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Saxo Bank will be lone sponsor of Bjarne Riis's team next year after the Danish investment house exercised an option to take over as the lead sponsor.

ASO's ever-growing empire saw a new addition Wednesday as officials confirmed the World Ports Classic set for 2012.

The Schleck brothers will headline the 2012 Mallorca Challenge next February.

Michael Rasmussen admitted that he did indeed lie during the traumatic 2007 Tour de France, but says he did it to cover his tracks with his wife.

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José Ivan Gutiérrez — the three-time Spanish national time trial champion on Movistar — says he wants to forget his winless 2011 season as soon as possible.

Cycling teams and sponsors make strange bedfellows sometimes, but perhaps none is stranger than the final-hour quest by the ill-fated Geox-TMC team managers to save its squad for next season.

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The UCI has scuttled a scheduled presentation of Alejandro Valverde as a new member of Movistar next season.

I’m on the way back from the last race of the year, for me, and for Kenda–5 Hr-Geargrinder (as always, sorry for the mouthful, but the sponsors paid for it, so it’s the least I can do).

The long-running Alberto Contador clenbuterol case likely won't see final resolution until early 2012.

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Jeremy Powers (Rapha-Focus) did the double at Derby City on Sunday, winning back-to-back in Louisville, Kentucky.

Katie Compton (Rabobank-Giant) won her second Derby City Cup on Sunday, sweeping the weekend's racing in Louisville, Kentucky.

The Pros Closet is auctioning off one of Edvald Boasson Hagen's spare Tour de France bikes to help a family with a child suffering from leukemia.

Romain Sicard, the promising French rider on Euskaltel-Euskadi, has published an online apology after getting a DUI this week in Toulouse.

World champion Zdenek Stybar (Quick Step) rode a huge group of favorites off his wheel and soloed to victory in the Superprestige Hamme-Zogge on Sunday.

Kristin Gavin (Team CF) and Weston Schempf (C3-Athletes Serving Athletes) soloed to victory on Saturday in round 10 of the Mid-Atlantic Cyclocross Series.

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Team managers from the doomed Geox-TMC team are traveling to Venezuela in a final-hour bid to save their team for next season.

Jeremy Powers (Rapha-Focus) won a thrilling two-man battle with Ryan Trebon (LTS-Felt) to claim the Derby City Cup on Saturday in Louisville, Kentucky.

Katie Compton (Rabobank-Giant) overpowered the field to claim the Derby City Cup on Saturday in Louisville, Kentucky.

Francis Mourey (FdJ) and Lucie Chainel-Lefevre (CC Etupes) won the 34th Nommay Cyclocross on Friday in France.

Valverde had maintained close links to Movistar throughout his ban and was expected to welcomed back to the team.

With everyone talking that the 2012 Tour de France is a route ideal for time trialists who can climb, there's one name that's missing from the early hype: Fabian Cancellara.

The VeloNews tech crew and the Selle Italia saddles they like

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Team tactics, chain lengths, choosing a new bike and more

Still riding the vapors of its most successful Tour de France ever, Garmin-Cervélo will take on next year's grande boucle with even higher ambitions.

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The new GreenEdge team is eager to be the first Australian cycling team to compete at the elite level. In addition, GreenEdge is committed to helping put medals around Australian necks in the Olympics. The final two recruits will help the team achieve its goals.

Patrick Lefevere — team manager at newly branded OmegaPharma-Quick Step — says he expects big things from his Belgian squad in 2012.

Ukrainian Volodymir Gustov will stay with Saxo Bank-SunGard through the 2012 season.

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Inside and out. On the road and on the workstand: Lennard's in-depth look at Campy's electric groups.

Bradley Wiggins says he will only be more confident going into next year's Tour de France after a breakthrough 2011 campaign that saw him win the Criterium du Dauphiné and finish third at the Vuelta a España.

Tainted Italian star Danilo Di Luca is poised to join Acqua e Sapone next season.

Team Type 1 - SANOFI reports that the squad completed required paperwork to qualify for a UCI Pro Continental license for next season in time to meet a UCI deadline.

Veteran sprinter Robbie McEwen is looking at a few early season racing goals before retiring for good to become a stage scout for GreenEdge later next season.

Stefan Rothe riding for Tulsa Tough and partner Wes Jerman of Alchemy Racing took the win at the 28th annual Tour de Gruene two-man time trial.

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Campy surprises with two electric groups, with one-push cassette sweep.

Matthew Busche, who enjoyed a fine season in his second year in Europe, will be riding with the new-look RadioShack-Nissan-Trek team next season.

Nick shares his favorite handlebars for various shift lever designs.

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We’ve seen what the system looks like on the Movistar Pinarellos, but we don’t know many details.

We're just two storms into winter here in Boulder and I’m already a big fan of the Winter IIs.

Emily Batty (Subaru-Trek) and Chris Sheppard (Rocky Mountain-Shimano) grabbed the gold in the elite women and men’s categories at Saturday’s Canadian national cyclocross championships.

Kevin Pauwels (Sunweb-Revor) bested world champion Zdenek Stybar (Quick Step) at the Cyclocross GVA Trofee Ronse on Sunday.

Alberto Contador is on a honeymoon in Rome and the Caribbean after getting married on Saturday, but he's already got his eyes on a big 2012 season.

Ryan Trebon (LTS-Felt) and Katie Compton (Rabobank) rode to victory in day two of the Cincy3 Cyclocross Festival, on a course that was very much different from Friday's opener.

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Euskaltel-Euskadi, which enjoyed its best-ever season in 2011, is fighting to secure its future. Management is struggling to secure a berth in the 2012 WorldTour, and beyond next season things are looking grim.

Triple Tour de France champion Alberto Contador married fiancée Macarena Pescador Saturday in his home town of Pinto, the cyclist's agent announced.

Katie Compton and Jeremy Powers are becoming synonymous with the Cincy3 Cyclocross Festival, both notching day-one wins on Friday's rain-softened UCI-C2 course in Devou Park.

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Australian veteran Luke Roberts will stay with Saxo Bank-SunGard through the 2012 season in what will be his fifth year with the team.

American Stephen Cozza will have a front-row seat to some of Europe's most important races next season after NetApp secured a UCI Professional Continental license for the 2012 season.

LEON, Spain (VN) — The route for the 2012 Vuelta a España will likely return to Spain's Basque Country as well as the Pyrénées.

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Fränk Schleck says a stronger team forged by the merger of Leopard-Trek and RadioShack will only bring good things for next season.

Team income, degreaser tips, wide q-factors and more.