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Katusha’s Filippo Pozzato has pulled out of the Tour of Flanders one-day classic because of a lingering ailment, Gazzetta dello Sport reported Friday.

The women’s 10-round World Cup series continues Sunday with the 7th Tour of Flanders in Belgium.

Easter Sunday’s 70-percent chance of rain and forecast temperatures in the upper-40s won’t likely dampen what is expected to be one of the most hotly contested and wide-open editions of the Tour of Flanders in years.

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We can barely keep pace with the ongoing roll out of new cycling products. Fortunately the manufacturers are telling us about gear that’s available in bike shops right now (or very soon), so you can get tricked out and on the road for spring pronto.

American Sarah Hammer won her third individual pursuit world title last week in Copenhagen aboard a Felt TK1. VeloNews takes an up-close look at the bike that did the deed.

There are some heavyweights heading to this year’s Giro d’Italia, confirmed Thursday with the release of the preliminary start list.

Armstrong to make rare Flanders appearance, Cavendish and Eisel on HTC-Columbia's Flanders team, Dominique Rollin heads the injury-plagued Cervelo squad

Fresh off back-to-back stage races at San Dimas and Redlands, the U.S. peloton is largely in rest and recovery mode this week.

Top favorite Filippo Pozzato and his Katusha teammate Serguei Ivanov might miss Sunday’s Tour of Flanders.

Garmin-Transitions’ David Millar won the overall title of the Three Days of De Panne after winning the final time trial, a 14km race against the clock between Koksijde and De Panne on Thursday.

Farrar gets stage win at De Panne

Encouraged by the success of its sister website Singletrack.com, VeloNews.com soon will branch out once again — this time, into the largely untapped bicycle-touring market.

The Tour de France will be trading the Champs-Élysées for Main Street following news that the Walt Disney Company (DIS) has purchased Tour owner ASO.

Alberto Contador’s spring campaign and even this summer’s Tour de France could be in doubt following doctors’ decision to perform three hours of reconstructive hand surgery on Thursday.

VeloNews.com will deliver live web coverage of the Tour of Flanders on Sunday, along with a race report, tech reports, results and photo galleries.

Quick Step's Tom Boonen and four teammates rode 150 kilometers of the Tour of Flanders course on Wednesday, and called the exercise "quite useful."

A French rider on BBox Bouygues was successful for the second day in a row at the Three Days of De Panne while David Millar (Garmin-Transitions) remains in contention for overall victory.

Edvald Boasson Hagen will skip this weekend’s Tour of Flanders but hopes to be able to race Paris-Roubaix later next month.

Peter Stetina is making the most of his rookie year at Garmin-Transitions.

Sprint star Mark Cavendish will skip the Giro d’Italia in order to race in this year’s Tour of California, his team announced Wednesday.

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USA Cycling’s National Racing Calendar (NRC) kicked off last weekend with the Redlands Bicycle Classic in California.

Steve Chainel (Bbox Bouygues) won out of a breakaway to claim victory Tuesday in the opening stage of the Three Days of De Panne in Belgium.

Last year’s runner-up Heinrich Haussler and experienced German rider Andreas Klier will not race this weekend’s Tour of Flanders.

A reader asks about this year's Tour de France invitations.

A reader asks whether the heat of a closed car or exposure to direct sunlight can damage a carbon frame.

For some cycling fans, and especially Belgian fans, this is the best week of the year.

The Amaury Sport Organisation has released its list 22 teams invited to participate in this year's edition of the Tour de France.

Zack Vestal gives Mavic's limited edition Ksyrium K10 wheels — and tires — a going over.

How much power does it take to hang with the pros in a big American stage race? For the Redlands Bicycle Classic, we put an SRM power meter on the bike of Eric Marcotte, a 30-year-old chiropractor who races as a Cat. 1.

2010 Mesa State Mad Cow Classic results

2010 Princeton collegiate race results

Alberto Contador and Carlos Sastre are content with their performances to date as March nears its end.

VeloNews tech editor Zack Vestal scopes out some goodies to ease your commuting by bicycle.

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HTC-Columbia's Evelyn Stevens wins the final stage at Redlands as teammate Ina-Yoko Teutenberg takes the overall victory.

Photographer Casey B. Gibson was on hand to document the final day of the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Copenhagen.

Graham Watson photographs the final leg of the 2010 Critérium International.

Frenchman Gregory Bauge defends his sprint crown at track worlds.

Results from the 2010 edition of Ghent-Wevelgem

Simona Krupeckaite wins the women's keirin at the world track cycling championships.

