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Chris Froome hopes to ride his runner-up finish at the 2011 Vuelta a España into bigger things in 2012.

Tour de France champion Cadel Evans (BMC Racing Team) will make his season debut at the Mallorca Challenge in Spain in February, taking a pass on the WorldTour season opener at the Tour Down Under in January.

Movistar manager Eusebio Unzue has welcomed Alejandro Valverde back to the fold and believes that he can return to his prolific best despite sitting on the sidelines since 2010.

The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) announced Wednesday that it has provisionally suspended banned Australian cyclist Deon Locke after he failed a doping test in October.

Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes and six others will go on trial for suspected involvement in a doping network in cycling, according to a judge's ruling released Wednesday.

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Lennard Zinn takes questions on spoke tension, dish and lubing spoke threads.

U.S. cyclists earned 24 medals — nine gold, 11 silver and four bronze — during the eight-day Parapan American Games.

Burke Swindlehurst is bringing his Crusher in the Tushar adventure race back in 2012 for a second helping of on- and off-road racing.

With Oakley’s Transition lenses tech editor Nick Legan has found the solution to his epic-ride eyewear issues.

Disgraced Italian cyclist Riccardo Riccò on Tuesday received a two-month suspended sentence and a 3,000-euro fine from a French court for having taken EPO during the 2008 Tour de France.

French cyclist Jeannie Longo, a 59-time national and former Olympic champion, will not face any disciplinary proceedings after missing three random drugs tests, an offense normally synonymous with a doping ban.

WADA and UCI lawyers are also arguing that "strict liability" — that a rider is responsible for what enters his system — should be applied in the case against Alberto Contador.

Americans Timmy Duggan and Ted King will be back in the Liquigas-Cannondale jersey for 2012 as the Italian squad closed out its roster with 29 riders for next season.

A growing row between two of Britain's leading female cyclists threatens the prospects of either winning a medal at next year's London Olympic Games.

Robert Gesink says the road back to the Tour de France will likely go through the Giro d'Italia next season.

Thor Hushovd wants a Paris-Roubaix title, and says Philippe Gilbert won't be in his way. The two have different goals, but a similar approach, he adds.

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Ag2r-La Mondiale, Euskaltel-Euskadi and FdJ will participate in the 2012 WorldTour, the UCI announced on Monday.

Among the first wave of witnesses set to appear in the case against Alberto Contador is the Spanish butcher who allegedly sold the infamous steaks that the three-time Tour de France champ blames for his clenbuterol positive.

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Jan Ullrich is back on the bike and enjoying life as a recreational cyclist — and he's not particularly interested in how the Court of Arbitration for Sport rules on his years-old case.

Alberto Contador on Monday will fight a bid by cycling's world governing body to impose a doping ban that could strip him of his 2010 Tour de France victory.

Kevin Pauwels (Sunweb-Revor) exploded out of a lead group with just over two laps remaining to win round four of the Superprestige series on Sunday in Gavere.

While most locals were probably not finished with breakfast, Dutchwoman Sanne Van Paassen was busy winning another of the crown jewels of Belgian cyclocross, the famously difficult — for its hills and mud —fourth round of the Superprestige series in Asper-Gavere.

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Oscar Pereiro took it to journalists on a Spanish talk show when he vehemently defended cycling against media bias that he says favors soccer.

Chris Horner says that retirement is not on the horizon as he prepares for the 2012 season with RadioShack-Nissan-Trek.

Kevin Pauwels (Sunweb-Revor) edges Zdenek Stybar (Quick Step) to win the GVA Trofee Hasselt and confirm his overall lead in the series.

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Michael Diamond, a 63-year-old racer from St. Augustine, Florida, has accepted a two-year doping suspension after refusing to submit a sample during an out of competition test.

BOULDER, Colo. (VN) — Tom Danielson broke through a glass ceiling at the Tour de France in 2011 and will return to the Tour de Langkawi in 2012 looking to recapture the taste for winning that he said he lacked in recent years.

