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For Singletrack.com columnist and pro XC racer Judy Freeman, the Sea Otter Classic is all about the bike — with some racing thrown into the Monterey mix.

Sylvain Chavanel will miss the Tour de France after crashing into another team's car during Liège-Bastogne-Liège.

"The sniper," Katusha's Alexandr Kolobnev, is taking aim at the Tour — and the worlds.

Results from the 2010 Historic Roswell Criterium.

Team Type 1 Ken Hanson and Theresa Clif-Ryan (Colavita-Baci) rock the ninth annual Historic Roswell Criterium.

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2010 Athens Twilight Criterium results

Carmen Small (Colavita-Baci) and Luis Amaran (Jamis-Sutter Home) showed New Mexico cycling fans that olive oil and wine go hand in hand as they won the omnium competitions Saturday at the Roadrunner Classic in Albuquerque.

Fly V's Tanner wins the final stage and the team wraps up a win for Darren Lill at Arizona's stage race

Nature Valley Grand Prix is banning aero equipment at its opening time trial, to even the playing field.

2010 Little 500 results

Frank Schleck got a warm round of applause from fans crowding around the Saxo Bank team bus Sunday, but it couldn’t erase his disappointment at not being able to win Liège-Bastogne-Liège.

Despite getting booed as he crossed the finish line Sunday in victory at Liège-Bastogne-Liège, a repentant Alexander Vinokourov (Astana) said fans and journalists should believe him when he says his win was clean.

2010 Liège-Bastogne-Liège results

Alexander Vinokourov (Astana) wins Liège-Bastogne-Liège.

In torrential rains, UnitedHealthcare's Karl Menzies and Colavita's Theresa Cliff-Ryan stay clear of the problems in Georgia.

Floyd Landis will wear a big OUCH on his chest for another season. The OUCH Sports Medicine Center is new co-sponsor of the pro cycling team formed by Rashaan Bahati, now to be known as the OUCH-Bahati Foundation team. Landis joined the team last month.

OUCH Sports Medical Center is the new co-title sponsor for the Bahati Foundation team, now to be called OUCH-Bahati Foundation.

Fly V's Darren Lill extends his GC lead, as UnitedHealthcare's Rory Sutherland wins the time trial.

Aften Euro' campaign is delayed by volcanic flight delays, Kelly Benefit Strategies gets over to Brittany for some pre-California race prep.

VeloNews European correspondent Andrew Hood snaps some pix of Alexander Vinokourov's flashy new Specialized.

Darren Lill (Fly V Australia) wins the Sulphur Springs Road Race and takes the lead in La Vuelta de Bisbee.

Angel Vicioso Arcos (Andalucia Cajasur) wins the 61st Grand Prix Llodio.

Results from the 2010 GP Llodio.

Tech editor Zack Vestal unearths some road goodies from the recently concluded Sea Otter.

Chris Horner (RadioShack) hopes his winning legs from the Tour of the Basque Country will make him one of the protagonists at Liège-Bastogne-Liège.

Results from the 2010 La Vuelta de Bisbee.

UnitedHealthcare's Rory Sutherland takes the prologue at La Vuelta de Bisbee.

Liège-Bastogne-Liège is the toughest, oldest classic

Alberto Contador is undeniably the reigning king of the grand tours, but one day he wants to come to the Ardennes and add one of the major classics to his palmares.

Alberto Contador might not be racing much between Sunday’s conclusion of Liège-Bastogne-Liège and July’s Tour de France, but that doesn’t mean he won’t be busy.

Vinokourov takes overall at Trentino

The BMC team has suspended Swiss rider Thomas Frei after he tested positive for EPO.

The UCI has issued a provisional suspension of RadioShack rider Li Fuyu after he tested positive for the stimulant Clenbuterol at last month’s Tour of Flanders.

Singletrack.com's Zack Vestal brings you a few last bits of choice tech from this year's Sea Otter Classic.

The first four of the 12 riders on the Nature Valley Pro Ride men’s and women’s teams have been selected, with the next two to be determined in Oregon this weekend.

Bertolini surprises sprinters at Trentino

Austrian prosecutors said Thursday that cyclist Christof Kerschbaum was arrested and charged with distribution of performance-enhancing drugs, making him the first athlete who faces jail time under provisions of the country’s new anti-doping law.

Climbers prep for the Gila at Bisbee and the Roadrunner, while the speedsters are at USA Crits Speedweek.

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It's not the volcano that's making Ted's ears ring, it's the church.

