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The 2012 Amgen Tour of California will feature a new time trial in Bakersfield, a longer route for the already-grueling Mount Baldy stage, and forays into new parts of the Golden State.

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Young riders will see backing under a new program next season that will ride under the banner of the BMC-Hincapie Sportswear Team for the 2012 season.

Like most of the riders on the ill-fated Geox-TMC squad, David de la Fuente is desperately looking for a ride next season following the late-hour departure of the team's title sponsor.

Alberto Contador says he's "optimistic" he will be cleared later this month when his long-running clenbuterol case finally hits the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

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This racing may be more accurately compared to the spring’s Tour of Flanders more than a Belgian cyclocross race

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Geox-TMC miss key funding deadline for WorldTour status. Search for sponsor continues in the hope for a pro-continental bid.

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Mark Cavendish says the Tour de France will take priority over the Olympics, but that doesn't mean he's not out to impress in both next season.

There will be a shoot-out among the elite men pros to gain what will be a lone berth for the U.S. men's time trial for next summer's Olympic Games in London.

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Fabio Duarte, the former U23 world champion, has signed a deal to join the Colombian-backed Coldeportes project for 2012.

Niels Albert (BKCP-Powerplus) and Sanne Van Paassen (Brainwash) won the Superprestige stop in Zonhoven on Sunday.

Italian sprinter Alessandro Petacchi has said he wants to continue racing for two more years, even though he is fast approaching his 38th birthday.

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Cannondale unveils its new SuperX disc prototype frame

Omega Pharma-Lotto's Philippe Gilbert was honored as the winner of the 2011 UCI WorldTour on Thursday during the fifth Peace and Sport International Forum held in Monaco.

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To her classmates and teaching staff, Lara Kroepsch is another student, regularly assisting in heart surgery during elective rotations as part of her physician’s assistant training at the Yale University School of Medicine.

Three food/drink manufacturers have new products out that have caught Nick Legan's attention

News earlier this month that scores of soccer players at the Under-17 World Cup in Mexico tested positive for traces of clenbuterol — and the decision by WADA and FIFA to not pursue any of the cases — reveals just how inconsistent sports justice has been in applying rules in clenbuterol cases.

BigMat, a French hardware chain that sponsored a team that made it into the Tour de France in the 1990s, is close to a deal to link up with FDJeux for the 2012 season.

Trek is recalling approximately 27,000 bicycles because of faulty seat clamp bolts on affected seat posts.

Spanish rider Joaquim Rodríguez expressed satisfaction with what he characterized as a "good" season that saw the Katusha rider finish fourth in the WorldTour rankings.

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Belgian Grace Verbeke (Topsport Vlaanderen-Ridley 2012) was seriously injured after a vehicle struck her during a training ride Thursday in Gistel, Belgium.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport has set specific dates for hearing the UCI and WADA's appeal of Alberto Contador's doping case. The hearing is set for November 21-24, CAS announced Wednesday.

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Let the accolades begin. Philippe Gilbert, who enjoyed a spectacular season, was named as the annual winner of the Vélo d'Or prize awarded by the French-language Vélo Magazine.

The slow wheels of cycling justice are finally in motion in the case involving Ezequiel Mosquera dating back to the 2010 Vuelta a España.

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Former German champion Fabian Wegmann has signed a one-year deal with American cycling team Garmin, the rider announced Wednesday.

PARIS (AFP) — The UCI announced Wednesday that no doping positives have emerged from the Tour of Spain after samples from the entire peloton underwent scrutiny.

Chente Garcîa — the last rider who was active during the Miguel Indurain era — hung up the cleats for good.

Alexandr Kolobnev - the only rider to test positive during the 2011 Tour de France - escaped a sanction Tuesday when the Russian cycling federation only fined him and issued a warning.

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Lennard zinn takes a look back at some of the coolest bikes at Italy's Padua bike show this fall.

Even though Philippe Gilbert won five major classics in the 2011 road season that just ended, he was the exception rather than the rule in one of the must unpredictable seasons on record. From Matt Goss at Milan-San Remo in March to Oliver Zaugg at the Tour of Lombardy earlier this month, many of this year’s big winners have come from left field.

The UCI allowed a clearer picture into how the ProTeam lineup will shape up next season when it released its first round of evaluation of teams bucking for spots in the 18-squad league.

GreenEdge officials will be on their edge of their seats in the coming days as the team waits for news if it earns a ProTeam license for its debut season next year.

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What you eat now has a lot to do with how you will race next season.

D2 Super Crit custom shoes and orthotics

Here’s a little secret: that beautiful carbon frame is easily repaired, provided it is administered to by the right hands

A French court has given Floyd Landis, in his absence, a suspended sentence of 18 months in prison for his alleged 2006 use of hacked material from the Laboratoire National Antidopage (National Antidoping Lab). The prosecutor in the case before the Correctional Tribune of Nanterre also asked for the same suspended sentence for Landis' former trainer, Arnie Baker.

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Johan Bruyneel names the sport directors who will be part of the merger between RadioShack and Leopard-Trek for the coming season.

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Japan Cup Cycle Road Race

• 1. Nathan Haas (Aus), Genesys Wealth Advisers, 4:08:35
• 2. Taiji Nishitani (Jpn), Aisan Racing Team, same time
• 3. Junya Sano (Jpn), D'angelo & Antenucci-Nippo, s.t.
• 4. Damiano Cunego (Ita), Lampre-ISD, s.t.
• 5. Yusuke Hatanaka (Jpn), Shimano Racing Team, s.t.

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Kevin Pauwels (Sunweb-Revor) dominated the second round of the UCI cyclocross World Cup on Sunday in Tabor, Czech Republic.