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Cervélo TestTeam has ended speculation about Carlos Sastre's inclusion in this year's Tour de France by telling the former champion to get ready for the July 3-25 event.

Responding to a flood of recent inquiries CrossVegas organizer Brook Watts reminds everyone that registration for the early cross season classic opens August 1st.

A conversation with Mountain Khaki's Neil Bezdek on his first season as a pro.

Haimar Zubeldia's Tour de France campaign is under threat after the Spaniard suffered a fracture in a crash on Monday at the Dauphine Criterium.

Cervélo TestTeam's Thor Hushovd will return to racing Saturday, at the Tour de Suisse, his team announced Monday.

Brian Jensen and Coryn Rivera win the final event of the Tulsa Tough omnium, as Brad Huff and Jennifer Purcell wrap up their overall omnium wins.

Lampre's Grega Bole scored the biggest win of his career after countering Geraint Thomas (Team Sky) to claim the first stage of the Dauphiné Criterium stage race Monday.

Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski and Georgia Gould win Teva Mountain Games cross-country MTB race.

The UK's Gee Atherton takes first place at World Cup downhill stop in Scotland while sister Rachel just misses first in women's event.

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Philly 2010: A Casey B. Gibson gallery

Sparling takes wet Mt. Hood criterium as de Maar seals overall

2010 Philadelphia International Championship results

2010 Mt. Hood Bicycle Classic women's results

Matthew Goss finished off the HTC-Columbia double in Philadelphia Sunday afternoon, taking out the bunch sprint from a group of approximately 30 riders at the Philadelphia International Championship. Goss edged Peter Sagan (Liquigas-Doimo) for his first Philly win, less than a month after taking a stage at the Giro d'Italia.

Contador wins the prologue in 8:34, while American Tejay Van Garderen is just 2 seconds back in second place.

HTC-Columbia's Ina-Yoko Teutenberg takes her fourth Liberty Classic road race in Philadelphia. Next up Sunday: The TD Bank Philadelphia International Cycling Championships.

Matteo Carrara takes the Tour du Luxembourg as Gorka Izaguirre wins the final stage.

The USA national team finished off the Volta Ciclista Provincia Tarragona in Spain in fine style on Saturday, winning the final stage and taking the second spot overall at the national-event level race.

2010 Liberty Classic results

Jelly Belly's Brad Huff wins his second consecutive race at the Tulsa Tough omnium, and Cari Higgins wins her first.

As they pedaled side by side during the 2006 Giro d’Italia, American Pat McCarty and Dutchman Marc de Maar probably would not have guessed that four years later they would both taste success at a national-level stage race at Mt. Hood, Oregon.

The TD Bank Philadelphia International Cycling Championship just got more exciting. SugarHouse Casino, a new sponsor in 2009, has come back in 2010 with an gambler’s twist to the race -- a SugarHouse Jackpot sprint competition with a prize purse totaling $10,000.

Kenda Pro Cycling is offering a unique chance to get a spot on the UCI team via an internet competition. Kenda partnered with Strava, an online GPS-based cycling software company, to select a rider for a spot on the 2011 team.

Reigning Tour de France champion Alberto Contador will count Ivan Basso among his biggest challengers this year after the Italian's impressive victory in the Giro d'Italia.

2010 Giro Donne stage 3 results

Tony Gallopin (Cofidis) wins the third and penultimate stage of the Tour du Luxembourg as Matteo Carrara (Vacansoleil) retains the leader's golden jersey.

Contador: 'Tour prep, not Dauphine win, is crucial'

Brad Huff (Jelly Belly-Kenda) and Amanda Miller (Tibco) win Friday’s Blue Dome Criterium, the kickoff to the Tulsa Tough omnium.

De Maar takes stage, adds to overall lead at Mt. Hood

Check out the video of the Orbea-USA crew's run-down of the re-worked Alma 29er for 2011.

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Orbea's Alma 29er isn't exactly new, it's been re-worked big time by the engineers at the venerable Basque company.

Saxo Bank's home-town hero Frank Schleck won the second stage of the Tour of Luxembourg on Friday but it was second place finisher Matteo Carrara (Vacansoleil) who grabbed the overall lead from previous incumbent Cyril Lemoine.

Top U.S. squads TIBCO-To The Top and Vera Bradley Foundation will split rosters this weekend, as each team focuses on a pair of National Racing Calendar events – the Liberty Classic and Tulsa Tough.

Anyone who has read or participated in online conversations about mountain biking, trail access and the environment has likely come across Michael Vandeman's anti-MTB screeds.

Zack Vestal takes a look at Rolf Prima's Aspin SL wheelset, an affordable high performance clincher using Rolf's patented technology.

More than 200 pros will toe the start line in Philadelphia Sunday as the TD Bank International Cycling Championships and the Liberty Classic roll out, and only one of those riders has stood atop the podium at the Eakins Oval.

Two of America’s most promising young riders made impressive grand tour debuts during the Giro d’Italia.

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Lampre's Pietro Caucchioli received a two-year racing ban for irregular values on his biological passport.

