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Kelly Benefit Strategies is forging a team for stage races and tough one-day events.

A French judge has issued an international arrest warrant for Floyd Landis for allegedly hacking into a French anti-doping lab's computer system, the French anti-doping agency announced Friday.

Jonathan Chodroff and Carmen Small win the 2010 Valley of the Sun Stage Race in Arizona.

Stewart leads the nearly-day-long break. Daniele Bennati (Liquigas) won the second stage of the Tour of Oman on Monday as Edvald Boasson Hagen (Team Sky) takes over the race lead from stage 1 winner Jimmy Casper.

Racing this Week: The big story this week is the season debut of defending Tour de France champion Alberto Contador and several other big names at the Volta ao Algarve.

Despite recent snow, teams come out for the South Central collegiate conference's first race of the season, a time trial at Centenary College

Filippo Pozzato believes he’s poised to win at least one major classic this spring and he could care less which one it is.

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Jonathan Chodroff and Carmen Small lead the Valley of the Sun Stage Race going into the final criterium in Phoenix.

Tech editor Zack Vestal pays a call on the Cyfac factory during a whirlwind tour of France.

Jimmy Casper takes the kickoff to the inaugural Tour of Oman.

Alejandro Valverde wins the Tour Méditerranéen as Francesco Masciarelli takes the finale.

Graham Watson captures Stage 1 of the 2010 Tour of Oman.

The Frenchman took the bunch sprint at the end of the 61km circuit race on the Muscat Corniche ahead of Edvald Boasson Hagen (Team Sky) and Kenny De Haes (Omega Pharma-Lotto). He will wear the red leader’s jersey in Monday’s Stage 2, a 148.5km leg from Nizwa to Samail.

Alejandro Valverde wins the Tour Méditerranéen as Francesco Masciarelli takes the final stage.

World champion Zdenek Stybar wins the Superprestige series in a dramatic last-round battle with Niels Albert.

South Central Collegiate Cycling Conference Shreveport, LA Feb 13, 2010

Jonathan Chodroff and Carmen Small lead the Valley of the Sun stage race in Arizona.

Europe’s brutal winter put the brakes on Saturday’s fourth stage at the Tour Méditerranéen along France’s Cote d’Azur.

We take a close look at an affordable Workhorse Racer, the Masi 3VC 105.

Whatever its name, the team variously known as HealthNet, HealthNet-Maxxis or OUCH-Maxxis has dominated the National Racing Calendar for the last six years.

Française des Jeux keeps on pouring it on at the Tour Méditerranéen, with the French outfit winning its third stage in a row in the five-day race in southern France. Alejandro Valverde remains poised for overall victory, sitting sixth just 10 seconds back going into Sunday’s climactic stage finish atop Mont Faron.

One of Japan's first Tour de France finishers last year, BBox's Yukiya Arashiro is aiming to return to the Tour, score a pro win, and find his place in the peloton.

Judy Freeman, Kenda-Felt pro and Singletrack.com columnist, hit the road to find more temperate climes to train in compared to wintry Colorado. What'd she discover? Clingy cacti and a Smith&Wesson cyclist.

Francesco Chicchi (Liquigas) scored his second win of the 2010 Tour of Qatar, outsprinting American Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Transitions) on the final stage. Wouter Mol (Vaconsoleil) took the overall title.

At the Tour of Qatar, a two-man suicide breakaway on stage 2 ended up defining the entire event when the peloton did not chase until it was too late and Wouter Mol (Vacansoleil) and Geert Steurs (Topsport) survived until the finish.

Standing 6-foot-5, Wouter Mol is no small man. And he may be standing even taller after winning the 9th annual Tour of Qatar. Here we take a look at Mol's Batavus.

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As the Amgen Tour of California reaches its halfway point, first come the hills, then the mountains and the toughest stage in race history, as Tour officials unveil details of the 2010 stages this week, two stages each day. On Thursday they released maps and profiles of stages 5 and 6.

24-hour solo world champ Rebecca Rusch reports from her South American winter training camp: Next up is the Tour de la Patagonia.

Wednesday it was heavy winds, Thursday it was snow and cold — so far, there’s nothing Mediterranean at all in the Tour Méditerranéen in southern France. Perhaps it was appropriate that a rider from Finland, Jussi Veikkanen (FDJeux), won Thursday’s 170km second stage that saw riders buffeted by cold and wind yet again.

Who is Qatar leader Wouter Mol? Mol first popped up on the radar for many North American racing fans when he moved into the gold leader’s jersey at the Tour of Qatar earlier this week. Mol was half of an all-day breakaway that stayed away until the finish on stage 2.

Eddy Merckx bicycles returned to the top echelon of cycling again with the sponsorship of the Belgian ProTour team of Belgian national champion Tom Boonen.

André Greipel (HTC-Columbia) surged to victory in Thursday’s Trofeo Magaluf-Palmanova to close out the five-day Mallorca Challenge.

Tom Boonen sprinted into a headwind to take stage 5 of the Tour of Qatar after a 14-man echelon was swept up in the closing kilometers. Katusha’s Danilo Napolitano took second ahead of Team Sky’s Edvald Boasson Hagen.

The XG999 uses the same manufacturing techniques that produced SRAM's XX MTB cassette as well as the PowerDome road cassette and weighs in at 175 grams.

The 2010 Mt. Hood Cycling Classic has a new sponsor and is adding two new stages for pro men, and breaking with tradition by traveling from Oregon into the state of Washington on one stage. However, the challenging 6-day event, held June 1-6, has canceled its pro women’s race for this year, citing conflicts with two major women’s events.

