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No clear favorite for Giro d'Italia

What biological values and ratios does the UCI's "Biological Passport" track?

A rushed European trip and a borrowed race bike leads to predictable results

While they dominated U.S. racing for much of the last decade, UnitedHealthcare-Maxxis (known under variatious sponsors' names) has, since 2005, struggled to find a stage win in one of the country’s major stage races. The team will get another shot when they take the start of stage 1 at the Amgen Tour of California.

Initial specs and geometry for the new v-10 may change as Santa Cruz Syndicate riders are just now beating on prototypes, but expect 8.5 and 10 inches of travel and an adjustable head angle independent of the travel adjustment.

Andrew Talansky comes out of nowhere to establish himself with the best young rider prize at the SRAM Tour of the Gila

A look at the risks inherent in a sport contested at high speeds on narrow and often dangerous roads.

U.S. Scene: Collegiate Nationals and Joe Martin

Illness forces Freire out of Giro

Lennard Zinn offers a look at retro and modern tech at Sea Otter.

Lewis poised for Giro debut

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Kenda Cup 5 in Big Bear, California, which was scheduled for May 15-16, has been cancelled due to excessive amounts of snow, trail damage and closures.

Giro promises tougher controls in 2010

André Greipel: 'I have proved myself.'

Giro issues preliminary start list

A few months after signing with Trek World Racing, young American downhill prospect Neko Mulally is sidlelined with a broken arm and will miss the first two World Cup events.

Racing this Week: Giro, Dunkirk and China

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Our readers speak out on Ben Day's tapeworm and Mark Cavendish's brash nature.

Franco Pellizotti, second in last year’s Giro d’Italia and winner of the polka-dot jersey in the 2009 Tour de France, will not start this year’s Giro after the UCI alleged that a check of his so-called biological passport found “abnormal values.”

Lampre will start the Giro d’Italia with two former champions, Italians Gilberto Simoni and Damiano Cunego.

Spaniard Oscar Freire, winner of the 2010 Milan-San Remo, will lead Rabobank in the Giro d’Italia.

Belgium's Quick Step will field a largely Italian team for the Giro d'Italia

Alejandro Valverde’s victory in the Tour de Romandie gave him the lead in the UCI world rankings issued Monday.

World Champion and defending World Cup champ Jared Graves kept up his winning ways over the weekend at the first World Cup 4-cross competition of the year in Houffalize, Belgium.

Christian Vande Velde is hoping to see a repeat of his highly successful 2008 Giro d'Italia, but not last year’s hard-knock Giro, when he crashed out with several broken bones in the first week.

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After her second-place finish over the weekend in Belgium and her second place last weekend in England, American Willow Koerber leads the 2010 World Cup, making her the first American since Alison Dunlap eight years ago to wear the leader's jersey.

2010 SRAM Tour of the Gila results

Darren Lill (Fly V Australia) attacked his breakaway companions 16 miles from the end of the SRAM Tour of the Gila's final stage Sunday and solo'd to one of the biggest wins of his career.

Results from the 2010 Tour de Korea.

Americans Michael Friedman (Jelly Belly-Kenda) and Jesse Anthony (Kelly Benefit Strategies) go one-two on general classification at the Tour de Korea.

Results from the 2010 Vuelta a Asturias.

Omega Pharma-Lotto is bringing a mix of youth and experience to the Giro d’Italia.

BMC Racing’s Mauro Santambrogio has the green light to return to competition after a preliminary internal investigation found no evidence that he was involved in doping at his former team, Lampre.

Constantino Zaballa (Loule-Louletano) makes a daring solo attack in the final stage of the Vuelta a Asturias and rides away with the stage victory and overall title.

Alejandro Valverde (Caisse d'Epargne) wins the final stage and takes the overall victory in the Tour de Romandie.

Marco Pinotti and André Greipel will lead HTC-Columbia at the 2010 Giro d’Italia, where American Craig Lewis will make his grand-tour debut.

Judging by the volume of article comments (many of them removed to keep this a family Web site), cycling fans are more interested in one of the SRAM Tour of the Gila podium girls than almost any aspect of the New Mexican stage race.

VeloNews Editor in Chief Ben Delaney participated in a remote round table discussion with CNN interviewer Larry King on Thursday, discussion Floyd Landis' admission that he doped and Landis' allegations against Lance Armstrong and others.

Taylor Phinney made it two in a row for his Trek-Livestrong squad on Saturday by winning the SRAM Tour of the Gila criterium, outsprinting Ivan Dominguez (Jamis-Sutter Home).

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Defending champion Levi Leipheimer sits in a position that is at once comfortable yet precarious heading into the final stage of the SRAM Tour of the Gila.

