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Replay: Live coverage of the 2010 Tour de Suisse stage 8

A few months after retiring from one of the most successful careers in the sport, Kristin Armstrong is still living bike racing. Only now, the Olympic and two-time world time trial champion is in a new role as director of Peanut Butter & Co.-2012.

Caisse d'Epargne scores 1-2 in Swiss Tour stage, Gesink keeps lead

David Moncoutie (Cofidis) grabbed the leader's jersey in the Route du Sud after winning the second half of Saturday’s double-stage day.

Slovenian Jure Robic won his fifth Race Across America on Friday, finishing more than 12 hours ahead of runner-up Gerhard Gulewicz. Recumbent racer Barbara Buatois still leads the women’s race and is expected to finish early Sunday.

Jacquelyn Crowell (Team Type 1) and Juan Pablo Dotti (Aerocat Cycling Team) owned the road during Stage 2 of the Tour of America’s Dairyland presented by Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board.

Contador: ‘Alps won’t decide Tour’

Kelly Benefit Strategies was able to hold off assaults on Scott Zwizanski’s yellow jersey, but no one was able to answer Hilton Clarke in the final meters as he sprinted to his second Nature Valley stage win for UnitedHealthcare.

Shelley Evans takes over the Nature Valley lead as Chloe Hosking wins stage 4

Transported from the sedate streets of Sparks to the rowdy downtown corridors of Reno, the Tour de Nez fired up again Friday night for a stage 2 circuit race. Under-23 hard man Tucker Gerald (Park Place Dealerships) nosed out the win for the men while U.S. National team rider Janel Holcomb was awarded the top step for the women after a crash-marred final sprint.

The 18th annual Mighty Tour de Nez sprinted to a start under clear skies and perfect temps on Thursday, June 16th.

Chocolate milk and blue skies kicked off stage one of the Tour of America’s Dairyland presented by Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board on Thursday during the Shorewood Criterium Cycling Classic presented by Tim Hart DDS, Jesse Smith DDS, and Jerry Pearce, Rainbow Jersey Bicycles.

Stage 2 results, 2010 Tour of America's Dairyland

Michael Barry is in the running for the final spot of the Team Sky’s Tour de France team.

Basso readies for Tour de France

Vachon wins Route du Sud opener

Henderson wins at Elektrotoer

Replay: Live coverage of the 2010 Tour de Suisse stage 7

Burghardt scores again at Tour de Suisse, Gesink keeps jersey

Second-placed Gerhard Gulewicz's crew remained optimistic of their rider's chance at overtaking leader Jure Robic, who is charging toward his third RAAM victory.

After the Minnesota state patrol received reports of nearby tornadoes from the national weather service, stage 3 of the Nature Valley Grand Prix was brought to a halt 14 miles in.

With the start of the Tour de France just 15 days away, it’s a reasonable question to wonder which Armstrong will show up in Rotterdam. VeloNews.TV polled several prominent figures in the pro peloton for their opinion, including Michael Rogers, Jens Voigt, and last year’s Tour runner up Andy Schleck.

A rash of carbon fork steerer breakages has some concerned.

Replay: Live coverage of the 2010 Tour de Suisse stage 6

Gesink wins climbers' stage to grab lead at Tour de Suisse

British sprinter Mark Cavendish has pulled out of the Tour of Switzerland prior to the race's sixth stage, his HTC-Columbia team said Thursday.

Lampre confirms talks with Kashechkin

Noè isn’t retiring yet, Nibali to Slovenia

Soler back for Route du Sud, likely for Tour

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Hilton Clarke won the St. Paul Criterium by multiple bike lengths ahead of UnitedHealthcare teammate Karl Menzies and the Kenda-Geargrinder duo of Luca Damiani and Rob Bush. In the women’s race, HTC-Columbia’s Chloe Hosking jumped around Theresa Cliff-Ryan (Colavita) to take the stage win in downtown St. Paul.

Nature Valley Grand Prix stage 2 results from the St. Paul criterium

The largest professional and amateur cycling event ever staged in Oklahoma City took place June 12th and 13th at the Oklahoma City Rocks Criterium.

Duarte wins Montañés, mulls offers

Jos Van Emden led a Rabobank sweep of the podium spots in Wednesday’s prologue opener at the Ster Elektrotoer in Holland.

Burghardt claims stage at Swiss Tour, Martin holds lead

Alison Starnes (Tibco) yelled from the effort as she came across the hilltop finish line of the 6-mile time trial that opened the Nature Valley Grand Prix. She didn't know it at the time, but the painful effort earned Starnes her first NRC win.

2010 Nature Valley Grand Prix results

The start of the fifth stage of the Tour of Switzerland was symbolically delayed by two minutes Wednesday as riders expressed their anger at HTC-Columbia's Mark Cavendish for the crash in the finish sprint of Tuesday's stage.

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Mark Cavendish (HTC-Columbia) is being penalized and fined for causing a crash near the finish of the fourth stage of the Tour of Switzerland on Tuesday.

Tejay Van Garderen is still relishing his milestone podium spot at the recent Critérium du Dauphiné.

