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Alejandro Valverde wins the Tour Méditerranéen as Francesco Masciarelli takes the finale.

Graham Watson captures Stage 1 of the 2010 Tour of Oman.

The Frenchman took the bunch sprint at the end of the 61km circuit race on the Muscat Corniche ahead of Edvald Boasson Hagen (Team Sky) and Kenny De Haes (Omega Pharma-Lotto). He will wear the red leader’s jersey in Monday’s Stage 2, a 148.5km leg from Nizwa to Samail.

• 1. Zdenek Stybar (Cze), 57:58
• 2. Niels Albert (B), 58:04
• 3. Radomir Simunek (Cze), 58:07
• 4. Sven Nys (B), 58:07
• 5. Dieter Vanthourenhout (B), 58:57

Alejandro Valverde wins the Tour Méditerranéen as Francesco Masciarelli takes the final stage.

World champion Zdenek Stybar wins the Superprestige series in a dramatic last-round battle with Niels Albert.

Zdenek Stybar is the champion of the 2009-10 Superprestige cyclocross series.

South Central Collegiate Cycling Conference Shreveport, LA Feb 13, 2010

Jonathan Chodroff and Carmen Small lead the Valley of the Sun stage race in Arizona.

Europe’s brutal winter put the brakes on Saturday’s fourth stage at the Tour Méditerranéen along France’s Cote d’Azur.

We take a close look at an affordable Workhorse Racer, the Masi 3VC 105.

Italian rider Eddy Ratti has been suspended following a positive EPO test, the UCI announced on Saturday.

Whatever its name, the team variously known as HealthNet, HealthNet-Maxxis or OUCH-Maxxis has dominated the National Racing Calendar for the last six years.

Defending Amgen Tour of California champ Levi Leipheimer hasn't yet seen or ridden what could be the most critical stage of the 2010 edition: the stage 7 individual time trial in Los Angeles.

Française des Jeux keeps on pouring it on at the Tour Méditerranéen, with the French outfit winning its third stage in a row in the five-day race in southern France. Alejandro Valverde remains poised for overall victory, sitting sixth just 10 seconds back going into Sunday’s climactic stage finish atop Mont Faron.

One of Japan's first Tour de France finishers last year, BBox's Yukiya Arashiro is aiming to return to the Tour, score a pro win, and find his place in the peloton.

Judy Freeman, Kenda-Felt pro and Singletrack.com columnist, hit the road to find more temperate climes to train in compared to wintry Colorado. What'd she discover? Clingy cacti and a Smith&Wesson cyclist.

Dorel Recreational/Leisure (R/L), a division of Dorel Industries (TSX: DII.B, DII.A) announced today the appointment of Andrew Coccari as its new Global Chief Marketing Officer; a proof point to its commitment to become a more consumer-insight driven company. Coccari joins the organization from Honeywell where he was global head of marketing.

New Rabobank-Giant Off-Road Team and expanded Giant Factory Off-Road Team will feature top cross-country and downhill athletes.

Francesco Chicchi (Liquigas) scored his second win of the 2010 Tour of Qatar, outsprinting American Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Transitions) on the final stage. Wouter Mol (Vaconsoleil) took the overall title.

At the Tour of Qatar, a two-man suicide breakaway on stage 2 ended up defining the entire event when the peloton did not chase until it was too late and Wouter Mol (Vacansoleil) and Geert Steurs (Topsport) survived until the finish.

Standing 6-foot-5, Wouter Mol is no small man. And he may be standing even taller after winning the 9th annual Tour of Qatar. Here we take a look at Mol's Batavus.

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As the Amgen Tour of California reaches its halfway point, first come the hills, then the mountains and the toughest stage in race history, as Tour officials unveil details of the 2010 stages this week, two stages each day. On Thursday they released maps and profiles of stages 5 and 6.

24-hour solo world champ Rebecca Rusch reports from her South American winter training camp: Next up is the Tour de la Patagonia.

Wednesday it was heavy winds, Thursday it was snow and cold — so far, there’s nothing Mediterranean at all in the Tour Méditerranéen in southern France. Perhaps it was appropriate that a rider from Finland, Jussi Veikkanen (FDJeux), won Thursday’s 170km second stage that saw riders buffeted by cold and wind yet again.

Jonathan Wayne is the man behind Dirt Republic. If his vision pans out, you and I will be wearing plastic when we ride. Not plastic body armor and helmets, but shirts made from recycled water bottles.

