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Photos from New Hampshire's Porky Gulch Classic Stage Race

Ryder Hesjedal reflects on a remarkable season and considers what 2011 has in store for him and for a restructured Garmin team.

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• 1. Adam Craig, (USA) Rabobank/giant, in 1:01:11
• 2. Ryan Trebon, (USA) Rideclean/kona, in 1:01:26
• 3. Christopher Jones, (USA) Rapha-Focus, in 1:02:01
• 4. Sid Taberlay, (AUS) Sho-Air/specialized, in 1:02:38
• 5. Zach Mcdonald, (USA) Rapha-Focus, in 1:03:10

• 1. Susan Butler, (USA) Hudz Subaru, in 41:20
• 2. Katherine Sherwin, (USA) Hudz-Vista Subaru, in 41:30
• 3. Barbara Howe, (USA) Ibis And The Danger Twins, in 41:42
• 4. Devon Haskell, (USA) Bike Station Aptos, in 42:19
• 5. Coryn Rivera, (USA) Peanut Butter & Co. Twenty12, in 42:32

Adam Craig and Sue Butler take the flowers in day 1 of the Dam Cross Weekend in Los Angeles.

A reader wants to know how Yaroslav Popovych, a Ukrainian national, who lives in Italy, can be forced to appear before a U.S. grand jury.

Ukrainian Volodimir Gustov has returned to Saxo Bank-SunGard after the collapse of his Cervélo team.

Yaroslav Popovych, a teammate of Lance Armstrong, testified for 90 minutes before a federal grand jury in the U.S. that is probing doping in the sport, his lawyer said Wednesday.

The "team without a name" continues to make headlines in the off-seaon by filtering its signings in dribs and drabs, but who can blame them when there's not a lot going on.

The American is pumped for Paris-Nice and the spring classics, an undecided on defending his world pursuit title

Denied a shot at a ProTeam license, Australian Pegasus Sports will register as a UCI Professional Continental team for the coming season.

RadioShack’s Yaroslav Popovych has been subpoenaed to testify before a U.S. Federal grand jury that is probing doping in the sport, largely focusing on his teammate Lance Armstrong.

A French tribunal has ordered Floyd Landis and former coach Arnie Baker to stand trial for computer hacking

Andrew Hood visits Pinto, Spain.

USA Cycling considers proposals to ban helmet cams in races, prevent juniors from using carbon wheels and award singlespeed national championships

Hawaii is not a bad place to unplug for anyone, but if you’re Ryder Hesjedal coming off a breakthrough year, the Pacific islands are the perfect respite to reflect on a phenomenal 2010 season.

The yet-unnamed Luxembourg cycling team continues to add more firepower, announcing Friday the arrival of Danish rider Jakob Fulgsang and the German duo of Linus Gerdemann and Fabian Wegmann.

The woman pleaded guilty to running into three amateur racers, killing two of them, while drunk driving last year.

USA Cycling and the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame name Mara Abbott and Taylor Phinney Athletes of the Year.

A reader wants to know how much proof is required to convict an athlete on a doping charge.

UPDATED: Big changes are in store for the National Racing Calendar next year. Philly's Liberty Classic gets added to the list.

Team Sky snags classics hope Davide Appollonio and classics veteran Jeremy Hunt from Cervelo TestTeam

North Carolina State retains its lead in Divison 1 after hosting the conference in Raleigh on a course heavy on the sand features.

Australia might get its first top-level team as Pegasus-Fly V Australia awaits news from Switzerland.

A year has passed since Jeff Castelaz rode across the country to raise awareness and funds for childhood cancer and mourn the death of his own son. This year, another ride united Castelaz' music and cycling community, including Lance Armstrong and Levi Leipheimer.

Contador's defense is not earning him any friends in the Spanish beef industry

André Greipel gets his favorite lead-out man and the yet-unnamed Luxembourg team signs three more in another busy day in the rider market.

Local residents in Alberto Contador’s hometown of El Pinto formed a human chain three kilometers long on Saturday in an act of support for the beleaguered Tour de France champion.

• 1. Sanne Van Paassen (NED), 43:40
• 2. Brand Daphny Van Den (NED), at 0:16
• 3. Katerina Nash (CZE), Luna Pro Team, at 0:55
• 4. Pavla Havlikova (CZE), at 1:11
• 5. Helen Wyman (GBR), Kona, at 1:25

Lance Armstrong will race for the last time outside the United States in January when he makes an international farewell appearance at the Tour Down Under.

Kristin Armstrong says she’s hoping to return to competition to defend her time trial gold medal in the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

Alberto Contador will not appear at a criterium at the end of this month or in any other event until possible doping allegations have been resolved.

The new Luxembourg Project team is beginning to look more-and-more like the old Saxo Bank squad. Jens Voigt explains why he made the jump.

German veteran Jens Voigt will be riding for the yet-unnamed Luxembourg-backed team next season.

Spain’s Guardia Civil arrested 34 people connected to an alleged trafficking ring involving clenbuterol in the Canary islands

The Italian cycling community is rallying around Franco Pellizotti, who was cleared of doping allegations by the national anti-doping tribunal on Thursday.

Ted King and Tim Duggan better begin Italian lessons if they haven’t already, because Liquigas boss Roberto Amadio said he expects his new American recruits to be very busy next season.

Franco Pellizotti has been absolved of doping allegations Thursday by Italian anti-doping authorities in what could be a major setback for the UCI’s biological passport.

A reader wants to know why the UCI is dragging its heels in addressing the doping charges against Tour de France winner Alberto Contador.