Mark Cavendish's Team Sky debut won't be at the Tour Down Under.

Matt Lloyd has landed with Lampre for next season after a rough year that saw him kicked off the Lotto team, while German rider Stefan Schumacher will join up with Michael Rasmussen at Christina Watches.

BOULDER, Colo. (VN) — Four years after the squad was first introduced to the pro racing community as a new, world-class American team, the Garmin-Cervélo team returned to its roots Thursday night, presenting its 2012 squad to a sold-out crowd at Colorado’s Boulder Theater.

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The Danish sorts doping tribunal has dismissed charges against Alex Rasmussen, who was accused of violating whereabouts rules, because the UCI did not meet its deadline in informing the rider of his offense.

Leif Hoste — the three-time runner-up at the Tour of Flanders — is set to return to a Belgian team.

A look at Campagnolo's 20-year effort to bring electric shifting to market

Cleat lube, dream wheels, fixie conversions and more.

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Viatcheslav Ekimov, the Olympic champion and super-domestique who spent much of his career helping Lance Armstrong, is heading back to Russia in a new job for the 2012 season.

Saxo Bank will be lone sponsor of Bjarne Riis's team next year after the Danish investment house exercised an option to take over as the lead sponsor.

ASO's ever-growing empire saw a new addition Wednesday as officials confirmed the World Ports Classic set for 2012.

The Schleck brothers will headline the 2012 Mallorca Challenge next February.

Michael Rasmussen admitted that he did indeed lie during the traumatic 2007 Tour de France, but says he did it to cover his tracks with his wife.

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José Ivan Gutiérrez — the three-time Spanish national time trial champion on Movistar — says he wants to forget his winless 2011 season as soon as possible.

Cycling teams and sponsors make strange bedfellows sometimes, but perhaps none is stranger than the final-hour quest by the ill-fated Geox-TMC team managers to save its squad for next season.

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The UCI has scuttled a scheduled presentation of Alejandro Valverde as a new member of Movistar next season.

I’m on the way back from the last race of the year, for me, and for Kenda–5 Hr-Geargrinder (as always, sorry for the mouthful, but the sponsors paid for it, so it’s the least I can do).

The long-running Alberto Contador clenbuterol case likely won't see final resolution until early 2012.

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Jeremy Powers (Rapha-Focus) did the double at Derby City on Sunday, winning back-to-back in Louisville, Kentucky.

Katie Compton (Rabobank-Giant) won her second Derby City Cup on Sunday, sweeping the weekend's racing in Louisville, Kentucky.

The Pros Closet is auctioning off one of Edvald Boasson Hagen's spare Tour de France bikes to help a family with a child suffering from leukemia.

Romain Sicard, the promising French rider on Euskaltel-Euskadi, has published an online apology after getting a DUI this week in Toulouse.

World champion Zdenek Stybar (Quick Step) rode a huge group of favorites off his wheel and soloed to victory in the Superprestige Hamme-Zogge on Sunday.

Kristin Gavin (Team CF) and Weston Schempf (C3-Athletes Serving Athletes) soloed to victory on Saturday in round 10 of the Mid-Atlantic Cyclocross Series.

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Team managers from the doomed Geox-TMC team are traveling to Venezuela in a final-hour bid to save their team for next season.

Jeremy Powers (Rapha-Focus) won a thrilling two-man battle with Ryan Trebon (LTS-Felt) to claim the Derby City Cup on Saturday in Louisville, Kentucky.

Katie Compton (Rabobank-Giant) overpowered the field to claim the Derby City Cup on Saturday in Louisville, Kentucky.

Francis Mourey (FdJ) and Lucie Chainel-Lefevre (CC Etupes) won the 34th Nommay Cyclocross on Friday in France.

Valverde had maintained close links to Movistar throughout his ban and was expected to welcomed back to the team.

With everyone talking that the 2012 Tour de France is a route ideal for time trialists who can climb, there's one name that's missing from the early hype: Fabian Cancellara.

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