Thursday’s second road stage of the Indie Hops Mt. Hood Cycling Classic provided a rollercoaster of surprises and upsets, resulting in a dramatic solo stage win ahead of a hard-charging peloton for one rider and the loss of the race lead due to a time penalty for another.

Andrew Talansky, racing on the USA national team, is leading Spain's Volta Ciclista Provincia Tarragona after three stages.

With the Tour de France on the horizon, VeloNews editor at large John Wilcockson visited the Ardennes Classics to witness firsthand how this year's Tour contenders were shaping up. At the Amstel Gold Race Belgian Philippe Gilbert used his impressive power to win a difficult uphill sprint ahead of Ryder Hesjedal. At Flèche Wallonne Cadel Evans jumped past Alberto Contador on a steep summit finish for a cagey win. And at Liège-Bastogne-Liège Alex Vinokourov launched a perfect counterattack to outwit Evans, Contador and the Schleck brothers for victory. Any of these three scenarios could have been epic battles at the Tour de France — only RadioShack's Lance Armstrong, Andreas Kloden and Levi Leipheimer were missing. But regardless of who wasn't there, the Ardennes were telling of what's to come in July.

Readers ask whether Floyd Landis has been suspended and what rule did Alejandro Valverde violate/

VIDEO: Morgan Schmitt wins Mt. Tabor criterium at the Mt. Hood Cycling Classic

While Dick Pound’s term as WADA president expired at the end of 2007, the 68-year-old former Olympic swimmer remains a member of the WADA board and still quite willing to express his opinions.

Cyril Lemoine of Saur-Sojasun took the overall lead in the Tour of Luxembourg on Thursday after Giovanni Visconti (ISD) won stage 1, from Luxembourg to Hesperange.

2010 Tour of Luxembourg results

UnitedHealthcare takes charge in Oregon as Northwest native Morgan Schmitt wins a rainy, hilly crit and takes the lead.

Some teams like to wait as long as possible before selecting their Tour de France squads — but not Rabobank, which announced its lineup Thursday.

Gustav Larsson is hoping his Giro d’Italia stage victory in Verona will punch his ticket to the Tour de France.

The Teva Mountain Games start June 3, with a elite-level MTB race set for Saturday, June 5. Check out the tasty video tidbits.

As part of the best-four-of-eight race NUE series, the Mohican MTB100 means Ohio is no longer considered "fly over country" for today's elite mountain bike pros.

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2010 Giro Donne stage 1 results

Team RadioShack's Sébastien Rosseler broke a bone in his left hand and bruised his shoulder after colliding with a car while on a training ride, the team announced Wednesday.

Jimmy Engoulvent (Saur-Sojasun), won Wednesday's Tour of Luxembourg prologue, repeating his win in the same event in 2007.

The Astana captain completed a four-day reconnaissance of the decisive climbing stages in the mountains along the French-Spanish border and came away convinced that’s where the 2010 Tour will be decided.

Sugestions for a rider with one leg three centimeters shorter than the other

Kris Holm isn't a bicyclist set to take on the seven days of the BCBR on June 26 — he's an unicyclist. Betcha feel kind of wimpy now, eh?

The Mt. Hood Cycling Classic is one of most difficult stage races in the U.S., with tough climbing and beautiful scenery. The popular event has been on and off the National Racing Calendar in recent years, but always delivers a top-notch field.

Elite professional cyclists from across the United States will travel to St. Louis on Sunday, June 13th, 2010 for the National Racing Calendar Tour de Grove – Missouri’s biggest single day race.

Under lights and heavy rain, defending champion Paul Mach (Bissell) took the prologue win at the Mt. Hood Cycling Classic Tuesday night, proving that he’s the man to beat again in 2010.

2010 Mt. Hood Cycling Classic prologue results

The U.S. peloton spreads across the country this week, as marquee events are on the calendar in Oklahoma, Oregon and Pennsylvania.

What's up with Willow Koerber? A lot. Singletrack.com caught up with Willow to talk about her hot start to the 2010 cross-country season.

Coach Dirk Friel compares rider power files from the Tour of California and the Tour de France and comes to some surprising conclusions.

• 1. Luis Amaran Jamis Sutter Home/colavita 597 points
• 2. Ben Day Fly V Australia 428 points
• 3. Ben Jacques-Maynes Bissell Pro Cycling 365 points
• 4. Levi Leipheimer Team Mellow Johnny's 265 points
• 5. Alejandro Borrajo Jamis Sutter Home/colavita 251 points

Ben Kersten (Fly V Australia) and Theresa Cliff-Ryan (Colavita-Baci) stamped their names on one of America’s oldest cycling races Monday, taking wins at the Tour of Somerville in New Jersey. The National Racing Calendar criteriums closed out a full weekend of cycling events in Somerville and were the final tune-up ahead of next weekend’s UCI races in Philadelphia.

2010 Tour of Somerville results

2010 Giro Donne stage 2 results

The Giro d’Italia may not be the only stage race sending the pro peloton into snowy conditions this spring.

Lennard Zinn gets a heads up from a reader about some earlier advice.

With the Giro d’Italia in the rearview mirror, European racing shifts gears into a series of transition races as anticipation grows for July’s Tour de France.