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Joaquim Rodríguez might never get a ticket to the Tour de France riding for a Spanish team, so he's moving to Katusha.

In choosing its bikes for the next three years, Quick Step team will be going back to its Belgian roots, signing a new sponsorship deal with Merckx cycles.

An untried Australian team pursuit combination beat arch-rival Great Britain in the Melbourne World Cup round on Friday.

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The Amgen Tour of California is hands-down the biggest stage race in the United States. For 2010, it moves from its traditional mid-February slot to mid-May.

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The new and well-financed Sky team has signed two more riders.

Davide Rebellin promises to fight to clear his name of charges that he doped to win the silver medal at the Beijing Summer Olympic Games.

After months of wrangling, it looks like Tour de France champion Alberto Contador will stay with Astana for another year.

Complete results from days 1-3 of the Melbourne track World Cup competition.

Olympic silver medalist Anna Meares headlined a winning night for Australia at the Melbourne World Cup round on Thursday.

Liquigas adds nine to its roster

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Retired Pic will co-direct Colavita-Baci women's team

After season-long success at Team Type 1, NRC Champion Alison Powers moves to ValueAct Capital.

Floyd Landis and the management company running the OUCH professional cycling team have agreed to end his contract a year early.

Fabian Cancellara is seeking new challenges.

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A day after playing the role of Ryan Trebon’s punching bag, Tim Johnson punched back.

Planet Bike's Katie Compton wins by nearly a minute in Gavere as world champ Niels Albert takes his second Superprestige.

Mercer Cup, Day 1: Trebon and Nash triumph

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Wednesday during ’cross season is one of the best days of my week, but this Wednesday was even better.

After weeks of hinting he might skip the Tour de France, Carlos Sastre has confirmed that he will be at the start line in Rotterdam for the 2010 edition.

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Giro stage winner gets four-year suspension for CERA

Part way through the ’cross season, Amy Dombroski is switching to Primus Mootry and a new set of sponsors.

Stuart O'Grady is released from the hospital after collapsing after MotoGP 'Hot Lap'

Casey B. Gibson’s Best of the Decade Photos

The brother of Alberto Contador says the two-time winner will likely stay with Astana in 2010, but no longer.

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Do tubeless tires work for cyclocross?

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The Cuban-American sprinter started 2009 with Fuji-Servetto, and finished the season with Rock Racing

No, they aren't that AC/DC, Team Giant's Adam Craig and Carl Decker are Team AC/DC, and they know how to rally for the off-season.

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USA Cycling has announced that it has received and is reviewing applications for UCI Continental Team status for 2010.

Barry Wicks finds the bear in his backyard isn't reason to panic, but his presence may offer a bit of a lesson.

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José Ángel Gómez Marchante is hoping to rediscover his lost “chispa”

Mud surely took its toll on both riders and bikes at Saturday's Blue Sky Velo Cup in Colorado.

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The Volta a Catalunya is one of the oldest stage races on the international calendar.

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The 108th Paris-Roubaix will be held on April 11th, 2010

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Running from Saturday July 3rd to Sunday July 25th 2010, the 97th Tour de France will be made up of 1 prologue and 20 stages and will cover a total distance of 3,600 km.

Lennard shares some recent experiences and insights from the cyclocross races.

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The 2010 Time catalog includes not just bikes and pedals.

Sue Butler (Monavie-Cannondale) suited up for the costume race at Cross Crusade No. 6 Sunday in Astoria and rode to her first series win of the season, while Barry Wicks (Kona) doubled up after taking Saturday’s opener in the Halloween weekend of racing. Mud from Saturday’s intermittent rain got tacky when Sunday turned into an unseasonably warm, clear day on Oregon’s northern coast.

Sir Chris Hoy won his third gold at the UCI Track World Cup on Sunday in Manchester as Great Britain ended the meeting with yet more medals. Four-time Olympic champion Hoy, who at this event was making his international return from injury, added team sprint gold to the keirin and sprint crowns he'd already won and in the process replicated his Beijing haul. In all Britain won 10 golds from 17 events, as well as four silvers and a bronze medal on their home track.

Seattle’s Nick Weighall (California Giant Strawberries-Specialized) ran away from Mike Broderick (Kenda-Seven-NoTubes) to win the MAC Beacon Cyclocross Saturday in Bridgeton, New Jersey. In contrast, Mary McConneloug (Kenda-Seven-NoTubes) rode away from a tough women’s field that included defending MAC champion Laura Van Gilder and perennial front-runner Dee Winfield (C3-Athletes Serving Athletes), and 2008 MAC champion Mo Bruno-Roy (MM Racing p/b Seven Cycles)

World road champion Cadel Evans has left Silence-Lotto for the U.S./Swiss team BMC for 2010, according to a press release from BMC. “A great opportunity has come for me to join a growing team of like minded individuals at BMC," Evans said in the statement released Sunday. "I look forward to working with the BMC group toward the same goals, including the Tour de France. I see the BMC Racing Team as a growing but very well structured and organized team. “Obviously, I would like to do better than my two second places at the Tour de France.”

