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Top U.S. squads TIBCO-To The Top and Vera Bradley Foundation will split rosters this weekend, as each team focuses on a pair of National Racing Calendar events – the Liberty Classic and Tulsa Tough.

Zack Vestal takes a look at Rolf Prima's Aspin SL wheelset, an affordable high performance clincher using Rolf's patented technology.

More than 200 pros will toe the start line in Philadelphia Sunday as the TD Bank International Cycling Championships and the Liberty Classic roll out, and only one of those riders has stood atop the podium at the Eakins Oval.

Two of America’s most promising young riders made impressive grand tour debuts during the Giro d’Italia.

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Lampre's Pietro Caucchioli received a two-year racing ban for irregular values on his biological passport.

Thursday’s second road stage of the Indie Hops Mt. Hood Cycling Classic provided a rollercoaster of surprises and upsets, resulting in a dramatic solo stage win ahead of a hard-charging peloton for one rider and the loss of the race lead due to a time penalty for another.

Andrew Talansky, racing on the USA national team, is leading Spain's Volta Ciclista Provincia Tarragona after three stages.

VIDEO: Morgan Schmitt wins Mt. Tabor criterium at the Mt. Hood Cycling Classic

Cyril Lemoine of Saur-Sojasun took the overall lead in the Tour of Luxembourg on Thursday after Giovanni Visconti (ISD) won stage 1, from Luxembourg to Hesperange.

2010 Tour of Luxembourg results

UnitedHealthcare takes charge in Oregon as Northwest native Morgan Schmitt wins a rainy, hilly crit and takes the lead.

Some teams like to wait as long as possible before selecting their Tour de France squads — but not Rabobank, which announced its lineup Thursday.

Gustav Larsson is hoping his Giro d’Italia stage victory in Verona will punch his ticket to the Tour de France.

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Team RadioShack's Sébastien Rosseler broke a bone in his left hand and bruised his shoulder after colliding with a car while on a training ride, the team announced Wednesday.

Jimmy Engoulvent (Saur-Sojasun), won Wednesday's Tour of Luxembourg prologue, repeating his win in the same event in 2007.

The Astana captain completed a four-day reconnaissance of the decisive climbing stages in the mountains along the French-Spanish border and came away convinced that’s where the 2010 Tour will be decided.

Sugestions for a rider with one leg three centimeters shorter than the other

Under lights and heavy rain, defending champion Paul Mach (Bissell) took the prologue win at the Mt. Hood Cycling Classic Tuesday night, proving that he’s the man to beat again in 2010.

2010 Mt. Hood Cycling Classic prologue results

The U.S. peloton spreads across the country this week, as marquee events are on the calendar in Oklahoma, Oregon and Pennsylvania.

Coach Dirk Friel compares rider power files from the Tour of California and the Tour de France and comes to some surprising conclusions.

• 1. Luis Amaran Jamis Sutter Home/colavita 597 points
• 2. Ben Day Fly V Australia 428 points
• 3. Ben Jacques-Maynes Bissell Pro Cycling 365 points
• 4. Levi Leipheimer Team Mellow Johnny's 265 points
• 5. Alejandro Borrajo Jamis Sutter Home/colavita 251 points

Ben Kersten (Fly V Australia) and Theresa Cliff-Ryan (Colavita-Baci) stamped their names on one of America’s oldest cycling races Monday, taking wins at the Tour of Somerville in New Jersey. The National Racing Calendar criteriums closed out a full weekend of cycling events in Somerville and were the final tune-up ahead of next weekend’s UCI races in Philadelphia.

2010 Tour of Somerville results

2010 Giro Donne stage 2 results

The Giro d’Italia may not be the only stage race sending the pro peloton into snowy conditions this spring.

Lennard Zinn gets a heads up from a reader about some earlier advice.

With the Giro d’Italia in the rearview mirror, European racing shifts gears into a series of transition races as anticipation grows for July’s Tour de France.

Organizers of the Tour of Ireland have canceled the 2010 edition of the stage race, which had been scheduled for August 18-22.

Jelly Belly's Jeremy Powers tells his Amgen Tour of California stories, from the big breaks to the 'dots.'

Saxo Bank's Fabian Cancellara on on Tuesday dismissed claims that he used a motorised bike when winning this season's Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix classics.

