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Team Sky's eight-man squad flew to victory in the opening team trial at the Tour of Qatar. Sky posted a time of 9:41 on the windswept 8.2km course.

VeloNews.com will be following neo-pro rider Kirk Carlsen throughout the season as the 22-year-old rider races and trains around the world.

Luís León Sánchez, who pipped compatriot and friend Alberto Contador to win last year’s Paris-Nice, won’t be back to defend his title in 2010. The Caisse d’Epargne rider said he doesn’t want the pressure of riding Paris-Nice as defending champion and instead will race in Tirreno-Adriatico and avoid a showdown with Contador in the Race to the Sun.

French rider Arnaud Molmy pulled the double Saturday, winning the fourth stage at the l’Etoile de Bessèges and moving into the overall lead in what proved to be a controversial finale.

Boonen confident for Tour of Qatar: Qatar plus Tour of Oman will be good training for the classics, the Belgian sprinter says

Samuel Dumoulin (Cofidis) notched a victory in Friday’s third stage at the l’Etoile de Bessèges. Dumoulin out-kicked Borut Bozic (Vacansoleil) to end his two-day winning streak at the five-day French race. Bozic, winner of the opening two stages, came through second and retained the overall lead.

The record cold blasting Spain hasn’t kept 2008 Tour de France champion Carlos Sastre from training hard.

After her teammates spent much of the day chasing down breaks and keeping her in position, Cervélo TestTeam’s Kirsten Wild won the stage 3 sprint finish and thereby the overall title at the second Ladies Tour of Qatar.

Luxembourg's Franck Schleck said Friday he wanted to continue to race in the same team as his 2009 Tour de France runner-up brother Andy despite doubts over the future of their Saxo Bank team.

If the classics are known for the cobbles and the bergs, the Tour of Qatar is known for the wind. The six-day men’s race is dead flat, yet the field can often be shattered by ferocious desert crosswinds. The preceding three-day Ladies Tour of Qatar has already had a taste of the sideways forces, with stage 2 shortened for conditions Thursday.

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Italy's Giorgia Bronzini improved on her second place in stage 1 by winning the second stage and taking the overall lead of the Ladies Tour of Qatar on Thursday.

Jason Sumner visits the Vermarc clothing factory in Belgium - where Tom Boonen's clothing is made.

Following a breakthrough 2009 season, highlighted by a mountaintop stage victory in the Vuelta a España, it’s no surprise that Ryder Hesjedal is hungry for more.

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Lithuania’s Raissa Lelivyte won the opening stage of the second annual Ladies Tour of Qatar on Wednesday. The 20-year-old with the Italian Safi-Pasta Zara Manhattan team out sprinted a 30-woman pack at the end of the 104km stage from the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha to Al Khor Corniche.

Tasmanian Belinda Goss added to an impressive list of victories when she collected her fourth straight points race gold medal at the Australian Track Cycling Championships at Adelaide's Super-Drome on Wednesday.

Tom Boonen is looking for a smoother ride following a 2009 season that spiked and dipped like the Dow Jones

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After a long history with Shimano, Armstrong is joining the rest of his RadioShack team on Look Keo Blade pedals for 2010.

Race radios for riders will be banned in nearly all USA Cycling road and track races going forward. The USCF Board of Trustees met this week and on Tuesday afternoon amended the rule regarding radios in response to a request from the UCI.

In Michael Barry's first column of the new year, he talks about his new team, Sky, and the sharp transition from winter training to racing.

Norwegian Thor Hushovd has pulled out of the Etoile de Besseges stage race because of illness, his Cervelo TestTeam said Tuesday.

Garmin-Transitions' Jack Bobridge claimed his second individual pursuit title in emphatic style Tuesday, setting the third fastest time ever for the four-kilometer event, Cycling Australia announced.

Readers offer feedback on the subject of latex tubes and high-speed blow-outs.

Two trips in the race ambulance help Amber Neben find growth in embracing adversity.

Can world road champ Cadel Evans (BMC) win the Giro d’Italia or Tour de France before it’s too late? He thinks so.

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Reporting to us from southern California, Neal Rogers managed to snap a few photos of the sparkling BMC bikes of the eponymous ProTour team.

HTC-Columbia veteran Ina-Yoko Teutenberg is startlingly forthright, fiercely protective of her teammates and profoundly driven to win.

Press Release: Cycling legend Greg LeMond and Trek Bicycle Corporation announced an agreement to close out all remaining issues for the business venture they began in 1995, and to provide funding for a charity near Greg’s heart.

The collegiate cycling season kicked off this weekend with the University of Arizona Criterium in Tucson

Danilo Di Luca draws a two-year suspension after testing positive for CERA during the 2009 Giro.

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Alessandro Petacchi wins Stage 2 of the Giro della Provincia Reggio Calabria. Matteo Montaguti retains the overall lead.

Alessandro Petacchi (Lampre-Farnese Vini) wins Stage 2 of the Giro della Provincia Reggio Calabria.

Jonathan Hivert (Saur-Sojasun) wins the French road-racing opener of 2010.

Jonathan Hivert (Saur Sojasun) wins the French season kickoff, the GP La Marseillaise.

