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RadioShack's Lance Armstrong abandoned the Amgen Tour of California after a crash early on in the fifth stage.

The Floyd Landis story went viral Thursday, but riders competing in the Giro d’Italia didn’t know the full extent of the blockbuster accusations until well after the final sprint.

Lance Armstrong on Thursday dismissed accusations by Floyd Landis that Armstrong had schooled him in doping methods.

Garmin-Transitions team manager Jonathan Vaughters told VeloNews Thursday morning that his team will focus on winning the Amgen Tour of California in light of sweeping doping allegations announced by Floyd Landis Wednesday that include Garmin’s overall race leader Dave Zabriskie.

The Amgen Tour of California will continue, business as usual, despite doping allegations leveled by Floyd Landis, says AEG Sports president Andrew Messick.

2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 12 results

2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 12 report

The cycling world reacts to Floyd Landis’ public admission of doping and his allegations regarding former employers and teammates, among them Lance Armstrong.

Shelley Evans (Peanut Butter & Co/2012) is known for her prowess on the track, racking up three World Cup podium finishes and her second scratch race National Championship in 2009 alone, but is having a break through season on the road this year.

The Amgen Tour of California returns to Visalia for the start of stage 5, a stage that will take the riders through the heart of the San Joaquin Valley and into the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. It’s a stage that Andrew Messick, president of race owner AEG Sports, predicted could have an impact on the general classification should an overall favorite attack on the 10-percent China Grade climb during the finishing circuits.

Ryan Anderson (Kelly Benefit Strategies) jumped into a long breakaway in stage 3 at the Amgen Tour of California hoping he could put time into his best young rider rivals at the finish in Santa Cruz. He didn't get the white jersey he was chasing, but a day later, the 22-year-old pulled on the climber’s frock on the podium in Modesto.

Replay: Live coverage of 2010 Amgen Tour of California stage 4

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Tech gallery: Francesco Chicchi's race-winning Cannondale

2010 Amgen Tour of California stage 3 photos.

Francesco Chicchi (Liquigas-Doimo) proves fastest of an elite crop of sprinters, winning stage 4 of the 2010 Amgen Tour of California.

2010 Amgen Tour of California stage 3 photos

2010 Giro d'Italia stage 11 photos

2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 11 results

2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 11 report

Photographer Lucas Gilman is embedded with the Garmin-Transitions team for the entire Amgen Tour of California. Each day he is presenting VeloNews.com readers with a distinct view behind the scenes with the team. In this second gallery, Gilman spent the day — from breakfast to post-race massage — shadowing the team's Steven Cozza.

Three weeks ago, Peter Sagan (Liquigas-Doimo) was at the Tour of Romandie, building for a projected start at the Giro d’Italia. Tuesday he defended his lead in the best young rider competition at the Amgen Tour of California. Peter Stetina (Garmin-Transitions) is the riders closest to him in the white jersey competition.

Andy Schleck (Saxo Bank) rarely has the opportunity to catch up on the chit-chat in the latter kilometers of mountain stages. He did Tuesday, however, when a touchy stomach sent him looking for the gruppetto on the four-climb, 182km third stage at the Amgen Tour of California.

With each passing stage, lexander Vinokourov is quietly gaining confidence that he can win the Giro.

If there's a single lesson to be gleaned from the Giro d'Italia, it is to expect the unexpected.

After two tough stages with categorized climbs close to the finish line, on Wednesday the Amgen Tour of California peloton will embark on a day that looks, on paper, reserved for the sprinters.

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Replay: Live coverage of stage 3 of the 2010 Amgen Tour of California

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Dave Zabriskie (Garmin-Transitions) scored a dramatic stage win ahead of Levi Leipheimer and Mick Rogers on Tuesday's stage 3 of the Amgen Tour of California, the 113.3-mile leg from San Francisco to Santa Cruz.

Most racers have their own names on their bikes. The RadioShack team is running the names of people battling with cancer on their machines.

Brett Lancaster of the Cérvelo TestTeam has become one of Thor Hushovd’s most trusted leadout-men, helping his team to victories in the Tour de France and Volta a Catalunya last year. But Lancaster can win in his own right too, as he proved in Santa Rosa on Monday.

2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 10 results

Tyler Farrar’s tightening grip on the red points jersey could keep him in the Giro d’Italia longer than expected, maybe even through the race's challenging final week.

Garmin-Transitions’ Tom Peterson took the start Tuesday morning at the Amgen Tour of California field with fond memories. Last year, Peterson won a similar stage in Santa Cruz after ended up off the front with Levi Leipheimer. In the 2010 edition, stage 3 starts in San Francisco and again heads south along the coast, taking riders up and over the Bonny Doon climb that proved decisive in 2009.

