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Intxausti new leader at Asturias

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

Armstrong and Hansen expecting child

A reader asks why a suspended rider keeps showing up at local training races.

Vino's win, bottles in Belgium and frequent flyer tips

Lance Armstrong becomes part-owner of Honey Stinger, a Steamboat Springs, Colorado, based company that makes honey-based energy gels, bars and organic chews.

On the day he started the SRAM Tour of the Gila, Lance Armstrong announced he has become a part-owner in the Honey Stinger. Based in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, the company makes honey-based energy gels, bars and organic chews.

Britain's Chris Froome is among a trio of riders targeted by an environmental group ─ for throwing empty water bottles into the Belgian countryside during the recent edition of Flèche-Wallonne.

Our readers chime in on Alexander Vinokourov, the costs of flying with a bike and no-frills cycling.

After the Kazakh dropped the Russian in the last 100 meters of the last climb and cruised the final 400 meters to the line, the crowd let out an unseemly chorus of boos. That’s probably never happened before at a monumental classic.

Cutters win fourth straight Little 500 men's race

Chris Horner (RadioShack) and Ryder Hesjedal (Garmin-Transitions) were close to the podium with solid performances in Sunday’s grueling Liège-Bastogne-Liège, while Christian Vande Velde, Ted King, Brent Bookwalter and other Americans have strong finishes.

Rahsaan Bahati will pay a fine for unsportsmanlike conduct at the Dana Point Grand Prix, USA Cycling announced Friday.

Luca Paolini (Acqua & Sapone), Eddy Mazzoleni, Ivan Basso's sister and 26 others have been charged with doping after a four-year investigation, the Italian sports daily La Gazzetta Dello Sport reported Saturday.

Team HTC-Columbia’s Marco Pinotti had yet another strong finish at the Flèche Wallonne classic in Belgium on Wednesday, placing 28th, 32 seconds behind the winner Cadel Evans.

Nicely priced parts, ridiculously priced tickets, roots of cycling

Boulder Cycle Sport will be opening a second location in May, at the growing Table Mesa Shopping Center in South Boulder.

Breakaway Promotions, the events company behind the Cherry Blossom, Mt. Hood and Cascade Classics will announce the full route for the 2010 BMC Cascade Cycling Classic next week.

Doping rules are consistent across Olympic sports. Are they applied consistently? Not always.

John Wilcockson re-caps Flèche Wallonne and compares its victor to the those on the podium at the concurrent Giro del Trentino.

The 2010 Tour of Britain will visit several regions of Britain it has never visited during what the organizers say is its hardest route in the last seven years.

2010 Tour of the Battenkill results

Philippe Gilbert is one of the smartest, strongest and nicest guys in today’s peloton. And those qualities were neatly reflected in the way he took the victory in Sunday’s Amstel Gold Race. He brilliantly exploited all the resources of his admittedly weak team then stamped his authority on the race.

2010 Zellik-Galmaarden results

2010 Rund um Düren results

Bobby Lea, one of the heroes of last year's Tour of the Battenkill, returns Sunday with different aims.

2010 Sunny King results

2010 Vuelta Mexico Telmex results

This time a year ago, Carmen Small was hanging her bike up for what she thought was good. When the relationship with her Italian trade team disintegrated in early 2009, the Durango, Colorado, native returned home from what was supposed to be her first full season in Europe. One year later, she won the Sea Otter Classic SRAM women's road race Friday for Colavita-Baci.

2010 Tour du Finistere results

Hooligans have destroyed a “monument” dedicated to the spot where Lance Armstrong broke his clavicle in last year’s Vuelta a Castilla y León.

The Bahati Foundation sharpened the tip of Sunday’s Tour of the Battenkill Thursday when the team announced that they will send six-rider squad to the race, a reversal of their plans only one week earlier.

Hot off second place at the Vuelta al País Vasco behind Chris Horner (RadioShack), Valverde says he’s in shape to have a good run through the Ardennes.

Excitement is building for the 26th running of the nation’s most important, single-day professional cycling race, the TD Bank Philadelphia International Cycling Championship, which is scheduled for Sunday, June 6, 2010. The 156-mile pro race is the “granddaddy” of all U.S. road racing and the unofficial kick-off to summer in the City of Brotherly Love.

Ogden, Utah – Ogden City presents the Tour de ’Drome, a benefit bike tour on May 1 at 9 a.m. at Ogden’s Historic Pioneer Heritage Rodeo Grounds. All proceeds raised from the event will go towards Ogden’s future velodrome, part of a proposed new multi-sports field house complex. Participants can choose from 28 to104 miles routes. There will also be a “Fun Ride” for children of all ages.

The Jamis/Sutter Home Men’s Cycling Team presented by Colavita has been invited to race the UCI 2.2 Tour de Santa Catarina in Brazil, which begins April 21 and continues through April 25. Directeur Sportif Sebastian Alexandre made the announcement.

