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The International Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has rejected Alejandro Valverde’s challenge to his two-year suspension from competition in Italy.
Riders flocked from all over California and Nevada this weekend to participate in the first race held in Northern California this year of the Western Collegiate Cycling Conference. The race was hosted by the reigning national champions, the University of California-Davis. This was a crucial weekend for teams to gain points as the upcoming races are split weekends between Southern California and Northern California. With two new tough courses, racers were tested to the limit in climbing, handling, and tactical savvy. Although full race results have yet to be posted, UC Davis is poised to be atop the leader boards after a dominating performance over a resurgent Cal Poly and UCLA squads.
The second week of the Eastern Collegiate Cycling Conference season continued at the Stevens Duck Country circuit race Sunday, hosted by Stevens Institute of Technology. By the end of the day, Boston University had won the overall team omnium for the weekend, with MIT in second place and the University of Pennsylvania close behind in third.
With three regular season races completed and three more before conference championships, racers in the SECCC came to the geographic center of the conference to compete in the Georgia Tech Cycling Classic in Newnan, Georgia, this weekend.
2010 Georgia Tech results
DirectTV's customers will get the Versus network back under a deal announced Monday.
Wind and rain buffet Eastern racers at the Grant's Tomb collegiate races.
PRESS RELEASE: After nearly a decade in hibernation the Beast of the East has reawakened! The Killington Stage Race is back for 2010 with three days of racing on May 29, 30 & 31 with $13,600 in prize money up for grabs.
2010 Tofej Porec results
2010 Paris-Troyes results
Teams announced for 2010 Paris-Roubaix
2010 Tour de Murrieta results
The Explainer fields reader questions about the Race to the Sun
2010 Tirenno-Adriatico results
The UCI has provisionally suspended Italian pro Massimo Giunti after a laboratory found the blood booster EPO in a urine sample from an out-of-competition test on February 23.
Google will announce its new biking directions feature on Google Maps at the League of American Bicyclists' National Bike Summit
The Eastern conference kicks off with a three-event weekend at Rutgers.
UA Wildcats score wins at the final Southwest conference event, in Las Cruces, NM.
French cyclist Guy Lapebie, a double Olympic champion from the 1936 Berlin Olympics, died on Monday at theage of 93, his family confirmed.
Sinead Miller of Marian University swept the women’s A field races in the Midwest Conference race at Lindsey Wilson College in Columbia, Kentucky, over the weekend. Will Nowak of Northwestern, Kip Spaude of Lindsey Wilson College, and Rob Bush of Marian University split the wins in the men’s A races throughout the weekend.
2010 GP d la Ville de Lillers results
2010 Trofeo Zssdi results
2010 Paris-Nice galleries
Start List - 2010 Paris-Nice
Ready gallery for March 5, 2010
Double stage winner, Robbie Hunter, has pulled out of the Tour of Murcia on Friday after learning that his wife has gone into labor.
2010 Paris-Nice results
2010 Three Days of West Flanders results
2010 Vuelta a Murcia results
The UCI has announced that the governing body’s anti-doping manager, Anne Gripper, will leave the post this month, citing a desire to return to her home in Australia.
Monaco’s Cycling Federation has handed a two-year suspension to former Silence-Lotto rider Thomas Dekker for an EPO positive that resulted from the re-testing of an old sample last year.
A reader asks why the UCI bothers to regulate road and time trial equipment at all.
U.S. masters racers who plunked down big bucks for Specialized Shivs just like Alberto Contador's won't have to sell them this year. USA Cycling announced Tuesday that it will follow the UCIs lead and enforce rules barring some frame shapes for any racing bearing UCI points or qualification potential — except for masters competition.
Tech Gallery: Fort, Restwise, Genuine
The Vienna laboratory Humanplasma hit back on Tuesday at claims that it stood at the center of a massive doping network, naming instead several well-known coaches for the first time.
The three Senegalese citizens suspected of stealing from Belgian cyclist Frank Vandenbroucke, found dead in a hotel room in October, were acquitted Tuesday in a court in the west of the country.
2010 Callville Bay Classic - A gallery
The third weekend of racing in the Atlantic Coast Cycling Conference took riders to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis Maryland. Saturday’s criterium is by far the most technically challenging course of the season. The course, which has been used for over ten years, is made famous by its downhill, 180-degree, “widow maker turn.” It is also made difficult by cold winds that whip off the Chesapeake Bay. But if you do get a moment’s reprieve, it is a beautiful loop around Hospital Point and the Naval Academy Cemetery.