Cervelo TestTeam's Emma Pooley won the Fléche Wallonne Féminine in Belgium Wednesday, finishing with an eight-second gap ahead of three-time winner Nicole Cooke (Great Britain) and Emma Johansson (Redsun Cycling Team).

Ricco wins stage at Trentino

Results from the 2010 Flèche Wallonne classic

2010 Women's Fleche Wallone results

BMC's Cadel Evans wins 2010 Flèche Wallonne

RadioShack's Lance Armstrong, Levi Leipheimer and Jason McCartney will race under as Team Mellow Johnny's at the SRAM Tour of the Gila in New Mexico.

Fulgsang: ‘I dream to win the Tour’

Start List: Flèche Wallonne, 2010

HTC-Columbia has several options for wins at Wednesday's women's Fleche Wallone, but Judith Arndt's record at the race makes her the first name that comes to mind.

Restructured course opens up the Flèche

Results - Giro del Trentino

Astana's Alexander Vinokourov won the first stage of the Giro del Trentino in northern Italy on Tuesday.

Atlantic conference comes to Virginia Tech, where Navy secures it's Div. 1 conference title

After a few frenetic weeks, with sometimes as many as four races in one day, European racing takes a relative breather.

Lennard Zinn tries out the new budget-friendly SRAM Apex group on the roads of Laguna Seca.

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Francois Parisien (Spidertech-Planet Energy) powered away from a four-man breakaway in the final 300 meters of stage 2 at the Vuelta Mexico Telmex Monday to take his first UCI win of 2010. Parisien dropped his break companions, who included new overall leader Francisco Mancebo (Rock Racing) and Valeriy Kobzarenko (Team Type 1), on the upper reaches of the steep finish ramp in the town of Xalapa.

• 1. Benjamin Day (AUS/Fly Australia) - 298 points
• 2. Ben Jacques-Maynes (Watsonville, Calif./Bissell Pro Cycling) - 185 points
• 3. Will Routley (CAN/Jelly Belly p/b Kenda)- 162 points
• 4. Kiel Reijnen (Boulder, Colo./Jelly Belly p/b Kenda) - 136 points
• 5. Luis Amaran (CUB/Jamis-Sutter Home p/b Colavita) 131 points

2010 Air Force Academy weekend results

Top professional teams will mix it up with regional squads in a historic high desert mining town as the 32nd edition of La Vuelta de Bisbee kicks off Friday in Arizona.

The United States Air Force Academy hosted this weekend’s Rocky Mountain Conference racing in Colorado Springs, originally intending to run a team time trial, criterium and road race on base.

The Austrian anti-doping watchdog NADA is poised to initiate procedures against a number of athletes and trainers for their alleged involvement with a controversial blood laboratory in Vienna.

Belgian Philippe Gilbert (Omega Pharma-Lotto) rises to third place in the UCI's world rankings after winning the Amstel Gold Race.

Alberto Contador (Astana) is aiming his pistol at the Ardennes classics.

Yoga helps in stretching, strengthening, and lengthening muscles. It is also a fabulous method of preparing for cycling

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About 15 miles past the halfway point of the 124-mile Tour of the Battenkill in Upstate New York, Caleb Fairly peered down at his mud-splattered Holowesko Partners kit and thought to himself how cool it looked.

After a successful Tour of Morocco, Team Type 1’s Aldo Ilo Ilesic has taken the victory and yellow jersey in Stage One of the prestigious Vuelta Mexico. The stage was a humid, flat and fast 80 kilometer circuit race in the sea-level port city of Veracruz. Despite headwinds, crosswinds and rugged roads, the powerhouse team of Valery Kobzarenko, Shawn Milne, Scott Stewart, Javier Leal Megias, Chris Jones, and Davide Frattini were able to lead Aldo out to victory.

Ryder Hesjedal takes confidence from his strong second-place finish at the Amstel Gold Race.

2010 Tro-Bro Léon results

Italy's Giovanni Visconti won the Presidential Tour of Turkey Sunday, triumphing in an eight-stage, 1,232-kilometer race from Istanbul to the Mediterranean resort of Alanya.

2010 Amstel Gold Race results

Philippe Gilbert (Omega Pharma-Lotto) shoots away from an elite group to win the Amstel Gold Race.

Astana's Alberto Contador kept his pre-Tour de France preparations on track by winning the Tour of Castilla y Leon for the third time in his career Sunday.

When the nine riders of Fly V Australia line up for the Tour of the Battenkill in Cambridge, New York, Sunday morning, they will have the confidence that comes with riding for one of the most veteran directors on the road.

Fly V Australia’s Ben Kersten and Roosters' Nichole Wangsgard prevail in the hard-fought Sunny King NRC race in Alabama.