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André Greipel has confirmed that he will join Omega-Lotto for the 2011 season.

Fresh off winning the Vuelta a Burgos, Samuel Sánchez has penned a two-year extension that will keep him in an Euskaltel-Euskadi jersey through 2012.

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• 1. FERRAND PREVOT Pauline (FRA), in 2:31:47
• 2. RATTO Rossella (ITA), at s.t.
• 3. RIVERA Coryn (USA), at s.t
• 4. SOLOVEI Canna (UKR), at s.t.
• 5. ZORZI Susanna (ITA), at 16

Organizers are hoping to announce a route next month at Interbike. They say classic routes for climbers and sprinters are in the works.

It's the first ProTour victory for the Garmin-Transitions rider.

Tom Boonen (Quick Step) will likely not race the Vuelta a España later this month and could miss the road cycling world championships in September.

The Danish Saxo Bank team took over control of its home race in style on Friday with Matti Breschel winning the third stage and grabbing the overall lead at the Tour of Denmark.

Trek Bicycle Corporation officials told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel on Friday that they have provided documents to a federal criminal investigation involving Lance Armstrong.

Luís León Sánchez says he’ll wait to see if Caisse d’Epargne can find a new sponsor before abandoning ship.

Former world time trial champion Bert Grabsch will ride for two more years with HTC-Columbia, the team announced Friday.

Alberto Contador said he’s raising the bar with his move to Saxo Bank-Sungard in 2011, with the likely participation in two grand tours next season.

Garmin-Transition's Daniel Martin won Thursday's fifth stage of the Tour of Poland, taking the overall lead.

Bernhard Eisel will stay with High Road Sports (HTC-Columbia) through 2012

Former Gerolsteiner manager Hans-Michael Holczer says blood tests showed "clear evidence" that American Levi Leipheimer doped during the 2005 Tour de France.

Now that the Schleck brothers and Alberto Contador have announced their plans for 2011, it's worth asking where key support riders will land.

The future is now. VeloNews takes a close look at the fresh young crop of super-talent riders, such as cover boy Tejay Van Garderen, world champion Taylor Phinney, Liquigas' sensation Peter Sagan and more.

Tech editor Zack Vestal puts areo wheels to the test in the lab, on the road and in the wind tunnel. We rank the wheels by aerodynamics, weight, stiffness and rotational inertia, and list the feedback of the test riders. The results don't lie. Subscribe today!

Alexander Kolobnev (Katusha) says he hopes he can receive an Olympic medal following news that Davide Rebellin lost his appeal in his doping case

The International Court of Arbitration for Sport has rejected Davide Rebellin's appeal against a doping charge from the 2008 Olympics.

Official announcement of eight-day stage race expected next week.

Brothers Andy and Frank Schleck have confirmed that they will be leaving Saxo Bank to join a new team based in Luxembourg.

Alexander Kolobnev hopes to be speaking Russian from atop the world championship podium some day ... soon

The Explainer looks at laws that prosecutors might be considering when investigating Floyd Landis' allegations against Lance Armstrong and others

Last year’s champion Carlos Barredo will be back to defend his title at Saturday’s Clásica San Sebastián in northern Spain

A new generation of riders will get their first taste of big-time European racing next week as the latest crew of stagiaires enters the peloton for the second half of the season.

Spanish rider Rubén Lobato has been suspended for two years due to irregular readings on his biological passport

Complete results from stage 3 of the Cascade Cycling Classic

"At some point, people have to tell their kids that Santa Claus isn't real," Landis says.

201 Cascade Cycling Classic stage 2 results

2010 Cascade Cycling Classic prologue results

Floyd Landis is expected at the Cascade Cycling Classic, starting Tuesday evening. Meanwhile, his former team has either disbanded or reorganized.

To encourage a more civil — and speedy — dialogue, VeloNews.com is making some tweaks to its online comment system.

Lance Armstrong's attorney reacts to the apparent contradiction between his remarks Wednesday and a 2005 deposition.

The Belgian champion is still recovering from his crash at the Tour de Suisse

Armstrong will begin competing in triathlons at the half Ironman distance.

