Road Racing

Farrar takes his second win of the 2010 Giro d'Italia with a blistering sprint into Bitonto.

Carlos Sastre (Cervélo TestTeam) would like to hit the repeat button and do the entire first week of the 2010 Giro d’Italia all over again.

The Cervelo TestTeam rider takes the sprint from a select group that formed in the hills outside Santa Rosa.

A look at Garmin-Transitions' Ryder Hesjedal's Felt DA TT machine for the Amgen Tour of California

2010 Giro d'Italia stage 9 photos

The young Australian ride the HTC-Columbia leadout train to victory, as the sprinters' teams end the streak of breakaways

2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 9 results

Replay: Live coverage of stage 9 of the 2010 Giro d'Italia

Singletrack.com Bike Test: With a one-inch difference, are there four-inch XC bikes that can hang on the trail or five-inch trail rigs that can go out and race? We tested a bunch of bikes in search of a few cross-over rigs.

Ben Swift (Team Sky) did not contest the final sprint of the Tour de Picardie in France, because he didn’t have to.

Cervélo TestTeam's dominance at the Tour de l’Aude continued Sunday as the squad ran away with the team time trial in the second stage, but lost the leader’s jersey with an ill-timed puncture.

2010 Giro d'Italia stage 8 photos

A look at the Manx Missile's Scott Addict

Replay: Live coverage of stage 8 of the 2010 Giro d'Italia

2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 8 results

Saxo Bank's Chris Sorensen rides away from a 17-man breakaway on the final climb to win the first real mountain stage of the 2010 Giro d'Italia.

Elisabeth Armistead scores the second victory in a row for Cervélo TestTeam in the Tour de l'Aude’s first road stage.

Replay: Live coverage of stage 7 of the 2010 Giro d'Italia

Team Sky's Ben Swift leads the Tour de Picardie after winning stage 2.

2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 7 results

Rewind to one of the most epic Giro stages ever when the 2010 edition tackled the grime and mud of the white roads of Tuscany, and heralded a new generation of GC kings.

Regina Bruins (Cervélo TestTeam) darted to victory in the opening prologue Friday at the 10-day Tour de l’Aude in France.

2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 6 results

Breakaway again: Australian Matthew Lloyd wins Giro d'Italia stage 6 solo after attacking his breakmate on the final climb. Nibali retains overall lead.

2010 Giro d'Italia stage 6 photos

2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 5 results

Jérôme Pineau (Quick Step) won Thursday's fifth stage of the 2010 Giro d'Italia after working a nearly day-long four-man breakaway and outlasting the chase pack by seconds.

2010 Giro d'Italia stage 5 photos

Replay: Live coverage of stage 5 of the 2010 Giro d'Italia

Replay: Live coverage of stage 4 of the 2010 Giro d'Italia

2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 4 results

2010 Giro d'Italia stage 4 photos

2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 4 team time trial

The Giro d'Italia offers some competitions and prizes that vary a bit from what many Americans have learned about through the Tour de France and domestic races. Here's a look at the competitions.

Hammer sets new world mark in pursuit

A reader asks about possible fork damage after a close encounter of the low clearance kind.

American riders won five, including three golds. at the 2010 Pan American Road and Track Championships this weekend in Aguascalientes, Mexico. Ben King (Trek-Livestrong) won both the U23 men’s time trial and road race while Shelley Evans (Peanut Butter & Co. Twenty12) won the elite women’s road race.

Replay: Live coverage of stage 3 of the 2010 Giro d'Italia

Luis Amaran (Jamis-Sutter Home) and Alison Powers (Vera Bradley Foundation) have taken over the top of the National Racing Calendar standings following strong performance by both at the SRAM Tour of the Gila and Joe Martin Stage Race.

Two days of Dutch carnage has ripped a hole into the GC at the 2010 Giro d’Italia and struck fear into any rider looking ahead to these same roads across Holland this summer for the Tour de France.

Just a day after nearly everything went right for Garmin-Transitions, capped by Tyler Farrar’s stage victory Sunday, nearly everything went wrong less than 24 hours later.

Wouter Weylandt (Quick Step) wins stage 3; Alexander Vinokourov (Astana) leads the Giro.

