armstrong powers to the finish line as she claims gold in the women's Olympic Games time trial.(Image credit: AFP)
Great Britain's team sprint members celebrate gold at the London Olympics(Image credit: AFP)
Great Britain's men's team pursuit squad was an unstoppable force as they set a new world record en route to gold.(Image credit: AFP)
Victoria Pendleton with her keirin gold medal at the 2012 London Games.(Image credit: AFP)
One of the many highlights of Marianne Vos's remarkable 2012 season was her victory in the Olympic Games road race(Image credit: AFP)
Colossal crowds turned out to watch the Olympic Games road race with its parcours in and around London(Image credit: AFP)
Tour de France prologue winner Fabian Cancellara resplendent in yellow at the start of the first road stage.(Image credit: AFP)
Young Slovakian Peter Sagan made a spectacular Tour de France debut, winning three stages and the green jersey(Image credit: AFP)
This crash late in the Tour's sixth stage exacted a heavy toll for several of the Grand Tour's favourites(Image credit: AFP)
Not something you see everyday...World Champion Mark Cavendish on domestique duty during a hot stage of the Tour de France.(Image credit: AFP)
Time to zip up Pierre! Despite crashing earlier in the day, Pierre Rolland rode away to a solo victory in the Tour's 11th stage(Image credit: AFP)
David Millar (Garmin-Sharp) gave it his all to win the Tour de France's 12th stage(Image credit: AFP)
Andre Greipel was a force to be reckoned with in 2012, pictured here winning his third stage at the Tour de France(Image credit: AFP)
Plenty of fans caught Wiggo-fever at the 2012 Tour de France(Image credit: AFP)
Chris Froome checks on Sky teammate and Tour leader Bradley Wiggins as the pair approach the finish of the 17th stage(Image credit: AFP)
Team Sky's Bradley Wiggins seals overall victory at the 2012 Tour de France with a win in the penultimate stage time trial(Image credit: AFP)
World champion Mark Cavendish won for the fourth straight year at the Tour de France's final stage in Paris.(Image credit: AFP)
Bradley Wiggins takes a victory lap in Paris with his son after winning the 2012 Tour de France.(Image credit: AFP)
Alexandre Vinokourov was a surprise winner of the men's Olympic road race, prevailing from a late-race breakaway with Colombia's Rigorberto Uran.(Image credit: AFP)
Denmark's Lasse Norman Hansen is ecstatic with his win in the inaugural omnium event at the Olympic Games.(Image credit: AFP)
Jason Kenny earned gold in the men's sprint at the London Games.(Image credit: AFP)
Taylor Phinney en route to a silver medal in the time trial world championship.(Image credit: AFP)
Tony Martin powers to gold in the men's time trial world championship.(Image credit: AFP)
Lucy Garner (Great Britain) won her second straight junior women's road world title.(Image credit: AFP)
Marianne Vos took a memorable road race world title on home soil.(Image credit: AFP)
2012 road race world champion Marianne Vos (Netherlands)(Image credit: AFP)
The elite men's peloton in action during the road race world championship in Valkenburg, The Netherlands.(Image credit: AFP)
Philippe Gilbert (Belgium) makes his winning move in the finale of the men's road race world championship.(Image credit: AFP)
2012 Il Lombardia champion Joaquim Rodriguez (Katusha)(Image credit: AFP)
Action during the Tour of Beijing, the final WorldTour round of the 2012 season.(Image credit: AFP)
Junior world champion Mathieu van der Poel has been undefeated thus far in the 2012-2013 'cross season.(Image credit: AFP)
Belgian champion Sven Nys (Landbouwkrediet-Euphony) wins the third round of the cyclo-cross World Cup in Koksijde, Belgium.(Image credit: AFP)
Kevin Pauwels (Sunweb-Revor) en route to victory in the Namur, Belgium round of the cyclo-cross World Cup.(Image credit: AFP)
US champion Katie Compton (Trek Cyclocross Collective) win the Namur round of the World Cup and gets one step closer to her goal of winning the overall series title.(Image credit: AFP)
Women's time trial world championship silver medalist Evelyn Stevens (USA) congratulates world champion Judith Arndt (Germany).(Image credit: AFP)
Do you think Omega Pharma-Quickstep is happy with their team time trial world title?(Image credit: AFP)
An emotional Chris Hoy on the podium after winning gold in the men's keirin.(Image credit: AFP)