The New York Times quotes sources saying a grand jury has issued subpoenas for several witnesses in the investigation into Floyd Landis' claims.

A look at the importance of the Tour's first mountaintop finish.

Storms await in the mountains

ASO is planning a citizens cyclosportive along the Paris-Roubaix course next April

The Peanut Butter & Co. rider leads Alison Powers with one event remaining.

Cycling bloggers now have access to a powerful search and network tool thanks to VeloNews and Lijit Networks, the leading provider of site search and online discovery tools.

Felt is recalling about 2,100 road bikes because the bikes' aluminum steerer tube can fail.

How does your sprint stack up? Power meter guru provides the simple protocol for a sprint test to determine what type of sprinter you are - and how to use this information for racing and training. Subscribe today!

U23 crit' champ Schneider misses podium for hospital

National time trial championships, men's results

2010 USA Cycling national time trial championships, men's results

2010 Tour de Beauce results

2010 Harlem Skyscraper Criterium results

Former Luxembourg national champion Kim Kirchen has been placed in an artificial coma after suffering a heart attack on Friday, his Katusha team said.

Pro men results from stage 4 of the Nature Valley Grand Prix

Pro women's results for the fourth stage of the Nature Valley Grand Prix

John Eustice is a legend in American cycling and a central piece of the East Coast cycling scene. Daniel McMahon takes a look at what makes the Harlem Cycling Classic promoter tick.

The usually upbeat spirit of the thousand or so people traveling the route of the Race Across America was darkened when Spanish rider Diego Ballesteros was struck by a car near Maize, Kansas.

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Replay: Live coverage of 2010 Tour de Suisse stage 6

2010 Nature Valley Grand Prix stage 2, Casey B. Gibson photos

Statistically over its 29-year history, about half of the riders who attempt the Race Across America make it to the finish line. This year, despite the heat of the desert in the early miles, the howling headwinds of the mountain states and the torrential rain and thunder storms in the plains, the attrition rate among the solos had been lower than usual.

Replay: Live coverage of the 2010 Tour de Suisse stage 5

There’s an old Race Across America adage that says “the race starts at the Missisipi River." Indeed, RAAM history shows many epic battles that didn’t begin until then. But if that is truly the case this year, then male solo leader Jure Robic is starting his last third of the race with a 5 1/4 hour head start over second place racer Gerhard Gulewicz.

Replay: Live coverage of the 2010 Tour de Suisse stage 4

Miller. Photo: Courtesy Team Tibco Miller. Photo: Courtesy Team Tibco At only 23 years old, Team TIBCO-To The Top’s Amanda Miller is already something of a jack-of-all-trades. A podium finisher at both the cyclocross and mountain bike collegiate national championships in 2008, Miller has now proven her versatility on the road as well, winning everywhere from the flat Blue Dome criterium course at Tulsa Tough to the 12 percent cobbled climb at Iowa’s Snake Alley.

2010 Tour de Grove results

Winners of each race across all categories during the Tour of America's Dairyland presented by Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board, June 17-27, will be awarded the coveted black and white cowprint jersey as they did in 2009 but this year, Cat 2 amateur riders will be competing for the green.

Over the weekend men's leader Jure Robic seemed to have recovered from issues that slowed his pace on Friday. His pace and appearance were greatly improved on Saturday and he once again seemed to be enjoying himself.

Staff was a member of the gold-medal winning team sprint squad at the Beijing Olympics. His other accolades on the track include a keirin world title (‘04) and team sprint world titles (’02 and ’05). The 38-year-old got his start in BMX, winning a world title in that discipline in 1996 and attaining world number one status in 2000 and 2001. He will begin his tenure with USA Cycling in July.

Team TIBCO/To the Top will be one of the participants in the first edition of La Grande Visite de Gatineau, two days of UCI-sanctioned races in Gatineau, Quebec, just across the Ottawa river from the hometown of Team TIBCO founder and managing director Linda Jackson.

Austrians drop trafficking charges against Kohl and Rasmussen