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The BMC team re-instates former world champ Alessandro Ballan after an internal investigation finds no evidence of doping.

The OUCH-Bahati Foundation team is back to being just Bahati Foundation, and is hustling to restructure after the doping revelations and allegations by its rider Floyd Landis. Longtime Landis supporter Dr. Brent Kay is the principal behind OUCH Medical Center.

It's May and may your Phat Phat-Tire Photos always be phat.

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This weekend’s Mt. Hamilton Classic Road Race/Memorial Day Criterium in California marks the end of the 2010 Nature Valley Pro Ride qualifiers. The final two riders selected will join the five men and five women who have already qualified.

Slipstream Sports, the owner and manager of the Garmin-Transitions team, says its riders are obligated to cooperate with an investigation into Floyd Landis' doping allegations.

Dave Wiens released the start list for the third Original Growler on Thursday, May 27. The race takes place on Sunday, May 30, 2010 at the Hartman's Rocks area near Gunnison, Colorado.

A Missouri tourism oversight committee on Thursday approved a spending plan that does not include funding for the Tour of Missouri, and the race's organizers are all but conceding that the battle is over and the race will not be held this year

The National Racing Calendar continues its North East tilt this week. The Basking Ridge Twilight Criterium — known this year as the Base Camp International — went off Wednesday evening. The Tour of Somerville will close a full weekend of racing in New Jersey. Meanwhile, Coloradans flock to Durango for the Iron Horse Classic.

You can bet that the Liquigas brain trust has their calculators out tonight and are studying when and how they can wrestle away the pink jersey from the stubborn David Arroyo.

The Amgen Tour of California will be back for 2011, Anschutz Entertainment Group president Andrew Messick told VeloNews this week.

Andre Greipel wins Giro d'Italia stage 18

Registration is now open for individual amateur cyclists and professional teams for the 5th annual Alexian Brothers Tour of Elk Grove, Friday-Sunday, July-30-August 1, in the Chicago suburb of Elk Grove Village.

Replay: Live coverage of stage 18 of the 2010 Giro d'Italia

The Singletrack.com crew made a trip to Dripping Springs, Texas to find out how the Mellow Johnny's Classic course has changed for 2010.

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The nature — and even existence — of the reported federal investigation into Floyd Landis’ claims against Lance Armstrong and others is unknown. But a San Francisco lawyer who specializes in bringing fraud suits against government contractors says Landis could be acting as a whistleblower and could collect a portion of any judgment.

Zack Vestal finds the Hutchinson Atom Comp clinchers are a viable option in the lightweight, raceable clincher market.

Federal authorities are investigating Floyd Landis' charges against Lance Armstrong and other cyclists with an eye toward criminal charges, the New York Times is reporting.

Lloyd Lloyd on stage 10 Matt Lloyd (Omega Pharma-Lotto) is getting accustomed to wearing the green King of the Mountains jersey at the Giro d'Italia, but concedes that it will take smart riding for him to keep it all the way to Verona.

2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 17 results

2010 Giro d'Italia stage 18 photos

The UCI has asked national federations to investigate charges against cyclists and team management who Floyd Landis has named in accusatory emails sent to officials last week.

Cofidis' Damien Monier wins an uphill pursuit to take stage 17; GC leaders finish nearly 10 minutes behind the winning breakaway.

Replay: Live coverage of stage 17 of the 2010 Giro d'Italia

UCI Press Release: The UCI requests inquiries

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With the third-annual Growler on tap for May 30, Singletrack.com checked in with MTB Hall-of-Famer Travis Brown to see what tips he has for the 300 racers in the sold-out event.

In its third year, the five-stage North Face Costa Rica Trophy Bike event runs from Oct. 12 to 16, about a month before another well-known mountain bike stage race in the Central American country.

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BMC Racing Team: Statement Regarding Investigation Initiated by UCI Through FFC against John Lelangue

Three weeks is a long time to be doing anything, even vacationing on a beach.

The Wapiyapi Classic will be held on Sunday, Sept. 26 in Aspen, Colo., and will feature seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong among other professional cyclists.

UCI Press Release of May 25, 2010

Report from Tuesday's stage of the 2010 Giro d'Italia, the Plan de Corones time trial.