Replay: Live coverage of stage 10 of the 2010 Giro d'Italia

2010 Giro d'Italia stage 10 photos

Farrar takes his second win of the 2010 Giro d'Italia with a blistering sprint into Bitonto.

2010 Amgen Tour of California stage 2 photos

American Tejay Van Garderen is racing the 2010 Amgen Tour of California for HTC-Columbia in support of Michael Rogers. It is a vastly different experience than the last time he did the race — in 2007 with the U.S. national team.

Carlos Sastre (Cervélo TestTeam) would like to hit the repeat button and do the entire first week of the 2010 Giro d’Italia all over again.

The only thing falling harder than rain on the roads of Napa and Sonoma Counties Monday afternoon were the bodies of riders as they crashed on the technical descents of the Oakville and Trinity Grades. The technical stage 2 route of the Amgen Tour of California claimed more than 30 victims on the day, including Andrew Pinfold (UnitedHealthcare-Maxxis), who abandoned after his second touch down in two stages.

VeloNews.com's panel of Amgen Tour of Colorado racers analyze Tuesday's stage 3.

2010 Amgen Tour of California stage 2 results

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Replay: Live coverage of stage 2 of the 2010 Amgen Tour of California

The Cervelo TestTeam rider takes the sprint from a select group that formed in the hills outside Santa Rosa.

A look at Garmin-Transitions' Ryder Hesjedal's Felt DA TT machine for the Amgen Tour of California

2010 Giro d'Italia stage 9 photos

In 2005, former All-American 800-meter runner Paul Mach showed up to his first group ride in Davis, California. Five years later, he returns to City Park Monday morning wearing the red and yellow King of the Mountains jersey at the Amgen Tour of California.

The young Australian ride the HTC-Columbia leadout train to victory, as the sprinters' teams end the streak of breakaways

2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 9 results

Replay: Live coverage of stage 9 of the 2010 Giro d'Italia

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Casey B. Gibson captures the scene on the Nevada City to Sacramento stage

Singletrack.com Bike Test: With a one-inch difference, are there four-inch XC bikes that can hang on the trail or five-inch trail rigs that can go out and race? We tested a bunch of bikes in search of a few cross-over rigs.

Replay: Live coverage of the 2010 Amgen Tour of California stage 1

2010 Amgen Tour of California stage 1 results

Mark Cavendish starts off his 2010 Amgen Tour of California with a stage win in Sacramento

Five Amgen Tour of California riders preview Monday's second stage.

Coryn Rivera (Peanut Butter & Co.-Twenty12) strung her junior gears out in front of the capitol building as she bested a top field in the Sacramento Grand Prix Sunday. Fresh off a European stint with the U.S. National Team, the second-year pro stole the bunch sprint on the finishing circuits of stage 1 at the Amgen Tour of California.

Ben Swift (Team Sky) did not contest the final sprint of the Tour de Picardie in France, because he didn’t have to.

Cervélo TestTeam's dominance at the Tour de l’Aude continued Sunday as the squad ran away with the team time trial in the second stage, but lost the leader’s jersey with an ill-timed puncture.

2010 Giro d'Italia stage 8 photos

A look at the Manx Missile's Scott Addict

Replay: Live coverage of stage 8 of the 2010 Giro d'Italia

2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 8 results

Saxo Bank's Chris Sorensen rides away from a 17-man breakaway on the final climb to win the first real mountain stage of the 2010 Giro d'Italia.

Start List: Amgen Tour of California

After all the pre-race pomp and circumstance, the fifth edition of the Amgen Tour of California rolls out of gold-mining town Nevada City at 11:45 a.m. Sunday morning, finishing in Sacramento roughly four hours later. Here is a look at the course.

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Results from the 2010 Tour de l'Aude.

Elisabeth Armistead scores the second victory in a row for Cervélo TestTeam in the Tour de l'Aude’s first road stage.

Kiel Reijnen will make an emotional return to Nevada City for the start of stage 1 at the Amgen Tour of California Sunday. The second-year pro and his Jelly Belly-Kenda teammates will don purple wristbands and raise funds in remembrance of Reijnen’s aunt, who was murdered in neighboring Grass Valley in 2005.

Replay: Live coverage of stage 7 of the 2010 Giro d'Italia

Results from the 2010 Tour de Picardie.

Team Sky's Ben Swift leads the Tour de Picardie after winning stage 2.

2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 7 results

Rewind to one of the most epic Giro stages ever when the 2010 edition tackled the grime and mud of the white roads of Tuscany, and heralded a new generation of GC kings.

Euskaltel-Euskadi's Mikel Astarloza announces that he has been suspended for a positive doping control, but plans to appeal.