There's a big difference in pay days when it comes to golf and cycling.

2010 la Vuelta a Castilla y León results

Bad influences, poor choices and trash talk

The U.S. Anti-Doping Association has announced the two-year suspension of Brazilian-born and U.S.-licensed rider Flavia Oliveira for a doping violation committed in last year’s edition of the women’s Giro del Trentino.

Every year VeloNews takes an in-depth look at the coming domestic road season, and this year’s 14-page section might be our best edition yet. It’s certainly our most plugged-in edition — between Twitter, Facebook, blogs, Web video, text messages and plain old-fashioned phone conversations, following pro racers has never been easier. We tell you who to watch, and how. Subscribe Now!

Southeastern conference racing resumed this weekend in Huntsville, Alabama, as the University of Alabama in Huntsville Chargers hosted the regular season finale. This would be the final opportunity for teams and individuals seeking to cement a bid to Nationals before competing for double points at the Conference Championships next weekend in Mars Hill.

On Saturday and Sunday, April 10th and 11th, collegiate teams from the WCCC competed in the Golden Acorn Road Race and the Huennekens St. Criterium, hosted by the San Diego Cyclovets in conjunction with the budding CSU San Marcos Cycling Team.

2010 Whitman College weekend results

Dana Point Grand Prix gallery by Mitch Clinton

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2010 Ronde van Drenthe results

2010 Klasika Primavera results

2010 Tour of Turkey results

2010 Dan Point Grand Prix results

On Sunday, VeloNews.com will give away an autographed, high-quality print of this photo of George Hincapie, which was produced for the cover of the December 2009 issue of VeloNews. The winner will be chosen at random from among the followers of the VeloNews.com live coverage of Paris-Nice.

Andrew Messick denied the rumor that the French events and media conglomerate is positioning for a takeover of the American stage race, calling it only a “media partnership.”

After a grueling five-year education in bike racing (A Dog in a Hat), Joe Parkin describes his return to the U.S., his struggles with the nascent American bike racing scene, and the birth of mountain bike racing. Parkin's new book Come and Gone is the sequel to his widely praised memoir A Dog in a Hat. Come and Gone is now available in bookstores, bike shops, and online.

Applications are open for the Nature Valley Grand Prix, the top-ranked stage race on the USA Cycling National Racing Calendar.

Drentse 8 van Dwingeloo results

PRESS RELEASE: The company is offering a series of VIP tours that follow the same route as the Tour de France and along the way give exclusive on-site access to the world's top cycling luminaries.

2010 Grand Prix Pino Cerami results

Round-the-world cyclist Pushkar Shah has traveled to some of the most hostile places on Earth, sleeping rough and enduring robbery and kidnap ─ all in the name of world peace.

A reader asks if it's really okay for a rider to raise a beer ... especially for a fee.

2010 Scheldeprijs gallery

2010 Scheldeprijs results

Readers weigh in on the Tour of California, April Fools and doping penalties

Stefan Schumacher has withdrawn his appeal against an International Olympic Committee ruling that he committed an anti-doping rule violation during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

2010 Paris-Roubaix galleries

Gallery: Boonen's classics bike

In the Western Collegiate Cycling Conference’s only split race weekend, Southern California teams did battle in the windswept Antelope Valley at UCLA’s road race and time trials.

2010 Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda results

2010 Tour of Flanders, post race video interviews with Cancellara, Hincapie and Farrar

2010 Tour of Flanders results

Flanders Tech Gallery: Katusha and Lampre bikes

2010 Gran Premio Miguel Indurain results

2010 Hel van het Mergelland results

Flanders Tech: BMC pro bikes

PRESS RELEASE: Following a recent notice from the UCI, the sport’s international governing body, USA Cycling will be able to adopt a “tolerant” attitude towards bicycle compliance in 2010 for all races below 1.1 or 2.1 and especially in junior, women and masters events.

The Italian Olympic Committee has announced that the B sample of cyclist Vania Rossi has come back negative.

2010 Route Adelie de Vitre results

The first two of six races of the Nature Valley Pro Ride begin next weekend with the Hillsboro-Roubaix (Illinois) Road Race April 10 near Saint Louis, and the Rock Hill Spring Races April 10-11 in South Carolina, near Charlotte, N.C.

Women competing at this year’s USA Cycling Collegiate Road National Championships have a chance to join an all-star team to race against the country's top elite and professional women at the Nature Valley Grand Prix.

Athens, GA – The USA CRITS Speed Week Series begins in Athens on April 24 and showcases bicycle racing in three states ending up in Sandy Springs, Georgia on May 2. This year’s series will host the best criterium racers in the world with a solid line up of USA CRITS Division 1 Teams in attendance.