There’s a war of words brewing between UCI president Pat McQuaid and Spanish authorities, who are angered over allegations by cycling’s boss that Spain is a haven for doping

Nick Legan has wrenched for Team RadioShack and other ProTour teams.

Check out a few sample images from the latest calendar.

Italian sprinter Daniele Bennati has signed a two-year deal with the Luxembourg Pro Cycling Project, the as-of-yet-unnamed team built around brothers Andy and Frank Schleck.

André Mahé, the man who controversially shared victory in the 1949 edition of Paris-Roubaix with Serse Coppi, died Wednesday at his home in Brittany at the age of 90.

The American envisions a support role in 2011, with perhaps a Tour of California start instead of the Giro.

HTC-High Road's new Specialized bikes for 2011.

• 1. Philippe Gilbert (B), Omega Pharma, 260km in 6:46:32 (38.373kph)
• 2. Michele Scarponi, (Ita) Androni Giocattoli-Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni, at 0:12
• 3. Pablo Lastras Garcia, (Esp) Caisse d’Epargne, at 0:55
• 4. Jakob Fuglsang, (Den) Team Saxo Bank, at 1:08
• 5. Vincenzo Nibali, (Ita) Liquigas-Doimo, at 1:08

After he cooperated with investigators, the Italian Olympic Committee has reduced Danilo DiLuca's suspension by nine months

Riders will face a longer, tougher course for Saturday’s season-closing Giro di Lombardi. Can defending champ Philippe Gilbert stay with the true climbers?

Omega Pharma's Philippe Gilbert earned a repeat victory the Giro del Piemonte on Thursday

The team with no name has signed three sport directors to lead the Luxembourg-based program centered around the Schleck brothers.

Jose Luis 'Chechu' Rubiera will retire from cycling at the end of the month, the RadioShack team announced.

Scotland's David Millar destroyed a field of elite road riders to take gold in the Commonwealth Games time trial on Wednesday

Bjarne Riis, the director of Saxo Bank, says he has a "plan B" in case Alberto Contador receives a racing ban after testing positive for small levels of clenbuterol.

Photos from the 2009 edition of the Classic of the Falling Leaves

Ireland's Philip Deignan has signed a deal that will put him on the RadioShack team next year

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• 1. Oscar Freire, Rabobank, 233km in 4:52:54
• 2. Angelo Furlan, Lampre-Farnese, same time
• 3. Gert Steegmans, Team Radioshack, s.t.
• 4. Klaas Lodewijck, Topsport Vlaanderen-Mercator, s.t.
• 5. Yukiya Arashiro, Bbox Bouygues Telecom, s.t.

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• 1. Rochelle Gilmore, (Australia), in 2:49:30
• 2. Elizabeth Armitstead, (England), in 2:49:30
• 3. Chloe Hoskings, (Australia), in 2:49:30
• 4. Joanne Kiesanowski, (New Zealand), in 2:49:30

Mark Cavendish says he's not getting the love he thinks he deserves from HTC-Columbia and hints that his relationship with the team has soured.

Mark Cavendish might be able to walk down the street in New Delhi without being recognized, but slip him into the athlete’s village at the Commonwealth Games and he gets mobbed.

Nick Nuyens is hoping that Bjarne Riis’s magic touch will work wonders on his moribund career with a switch to Saxo Bank in a two-year deal.

• 1. Anthony Ravard (Fra), Ag2r La Mondiale 4:36:52
• 2. Romain Feillu (Fra), Vacansoleil Pro Cycling Team, at 0:00
• 3. Matti Breschel (Den), Team Saxo Bank, at 0:00
• 4. Romain Matheou (Fra), Saur-Sojasun, at 0:00
• 5. Sébastien Chavanel (Fra), Française Des Jeux, at 0:00

Spanish ant-doping authorities are subjecting five cyclists to additional controls due to 'unusual parameters'

Italy’s anti-doping chief Ettori Torri broke a two-year silence in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press and called all cyclists dopers, comments that have drawn the ire of some in the Italian cycling community.

Australian rider Nathan O’Neill was intimately involved in Kirk O’Bee’s purchase and use of doping products, according to a decision handed down by the American Arbitration Association on Wednesday.

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An arbitration panel has banned Kirk O'Bee from cycling for life and nullified his results back to 2005, including a 2007 national title.

Missing paperwork kept the teams off the list announced Tuesday

The New York Times and The Associated Press report that traces of a plasticizer were found in a sample taken at the Tour, possibly indicating a blood transfusion

Germany's only ProTour team is stopping operations after it was unable to find a new sponsor

Geox-TMC continues to bolster its lineup going into next season and has signed Spaniard David de la Fuente (Astana) and Italian Giampaolo Cheula (Footon-Servetto).

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Relentlessly attacking in the final laps of Sunday’s elite men’s road race, defending world champion Cadel Evans did everything he could to become the sixth back-to-back rainbow warrior.

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• 1. Thor Hushovd, Norway, 257.2km in 6:21:49 (40.417kph)
• 2. Matti Breschel, Denmark, s.t.
• 3. Allan Davis, Australia, s.t.
• 4. Filippo Pozzato, Italy, s.t.
• 5. Greg Van Avermaet, Belgium, s.t.

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• 1. Giorgia Bronzini, Italy, 127.2km in 3:32:01 (35.997kph)
• 2. Marianne Vos, Netherlands, s.t.
• 3. Emma Johansson, Sweden, s.t.
• 4. Nicole Cooke, Great Britain, s.t.
• 5. Judith Arndt, Germany, at 0:01

In what’s yet another blow to Spanish cycling, three-time mountain bike world champion Marga Fullana has been provisionally suspended after a positive EPO test

A look at new wheels from Rolf Prima, DT Swiss and Ritchey

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