Who is Qatar leader Wouter Mol? Mol first popped up on the radar for many North American racing fans when he moved into the gold leader’s jersey at the Tour of Qatar earlier this week. Mol was half of an all-day breakaway that stayed away until the finish on stage 2.

José Luís Arrieta (Ag2r-La Mondiale) is one of those old-school riders who enjoys working in the trenches and is simply content to live for the bike. A dying breed, perhaps, but Arrieta is glad to still be racing his bike.

Eddy Merckx bicycles returned to the top echelon of cycling again with the sponsorship of the Belgian ProTour team of Belgian national champion Tom Boonen.

André Greipel (HTC-Columbia) surged to victory in Thursday’s Trofeo Magaluf-Palmanova to close out the five-day Mallorca Challenge.

Out of the 525 readers who chose one of the five final Phat Phat-Tire Photos for January, "Endo," tallied 211 votes to win.

Tom Boonen sprinted into a headwind to take stage 5 of the Tour of Qatar after a 14-man echelon was swept up in the closing kilometers. Katusha’s Danilo Napolitano took second ahead of Team Sky’s Edvald Boasson Hagen.

Kelly Benefit Strategies announces Jacob Erker as performance manager and Bob Gregorio as team mechanic for the 2010 racing season. The two additions bring experience and knowledge to the team's well-rounded roster.

The XG999 uses the same manufacturing techniques that produced SRAM's XX MTB cassette as well as the PowerDome road cassette and weighs in at 175 grams.

The 2010 Mt. Hood Cycling Classic has a new sponsor and is adding two new stages for pro men, and breaking with tradition by traveling from Oregon into the state of Washington on one stage. However, the challenging 6-day event, held June 1-6, has canceled its pro women’s race for this year, citing conflicts with two major women’s events.

Granada's location near the vast expanse of Alpujarras region trails makes it "Europe's Vancouver"

Just like he did in 2009, Belarussian Yauheni Hutarovich (FDJeux) won the opening stage of the Tour Méditerranéen in France on Wednesday. Pushed along by frigid winds, the 26-year-old won ahead of William Bonnet (Bbox Telecom) and Maxim Iglinskiy (Astana) in the 92.4km stage in Sauvian.

2010 Le Tour Mediterranéen results

On the third day of the 2010 Amgen Tour of California, the peloton will return to the scene of one of 2009's most dramatic moments: the climb up Bonny Doon Road.

Promising Portuguese talent Rui Costa (Caisse d’Epargne) delivered a big win in Wednesday’s fourth day of the Mallorca Challenge in the 143km stage starting and finishing in Deià.

Not long after posting a Singletrack.com story about Dirt Republic, a grassroots company launching a line of mountain bike shirts made from recycled plastic, it was pointed out that plastics were already in Cannondale's future.

Following the Tour of Qatar, many top teams will head to the inaugural Tour of Oman, a UCI Category 2.1 event that is part of the UCI Asia Tour.

World class professional and talented amateur cyclists from around the world are once again gearing up to compete in the 11th annual San Dimas Stage Race. The race, hosted by local bike club SC Velo, is scheduled for March 19th, 20th, and 21st. Three exciting stages of racing are planned as well as a Kids Race on the last day. Over 800 amateur and professional cyclists are expected to compete for cash prizes. The San Dimas Stage Race has grown and matured from its modest beginning in 2000 to become well known and highly regarded within the cycling community.

For the first time on the international stage, the under-23 team of Trek-Livestrong is racing against the likes of ProTour squads Quick Step, Team Sky and Saxo Bank at the Tour of Qatar.

Cycling luminaries gathered in at the Rossano Cathedral in Italy late last month to celebrate the life of Lino Gastaldello, the co-owner of the Wilier bike brand. Gastaldello died January 23rd after being hit by a car while on a bike ride. He was 71. Gianni Bugno, Damiano Cunego and Gilberto Simoni were among the mourners who overfilled the cathedral.

In what should be a great season for sprinting, with Mark Cavendish, Tyler Farrar and the resurgent Alessandro Petacchi among many, there’s one name that’s often overlooked: Theo Bos.

Francesco Chicchi won the fourth stage of the Tour of Qatar in a field sprint ahead of Heinrich Haussler (Cervélo) and JJ Haedo (Saxo Bank).

