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Belgian professional Wouter Weylandt was a successful racer capable of winning grand-tour stages but happy to give his all for others. Weylandt died after a crash Monday during stage 3 of the 2011 Giro d'Italia.

The Italian news agency RAI is reporting that Leopard-Trek's Wouter Weylandt died after crashing out of the Giro d'Italia Monday.

Angel Vicioso (Androni Giocattoli) won out of a late-forming breakaway Monday after a spectacular twisting finale on the Italian Riveria at the Giro d'Italia.

Women

• 1. Clara HUGHES, (CAN), in 2:23:56
• 2. Evelyn GARCIA, (ESA), at 1:18
• 3. Theresa CLIFF-RYAN, (USA), at 6:53
• 4. Joelle NUMAINVILLE, (CAN), at 6:53
• 5. Lilibeth CHACÓN, (VEN), at 6:53

Men

• 1. Gregory PANIZO, (BRA), in 4:03:55
• 2. Gonzalo GARRIDO, (CHI), at 0
• 3. Luis Felipe LAVERDE JIMENEZ, (COL), at 2
• 4. Carlos Julian QUINTERO, (COL), at 1:15
• 5. Luis Fernando MACIAS HERNANDEZ, (MEX), at 1:16

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Marian University and Mars Hill College took the team omnium national titles at the USA Cycling Collegiate Road National Championships in Madison, Wisconsin.

Tyler Farrar and VeloNews' European scribe Andrew Hood discuss the stage-two sprint in the 2011 Giro.

Caley Fretz got up close and personal with the Specialized Venges of Marco Pinotti and Mark Cavendish on stage 2.

Mark Cavendish blasts race commissaires and officials after losing the stage-two sprint to Alessandro Petacchi, suggesting he is being “singled out” when it comes to jury decisions.

Men

• 1. Freddie Rodriguez, Team Specialized Racing Master
• 2. Steve Reaney, California Giant Berry Farms
• 3. Sterling Magnell, McGuire Cycling Team
• 4. Justin Williams, Major Motion Cycling
• 5. Dean Laberge, Team Specialized Racing Master

Women

• 1. Coryn Rivera, Peanut Butter & Co.-Twenty12
• 2. Olivia Dillon, Peanut Butter & Co.-Twenty12
• 3. Mary Elizabeth Maroon, Webcor-Alto Velo
• 4. Rebecca Werner, Webcor-Alto Velo
• 5. Anna Barensfeld, Missing Link Coaching Systems/

Quick Results

• 1. Alessandro PETACCHI (ITA), Lampre-ISD, 5:45:40
• 2. Mark CAVENDISH (GBR), HTC-Highroad, s.t.
• 3. Manuel BELLETTI (ITA), Colnago-CSF, s.t.
• 4. Roberto FERRARI (ITA), Androni Giocattoli-Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni, s.t.
• 5. Borut BOZIC (SLO), Vacansoleil-DCM, s.t.

General Classification

• 1. Mark CAVENDISH (Great Britain), HTC-Highroad, 6:06:27
• 2. Kanstantsin SIVTSOV (Belarus), HTC-Highroad, at at 12
• 3. Craig LEWIS (United States), HTC-Highroad, at at 12
• 4. Marco PINOTTI (Italy), HTC-Highroad, at at 12
• 5. Lars Ytting BAK (Denmark), HTC-Highroad, at at 12

Alessandro Petacchi outlasts a late charge from Mark Cavendish to win stage two of the 2011 Giro d’Italia.

Wilier Triestina’s brand new TwinFoil time trial frame was put to its first international test at the Giro’s stage 1 team time trial

The UCI is on a tear these days, regulating, banning and measuring every millimeter of a bike and its components. Lennard Zinn is clearly annoyed.

Frank Travieso and Lauren Hall win the Dilworth Criterium, the penultimate stop in the 2011 USA CRITS series.

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Gregg Bleakney caught the pageantry of stage one at the 2011 Giro d'Italia's first stage.

Casey B. Gibson was on hand with his bag o' cameras to snap the team time trial at collegiate road nationals.

Caley Fretz watches the UCI decide what constitutes a proper time-trial bike — and a legal fit to same — as the 2011 Giro d'Italia gets under way.

Bjorn Selander, the white jersey after day one of the 2011 Giro d'Italia, says he's there for the team.

