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Former Portuguese rider Perdro Lopes has been handed a 15-year suspension after being found guilty of a second doping violation.

The UCI has issued a Continental license to the new Christina Watches team of former Danish cyclist Michael Rasmussen

The Luxembourg team will enter the No. 1 spot on team rankings even before it lines up for its first race.

HTC-Highroad riders Judith Arndt and Matthew Goss have won their respective races at the Jayco Bay Classic in Geelong Australia. The win for Goss was his second this week and earned him the overall title of the four day event.

The company is recalling about 6,500 welded chromoly stems because they can crack or break.

Media reports naming Óscar Pereiro as “Urko” in the Operación Puerto have been proven false after Spanish authorities have linked track and field star Marta Domínguez to the alleged code name instead.

The Cyclocross Issue, with detailed analysis of both the European and American ’cross circuits. Editor at Large John Wilcockson examines how the ambitious new Project Luxembourg team stole top riders Andy Schleck and Fabian Cancellara from Saxo Bank manager Bjarne Riis. In Tech, we review eight top bib shorts, and present a selection of winter cycling gear to get you through the coldest months of the year. Subscribe today!

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Michael Matthews, the reigning U23 world champion, got the better of his more experienced veterans in the second leg of the Jayco Bay Cycling Classic.

Matthew Goss and Rochelle Gilmore won their respective races to grab early season victories at the opening leg of the Jayco Bay Cycling Series in Australia on Sunday.

Even after Pegasus Sports' ambitious plans collapsed this month, a new effort to create a Tour de France-caliber team based in Australia seems to be taking wings.

The Explainer follows up on a few continuing stories and answers a few questions from the inbox.

Australia's High Performance cycling program director, Shayne Bannan, has resigned after 10 years in the post, Cycling Australia announced on Thursday.

Lance Armstrong has pulled out of the event next month that was supposed to be his springboard back into triathlon competition.

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The Danish-backed project to create a new pro team around Michael Rasmussen took a stronger form Tuesday when it announced ex-pro Michael Blaudzun will be the team’s top sport director for next season.

January’s Tour Down Under is still the only confirmed race appearance for Lance Armstrong in 2011.

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Alberto Contador is hunkering down this weekend to celebrate the Christmas holidays with family and friends in Spain as he faces a far from certain future.

• 1. Katherine Compton, (USA), 38:18
• 2. Marianne Vos, (NED), Nederland Bloeit, at 0:31
• 3. Katerina Nash, (CZE), Luna Pro Team, at 0:35
• 4. Sanne Van Paassen, (NED), at 0:47
• 5. Sanne Cant, (BEL), at 1:19
• 1. Tom Meeusen, (BEL), Telenet-Fidea, 1:02:21
• 2. Sven Nys, (BEL), Landbouwkrediet, at :00
• 3. Kevin Pauwels, (BEL), Telenet-Fidea, at :02
• 4. Francis Mourey, (FRA), Fdj, at :07
• 5. Niels Albert, (BEL), Bkcp-Powerplus, at :30

Spain’s cycling federation president expects the Alberto Contador doping case to end up in the hands of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) no matter what decision is made

The Explainer reflects on this week's hearing in Colorado in which a court accepted a plea deal for a wealthy defendant and explains why he won't be calling for a boycott of an entire community based on the actions of one public official.

Flavia Oliveira, the Brazilian cyclist who recently won a reduction in her suspension for doping, has filed suit against the supplement manufacturer who she says caused the doping violation.

Leaving the scene of an accident involving serious bodily injury is good for an orange jumpsuit in anybody’s jurisdiction, yeah? Well, that depends. ...

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Eagle County District Attorney Mark Hurlbert has filed a motion asking a Colorado judge to bar the cyclist victim in a hit-and-run from testifying at a Thursday hearing to review a controversial plea bargain in the case.

The UCI, in a front page editorial in the latest edition of its Velo World magazine, takes issue with Floyd Landis' charge that the organization gives favorable treatment to some cyclists.

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The UCI will soon begin maintaining an online list of cycling products that comply with its rules for competition, it announced Monday.

• 1. Sven Nys (B), Landbouwkrediet, 59:15
• 2. Kevin Pauwels (B), 0:21
• 3. Klaas Vantornout (B), 0:37
• 4. Bart Aernouts (B), 0:53
• 5. Tom Meeusen (B), 1:03

From winning the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix to riding for his teammates at the Tour de France while wearing the yellow jersey, Fabian Cancellara was incredible in 2010. For that, we gave him the International Cyclist of the Year Award (and a jersey, and a few bottles of champagne….). Subscribe today!

At HTC team camp in California, sprinter Mark Cavendish assesses his biggest challengers as he eyes the 2011 season.

Prosecutors from the Italian Olympic Committee (CONIi) have asked that an entire family be banned for doping offenses related to a case involving Alessandro Petacchi.

An update on the Vail hit-and-run case ... and a look at the defendant's second failure to report.

In part 2, McQuaid talks about the UCI's agreement with grand tour organizers, why the individual pursuit is gone from the Olympics and whether cyclocross could become a winter Olympic event.

The International Court of Arbitration for Sport has reduced the two-year suspension of Brazilian-born and U.S.-licensed rider Flavia Olivera to 18 months.