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A reader asks whether he should continue his training when he is a bit under the weather.

A reader asks how to determine the optimum handlebar height and reach.

Does the type of protein supplement matter?

Garmin-Transitions’ captain Christian Vande Velde has secured his future by signing a three-year contract extension that will keep him in argyle through 2012.

Rebecca Rusch is all smiles going into Stage 3 of the Trans Andes while Mary McConneloug and Michael Broderick battle for first place.

Singletrack.com columnist and XC pro Judy Freeman has a new team for 2010. Figuring out the season is now about being pragmatic and pursuing possibilities.

Even though the 67th Tour of Poland will be held during the first week of August, organizers want to make sure that both the international cycling community and the world remember January 27th as the international Memorial Day. The day marks the 65th anniversary of the Red Army’s liberation of Auschwitz, one of the most horrific Nazi concentration camps.

Lance Armstrong will be back in the spring classics this year in a big way. RadioShack sport director Johan Bruyneel told Biciciclismo that Armstrong will race Milan-San Remo, Tour of Flanders, Amstel Gold Race and Liège-Bastogne-Liège.

The BMC Pro Cycling Team may not be on the UCI’s list of ProTour teams, but the revamped Swiss/American squad appears to be more than ready to take on the world’s top races on the 2010 calendar.

Photographer Casey Gibson heads to Agoura Hills, California, for BMC's January training camp.

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The newly labeled Jamis-Sutter Home team unveiled its new kit at Argentina's Tour de San Luis, where it brought home some results and tuned up for the season.

Just a day after successfully defending the suspension of Stefan Schumacher in the International Court of Arbitration for Sport, anti-doping officials scored a significant legal win in a Spanish courtroom.

Volunteer opportunities for the 2010 Amgen Tour of California are now posted online at the official race Web site, www.amgentourofcalifornia.com .

More than 1,600 riders have signed up for the team, duo and solo categories for the event, which takes place north of Tuscon, Arizona on Feb. 13 and 14.

With a new title sponsor, a 10-rider squad stacked with junior and elite talent, and Olympic gold medalist and world champion Kristin Armstrong as the team's director, the Peanut Butter & Co/TWENTY12 women's cycling team is looking toward a promising 2010 season.

A reader asks just how dangerous is cycling on American roads and what we can do to make it safer.

The Kelly Benefit Strategies Pro Cycling team has spent the last two days in Mooresville, North Carolina, for two days of testing at the A2 Wind Tunnel.

Although more pros are learning the secret, Maui, Hawaii, remains an under-discovered gem as a cycling training ground. The rides are spectacular, challenging and shockingly diverse. You might think that training camps are only for sponsored riders or the wealthy, but a winter trip to paradise will jump-start your offseason preparation — and it can be surprisingly affordable.

Would you ink your body for life? Get married in Titus jerseys? Change your name to Rockstar 29'er? Yes, yup and yep? Then read on…

2009 UCI Cyclocross Rankings, updated Jan. 19.

The Adageo Energy Pro Cycling Team is contributing to relief efforts in Haiti by donating a portion of the proceeds from the sale of its 2010 team clothing to the American Red Cross.

Sidi shoes and a Look 556 carbon frame with SRAM Rival components are up for grabs in contest.

The team time trial will be back for the 2011 Tour de France along with the infamous submerged causeway at Passage du Gois as details of the opening weekend for next year’s race were revealed Tuesday.

If you're using tires and tubes, there are steps you can take to prevent those dangerous and frightening blow-outs on steep descents.

Stefano Garzelli still believes he can be a factor in the Giro d’Italia.

The Carmichael Training Systems International Classic mountain bike race set for July in Colorado Springs will include TT, XC and STXC.

The latest VeloNews.com reader gallery - great shots from all over.

