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Double stage winner, Robbie Hunter, has pulled out of the Tour of Murcia on Friday after learning that his wife has gone into labor.

José Enrique Gutiérrez – the Spanish rider who finished second to Ivan Basso in the 2006 Giro d’Italia and was later linked to the Operación Puerto doping scandal – says he is retiring because Rock Racing has not been able to secure its future.

2010 Paris-Nice results

Fifty racers are taking on the Iditarod Trail Invitational, 28 of them are cyclists. The first- and second-place finishers were on Greg Matyas' Fatback snow bike.

Malaysian cyclist Anuar Manan won the fifth stage of the Tour de Langkawi on Friday while German Tobias Erler maintained the overall lead.

Catching up with Triple Crown winner Stephen Roche on the eve of Paris-Nice, a race he won once and finished second four times.

Johnny Bellis, the British rider who nearly died in a motor scooter accident last fall, will be released from a London hospital this weekend and return to his home on the Isle of Man.

The Vuelta Independencia wraps up and Team Ten Speed Drive head out for the post-race festivities, otherwise known as 'the 11th stage.'

2010 Three Days of West Flanders results

Park, freeride and big-mountain: The Dorado Pro features 7050 aluminum legs and utilizes the same internals as the Dorado MRD carbon version.

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The 2010 USA CRITS Championship series has new final races for both men and women. The women’s series will conclude at the Chris Thater Memorial race, after four races. The men’s competition will conclude at the TX Tough Grand Prix, after eight events. The series is now nine events strong, visiting as many states.

It was like déjà-vu all over again Thursday at the Vuelta a Murcia in Spain.

CST tire company surprises non-profit youth-cycling program with $7,500 donation.

The adventure in the Philippines continues as race organizers swap routes and racers face another hot, hilly course on rough roads, and the GC battle tightens between the American Kelly Benefit Strategies team and the South African EMG squad.

Japanese rider Taiji Nishitani (Aisan Racing) won the fourth stage of the Tour de Langkawi on Thursday, while German Tobias Erler retained the overall lead.

For the 2010 All-Mountain category, which sells out its 200 slots in a matter of minutes, event organizers are qualifying top finishers from the last year's races. New reg date is April 1 — no joke.

On a day when visitors were stunned by a killer closing climb, a local boy takes the win, while Kelly Benefit Strategies' Reid Mumford takes the overall lead.

2010 Vuelta a Murcia results

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Following an emotional victory Saturday at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, a newly confident Juan Antonio Flecha (Team Sky) is still holding out on his dream of winning one of the major cobblestoned classics.

Robbie Hunter delivered Garmin-Transitions its first win on the 2010 season after taking a sprint victory in Wednesday’s opening stage at the Vuelta a Murcia in Spain.

The UCI has announced that the governing body’s anti-doping manager, Anne Gripper, will leave the post this month, citing a desire to return to her home in Australia.

Monaco’s Cycling Federation has handed a two-year suspension to former Silence-Lotto rider Thomas Dekker for an EPO positive that resulted from the re-testing of an old sample last year.

Master mechanic Lennard Zinn follows up on questions regarding hanging bike storage and what that means for hydraulic brakes.

A reader asks why the UCI bothers to regulate road and time trial equipment at all.

Readers seek advice on storing and reusing tires and getting that gunk off of tubular rims.

The United States has the third highest number of UCI teams with 12, compared to the 14 Italian and 15 French squads.

It's official — coming into today's stage my teammates and I were almost completely cracked.

U.S. masters racers who plunked down big bucks for Specialized Shivs just like Alberto Contador's won't have to sell them this year. USA Cycling announced Tuesday that it will follow the UCIs lead and enforce rules barring some frame shapes for any racing bearing UCI points or qualification potential — except for masters competition.

Another report from the Dominican Republic's Vuelta Independencia, where correspondent Josh Liberles sprints in rush-hour traffic, has his time trial bike run over by a bus ... and then kicks butt in his eighth race in six days.

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As the 2010 race season heats up, the pace of new tech and product introductions is ramping up as well.

Tech Gallery: Fort, Restwise, Genuine

The Vienna laboratory Humanplasma hit back on Tuesday at claims that it stood at the center of a massive doping network, naming instead several well-known coaches for the first time.

The three Senegalese citizens suspected of stealing from Belgian cyclist Frank Vandenbroucke, found dead in a hotel room in October, were acquitted Tuesday in a court in the west of the country.

