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2010 Kelly Cup results

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The BMC team re-instates former world champ Alessandro Ballan after an internal investigation finds no evidence of doping.

This weekend’s Mt. Hamilton Classic Road Race/Memorial Day Criterium in California marks the end of the 2010 Nature Valley Pro Ride qualifiers. The final two riders selected will join the five men and five women who have already qualified.

Slipstream Sports, the owner and manager of the Garmin-Transitions team, says its riders are obligated to cooperate with an investigation into Floyd Landis' doping allegations.

A Missouri tourism oversight committee on Thursday approved a spending plan that does not include funding for the Tour of Missouri, and the race's organizers are all but conceding that the battle is over and the race will not be held this year

Registration is now open for individual amateur cyclists and professional teams for the 5th annual Alexian Brothers Tour of Elk Grove, Friday-Sunday, July-30-August 1, in the Chicago suburb of Elk Grove Village.

Federal authorities are investigating Floyd Landis' charges against Lance Armstrong and other cyclists with an eye toward criminal charges, the New York Times is reporting.

The Wapiyapi Classic will be held on Sunday, Sept. 26 in Aspen, Colo., and will feature seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong among other professional cyclists.

2010 Amgen Tour of California FINAL results

Two days after shocking the bike world by admitting that he doped and accusing a long list of star cyclists of doing the same, Floyd Landis appeared at the Amgen Tour of California time trial in Los Angeles Saturday. And ESPN.com reports Landis called Greg LeMond Friday to apologize for an incident at his 2007 doping hearing.

Crucial Innovation, Inc., makers of Retul 3D bike fit technology, has announced a strategic partnership with the RadioShack professional cycling team to supply bike fit technology and bike fitting services.

Thomas Rabou (Team Type 1) lived out a dream Friday on the Angeles Crest Highway. The neo-pro found his way into the day’s long breakaway at the Tour of California with stars of the sport, like Andy Schleck and George Hincapie.

After winning a stage and finishing this week's Tour of California, Mark Cavendish will appear at Helen's Cycles in Santa Monica on Monday, May 24th at 6 p.m. to meet cycling fans and autograph copies of his new book, Boy Racer: My Journey to Tour de France Record-Breaker.

Greg Lemond, the first American to win the Tour de France, says he believes "most of Floyd Landis's statements" charging systematic doping in cycling.

Replay: Live coverage of 2010 Amgen Tour of California stage 5

Nearly four years after he was disqualified as the winner of the 2006 Tour de France for a doping postive, Floyd Landis told ESPN.com Wednesday night that he doped during much of his career. He told ESPN.com of his "extensive, consistent use of the red blood cell booster erythropoietin (commonly known as EPO), testosterone, human growth hormone and frequent blood transfusions, along with female hormones and a one-time experiment with insulin, during the years that he rode for the U.S. Postal Service and Switzerland-based Phonak teams," the ESPN.com story reads.

2010 Amgen Tour of California, stage 4 results

2010 Amgen Tour of California stage 3 results

Independent Fabrication will raffle a fully custom steel Crown Jewel SE to help support the Wounded Warrior Project.

Photographer Lucas Gilman is spending the week embedded with the Garmin-Transitions team at the Amgen Tour of California.

Inside Cycling with John Wilcockson: The Giro battle has only just begun

Amber Neben will race for the Webcor Builders team for the balance of 2010, she confirmed Thursday. The 2008 world time trial champion will be at the start of Sunday’s Sacramento Grand Prix criterium with the team.

Fly V australia releases daily Tour of California power files

Hunter Allen and Andy Coggan have updated their bestselling book, Training and Racing with a Power Meter. Allen and Coggan have completely revised the book that made power meters understandable for amateur and professional cyclists and triathletes.

Fiber One, a General Mills brand, is the new title sponsor of the Collegiate All-Star Team for the Nature Valley Grand Prix that was selected at the USA Cycling Collegiate Road National Championships.

PRESS RELEASE: Steven Cozza, a professional cyclist with Team Garmin-Transitions, the top American team dedicated to ethical sporting and developing the next generation of cycling champions, is on a mission to help children throughout the world.

PRESS RELEASE: SANTA ROSA, Calif. — This summer, there’ll be another name on the bicycle of 3-time Amgen Tour of California winner Levi Leipheimer. As part of the “I Ride For” effort sponsored by LIVESTRONG and Trek Bicycle, Leipheimer and other Team RadioShack riders will get the chance to ride for someone whose life was forever changed by cancer.

WADA poised at globalizing Valverde ban

Charges dropped against journalists in Cofidis case

Eric Barlevav of the UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis is the featured rider in the first of a series of cycling documentaries by Emmy-Award winner Brian Smallwood and his Pro Road Access Productions.

British riders injured in Belgium

In 2010 the spring classics season belonged to one rider, Saxo Bank’s Fabian Cancellara. Over the course of three weekends — E3 Prijs, the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix — Cancellara won three of the hardest one-day races in pro cycling, each time crossing the finish line alone against the best classics riders in the sport, and each time by a wider margin than the last. VeloNews managing editor Neal Rogers was on the ground in Belgium and Northern France to witness the Swiss rider’s domination and put it into perspective. VN tech editor Zack Vestal was also rattling along the cobblestones, and scored a shotgun seat in one of Mavic’s SSC Neutral Support cars at Roubaix. He came back with a memory card full of photos and war stories. Subscribe Now!

What biological values and ratios does the UCI's "Biological Passport" track?

Andrew Talansky comes out of nowhere to establish himself with the best young rider prize at the SRAM Tour of the Gila

Our readers speak out on Ben Day's tapeworm and Mark Cavendish's brash nature.

Van Dijk wins in Holland; Pooley in Switzerland

Alison Powers (Vera Bradley Foundation) closed two-thirds of her gap to race leader Mara Abbott (Peanut Butter & Co.-Twenty12) on Friday, winning the 16.15-mile Tyrone time trial by a minute in a half over second-placed Errine Willock (Webcor) and 2:14 ahead of Abbott.

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

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