Cervélo TestTeam was one of the revelations of last year’s Tour de France, but the team is patiently waiting word whether top stars Carlos Sastre and Thor Hushovd will be lining up July 3 in Rotterdam.

Memorial Day might be a holiday in the U.S., but it was Canadian riders who had reason to celebrate the return of the Killington Stage Race this weekend after a 10-year hiatus.

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Spanish cyclist Alejandro Valverde on Monday received a two-year ban from world sport's top court, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), over his implication in the Operación Puerto drugs scandal, which erupted in 2006.

Following the second event of the 2010 USA Cycling Professional Tour, HTC-Columbia's Michael Rogers leads the series' individual standings.

Wheel guru Eric Hjertberg is back with a wild-looking carbon wheel.

Six collegiate women cyclists are headed to the Nature Valley Grand Prix next month to race in the pro race for the Fiber One Collegiate Women's All-Stars team.

A talk with Helge Riepenhof, HTC-Columbia's team physician, about recovery, supplements, racing jersey bacteria and more.

UCI press release re: Alejandro Valverde suspension

In search of pain-free feet, Zack Vestal takes a look at Bontrager's new high-end road shoes and the eSoles eFit modular footbed.

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A reader asks how to best peak for a race just two weeks away.

Of the seven pre-race favorites, only three finished in the top ten.

With a second Giro victory in the books, Ivan Basso is ready to start thinking about a return to the Tour de France

American Taylor Phinney (Trek-Livestrong) becomes the first in history to win two Paris-Roubaix U23 races.

2010 Paris-Roubaix Espoirs results

2010 Giro d'Italia stage 21 photos

2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 21 results

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Ivan Basso (Liquigas-Doimo) collects the final overall victory at the 2010 Giro d’Italia on Sunday as Erik Larsson (Saxo Bank) wins the final stage, a 15km time trial through the streets of Verona.

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One bridged late, the other soloed long, but both strategies yielded the desired effect, as Burke Swindlehurst and Mara Abbott won their respective pro category races at the 39th Iron Horse Bicycle Classic road race on a sun-splashed Saturday in Southwest, Colorado.

David Arroyo, who’s been one of the surprise stories of the 93rd Giro, insists he’s not losing sleep over losing the pink jersey in Friday’s epic stage over the Mortirolo.

The Giro d’Italia will have a heavy Australian accent when the 93rd edition wraps up with Verona’s 15km TT.

2010 Giro d'Italia stage 20 results

Johann Tschopp (Bbox Bouygues Telecom) wins the 20th stage of the Giro d’Italia as Ivan Basso (Liquigas-Doimo) defends his overall lead.

California, Giro, l’Aude stage winners to tackle Philly races.

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Replay: Live coverage of stage 20 of the 2010 Giro d'Italia

Giro gives go-ahead to Gavia route

Weather may reroute Giro stage from Gavia

2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 19 results

Basso out-climbs a tenacious Arroyo to take the Giro lead heading into the final two stages.

Replay: Live coverage of stage 19 of the 2010 Giro d'Italia

The OUCH-Bahati Foundation team is back to being just Bahati Foundation, and is hustling to restructure after the doping revelations and allegations by its rider Floyd Landis. Longtime Landis supporter Dr. Brent Kay is the principal behind OUCH Medical Center.

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The National Racing Calendar continues its North East tilt this week. The Basking Ridge Twilight Criterium — known this year as the Base Camp International — went off Wednesday evening. The Tour of Somerville will close a full weekend of racing in New Jersey. Meanwhile, Coloradans flock to Durango for the Iron Horse Classic.

You can bet that the Liquigas brain trust has their calculators out tonight and are studying when and how they can wrestle away the pink jersey from the stubborn David Arroyo.

The Amgen Tour of California will be back for 2011, Anschutz Entertainment Group president Andrew Messick told VeloNews this week.

Andre Greipel wins Giro d'Italia stage 18

Replay: Live coverage of stage 18 of the 2010 Giro d'Italia

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The nature — and even existence — of the reported federal investigation into Floyd Landis’ claims against Lance Armstrong and others is unknown. But a San Francisco lawyer who specializes in bringing fraud suits against government contractors says Landis could be acting as a whistleblower and could collect a portion of any judgment.

Zack Vestal finds the Hutchinson Atom Comp clinchers are a viable option in the lightweight, raceable clincher market.