Milwaukee, Wis. - The Tour of America's Dairyland presented by Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board, an omnium bicycle race across 11 Southeastern Wisconsin cities, will include a Women's 3/4 category, in addition to the Pro Women 1/2 category, in this year's daily race schedule, promoter Midwest Cycling Series has announced.

The Regions Bank Race Weekend is back again on March 6-7, 2010 in Albany, Georgia, boasting more than $8,000 in prize money. Saturday, cyclists will race against the clock in an individual time trial and volley for position in the criterium later in the day, Saturday's events are in downtown Albany as part of the annual Mardi Gras Festival. Sunday events leave the urban streets for the country roads in the final event of the weekend on Sunday, a challenging 51 kilometer loop through Lee County.

Okay, so the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 was mostly a Wall Street bailout, but bicylists benefited, too, albeit in a very small way.

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A look at Martijn Maaskant's Felt F1 at the Tour of Qatar.

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Team Garmin-Transitions and Team HTC-Columbia are auctioning rides in a team mechanic's car during the Spring Classics to benefit the USA Cycling Development Foundation.

The riders on the Kenda-Felt MTB team will have their choice of several different Felt models including the Nine Team, Felt's flagship carbon fiber 29-inch hardtail.

Defending Amgen Tour of California champion Levi Leipheimer said the first two stages of this year's race offer "opportunities for the sprinters," although the second stage might just shed a few of the peloton’s non-climbers.

Three years after JJ Haedo made the jump from North American racing to Europe, his younger brother Sebastian Haedo has done the same. For 2010, they’re both on Saxo Bank. It’s the first time the Argentine brothers have raced on the same professional team.

A Trek-Livestrong team bike, stolen from Mellow Johnny's bike shop in Austin in November, is back home, minus its wheels, after being recovered in Mexico.

The notification date for Leadville Trail 100 applicants is slightly delayed, with hopefuls knowing if they are in the high-elevation race by Friday.

There are a lot of big names expected for the 101st edition of Milan-San Remo next month, but Riccardo Riccò isn’t among them.

The first stage of the 2010 Amgen Tour of California will mark the 50th anniversary of one of the oldest races in America when it starts in Nevada City on May 16.

Linus Gerdemann (Milram) took an early-season win in Tuesday’s mountainous Trofeo Inca at the Mallorca Challenge. The former Tour de France yellow jersey-wearer escaped over the day’s final hurdle at the Cat. 1 Puig Major in the 157.2km stage over the highest climbs on Mallorca to claim victory ahead of two fellow escapees.

In three days of racing in the winds at the Tour of Qatar, four men have broken their collarbones after crashing.

Biggest Ride contest offering a spring training trip to Southwest with Andreas Hestler.

The beefed-up BMC squad began its racing season in earnest at the Tour of Qatar this week

This season, an unprecedented number of American pro teams are tackling the world's biggest races. VeloNews attended the training camps of RadioShack, HTC-Columbia, Garmin-Transitions and BMC. We bring you the inside scoop on these super-squads and others in the March issue. We also take a look at the varied career of the ever-popular Tim Johnson, who wore his recently earned national championship skinsuit to a 14th place finish at cyclocross worlds. Subscribe Now!

Quick Step’s Tom Boonen sprinted to victory in the third stage of the Tour of Qatar on Tuesday, powering in ahead of Heinrich Haussler (Cervélo TestTeam) and Saxo Bank’s Baden Cooke

Óscar Freire (Rabobank) was back in the winner’s circle Monday for the first time in nine months with victory in the second day of the Mallorca Challenge.

Tejay Van Garderen made his professional debut in Sunday’s opening day of the Mallorca Challenge, safely finishing 69th in the main field proudly wearing the HTC-Columbia team colors

American sprinter Tyler Farrar came to the Tour of Qatar with a prototype Mavic wheelset.

Lennard Zinn takes a close look at four sets of carbon wheels.

A new national track series aims to rally the best of the best – tracks and racers – for a chance to be named ATRA’s National Champion. The American Track Racing Association (ATRA) National Championship Series includes 11 events across the country.

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2010 will see the epic event return to the Alberta Rockies as well as the addition of UCI sanctioning.

New collegiate time trial rules were in effect as the Southeast Collegiate Cycling Conference began its season with a race in sunny Gainesville, Florida, on Saturday and Sunday.