David Skretta

AP Sports Writer
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In a counterclaim, Nature's Bakery said Stewart-Haas Racing "could not control" driver Danica Patrick and allowed her to endorse products that rivaled its own.
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USA Cycling, bike manufacturer Felt and several component partners spent more than two years and hundreds of thousands of dollars — if not millions — to build the cutting-edge track bike.
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In this May 18, 2016 photo, a bicycle is inspected after arriving in Asolo, Italy after the 11th stage of the Giro d'Italia cycling race. There is perhaps no Olympic sport as dependent on technology as cycling, where space-age, feather-light carbon fiber bikes can cost more than a car _ and make the difference between a gold medal and nothing. That has also made the sport ripe for a new kind of doping: mechanical doping.
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Cracking Down on Mechanical Doping
If you're not cheating, you're not trying. From tiny electrical motors in frames to magnets in wheels, some Olympians will do anything to produce a couple extra watts of power.
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After four years of development, Jim Felt, the founder of Felt Bicycles, unveiled the TA FRD bikes with which the riders would compete in Rio.
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The fastest women's pursuit team in track cycling just got a whole lot faster. Not by a small margin, either.
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