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Illness forces Freire out of Giro

Lennard Zinn offers a look at retro and modern tech at Sea Otter.

Lewis poised for Giro debut

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Giro promises tougher controls in 2010

André Greipel: 'I have proved myself.'

Giro issues preliminary start list

Racing this Week: Giro, Dunkirk and China

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Franco Pellizotti, second in last year’s Giro d’Italia and winner of the polka-dot jersey in the 2009 Tour de France, will not start this year’s Giro after the UCI alleged that a check of his so-called biological passport found “abnormal values.”

Lampre will start the Giro d’Italia with two former champions, Italians Gilberto Simoni and Damiano Cunego.

Spaniard Oscar Freire, winner of the 2010 Milan-San Remo, will lead Rabobank in the Giro d’Italia.

Belgium's Quick Step will field a largely Italian team for the Giro d'Italia

Alejandro Valverde’s victory in the Tour de Romandie gave him the lead in the UCI world rankings issued Monday.

Christian Vande Velde is hoping to see a repeat of his highly successful 2008 Giro d'Italia, but not last year’s hard-knock Giro, when he crashed out with several broken bones in the first week.

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2010 SRAM Tour of the Gila results

Darren Lill (Fly V Australia) attacked his breakaway companions 16 miles from the end of the SRAM Tour of the Gila's final stage Sunday and solo'd to one of the biggest wins of his career.

Results from the 2010 Tour de Korea.

Americans Michael Friedman (Jelly Belly-Kenda) and Jesse Anthony (Kelly Benefit Strategies) go one-two on general classification at the Tour de Korea.

Results from the 2010 Vuelta a Asturias.

Omega Pharma-Lotto is bringing a mix of youth and experience to the Giro d’Italia.

BMC Racing’s Mauro Santambrogio has the green light to return to competition after a preliminary internal investigation found no evidence that he was involved in doping at his former team, Lampre.

Constantino Zaballa (Loule-Louletano) makes a daring solo attack in the final stage of the Vuelta a Asturias and rides away with the stage victory and overall title.

Alejandro Valverde (Caisse d'Epargne) wins the final stage and takes the overall victory in the Tour de Romandie.

Marco Pinotti and André Greipel will lead HTC-Columbia at the 2010 Giro d’Italia, where American Craig Lewis will make his grand-tour debut.

Judging by the volume of article comments (many of them removed to keep this a family Web site), cycling fans are more interested in one of the SRAM Tour of the Gila podium girls than almost any aspect of the New Mexican stage race.

VeloNews Editor in Chief Ben Delaney participated in a remote round table discussion with CNN interviewer Larry King on Thursday, discussion Floyd Landis' admission that he doped and Landis' allegations against Lance Armstrong and others.

Taylor Phinney made it two in a row for his Trek-Livestrong squad on Saturday by winning the SRAM Tour of the Gila criterium, outsprinting Ivan Dominguez (Jamis-Sutter Home).

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Defending champion Levi Leipheimer sits in a position that is at once comfortable yet precarious heading into the final stage of the SRAM Tour of the Gila.

Things went smooth for Peanut Butter & Co. on Saturday, as the team ably protected Mara Abbott's race lead and took a stage win to boot.

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Silver City, New Mexico, woke up to crystal blue skies and a bit of a chill Saturday, as drivers poured over the scrubby high desert and through the mountains from Las Cruces, El Paso, Tucson and Albuquerque to gawk at the SRAM Tour of the Gila downtown criterium and its star riders.

Saxo's Rasmusen wins GP Herning

Duarte assumes lead at Asturias

Spilak takes stage at Romandie, Rogers keeps lead

2010 Giro d'Italia stage details

Results from the 2010 Rund um den Finanzplatz Eschborn-Frankfurt.

Fabian Wegmann (Milram) comes back from a broken collarbone to win the Rund um den Finanzplatz Eschborn-Frankfurt.

Results from the 2010 Spartanburg Downtown Criterium.

Jacob Keough (UnitedHealthcare-Maxxis) and Theresa Cliff-Ryan (Colavita-Baci) take the Spartanburg Downtown Criterium in South Carolina.

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Jesse Sergent (Trek-Livestrong) shocked the star-studded field at the SRAM Tour of the Gila Friday, winning the 16.15-mile Tyrone time trial in 34:09, 14 seconds ahead of race leader Levi Leipheimer (Mellow Johnny's).

