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The traditional opening race of Spain's racing calendar – the five-day Mallorca Challenge – will be saved after all and will run next month as scheduled.

Although shortened from five to three days, the Vuelta a Murcia in Spain will see a top field for the race set for March 4-6.

After battling the UCI on its decision to ban radios in all but major events, Johan Bruyneel tells VeloNews that major changes are needed in the way important issues are decided in the sport.

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Team Type1, BMC and RadioShack are all confirmed to race the Giro del Trentino in April as the Giro d’Italia warm-up race continues to reveal details of the 35th edition of the race set for April 19-22.

Spain's ongoing doping scandals took their ultimate toll this week with the apparent suicide of Alberto León.

The BMC Racing Team has its sights set on making a good first impression in its ProTeam debut Sunday in the Santos Tour Down Under.

An injured reader wants to know if it is "worth all the trouble to file a lawsuit."

Christian Prudhomme hopes that the Alberto Contador doping case is settled one way or another before the start of the 2011 Tour de France.

Spain’s traditional opening race to the cycling calendar – the five-day Mallorca Challenge – is at risk of being cancelled just weeks before the start of the 2011 season.

MOORESVILLE, N.C. (VN) — Chris Boardman is a relaxed man. Maybe his six children make him that way (or maybe it’s only a relaxed man who could enjoy six children as much as he does).

USA Cycling will announce Wednesday the hiring of former Cervélo Test Team director Marcello Albasini’s Alba Radsport firm to manage the national U23 development program.

In advance of next week's Tour Down Under, the RadioShack team has unveiled a new jersey for the 2011 season.

The Vuelta a España returns to the Basque Country for the first time in more than three decades in a 21-stage route that favors the climbers.

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Jakob Fuglsang is latest young rider to be billed as a “future Tour de France winner,” a burden the ex-mountain biker is not especially keen to bear.

Former Spanish mountain bike rider Alberto Leon, one of six people accused last month as part of a probe into sports doping, was found dead in an apparent suicide, reports said Monday. More soon on this developing story.

Cycling news from all over.

Pancreatic cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related deaths and one U.S.-based Continental team is pitching in this month to build awareness and further research of the disease. The Wonderful Pistachios Pro Cycling Team has announced that a portion of the sales of their team clothing will go to a UCLA Medical Center program.

Perhaps Mauro Gianetti should paraphrase Mark Twain, who famously said, “the report of my death was an exaggeration.”

Switzerland’s top court has reject an appeal by Alejandro Valverde, who had sought to overturn an earlier a Court of Arbitration for Sport ruling suspending him until 2012.

It didn’t take long for Danilo Di Luca to find a ride. Back from his ban for CERA, shortened by nine months after he cooperated with Italian officials about his doping practices,

Ted King and Tim Duggan might not be the center of attention during Monday’s Liquigas team rollout in Milan, but the American pair should be getting plenty of chances to show their stuff when it counts most during the upcoming racing season.

Mike Creed has found his fire again. If he can keep the coals hot – and his head out of the way – in his first season with Kelly Benefit Strategies, that could mean trouble for the peloton from Redlands to Asia.

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At least Fabian Cancellara can now laugh about one of the most preposterous “scandals” of the 2010 season.

Organizers of Minnesota's Nature Valley Bicycle Festival have announced details of the stages of the festival's stage race, the Nature Valley Grand Prix, June 15 to 19. The organizers also announced that the festival's track event, the Minnesota Fixed Gear Classic, will be held once again. The track races are being held June 10-12 at the National Sports Center Velodrome in Blaine, Minnesota.

A reader wants to know about his options when a private land owner shut off access to a long-used trail.

The name of the new Leopard-Trek team came about almost by accident, but its goals are nothing short of domination in the classics and the Tour de France during the 2011 season.

Carlos Sastre (Geox-TMC) will make his season debut at the Vuelta a Murcia in March.

Unless the UCI backtracks at a meeting with team directors on Friday in Switzerland, race radio communication between riders and their team cars will be banned this season in every road race except the 27 events of the new UCI WorldTour.

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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!

The VeloNews 2011 calendar contains all events from : UCI World Tour (formerly the ProTour), UCI Americas Tour, UCI Europe Tour, UCI Asia Tour, UCI Oceania Tour, UCI Africa Tour, UCI Women’s elite calendar, UCI Junior calendar, UCI road, cyclocross and track world championships, UCI track World Cups, UCI mountain bike World Cups, USA Cycling National Racing Calendar, USA Cycling national championships, USA Cycling Pro XCT mountain

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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