Julie Bresset (France) flies her national flag as she celebrates victory in the women's cross country at the Olympic Games.(Image credit: AFP)
Jaroslav Kulhavy (Czech Republic) outsprints Nino Schurter (Switzerland) to win the men's cross country event at the London Games.(Image credit: AFP)
Joaquim Rodriguez (Katusha) held the Vuelta leader's jersey, but could not defend it through to the finale.(Image credit: AFP)
Philippe Gilbert (BMC) earned his first win of 2012 in stage 9 of the Vuelta.(Image credit: AFP)
John Degenkolb (Argos-Shimano) was a force to be reckoned with at the Vuelta, pictured taking his fourth of five stage wins in the Spanish Grand Tour.(Image credit: AFP)
Dario Cataldo (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) took an epic victory on the Cuitu Nigru in the Vuelta's 16th stage.(Image credit: AFP)
2012 Vuelta a Espana winner Alberto Contador(Image credit: AFP)
An all Spanish final podium at the Vuelta (L-R): Alejandro Valverde, 2nd; Alberto Contador, 1st; and Joaquim Rodriguez, 3rd(Image credit: AFP)
A local DJ kept things spinning as the race went round.\(Image credit: AFP)
Belgian champion Tom Boonen won Paris-Brussels.(Image credit: AFP)
Alberto Contador took an emphatic solo victory in the Vuelta's 17th stage that put the Spaniard back in the overall lead.(Image credit: AFP)
Specialized-lululemon won the women's team time trial championship(Image credit: AFP)
Judith Arndt (GreenEdge-AIS) won the women's race at the German National Road Championships(Image credit: AFP)
It was national championship time in June as Fabian Wegmann took out the German road title(Image credit: AFP)
Fränk Schleck was looking serious at the presentation of the Tour de France in Liège (Image credit: AFP)
Fabian Cancellara has been the dominant force in preceding year's Tour prologues(Image credit: AFP)
Bradley Wiggins (Sky) rolls down the start ramp for the Prologue at the 99th Tour de France(Image credit: AFP)
Fabian Cancellara (RadioShack-Nissa) earns himself another yellow jersey at the Tour de France(Image credit: AFP)
Luke Durbridge (Orica GreenEdge) took the biggest victory of his short career at the Dauphiné(Image credit: AFP)
Wiggins missed out on the Dauphiné Prologue victory by one second(Image credit: AFP)
Cadel Evans (BMC) sprints to the stage win at the Dauphiné(Image credit: AFP)
Luke Durbridge (Orica GreenEdge) in the yellow jersey towers above teammate Simon Gerrans(Image credit: AFP)
Edvald Boasson Hagen (Sky) celebrates victory in Stage 3 at the Critérium Du Dauphiné(Image credit: AFP)
Bradley Wiggins was the man to beat in the time trials this year(Image credit: AFP)
Yellow jersey leader Bradley Wiggins (Sky) in a familiar position, flanked by his teammates at the Dauphiné(Image credit: AFP)
Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Torsten Gerich explains the sacral fracture that would prevent Andy Schleck from starting the Tour de France(Image credit: AFP)
Neo-pro Nacer Bouhanni celebrates his victory in the French Road Championships(Image credit: AFP)
Tom Boonen (Omega Pharma-Quickstep) notched another win in the Belgium Road Championships(Image credit: AFP)
The Tour of California hits the streets of Los Angeles(Image credit: AFP)
Another win for Peter Sagan (Liquigas-Cannondale) at the Tour of California(Image credit: AFP)
Spent... Luke Durbridge (Orica-GreenEdge) exhausted and out of the best young rider jersey at the Tour of California(Image credit: AFP)
Robbie McEwen (Orica-GreenEdge) retired at age 39, closing out his career at the Tour of California. His career was highlighted by 24 grand tour stage wins(Image credit: AFP)
Winners are grinners... Robert Gesink took out the Tour of California(Image credit: AFP)
Peter Sagan (Liquigas-Cannondale) dominated the Tour of California(Image credit: AFP)
Mark Cavendish (Sky) would win three stages of the Giro d'Italia(Image credit: AFP)
Carnage during many of the sprint finishes at the Giro d'Italia(Image credit: AFP)
Taylor Phinney (BMC) wore the maglia rosa for the first three days(Image credit: AFP)
Robert Gesink (Rabobank) wins California's queen stage on Mount Baldy which would give him the overall title(Image credit: AFP)
Andy Schleck (RadioShack-Nissan) is awarded the 2010 Tour de France after the disqualfication of Alberto Contador(Image credit: AFP)
Ryder Hesjedal (Garmin-Sharp) in Milan having secured the Giro d'Italia, the first man from Canada to do so(Image credit: AFP)
