Asian riders showed their improving strength Wednesday when riders from that continent took the top spots on the first mountain stage of this year’s Tour de Langkawi, putting Japan’s Takeaki Ayabe into the overall lead.
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No one’s happier about growing speculation that a decision in the “caso Contador” could come as soon as Thursday than Alberto Contador.
More than two and a half years after the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Alexander Kolobnev will finally receive his bronze medal.
South African Daryl Impey, who rode for RadioShack last year and had planned to join the troubled Pegasus team for 2011, has signed with Team MTN Qhubeka.
The event's lawyer, in a letter sent to the cycling bodies Thursday, said their recent move allowing top teams at National Racing Calendar criteriums — but not at road races like Battenkill — is "exclusionary and monopolistic."
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USA Cycling has released the selection procedures that will be used to determine the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team across all four Olympic disciplines — road, mountain bike, track and BMX.
Skil-Shimano's Marcel Kittel’s bronze medal at last year’s U23 world championship time trial marked him as a big talent against the watch, but he showed his sprinting skills in taking the third stage of the Tour de Langkawi.
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Tour de France winner Alberto Contador will reportedly face a one-year suspension as a result of his positive doping test at last year's event, Spanish newspapers said Tuesday.
Chainring flex, mid-foot cleats, bottom bracket drilling and more
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Organizers of the Nature Valley Grand Prix have announced the establishment of the "Carla Swart Sportsmanship Award" as a memorial to the racer, who was killed after being hit by a truck in South Africa last week.
Movistar's Vendoso scores the first big win on Campy's electric shifters
USA Cycling will announce Monday a new team designation, “Domestic Elite,” which national events director Micah Rice hoped would bring improved organization to elite teams in the men’s and women’s pelotons. The new category is effective immediately and will affect National Racing Calendar points standings and criteriums on the circuit.
Alberto Contador rejoins his Saxo Bank-Sungard teammates this week with a training camp on Mallorca as he waits to hear word on his ongoing doping case.
Johan Bruyneel says there’s “nothing new” to the latest round of doping allegations leveled at Lance Armstrong, who raced his final international cycling event with Sunday’s conclusion at the Tour Down Under.
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Italian rider Andrea Guardini showed that his Stage 1 victory was well deserved when he took another impressive sprint victory in the Tour de Langkawi.
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Marco Arriagada (Chile) secured the overall title at the Tour de San Luís after finishing safely in the bunch in Sunday’s seventh and final stage.
Katie Compton wins the finale as Sanne Van Paassen claims the 2010-11 World Cup.
Niels Albert wins the finale in Hoogerheide and clinches the World Cup title.
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Equaling the closest-winning margin 10 years ago, Cameron Meyer and his Garmin-Cervélo team held off all and sundry in Sunday’s final stage to win the 2011 Santos Tour Down Under.
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Garmin-Cervélo team manager Matthew White says the 2011 Santos Tour Down Under has come down to one of two men: his charge and current leader, Cameron Meyer, or Matthew Goss of HTC-HighRoad,
VeloNews editor in chief Ben Delaney takes a look at HTC-HighRoad's time trial bike.
American Jonathan Page finishes fifth as Rob Peeters wins the Kasteelcross Zonnebeke.
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If history is any indication, Garmin-Cervélo’s Cameron Meyer will win the Santos Tour Down Under this Sunday in Adelaide.
The Tour’s loss could be the Giro’s gain. Denis Menchov — just a day after he found his Geox-TMC team was not invited to participate in the 2011 Tour de France – has confirmed he will “race the Giro to win.”
Garmin-Cervélo's Cameron Meyer gave his team reason to smile at the Tour Down Under when he took the race leader's ochre jersey after a well-deserved stage win Friday.
Scott Zwizanski is one of the new faces pulling on the UnitedHealthcare skinsuit after the team expanded to join the Pro Continental ranks in 2011. After just one hour in the saddle of his new prototype Boardman time trial bike, the 2010 runner-up to David Zabriskie at the U.S. national time trial championship proved his place amongst his new teammates Thursday with a podium ride against the clock at the Tour de San Luis.
A change in political winds in Washington, D.C., could sink plans to bring the Giro d’Italia to North America.
Brent Bookwalter (BMC Racing) kicked his grand tour career off with a narrow miss in the prologue of the 2010 Giro d’Italia. Bookwalter followed his second-place breakthrough up with solid rides through the Giro and Tour de France and told VeloNews Thursday about the toll — and benefits — he saw from those efforts.
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Anthony Tan touches bases with all the players to look at how Saxo Bank is surviving a mass exodus and uncertainty about its star recruit, Alberto Contador
Sympathy for the devil? Patrick O'Grady muses on Floyd Landis' past and future.
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Andy Schleck says he doesn’t want to win the Tour de France by default if Alberto Contador is disqualified from the 2010 edition. He wants to beat him straight up on the roads of France.
Doctors have successfully removed a metal plate and six screws from Frank Schleck’s collarbone in the last step of recovery from his crash in last year’s Tour de France.
Not UCI compliant, and the better for it
Saxo Bank team manager Brad McGee called for patience from Richie Porte Thursday after a failed attack late on the Tour Down Under's third stage scuppered his protege's chance.
Xavier Tondo pulled the double Thursday, winning the 19.5km individual time trial and claiming the overall leader’s jersey at the Tour de San Luís in Argentina. U.S. time trial specialist Scott Zwizanski (UnitedHealthcare) is third in the stage.
Cavendish and others are using the new Shimano Di2 shift option at the Tour Down Under
Carlos Sastre said missing the 2011 Tour de France is a “blow” but promises to race with his head held high in other events this season.
The pros and cons of two-step chain lubing, getting team vehicles Down Under, and Bontrager discography
ADELAIDE, Australia (AFP) — British sprint king Mark Cavendish had to pick his way through traffic to finish in the Tour Down Under Thursday, leaving officials red-faced at the third stage of the event.
Race director Christian Prudhomme defended his decision to leave Geox-TMC on the sidelines for the 2011 Tour de France.
Former winner Carlos Sastre and last year’s podium man Denis Menchov will miss this year’s Tour de France after their Geox-TMC squad was overlooked in Tour de France invitations revealed Thursday.
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Why are the marquee sprinters at the Santos Tour Down Under not in winning form?
A look at Scott Zwizanski's prototype Boardman time trial bike