HTC-Columbia's Michael Rogers did not start the Tour de Suisse on Tuesday, opting instead to head to altitude to continue his specific training for the Tour de France.

Alessandro Petacchi (Lampre-Farnese Vini) won stage 4 of the Tour de Suisse on Tuesday, after dodging a nasty finish sprint crash that took down Mark Cavendish, Mark Cavendish, Heinrich Haussler and Tom Boonen, among others.

Neben looks at the coach-athlete relationship

A tall reader asks why tall bikes often just look — and ride — so wrong.

Tongues are wagging that Alberto Contador looks vulnerable after he couldn’t dominate the Critérium du Dauphiné, his final test before July’s Tour de France.

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The team was not included in the list of 22 squads invited to the 2010 Vuelta, set to start Aug. 28 in Sevilla. Sixteen teams were already selected, but RadioShack was not among the final six wild-card selections revealed Monday.

Two-time defending champion Rory Sutherland (UnitedHealthcare-Maxxis) will open his three-peat attempt Wednesday morning in St. Paul, Minnesota, when the 10th annual Nature Valley Grand Prix kicks off. In the women’s race, the top U.S.-based professionals will battle for the podium step left open by the retirement of 2006-2009 champion Kristin Armstrong.

Scott Zwizanski (Kelly Benefit Strategies) took advantage of a small field and severe weather Sunday in St. Louis, Missouri, to take home the Tour de Grove title in a shortened men’s race. Laura Van Gilder set foot in town just long enough to solo away from the women’s field, collect her earnings and get back to the airport for a flight home Sunday afternoon.

After a few days of battling headwinds, sleep issues and severe weather that forced him to retreat to his motorhome on Saturday, RAAM solo mens leader Jure Robic has accepted that his quest for a new record is over. Now he just needs to deal with a surging challenger, Austria's Gerhard Gulewicz.

Tony Martin (HTC-Columbia) takes the overall lead in the Tour de Suisse as Fränk Schleck (Saxo Bank) wins stage 3.

Replay: Live coverage of the 2010 Tour de Suisse stage 3

Despite heavy pressure from the French cycling community, the highly touted Romain Sicard will not be racing this year’s Tour de France.

A day after netting the Clarendon Cup win with new recruit Hilton Clarke, UnitedHealthcare-Maxxis showed just how deep its talent runs, sweeping the podium at the U.S. Air Force Cycling Classic in Arlington, Virginia.

• 1. Jake Keough, UnitedHealthcare-Maxxis
• 2. Hilton Clarke, UnitedHealthcare-Maxxis
• 3. Karl Menzies, Unitedhealthcare-Maxxis
• 4. Ben Kersten, Fly V-Australia
• 5. Alexey Schmidt, Team Type 1

RadioShack management told Janez Brajkovic not to get his Tour de France hopes too high despite securing his biggest ever stage-race win at the Criterium du Dauphiné Libéré.

Heinrich Haussler (Cervélo TestTeam) wins stage 2 of the Tour de Suisse as Fabian Cancellara (Saxo Bank) retains the overall lead.

Janez Brajkovic (Team RadioShack) crosses with the bunch to win the Criterium du Dauphiné Libéré as Norwegian Edvald Boasson Hagen (Team Sky) solos to victory in the final stage.

Replay: Live coverage of the 2010 Tour de Suisse stage 2

Norwegian Edvald Boasson Hagen has overcome a potentially serious Achilles problem to virtually secure his place in Team Sky's Tour de France squad, according to his team.

Alejandro Valverde has no chance of seeing a lengthy doping ban reduced by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) if he admits to doping, according to the UCI.

Results from the 2010 Clarendon Cup.

Hilton Clarke (UnitedHealthcare-Maxxis) and Brooke Miller (TIBCO-To The Top) take top honors at the 13th annual Clarendon Cup in in Arlington, Virginia.

Nature Valley Pro Ride has finalized its six-rider men and women’s rosters.

Jure Robic is leading the Race Across America despite a bout of stomach upset.

Replay: Live coverage of the 2010 Tour de Suisse prologue

Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Transitions) takes the leader’s jersey at the Delta Tour Zeeland in Holland.

Tejay Van Garderen (HTC-Columbia) survived a harrowing stage up one of the steepest and hardest climbs in cycling to defend a podium spot at the Critérium du Dauphiné in Saturday’s summit finish up Alpe d’Huez.

Defending champion Fabian Cancellara (Saxo Bank) won the first stage of the Tour du Suisse on Saturday.

Astana's Alberto Contador won atop L'Alpe d'Huez on Saturday as RadioShack's Jani Brajkovic defended his overall lead in the Criterium du Dauphiné Libéré.

Start List, 2010 Tour de Suisse

2010 Giro Donne stage 10 results

RAAM Update: Robic holds lead, two Americans in top-5

This Saturday, the modern Merckxes and Gimondis will be contesting a much shorter time trial, over one lap of a hilly circuit on the other side of town, but it could have great significance in the outcome of this Tour de Suisse.