Team time trial Division 1 Men

• 1. Marian University, 37:51.87
• 2. Appalachian State, 38:47.46
• 3. Lees-McRae College, 38:53.15
• 4. Stanford University, 39:09.43
• 5. Fort Lewis College, 39:24.55

• 1. Marian University, 44:20.34
• 2. University of California-Davis, 44:51.98
• 3. Lees-McRae College, 45:32.07
• 4. University of Wisconsin, 46:14.34
• 5. Fort Lewis College, 46:25.10

• 1. Mesa State College, 38:57.10
• 2. Western Washington University, 39:16.86
• 3. Mars Hill College, 39:17.88
• 4. Duke University, 39:53.62
• 5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 41:13.14

• 1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 45:35.22
• 2. Whitman College, 49:10.67
• 3. Mesa State College, 49:58.90
• 4. Mars Hill College, 51:01.24
• 5. United States Military Academy, 55:49.78

For the second consecutive year, Marian University sweeps the Division 1 team time trials at the USA Cycling Collegiate Road National Championships. In Division 2, Mesa State College repeats as the men’s winners while the Massachusetts Institute of Technology handily wins the women’s contest.

Ex-pro Richard Geng finds success — and fun — in racing and coaching at the collegiate level.

TORINO, Italy (VN) – Giro d’Italia favorite Vicenzo Nibali (Liquigas-Cannondale) has denied links to controversial Italian doctor Michele Ferrari.

Tens of thousands of retired and active “Alpini” soldiers descended on Torino for an annual convention set to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Italy’s unification — just in time for the start of the 2011 Giro.

Quick results

• 1. HTC-HIGHROAD, in 20:59
• 2. TEAM RADIOSHACK, at 10
• 3. LIQUIGAS-CANNONDALE, at 22
• 4. OMEGA PHARMA-LOTTO, at 22
• 5. TEAM GARMIN-CERVELO, at 24

GC

• 1. Marco Pinotti (ITA), Htc-Highroad, in 20:59
• 2. Lars Ytting Bak (DEN), Htc-Highroad, at 0
• 3. Kanstantsin Sivtsov (BLR), Htc-Highroad, at 0
• 4. Mark Cavendish (GBR), Htc-Highroad, at 0
• 5. Craig Lewis (USA), Htc-Highroad, at 0

HTC-Highroad wins the kickoff to the 2011 Giro d’Italia, putting Marco Pinotti into the first maglia rosa.

VENARIA REALE, Italy (VN) – Alberto Contador says he’s not letting his ongoing clenbuterol case distract his attention coming into the Giro d’Italia and defended his right to be lining up for Saturday’s start of the season’s first grand tour.

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Jake Keough and Jennifer Purcell take the flowers in the Spartanburg Regional Classic.

With the Giro d’Italia’s opening team time trial coming up Saturday afternoon, mechanics spent Friday putting the final touches on each rider’s TT bike.

3T has announced its entrance into the wheel business with their new Mercurio line of carbon tubulars.

MADISON, Wisconsin – USA Cycling’s collegiate road national championships opened on Friday with four national titles awarded as both Division I and II male and female riders tackled the more than 6,000 feet of climbing around the road race course at Blue Mound State Park, 30 miles west of Madison.

Canadian Clara Hughes beat Americans Evelyn Stevens and Amber Neben Friday to win the 24.2-mile individual time trial at the Pan American Championships in Colombia.

Division I Men’s Road Race

Division I Women’s Road Race

Division II Men’s Road Race

Division II Women’s Road Race

Division I Team Omnium standings

DII Team Omnium standings

Lennard Zinn takes a closer look at Peter Denk’s latest creation, the new Cannondale SuperSix Evo.

BOULDER, Colo. (VN) — Rory Sutherland is set to lead his UnitedHealthcare squad into the Amgen Tour of California on Sunday May 15. The team on Friday announced its roster for the weeklong stage race that begins in South Lake Tahoe in a little over a week.

Fat tire love, Mavic's neutral support questions and power meter queries.

VENARIA REALE, Italy (VN) - Nine North Americans start the 94th Giro d'Italia on Saturday, all bringing a wide range of experience, expectations and responsibilities to the season's first grand tour.

VENARIA REALE, Italy (VN) — Saturday's 19.3km team time trial will be about team honor and setting the tone for the ensuing battle in the season's first grand tour, as the 2011 Giro d'Italia clicks into gear.

For Lennard Zinn - who might be 'too tall to race' - bad rules, excessive taxes and a silly sticker mean the UCI is out of control.