Just like he did in 2009, Belarussian Yauheni Hutarovich (FDJeux) won the opening stage of the Tour Méditerranéen in France on Wednesday. Pushed along by frigid winds, the 26-year-old won ahead of William Bonnet (Bbox Telecom) and Maxim Iglinskiy (Astana) in the 92.4km stage in Sauvian.

On the third day of the 2010 Amgen Tour of California, the peloton will return to the scene of one of 2009's most dramatic moments: the climb up Bonny Doon Road.

Promising Portuguese talent Rui Costa (Caisse d’Epargne) delivered a big win in Wednesday’s fourth day of the Mallorca Challenge in the 143km stage starting and finishing in Deià.

Following the Tour of Qatar, many top teams will head to the inaugural Tour of Oman, a UCI Category 2.1 event that is part of the UCI Asia Tour.

For the first time on the international stage, the under-23 team of Trek-Livestrong is racing against the likes of ProTour squads Quick Step, Team Sky and Saxo Bank at the Tour of Qatar.

Cycling luminaries gathered in at the Rossano Cathedral in Italy late last month to celebrate the life of Lino Gastaldello, the co-owner of the Wilier bike brand. Gastaldello died January 23rd after being hit by a car while on a bike ride. He was 71. Gianni Bugno, Damiano Cunego and Gilberto Simoni were among the mourners who overfilled the cathedral.

In what should be a great season for sprinting, with Mark Cavendish, Tyler Farrar and the resurgent Alessandro Petacchi among many, there’s one name that’s often overlooked: Theo Bos.

Francesco Chicchi won the fourth stage of the Tour of Qatar in a field sprint ahead of Heinrich Haussler (Cervélo) and JJ Haedo (Saxo Bank).

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A look at Martijn Maaskant's Felt F1 at the Tour of Qatar.

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Team Garmin-Transitions and Team HTC-Columbia are auctioning rides in a team mechanic's car during the Spring Classics to benefit the USA Cycling Development Foundation.

Three years after JJ Haedo made the jump from North American racing to Europe, his younger brother Sebastian Haedo has done the same. For 2010, they’re both on Saxo Bank. It’s the first time the Argentine brothers have raced on the same professional team.

There are a lot of big names expected for the 101st edition of Milan-San Remo next month, but Riccardo Riccò isn’t among them.

The first stage of the 2010 Amgen Tour of California will mark the 50th anniversary of one of the oldest races in America when it starts in Nevada City on May 16.

Linus Gerdemann (Milram) took an early-season win in Tuesday’s mountainous Trofeo Inca at the Mallorca Challenge. The former Tour de France yellow jersey-wearer escaped over the day’s final hurdle at the Cat. 1 Puig Major in the 157.2km stage over the highest climbs on Mallorca to claim victory ahead of two fellow escapees.

In three days of racing in the winds at the Tour of Qatar, four men have broken their collarbones after crashing.

The beefed-up BMC squad began its racing season in earnest at the Tour of Qatar this week

Quick Step’s Tom Boonen sprinted to victory in the third stage of the Tour of Qatar on Tuesday, powering in ahead of Heinrich Haussler (Cervélo TestTeam) and Saxo Bank’s Baden Cooke

Óscar Freire (Rabobank) was back in the winner’s circle Monday for the first time in nine months with victory in the second day of the Mallorca Challenge.

Tejay Van Garderen made his professional debut in Sunday’s opening day of the Mallorca Challenge, safely finishing 69th in the main field proudly wearing the HTC-Columbia team colors

American sprinter Tyler Farrar came to the Tour of Qatar with a prototype Mavic wheelset.

Lennard Zinn takes a close look at four sets of carbon wheels.

A new national track series aims to rally the best of the best – tracks and racers – for a chance to be named ATRA’s National Champion. The American Track Racing Association (ATRA) National Championship Series includes 11 events across the country.

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New collegiate time trial rules were in effect as the Southeast Collegiate Cycling Conference began its season with a race in sunny Gainesville, Florida, on Saturday and Sunday.

Southeast Collegiate Cycling Conference Gainesville, Florida, Feb 6-7, 2010

Ben Delaney takes a look at Edvald Boasson Hagen's Pinarello Dogma 60.1 bike.

Certain dates in cycling history have earned far greater importance than others — among them February 7, which saw an inauspicious debut and an untimely departure.

This week's racing brings the Mallorca Challenge, the Tour Mediterranéen and the Tour of Qatar.

Geert Steurs (Topsport) wins Stage 2 of the Tour of Qatar.

Robbie McEwen's back in the winner's circle after taking Sunday's Trofeo Palma, the kickoff to the five-day Mallorca Challenge in Spain.

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Samuel Dumoulin overcomes relegation in Stage 4 to take the overall at the Etoile de Bessèges.

Editor in chief Ben Delaney's snaps from Stage 1 of the 2010 Tour of Qatar.

German sprinter Gerald Ciolek and his Milram squad are riding Focus bikes this season.

It was a day of firsts for the Trek-Livestrong team at Stage 1 of the Tour of Qatar.

It was a day of firsts for Trek-Livestrong at the 2010 Tour of Qatar,

Sven Nys wins the seventh round of the Superprestige cyclocross series in Zonhoven.

Geert Steurs wins Stage 2 and Wouter Mol takes the lead at the 2010 Tour of Qatar.