Olympic team pursuit champion Ed Clancy wins the men's omnium at the world track cycling championships.

With 25 bonus seconds on tap, and less than half a second separating Ben Day from Ben Jacques-Maynes, the Sunset Loop will define the GC at Redlands.

Canada's Tara Whitten wins the women's points race title at track worlds, her second gold of the championships.

Bernard Eisel (HTC-Columbia) takes Ghent-Wevelgem.

Pierrick Fedrigo (Bbox Bouygues Telecom) wins the Critérium International.

Joaquim Rodriguez (Katusha) wins the 90th Tour of Catalonia.

Sky’s Russell Downing won the 75 kilometer second stage of the Criterium International in Porto-Vecchio, Corsica, on Sunday.

Hilton Clarke (Bahati Foundation) and Theresa Cliff-Ryan (Colavita-Baci) won the stage 2 criteriums at the Redlands Bicycle Classic.

Luna Chix Katerina Nash and Marla Streb offer some off-season training tips for the Sea Otter Classic in April.

Double Tour de France champion Alberto Contador endured a painful start to the Criterium International on Saturday when he suffered an allergic attack.

Former skier Tara Whitten of Canada won the women's omnium gold at the world track cycling championships in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Saturday.

2010 E3 Prijs Vlaanderen-Harelbeke results

Track cycling speed queen Victoria Pendleton eased the pressure on medal-shy Britain by winning her fourth consecutive and fifth career sprint title at the world championships Saturday.

France's Samuel Dumoulin of the Cofidis team won the sixth stage of the Tour of Catalonia, a 161.9km run between el Vendrell and Barcelona in north-eastern Spain on Saturday.

Australian Cameron Meyer claimed his third gold of the world track cycling championships when he teamed up with Leigh Howard to win the men's Madison crown on Saturday.

Two-time world pursuit champion Taylor Phinney is Trek-Livestrong’s marquee rider.

France's defending world champion Gregory Bauge drew first blood in the battle for men's sprint supremacy when he dominated qualifying at the world track cycling championships Saturday.

After training hard all winter in anticipation of his ProTour debut, New Hampshire native Kirk Carlsen came out flying at the Tour of Qatar in February.

There was a time when New Zealand's dreams of Olympic gold in track cycling revolved around the endurance and pursuit teams. But that is about to change.

Photo Galleries - 2010 Redlands Bicycle Classic

Fresh off a victory at the Belgian semi-classic Dwars door Vlaanderen, Danish road champion Matti Breschel is eager for more success at the upcoming classics. A key Saxo Bank teammate of Fabian Cancellara, Breschel proved his own ability last year, placing sixth at the Tour of Flanders and 10th at Paris-Roubaix. He will take the start Sunday at Ghent-Wevelgem.

Amber Neben became the first rider to defend the Redlands leader's jersey on the Beaumont circuit Friday, finishing at the same time as stage winner Ina-Yoko Teutenberg (HTC-Columbia), who now sits 14 seconds behind Neben on the GC.

Teun Mulder of the Netherlands upset French hopes of a first gold at the world track championships Friday when he blitzed his way in record time to victory in the men's kilometer.

Slovenian Mark Kump (Adria) won the fourth stage of the Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali on Friday, outsprinting Lampre's Simone Ponzi and De Rosa's Claudio Corion on the 184km stage from Rovigo to Finale Emilia.

Australia narrowly edged New Zealand in qualifying for the men's team pursuit gold medal ride-off and will now meet Britain later Friday at the world track cycling championships.

In what’s good news for French racing, French credit company Cofidis le Credit en Ligne has decided to extend its title sponsorship through 2012.

Sprinter Ivan Dominguez, the Cuban Missile turned American citizen, has won a stage in each of the major American tours — California, Georgia and Missouri — but will not have the opportunity to add to that tally at this year’s Amgen Tour of California, as his Jamis-Sutter Home team has not received an invitation to the race.

Davide Malacarne (QuickStep) won the fifth stage of the Tour of Catalonia, a 181.2-kilometer race from Asco to Cabaces in northeastern Spain on Friday.

Astana's Alberto Contador insisted on Friday that he was not trying to send a message to Lance Armstrong by lining up against him in the Criterium International this weekend.

Chris Hoy, the reigning Olympic sprint champion who missed the world championships last year due to injury, could face his biggest challenge yet as he bids to win back the title.

Britain will insist that only the London Olympics really matter, but track cycling's world pacesetters were left trailing for the second day in a row by a rampant Australia on Thursday.

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2010 Lindenwood University collegiate results