One theme apparent in this year’s Giro d’Italia startlist is the presence of a number of young Americans. Peter Stetina (Garmin-Cervélo) will make his grand tour debut Saturday alongside teammate Tom Peterson, BMC Racing’s Chris Barton, Chad Beyer and Chris Butler, HTC-Highroad’s Craig Lewis and RadioShack’s Bjorn Selander.

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Garmin-Cervelo is gunning for the pink jersey in Saturday's team time trial to open the Giro d'Italia with hopes of repeating their breakout success in 2008.

• 1 MANCEBO, Francisco Realcyclist.com Pro Cycling Te 08:00.07 5 0.00
• 2 JACQUES-MAYNES, Ben BISSELL Pro Cycling 08:03.13 3 @ 3.06
• 3 VENNELL, Jeremy BISSELL Pro Cycling 08:05.19 1 @ 5.12
• 4 MACH, Paul BISSELL Pro Cycling 08:06.81 @ 6.74
• 5 VAN UDEN, Roman Pure Black Racing 08:14.80 @ 14.73

" Remember watching news stories of Katrina victims, staying on rows of air mattresses and cots in big, open rooms? That’s us right now: disaster relief housing. It’s no Katrina, but nine dudes in one room does qualify as a disaster."

Riding Cannondale's new 695-gram road frame, the SuperSix Evo

Review of high-end race kit from Mavic, Rapha and Castelli. Nice enough to make you want to race unattached.

Following the announcement by the UCI that it has filed a defamation suit against Floyd Landis, the deposed Tour de France winner says he is ready to fight the case in an effort to expose “the corruption within cycling.”

DANA POINT, Calif. (VN) — Brad Huff (Jelly Belly) emerged from an 18-man break to take the fifth annual Dana Point Grand Prix criterium over Rahsaan Bahati (SKLZ p/b Pista Palace) and Ben Kersten (Fly V Australia).

Alberto Contador travels to Italy on Wednesday to take on the Giro d'Italia, where he will line up Saturday as one of the five-star favorites for victory.

The UCI announced on Wednesday that the governing body, as well as its current and former presidents, have filed a defamation suit against deposed 2006 Tour de France winner Floyd Landis.

Women

• 1. Rushlee Buchanan, Colavita-forno D'asolo, in 1:11:38.9
• 2. Theresa Cliff-Ryan, Colavita-forno D'asolo, at 0:03
• 3. Christina Gokey-Smith, Rouse Bicycles, iat 0:03
• 4. Laura Van Gilder, Mellow Mushroom, at 0:04
• 5. Erica Allar, Rideclean Presented By Patentit, at 0:04

Men

• 1. Hilton Clarke, Unitedhealthcare, in 1:35:19.0
• 2. Luca Damiani, Kenda, s.t.
• 3. Carlos Alzate Escobar, Team Exergy, s.t.
• 4. Karl Menzies, Unitedhealthcare, s.t.
• 4. Eric Marcotte, s.t.

PARIS (AFP) ─ The Italian city of Florence officially launched its bid to host the start of the 2014 Tour de France, according to race organizers Wednesday, as part of its celebrations to honor Italian cycling great Gino Bartali.

Four recent rock and mudslides hav forced organizers of the Amgen Tour of California to change the route of its fifth stage, removing some of the race's most scenic vistas on California Highway 1.

Omega Pharma-Lotto brings a mixed squad of stage-hunters as star riders André Greipel and Philippe Gilbert are giving the Giro d’Italia a pass.

Gianni Savio, the debonair Italia director of the modest Androni Giocattoli team, is hoping to pull one more surprise at this month’s Giro d’Italia.

Last year’s Giro d’Italia runner-up David Arroyo will lead his Movistar team for the season’s first grand tour starting Saturday in Torino.

Geox-TMC confirmed its Giro nine, with Denis Menchov and Carlos Sastre leading the formation into the season’s first grand tour.

Roman Kreuziger will lead Astana in a push for the final podium when the Giro d’Italia ends in Milano on May 29.

National Racing Calendar standings, updated May 2, 2011

• 1. Philippe Gilbert, Omega Pharma-Lotto, with 356 points
• 2. Fabian Cancellara, Leopard Trek, with 236 points
• 3. Cadel Evans, Bmc Racing Team, with 232 points
• 4. Harley Goss Matthew, Htc-Highroad, with 203 points
• 5. Andreas KlÖden, Team Radioshack, with 202 points

BMC benches Alessandro Ballan, Mauro Santambrogio as an Italian inquiry gains steam.