Despite KBS clearly being the strongest team in this year’s Tour of Luzon, and having held the race lead since Ryan Anderson's time trial stage victory on day 2, they had yet to make it first across the line on a road stage; until stage 4 that was, when Jesse Anthony crossed the line at the head of a breakaway group to take his first win of the year.

Tyler Farrar was one of the break-out riders in 2009. With 11 victories and a constant threat in the sprints, the 25-year-old vaulted into the elite pro ranks.

2010 Callville Bay Classic - A gallery

Professionals in search of sun and miles mixed it up with elite amateurs on the banks of Nevada’s Lake Mead last week at the Callville Bay Classic.

South African Jay Thomson, representing his national team, won the Tour de Langkawi's second stage in Malaysia Tuesday

2010 Navy collegiate race results

It was out to Lubbock this weekend for many collegiate cyclists in Texas and Oklahoma looking to compete in the first mass start events of the 2010 South Central Collegiate Cycling Conference season. Teams from as far away as Houston joined in the action, each looking to strike first in what is to be a long road season.

The first in a series of columns by Jennifer Caudill: writer, fashion model, photographer and girlfriend of Garmin-Transitions pro Steven Cozza. First column: dealing with Steven's broken collar bone.

Stage racing returns to the Philippines, and the Kelly Benefit Strategies team holds the lead at the revitalized Tour of Luzon.

The third weekend of racing in the Atlantic Coast Cycling Conference took riders to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis Maryland. Saturday’s criterium is by far the most technically challenging course of the season. The course, which has been used for over ten years, is made famous by its downhill, 180-degree, “widow maker turn.” It is also made difficult by cold winds that whip off the Chesapeake Bay. But if you do get a moment’s reprieve, it is a beautiful loop around Hospital Point and the Naval Academy Cemetery.

Gran Premio Miguel Indurain

Over the weekend, Southwest Collegiate Cycling Conference teams raced in the Lobo Classic, a two-day omnium at the University of New Mexico. An individual time trial and a 35-minute criterium atop Mesa del Sol in Albuquerque allowed riders to employ their strengths and activate practiced strategies.

2010 Lobo Classic collegiate results

Our readers pipe up on Lance Armstrong, bike theft and women's racing.

Classic styling and veteran builders rose to the top at the 2010 North American Handmade Bicycle Show in Richmond, Virginia.

Yes, there is such a thing as a rad (and functional) recumbent. If you have the time, we have the photos from the North American Handmade Bicycle Show.

The Bahati Foundation Professional Cycling Team visits the wind tunnel, and our Brian Holcombe goes with them.

The Bahati Foundation Professional Cycling Team hopes to be just that little bit faster after testing equipment and clothing in a Colorado wind tunnel.

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Sinead Miller of Marian University and Matt Brandt of Lindenwood University swept the Men’s and Women’s A categories in the Midwest Conference season opener hosted at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky. Lindsey Wilson College established a considerable lead in the conference championship race, amassing 807 points on the weekend compared to second-place Marian’s 701 points.

With a fresh cadaver tendon, Rabobank-Giant team rider Adam Craig is rehabbing the knee he injured in a most mundane manner.

Murray State Road Race and Criterium results

Sid Taberlay and Pua Sawicki repeated their 2009 wins at the Sage Brush Safari east of San Diego on Sunday.

Kelly Benefit Strategies' Ryan Anderson holds the lead at the Tour of Luzon, but the team can't prevent a wily local veteran from grabbing the stage 3 win.

USA Cycling effort aiming for gold in 2010 Olympics and will be headed by Sean Dwight.

Results from the 2010 Tour de Langkawi.

In Europe this week, the Vuelta a Murcia and the Monte Paschi Eroica are the big races, while mid-week races in Italy and Belgium keep things rolling. Andrew Hood takes a look.

Healthy at last, Andy Schleck will make his season debut on Wednesday at the Giro del Friuli in Italy.

Southeast Collegiate Cycling Conference racing continued in Statesboro, Georgia, this weekend as Georgia Southern University hosted its second annual “Battle in the Boro.” Intensity in the Southeast ratcheted up dramatically as the top teams and riders made their debut in conference competition. Powerhouses Lees McRae and Cumberland University made their collegiate season debut, as did recent BMC Racing Team recruit Chris Butler of Furman

2010 Georgia Southern University Battle in the Boro results

Australian Michael Matthews (Team Jayco Skins) wins the first stage of the Tour de Langkawi.

Take a good look: February's reader-submitted singletrack scenes will be voted on this week.

Judy Freeman, pro XC racer and Singletrack.com columnist, put on her teacher hat for Women's Weekend 2010 at Ray's Indoor MTB Park in Cleveland.