Organizers of the Tour of the Battenkill cycling race announce that amateur registration has exceeded 1800 registrants for the Pro/Am event scheduled for April 10 in Cambridge, NY. Registration for the event is expected to exceed 2200 by the April date, continuing its tradition as the largest single day road cycling race in North America.

Seeing a void in the development of well-rounded female athletes in Southern California, a pair of veteran cyclists, Dotsie Bausch and Pam Schuster, have formed the InCycle/Time To Track presented by Empower Coaching Systems cycling team.

The Rocky Mountain Bicycle Festival is set for August 7th & 8th, 2010 in Denver, CO at the National Western Complex. This third-year event, formerly known as the Rocky Mountain Bicycle Show, has grown steadily and significantly since it’s inception prompting the name change.

Along with her U-23 national cross-country victory, Emily Batty won the elite Sea Otter Classic short-track and posted a top-ten at the Offenburg World Cup in 2009.

The UCI grants provisional registration to Lampre, letting the Italian team remain part of the ProTour through March.

Track racer Sarah Hammer and biathlete Tim Burke were named Athletes of the Month by the U.S Olympic Committee for December.

2010 American Mountain Bike Challenge announced. Series features 21 events in 16 states and serves as qualifying races for USA Cycling Mountain Bike National Championships in Granby, Colorado.

Our readers speak out on Lance, Landis and VeloNews TV.

André Greipel (Team HTC-Columbia) tops the 2010 UCI world rankings following his victory in the Tour Down Under.

CAS, the world sport's top court, on Monday rejected an appeal by disgraced German cyclist Stefan Schumacher against a two-year ban for doping during the 2008 Olympic Games.

Peanut Butter & Co. is the new sponsor, Kristin Armstrong is the new director, and the team is adding several top new riders as it focuses on development for the 2012 Olympics.

With a 2010 schedule full of challenges ranging from defending his Milan-San Remo win to the green jersey at the Tour de France to even a run at the rainbow jersey in Australia, Mark Cavendish has one big question mark on where he will race in May.

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A photo gallery from Zack Vestal's visit to the Look Cycle factory in Nevers, France.

The fate of the much-talked-about Louisville, Kentucky, cyclocross world championships bid will be decided Friday by a vote when the UCI management board comes together in Tabor, Czech Republic. And while UCI ’cross coordinator Peter Van Den Abelee has made it clear he supports bringing worlds across the Atlantic in 2013, he says nothing is assured.

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Jason Sumner's photos from the final round of the cyclocross UCI World Cup in Hoogerheide, the Netherlands.

Jason Sumner's photos from the final round of the cyclocross UCI World Cup in Hoogerheide, the Netherlands.

2010 Tour de San Luis, Final GC results

• 1. Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas-Doimo in 25:44:47
• 2. at 0:00:28 Jose Serpa (Col) Androni-Giocattoli
• 3. at 0:01:19 Rafael Valls (Spa) Footon-Servetto-Fuji
• 4. at 0:01:37 Ignacio Pereyra (Arg) Argentina
• 5. at 0:02:15 Santiago Botero (Col) Colombia

Daphny Van den Brand collects the women's World Cup crown as countrywoman Marianne Vos leads a Dutch sweep in Hoogerheide.

Results from Sunday's World Cup cyclocross race

Lynskey Performance Designs offering ready-to-ride packages for Truvativ Hammerschmidt drive systems.

World champion Niels Albert wins the final round of the cyclocross World Cup as Zdenek Stybar takes the series title.

Olympic champion Samuel Sánchez is the latest big name to announce he will make an all-out push for the podium at the Tour de France this summer.

Picking up where he left off two years ago, HTC-Columbia’s big German sprinter, André Greipel, has claimed his second overall victory in the 2010 Santos Tour Down Under.

Colombian rider and former world time trial champion Santiago Botero says he will retire after this year's Vuelta a Colombia in July. The veteran all-rounder was once considered a threat for overall victory at the Tour de France, but saw his career tumble when he was linked to the Operacian Puerto doping scandal in Spain in 2006.