Santa Rosa / Adelaide, 2009-11-01 BMC Racing Team Signs the Current World Champion Cadel Evans The BMC Racing Team today announced the signing of current World Professional Road Champion Cadel Evans to a three year contract. This partnership will create mutually beneficial opportunities for both the current World Champion as well as the BMC Racing Team.

American Floyd Landis, who was stripped of his 2006 Tour de France victory after a positive doping test and a public battle to prove his innocence, has told a New Zealand newspaper that he may never compete again in cycling's most important race. Landis, now 34, told the Herald on Sunday newspaper that infighting between cycling's biggest movers and shakers will likely mean he will not be returning to the Tour.

Kona pro Barry Wicks came to Astoria Saturday and put the hurt on the Cross Crusade regulars, while Veloforma’s Alice Pennington fought back from several hard crashes to take her first win in a women’s A race after three runner-up finishes. Intermittent showers and sun breaks kept the temperatures warm and the course sloppy as the Cross Crusade invaded the northernmost tip of Oregon’s coast for a Halloween weekend doubleheader at the Clatsop County Fairgrounds.

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Track cyclist Colby Pearce gives a mountain bike stage race a try.

Lance Armstrong's Treks make a post-season, cameo comeback of their own.

Just as cycling enters the off-season, threats of new doping scandals are looming on the horizon in Italy and Spain. In Italy, the sports daily La Gazzetta dello Sport reported that officials are going to re-test samples taken from the 2008 Giro d’Italia for the presence of the banned blood booster CERA. And in Spain, a magazine reports on a police investigation into an alleged doping ring, including some text messages reportedly between some well-known pro cyclists and a doctor.

Italian re-tests

Response of the UCI to a report from AFLD relating to anti- doping activities at the 2009 Tour de France PART 1: GENERAL COMMENTS The concept of partnership

The UCI is striking back at the French anti-doping agency AFLD, which earlier this month accused the UCI of giving Astana special treatment at the Tour de France.

Basque-backed Euskaltel-Euskadi is trying to turn the page on a season of potentially fatal doping scandals that plagued the team during 2009. High-profile doping positives involving Iñigo Landaluze and Tour de France stage-winner Markel Astarloza nearly scuttled the team, but backers are supporting the team’s efforts to refurbish the squad with younger riders.

Columbia-HTC will be bringing two former Tour Down Under winners to the 2010 edition of the race, which will be held January 17-24, starting in Adelaide. German Andre Greipel (the 2008 winner) and Australian Michael Rogers (2002 winner) are in the Columbia-HTC line-up the team announced on Friday. Greipel spent months on the sidelines after crashing during the third stage of this year's Tour Down Under, dislocating his shoulder and suffering a deep cut on his elbow, which required minor surgery. "After Greipel's mishap at the race this year we are pleased he will be

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The U.S. professional road championships will return to Greenville, South Carolina, next year, September 18-19. The dates are about three weeks later than prior years, slotting the race into a busy month that includes the Tour of Missouri, two UCI ProTour events in Canada, and the world road championships in Australia.

Will he stay or will he go? If you ask the Kazakhs, Tour de France winner Alberto Contador is staying in an Astana jersey in 2010. The ongoing saga of the future of Contador took another turn this week when officials said the two-time Tour champion isn’t going anywhere and that he will be held to finishing out the third year of his three-year contract. The latest twist came when Nikolai Proskurin, president of the Kazakh cycling federation, stated that “Contador will race in an Astana jersey next year. There are no problems.”

Australia's Cadel Evans said Thursday he is fed up of being the nearly man of the Tour de France and is more determined than ever to land cycling's greatest race. Evans has been dogged by doubt after finishing runner-up in the Tour in 2007 and 2008 and only managing a trouble-plagued 30th place in this year's event. "I am tired of being known as the bloke who finishes second in the Tour de France," Evans said. "I had a lot of bad luck this year but I am already looking ahead to next year and am more determined than ever to win it, I won't be satisfied until I have."

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Michael Barry will move from Columbia-HTC to the British-based Team Sky for 2010, and the Canadian says his racing role on the new team will be similar, although he says it's still a little odd to be one of the old-timers. "I'll be one of the veteran riders, which is kind of strange," said Barry, who will be 35 next year. "The years pass quickly." Barry has worked closely with younger riders on Columbia in recent years, and he'll fulfill a similar role at his new team.

Carlos Sastre insists he still hasn’t made up his mind on his 2010 calendar. The 2008 Tour de France champion was dismayed to see media reports that he was going to skip the Tour in favor of racing the Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a España. “My surprise was in capital letters, because I never said what is being bandied about in the headlines, which, according to them, it appears I have decided what races I’ll do in 2010,” Sastre said in a press statement Wednesday.