World Cup champion Zdenek Stybar delights the home-country crowd with a commanding victory in the UCI Cyclocross World Championships in Tabor, Czech Republic.

Marianne Vos leads wire to wire to add a third world cyclocross crown to her already bulging palmares.

European season opens in Reggio Calabria

Results from the Southwestern Collegiate Cycling Conference

HTC-Columbia Women's Team gets its racing season underway in the Tour of Qatar next week, and they're aiming for a strong start to 2010.

It was brotherly love, or at least appeared to be, on the podium Saturday as Pawel and Kacper Szczepaniak went one-two in the U-23 cyclocross world championships in Tabor.

Czech rider Tomaš Paprstka held off Julian Alaphilippe of France to win the world junior cyclocross title in Tabor, the Czech Republic, on Saturday. Dutchman Emiel Dolfs rounded out the top three.

It is Steve Bauer’s goal to take Team SpiderTech powered by Planet Energy to the Tour de France in 2012. Moreover, he wants to see a team member in the yellow jersey. If that happens, it will have been 22 years since a Canadian last donned the Maillot Jaune and you would be correct if you guessed that the last Canadian to do so was Bauer himself.

Vania Rossi, a top Italian cyclocross racer and girlfriend of Riccardo Ricco, has tested positive for the blood booster CERA, the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) announced Friday.

The Adidas Adizero and Ryders Sprint sunglasses are lightweight, but are they great fitting?

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Casey Gibson spent another day at BMC's January camp in California.

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A reader asks whether he should continue his training when he is a bit under the weather.

A reader asks how to determine the optimum handlebar height and reach.

Does the type of protein supplement matter?

Singletrack.com columnist and XC pro Judy Freeman has a new team for 2010. Figuring out the season is now about being pragmatic and pursuing possibilities.

Even though the 67th Tour of Poland will be held during the first week of August, organizers want to make sure that both the international cycling community and the world remember January 27th as the international Memorial Day. The day marks the 65th anniversary of the Red Army’s liberation of Auschwitz, one of the most horrific Nazi concentration camps.

Lance Armstrong will be back in the spring classics this year in a big way. RadioShack sport director Johan Bruyneel told Biciciclismo that Armstrong will race Milan-San Remo, Tour of Flanders, Amstel Gold Race and Liège-Bastogne-Liège.

The BMC Pro Cycling Team may not be on the UCI’s list of ProTour teams, but the revamped Swiss/American squad appears to be more than ready to take on the world’s top races on the 2010 calendar.

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The newly labeled Jamis-Sutter Home team unveiled its new kit at Argentina's Tour de San Luis, where it brought home some results and tuned up for the season.

With a new title sponsor, a 10-rider squad stacked with junior and elite talent, and Olympic gold medalist and world champion Kristin Armstrong as the team's director, the Peanut Butter & Co/TWENTY12 women's cycling team is looking toward a promising 2010 season.

The Kelly Benefit Strategies Pro Cycling team has spent the last two days in Mooresville, North Carolina, for two days of testing at the A2 Wind Tunnel.

Although more pros are learning the secret, Maui, Hawaii, remains an under-discovered gem as a cycling training ground. The rides are spectacular, challenging and shockingly diverse. You might think that training camps are only for sponsored riders or the wealthy, but a winter trip to paradise will jump-start your offseason preparation — and it can be surprisingly affordable.

The team time trial will be back for the 2011 Tour de France along with the infamous submerged causeway at Passage du Gois as details of the opening weekend for next year’s race were revealed Tuesday.

If you're using tires and tubes, there are steps you can take to prevent those dangerous and frightening blow-outs on steep descents.

Stefano Garzelli still believes he can be a factor in the Giro d’Italia.

The UCI grants provisional registration to Lampre, letting the Italian team remain part of the ProTour through March.

André Greipel (Team HTC-Columbia) tops the 2010 UCI world rankings following his victory in the Tour Down Under.

CAS, the world sport's top court, on Monday rejected an appeal by disgraced German cyclist Stefan Schumacher against a two-year ban for doping during the 2008 Olympic Games.

Peanut Butter & Co. is the new sponsor, Kristin Armstrong is the new director, and the team is adding several top new riders as it focuses on development for the 2012 Olympics.

With a 2010 schedule full of challenges ranging from defending his Milan-San Remo win to the green jersey at the Tour de France to even a run at the rainbow jersey in Australia, Mark Cavendish has one big question mark on where he will race in May.

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A photo gallery from Zack Vestal's visit to the Look Cycle factory in Nevers, France.

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2010 Tour de San Luis, Final GC results

• 1. Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas-Doimo in 25:44:47
• 2. at 0:00:28 Jose Serpa (Col) Androni-Giocattoli
• 3. at 0:01:19 Rafael Valls (Spa) Footon-Servetto-Fuji
• 4. at 0:01:37 Ignacio Pereyra (Arg) Argentina
• 5. at 0:02:15 Santiago Botero (Col) Colombia

Daphny Van den Brand collects the women's World Cup crown as countrywoman Marianne Vos leads a Dutch sweep in Hoogerheide.

Lynskey Performance Designs offering ready-to-ride packages for Truvativ Hammerschmidt drive systems.

World champion Niels Albert wins the final round of the cyclocross World Cup as Zdenek Stybar takes the series title.