Things went smooth for Peanut Butter & Co. on Saturday, as the team ably protected Mara Abbott's race lead and took a stage win to boot.

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Silver City, New Mexico, woke up to crystal blue skies and a bit of a chill Saturday, as drivers poured over the scrubby high desert and through the mountains from Las Cruces, El Paso, Tucson and Albuquerque to gawk at the SRAM Tour of the Gila downtown criterium and its star riders.

Saxo's Rasmusen wins GP Herning

Duarte assumes lead at Asturias

Spilak takes stage at Romandie, Rogers keeps lead

2010 Giro d'Italia stage details

Results from the 2010 Rund um den Finanzplatz Eschborn-Frankfurt.

Fabian Wegmann (Milram) comes back from a broken collarbone to win the Rund um den Finanzplatz Eschborn-Frankfurt.

Results from the 2010 Spartanburg Downtown Criterium.

Jacob Keough (UnitedHealthcare-Maxxis) and Theresa Cliff-Ryan (Colavita-Baci) take the Spartanburg Downtown Criterium in South Carolina.

Van Dijk wins in Holland; Pooley in Switzerland

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Alison Powers (Vera Bradley Foundation) closed two-thirds of her gap to race leader Mara Abbott (Peanut Butter & Co.-Twenty12) on Friday, winning the 16.15-mile Tyrone time trial by a minute in a half over second-placed Errine Willock (Webcor) and 2:14 ahead of Abbott.

Houffalize is one of the classic venues on the World Cup circuit with some of the most enthusiastic and knowledgeable fans in the world. On tap for the weekend is XC and four-cross.

Jesse Sergent (Trek-Livestrong) shocked the star-studded field at the SRAM Tour of the Gila Friday, winning the 16.15-mile Tyrone time trial in 34:09, 14 seconds ahead of race leader Levi Leipheimer (Mellow Johnny's).

Increased anti-doping protocols planned for Amgen Tour

Singletrack.com Tech Editor Zack Vestal takes a look at two bars with big backsweep: Ritchey WCS Carbon 10D flat bar and Bontrager Race Lite Big Sweep flat 12 degree handlebar.

Intxausti new leader at Asturias

Porte wins Romandie TT, Rogers takes over lead

Ace sprinter Mark Cavendish admitted he let emotions get the best of him Thursday when he gave an Italian version of a two-finger salute as he crossed the line victorious in the second stage at the Tour de Romandie.

Michael Barry and Bradley Wiggins headline Team Sky as the British team makes its grand tour debut at the Giro d’Italia.

Readers weigh in on Cav's salute, Vino's return, Williams' suspension.

The proliferation of helmet, or "wearable," cameras has never been greater, and there is one to fit just about every budget. Singletrack.com takes a look at the GoPro Hero, Epic Wide, the V.I.O. 1.5 and the ContourHD.

Olympic champion Samuel Sánchez turns his attention to the Tour de France.

Armstrong and Hansen expecting child

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On Thursday the wind turned SRAM Tour of the Gila into a survival test for many women. Colavita-Baci's Carmen Small won in a two-woman breakaway with teammate Andrea Dvorak, and the team's Cath Cheatley won the sprint for third. Mara Abbott of Peanut Butter & Co. Twenty12 used her powerful team to maximum effect, retaining her overall lead.

With the Tour de France just nine weeks away, a windblown Lance Armstrong was candid about his condition at the SRAM Tour of the Gila. It’s not great, but it’s coming around, he said. “Yesterday I did not have a good day; I was off,” Armstrong told VeloNews. “Today I felt better.”

The GoPro Hero is moderately priced, easy to use, takes excellent-quality HD videos, and it (so far) is virtually indestructible.

For the least expensive option in the Singletrack.com helmet cam test, the Epic Wide works pretty damn good.

The ContourHD is light and sleek, making it easy to forget that you have a camera strapped to you noggin while riding.

This camera is the easiest to use out of all of the units we tested, but it's also the only one that has a camera connected to its business end via cable. That can be good or bad, depending on what you are looking for in video camera.

The Carmichael Training Systems International Classic in Colorado Springs will not only be the final Pro XCT event of 2010 and a UCI stage race, but it will host the Alison Dunlap Junior Mountain Bike Series race, the final race in GT Bicycle's Proving Ground Series and is the final cross-country qualification race for Nationals.

Levi Leipheimer doesn't often challenge for sprint finishes, but on a blustery day in New Mexico Thursday, the SRAM Tour of the Gila race leader saw an opportunity and jumped on it, and almost came away with a second consecutive stage win.