UCI chief Pat McQuaid on Tuesday rejected claims there was a conflict of interest in the sport's governing body accepting a $100,000 donation from Lance Armstrong about eight years ago.

Gunnison, Colorado's Growler mountain bike race is scheduled for its third running on May 30, the 64-mile event in 7,700-foot high Gunnison is organized by Dave Wiens, the man who has beat both Lance Armstrong and Floyd Landis at the Leadville 100, a race Wiens has won six times.

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Start Times - Giro d'Italia, Plan de Corones Time Trial

Replay: Live coverage of stage 16 of the 2010 Giro d'Italia

Lennard rides the Plan de Corones, with 13 dead Giro champions as company.

Local Austin riders Erin O'Neill and Paul Garcia, along with MJC race director, Tobin Behling rolled through the Mellow Johnny's Classic course earlier this spring.

Lennard Zinn rode the Giro's Monte Zoncolan and reports he used every bit of his 34X26 low gear.

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UnitedHealthcare was outnumbered at Baltimore's Kelly Cup, but Jake Keough managed to deliver a win for the time. In the women's race Van Gilder shows she's on great form as the crit season heats up.

Cervelo's new California facility designed the new r5ca frame in part to showcase its expertise in carbon development and manufacturing.

2010 Amgen Tour of California stage 8 photos

On the Giro's second rest day Cervelo's Ted King takes some time to define some new additions to the Giro d'Italia vocabulary.

Angelo Zomegnan promises a spectacular show if efforts to bring the Giro d’Italia to Washington, D.C. come to fruition for the 2012 edition.

Giro d’Italia race director Angelo Zomegnan must be a very happy man. With a week to go, no one knows who will win the 2010 Giro, and that’s just the way he wants it.

Replay: Live coverage of the 2010 Amgen Tour of California stage 8

2010 Amgen Tour of California FINAL results

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Garmin's Ryder Hesjedal wins final stage as Michael Rogers wins the overall.

Round 3 of the World Cup cross-country sees Catharine Pendrel and Georgia Gould dominate the women's race in Offenburg Germany while Julien Absalon takes his first win of the season.

No one was injured in the two-car crash Saturday evening, but Cervelo TestTeam says the German rider was over the legal alcohol limit.

The Italian climber — who served a two-year ban for admitting his role in the Operación Puerto blood doping scandal — won Sunday’s stage up Monte Zoncolan in dramatic fashion that reminded many of the Basso of old.

2010 Giro d'Italia stage 15 photos

Ivan Basso (Liquigas-Doimo) triumphed in stage 15 of the 2010 Giro d’Italia, shedding world champion Cadel Evans (BMC Racing) in the final 3km of a hellishly mountainous race after a five-man break came to grief on the steeps of the Monte Zoncolan.

When Amgen Tour of California organizers designed this year’s route, they specifically wanted a final stage difficult enough to upend the general classification. AEG Sports president Andrew Messick had a hand in utilizing his local ride just north of Los Angeles, the Rock Store Loop, while also incorporating the corporate headquarters of title sponsor Amgen, based in Thousand Oaks.

HTC-Columbia will have to withstand a barrage of attacks from RadioShack and Garmin-Transitions to keep Michael Rogers in the lead. Rogers says his team is more than up to the task.

Lennard Zinn visited teams to check out the gearing and wheels that will be used on the bikes for the Giro stage finishing atop Monte Zoncolan.

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Two days after shocking the bike world by admitting that he doped and accusing a long list of star cyclists of doing the same, Floyd Landis appeared at the Amgen Tour of California time trial in Los Angeles Saturday. And ESPN.com reports Landis called Greg LeMond Friday to apologize for an incident at his 2007 doping hearing.

Michael Rogers holds Amgen Tour of California lead after Los Angeles time trial

Replay: Live coverage of the 2010 Amgen Tour of California stage 7

2010 Amgen Tour of California stage 7 results

Taylor Phinney (Trek-Livestrong) wins the Olympias Tour .

Results from the 2010 Olympias Tour.

2010 Amgen Tour of California stage 7 photos

Specialized debuted its new Shiv 3 time trial bike last week at the Giro d'Italia. It got its U.S. debut Saturday at the Tour of California.

2010 Giro d'Italia stage 14 photos

Arroyo takes maglia rosa as Giro's standings get another reshuffle and Vincenzo NIbali wins stage 14 in solo break.