Gran Premio Miguel Indurain
Our readers pipe up on Lance Armstrong, bike theft and women's racing.
Sinead Miller of Marian University and Matt Brandt of Lindenwood University swept the Men’s and Women’s A categories in the Midwest Conference season opener hosted at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky. Lindsey Wilson College established a considerable lead in the conference championship race, amassing 807 points on the weekend compared to second-place Marian’s 701 points.
2010 Women's Omloop Het Nieuwsblad results
1. Juan Antonio Flecha (Sp), Sky, 5:07:15 2. Heinrich Haussler (G), Cervélo TestTeam, at 0:18 3. Tyler Farrar (USA), Garmin-Transitions, at 0:18
Rinaldo Nocentini, the Ag2r rider who spent eight days in the yellow jersey at the 2009 Tour de France, has fractured his leg in a crash at the GP Insubria in Italy on Saturday.
American cyclist Tom Zirbel announced on his blog Friday that he is retiring from the sport rather than continue an aggressive fight against doping charges.
The HTC-Columbia team begins its Belgian Classics season this weekend with a double dose of racing action, first tackling Het Nieuwsblad on Saturday February 27th, then Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne the next day.
BOULDER, COLORADO (February 25, 2010) - Calling to mind the glory days of the famed Coors Classic when Tour de France champions Greg LeMond and Bernard Hinault roared through the Rocky Mountains, Centurion Cycling is bringing big time biking back to the challenging climbs that link Colorado's Front Range with the Peak-to-Peak highway (aka Colorado State Highway 72).
PRESS RELEASE LOS ANGELES – Velo Club La Grange is pleased to announce its Elite men’s and women’s category 1/2 teams, which will be race under the Herbalife La Grange name for 2010 with the arrival of new title sponsor Herbalife. Training camps were held on the weekend of January 16th & 17th in Thousand Oaks and Pasadena for the respective teams. A combined dinner and team meeting was held with longtime professional Tony Cruz, who got his start in competitive cycling with La Grange, coming to speak. Tony also rode with the Elite men’s team on Sunday’s ride to Ojai.
Triathlon star Chris Lieto raced an impromptu time trial against Lance Armstrong last week in Hawaii, finishing just 9 seconds back over 11 miles. Neal Rogers talked with Lieto about the race, his road racing career and Armstrong's future in triathlon.
With less than two days remaining until the opening of the sixth Shimano North American Handmade Bicycle Show, pre-event registrations have topped 2,000, an increase of more than 100% over the previous high mark of 977, set at Portland in 2008. The international custom bicycles show runs February 26-28 at the Greater Richmond Convention Center, in Richmond, Virginia.
Despite nasty crashes at Algarve, RadioShack will start Gert Steegmans and Tomas Vaitkus at this weekend's cobbled races in Belgium. Milram, Liquigas and Quick Step also release their rosters.
The Tour of Poland will dedicate its third stage to Franco Ballerini, the Italian national team manager and retired pro who died in a rally car accident last month.
2010 Women's Tour of New Zealand results
Gary Fisher Bicycles, Subaru and Mellow Johnny's bike shop join up with Hotel San Jose to sponsor Austin team.
Josh Liberles reports back from the Vuelta Independencia, the Dominican Republic's largest bike race.
After 24 years in Downers Grove, Illinois, the 2010 USA Cycling Professional Criterium National Championship is moving about 26 miles to the northern Chicago suburb of Glencoe, Illinois.
Team Type 1 staffs up with new riders and crew, as it aims for an improved Tour of California showing.
Team Type 1 riders will sport Colnago CX-1's with Shimano components in 2010.
2010 Giro di Sardegna results
Omloop Het Niuwsblad, KBK and the Vuelta a Andalucia highlight a big week in Europe. Andrew Hood gives the run down.
The team is attempting to register as a Mexican-based Continental team, a UCI spokesman said, and another cycling official in Europe said the team is trying to align with some of the sponsors from the defunct Spanish Murcia team.
Our readers sound off on Alberto Contador's victory salute, Portuguese standout Tiago Machado and bringing track cycling to the Winter Games.
2010 Vuelta Independencia results