2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 3 results

Replay: Live coverage of stage 2 of the 2010 Giro d'Italia

As options in carbon clincher wheels continued to proliferate in the last few years, Zipp appeared to stay on the sidelines. No more.

Matt Crane (UnitedHealthcare-Maxxis) overcame a crash-marred final day at the Joe Martin Stage Race to edge teammate Karl Menzies for the win in the stage 4 criterium Sunday. Alexis Rhodes (Vera Bradley Foundation) attacked solo with three laps remaining and rode away from what remained of a decimated field for the victory in the women’s race.

Cadel Evans (BMC) is back in the pink jersey for the first time since he held it late in the 2002 Giro d’Italia. Evans was a relative newcomer to the road scene when he took the maglia rosa back then, only to lose it the next day in an infamous collapse in stage 17 to Folgaria. Racing the Giro for the first time since then, Evans says he’s now a different rider.

Garmin-Transitions scored a huge victory Sunday with Tyler Farrar’s victory in the second stage at the Giro d’Italia. Not only did Farrar prove yet again he’s a world-caliber sprinter, it also confirmed the team’s commitment to building a stronger team around the 25-year-old’s growing confidence.

2010 Giro d'Italia stage 2 photos

Switzerland's Martin Elmiger (AG2R) wins the 56th edition of the Four Days of Dunkirk.

2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 2 results

Jonathan Cantwell (Fly V Australia) and Modesta Vzesniauskaite (Colavita-Baci) made it two in a row at the Joe Martin Stage Race Saturday. Cantwell, whose teammate Bernie Sulzberger took the stage 2 win, pulled off the bunch sprint ahead of Daniel Holloway (Bissell) and Aldo Ino Ilesic (Team Type 1).

Replay: Live coverage of stage 1 of the 2010 Giro d'Italia

Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Transitions) wins a very messy second stage of the Giro d'Italia as BMC's Cadel Evans takes the overall lead.

Bradley Wiggins is elated with his maglia rosa, but says it's a bit early to say he'll win the Giro.

2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 1 results

Brent Bookwalter (BMC) came within a few pedal strokes of the biggest win of his career when he stopped the clock just two seconds shy of the maglia rosa in the opening stage of the 2010 Giro d’Italia.

2010 Giro d'Italia stage 1 photos

Bradley Wiggins wins stage 1 of the 2010 Giro d'Italia

A look at the Giro d'Italia's opening time trial

Sulzberger, Vzesniauskaite fly to uphill wins at Joe Martin; Amaran, Powers lead overall

Garmin aims for pink jersey, stage wins at Giro d'Italia

We take a close look at Pearl Izumi's newest road shoe.

2010 Giro d'Italia: Wide open, with some strong contenders

Webcor's Kathryn Curi Mattis and California Giant's Andrew Talansky win the opening stage of Arkansas' Joe Martin Stage Race

David Millar is set to ride a new bike from Felt in the Giro d’Italia prologue on Saturday.

No clear favorite for Giro d'Italia

Illness forces Freire out of Giro

Lennard Zinn offers a look at retro and modern tech at Sea Otter.

Lewis poised for Giro debut

Giro promises tougher controls in 2010

Giro issues preliminary start list

Racing this Week: Giro, Dunkirk and China

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Lampre will start the Giro d’Italia with two former champions, Italians Gilberto Simoni and Damiano Cunego.

Spaniard Oscar Freire, winner of the 2010 Milan-San Remo, will lead Rabobank in the Giro d’Italia.

Belgium's Quick Step will field a largely Italian team for the Giro d'Italia

Christian Vande Velde is hoping to see a repeat of his highly successful 2008 Giro d'Italia, but not last year’s hard-knock Giro, when he crashed out with several broken bones in the first week.

Darren Lill (Fly V Australia) attacked his breakaway companions 16 miles from the end of the SRAM Tour of the Gila's final stage Sunday and solo'd to one of the biggest wins of his career.

Americans Michael Friedman (Jelly Belly-Kenda) and Jesse Anthony (Kelly Benefit Strategies) go one-two on general classification at the Tour de Korea.