Quick Step is sticking to what it knows best as it rides into the 2010 season and that is clearly the spring classics for the powerful Belgian outfit.

After one of the most riveting stages in the twelve-year history of Tour Down Under, André Greipel (HTC-Columbia) has managed to defend his leader’s ochre jersey, and is now an assured winner in the 2010 edition of the Australia’s premier stage race.

Press Release: Let’s do something to help the people of Haiti. Elite, the leading Italian company in the cycling sector has decided to hit the field immediately to help the people of Haiti, the Caribbean island that was recently devastated by a terrible earthquake.

Don't have connections to get into Interbike? $150 bucks and time to get to Moab, Utah in September will get you all the 2011 hardware you can ride at new consumer event.

Rebecca Rusch and Jenny Smith are teaming up to take on the Trans Andes Challenge. But the early season race over the mountain range has the veteran racers tempering their expectations.

Here’s the latest sponsorship news we’ve rounded up from across the bike racing world

Louisville, Kentucky, could host the cyclocross world championships in 2013. The team behind the U.S. Gran Prix of Cyclocross events hosted in that city confirmed to VeloNews that a bid was submitted to the UCI.

Katie Compton’s run at the cyclocross World Cup overall title is officially over, as yet another bout of leg cramps will keep her off the start line at Sunday’s series finale in Hoogerheide, Holland.

While the UCI blessed 29-inch wheels for mountain bike racing in 2004, the German Cycling Federation is only now allowing racers to choose between 26ers and 29ers.

Officials revealed details of 68th Paris-Nice on Thursday and “Race to the Sun” follows a familiar pattern, with an individual time trial on the outskirts of Paris on March 7 to open what’s arguably France’s most important stage race behind the Tour de France.

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In part 2 of Jason Sumner's interview with world cyclocross champion Niels Albert, the Belgian superstar talks about the burden of wearing the rainbow jersey and his future — on the road and the dirt.

Dr. James Wilson has been racing bikes for a decade, and studying cystic fibrosis for 20 years. This year, he’s putting the two together to improve the lives of those living with the genetic disease. Wilson created Team CF to raise awareness of the disease and to aggressively promote exercise in children and young adults with CF as a way to improve their condition.

Mark Cavendish will postpone his season debut until the Ruta del Sol in mid-February due to a dental problem that’s delayed his training. The HTC-Columbia ace was expecting to make his 2010 season debut at the Tour of Qatar in early February, but team officials said he will open his campaign at the five-day Spanish race instead.

The French bank, Caisse d’Epargne, will end its sponsorship of the Spanish cycling team that bears its name at the end of the 2010 season.

Tour Down Under, Stage 4 - A Graham Watson Gallery

HTC-Columbia’s André Greipel added to his grip on the overall lead at the 2010 Tour Down Under on Friday, winning the fourth stage, his third victory of the week-long tour.

During six full-time European cyclocross racing seasons, spent primarily in Belgium where he and his wife Cori own a small home, Page has endured a litany of pitfalls and heartbreaks. Among the lengthy laundry list are multiple broken bones, a major falling out with his now former team manager, and charges of an anti-doping violation, which he was subsequently cleared of.

To see Lance Armstrong registered for the 2010 Miles of DisComfort Mountain Bike Marathon in Comfort, Texas on Jan. 30 could mean a couple of things.

German rider Charlotte Becker is joining Cervélo TestTeam for the 2010 season. Becker is experienced on both track and road. The 26-year-old is a former German national time trial champion and European points champion on the track. Last season, she picked up four wins and finished third overall in the Giro della Toscana while riding as a member of the now-defunct Equipe Nürnberger.

As part of our ongoing Buyer’s Guide look at new bikes and gear for 2010, we uncovered a good bargain in the Superleggera road bike from Tommaso Bicycles.

All of Graham Watson's 2010 Tour Down Under stage galleries

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