Increased anti-doping protocols planned for Amgen Tour

Porte wins Romandie TT, Rogers takes over lead

Ace sprinter Mark Cavendish admitted he let emotions get the best of him Thursday when he gave an Italian version of a two-finger salute as he crossed the line victorious in the second stage at the Tour de Romandie.

Michael Barry and Bradley Wiggins headline Team Sky as the British team makes its grand tour debut at the Giro d’Italia.

The proliferation of helmet, or "wearable," cameras has never been greater, and there is one to fit just about every budget. Singletrack.com takes a look at the GoPro Hero, Epic Wide, the V.I.O. 1.5 and the ContourHD.

Olympic champion Samuel Sánchez turns his attention to the Tour de France.

On Thursday the wind turned SRAM Tour of the Gila into a survival test for many women. Colavita-Baci's Carmen Small won in a two-woman breakaway with teammate Andrea Dvorak, and the team's Cath Cheatley won the sprint for third. Mara Abbott of Peanut Butter & Co. Twenty12 used her powerful team to maximum effect, retaining her overall lead.

With the Tour de France just nine weeks away, a windblown Lance Armstrong was candid about his condition at the SRAM Tour of the Gila. It’s not great, but it’s coming around, he said. “Yesterday I did not have a good day; I was off,” Armstrong told VeloNews. “Today I felt better.”

Levi Leipheimer doesn't often challenge for sprint finishes, but on a blustery day in New Mexico Thursday, the SRAM Tour of the Gila race leader saw an opportunity and jumped on it, and almost came away with a second consecutive stage win.

South Carolina's Team Global Bike hits Speedweek trying not only for wins but also to raise awareness for Global Bike, a volunteer organization that provides bikes to developing countries.

Sastre sees strong Giro support

Vicioso takes over at Vuelta a Asturias

Cavendish takes stage at Romandie, Sagan keeps jersey

U.S. Scene This Week: Speed Week, Gila top the calendar

This year, Cervelo TestTeam's Ted King is seeing the front of the 2010 Euro peloton, and he likes what he sees.

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1. Aaron Kemps, Fly V Australia 2. Hilton Clarke, OUCH-Bahati Foundation 3. Andrew Pinfold, UnitedHealthcare-Maxxis 4. Jay Thomson, Fly V Australia 5. Matthew Crane, UnitedHealthcare-Maxxis

Levi Leipheimer opened up his defense of his SRAM Tour of the Gila title the same way he took his first red jersey in the race a year - with a solo win on the mountain-top finish Mogollon stage.

Burke Swindlehurst headed back to the SRAM Tour of the Gila for the 16th time this week, but for the rider with the race's greatest number of stage wins (six) to his credit, Gila is a whole new beast this year.

Sagan takes over at Romandie

Basque sprinter Pablo Urtasun delivered victory his for Euskaltel-Euskadi team in Wednesday’s opener at the five-day Vuelta a Asturias in northern Spain.

Aaron Kemps (Fly V Australia) put his Australian national champion’s skinsuit on display Tuesday night, winning the third stop of USA Crits SpeedWeek in Beaufort, South Carolina.

Former LPR rider Gabriele Bosisio was hit with a two-year suspension by the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) on Wednesday after testing positive for the banned blood-booster EPO last fall.

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Wind gusts of up to 65 mph could batter riders during this week's SRAM Tour of the Gila. Besides the high winds — which are expected from Wednesday's opening stage through Saturday — rank and file pro riders will have to contend with the strongest fields, for men and women, ever assembled for the 24-year-old New Mexican race.

Results, Tour de Romandie

HTC-Columbia's Marco Pinotti won the prologue of the Tour de Romandie in Porrentruy, Switzerland, on Tuesday.

There was so much new equipment introduced at Sea Otter that it will take a few columns here to do it justice.

Defending Tour de France champion Alberto Contador took to the treacherous cobbled roads of northern France on Tuesday, preparing for terrain he admits could dent his bid for a third yellow jersey this year.

In a week that’s seen some ghosts of doping past step up and win big races after serving bans, yet another rider with a notorious past was back on the winner’s podium.

BMC fires Frei after doping admission

A word of warning: Don’t test ride Zipp’s 303 tubular wheels. If you do, you’ll be compelled to buy them.

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Astana’s Alexandre Vinokourov fires back at his critics, asking, "In what other sport are you allowed to participate without the right to win?"

Philippe Gilbert (Omega Pharma-Lotto) replaces Luis Leon Sanchez (Caisse d’Epargne) at the top of the UCI rankings.