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Tom Boonen announced Friday that knee problems have forced him to rule out a defense of his Belgian national champion's jersey as well as this year's Tour de France.

Injured Haussler won’t race Tour de France

Rodríguez and McEwen in, Pozzato out of Katusha's Tour squad

Raised on a coffee farm in his native Colombia, Lisban Quintero is an amateur rider based in New York City who competes nationally with team CRCA/Foundation. In May, he won his first National Racing Calendar race, Base Camp International, and is the only amateur to win an NRC race this year. Before that, he battled against the top U.S. teams at Speedweek, where he was the first-placed amateur and ninth overall.

A strong performance in the Giro d’Italia earned Brent Bookwalter a trip to the Tour de France as he was included among the nine starting riders for BMC.

Defending champion Alberto Contador will saddle up for the Tour de France in a little more than a week's time with more than just the mountains, or former teammate Lance Armstrong, on his mind.

Andrew Talansky’s dream season kept rolling in Bend, Oregon, Thursday when he won his first national title in the Men’s U23 time trial. Talansky (California Giant) outpaced Carter Jones (Jelly Belly-Kenda) and David Williams (Bissell) to earn the stars and stripes jersey less than 48 hours after returning from a five-week tenure with the national team in Europe.

Falcon soars, Cash-Wooten cashes in at Dairyland

Katrina Vogel responds to the many questions about her column earlier this month on asymmetry in cyclists.

Unsung Spanish team Footon-Servetto will line up in Rotterdam determined to prove it deserves a chance to be in the Tour de France.

Michael Barry will get a long-awaited ticket to the Tour de France after he was named among nine starters for Team Sky.

Quick report: At the national road race championships in Bend, Oregon, Thursday, Evelyn Stevens (HTC-Columbia) got the redemption she was after in the women's elite race, winning her first national title by 38 seconds, unofficially. Amber Neben (Webcor Builders) finished second.

Trek Bicycles welcomed riders with open arms of generous primes to their corporate headquarters city of Waterloo on Wednesday for stage 7 of the Tour of America’s Dairyland presented by Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board, where Carrie Cash-Wooten (Vera Bradley Foundation) and Rahsaan Bahati (Bahati Foundation) stole their respective shows.

2010 Tour of America's Dairyland Trek Waterloo Classic results

Junior racer Dean Haas reports on his journey to the national road championships in Bend, Oregon, this week.

Andy Schleck won the time trial title at the Luxembourg national championships on Thursday, nearly a minute ahead of his brother Frank.

Ted returns to the U.S. for some post-Giro R&R and reports on how he found the state of domestic cycling

Barry gets Tour nod with Sky

Jeannie Longo won her 57th national title at the French national championships on Thursday, decisively winning the women’s time trial event for third successive year.

A conversation with director Jason Berry, whose new film “Chasing Legends,” takes an expansive view of the 2009 Tour de France, primarily through the eyes of Team HTC-Columbia.

Greipel snubbed as Cavendish, Rogers lead HTC-Columbia for Tour de France

Boonen leads Quick Step at Tour

Knaven prepares for final races

WADA, not AFLD, to monitor Tour de France drug testing

For RadioShack team director Johan Bruyneel, “We Might As Well Win” — the title of his 2008 book — has given way to a more relaxed attitude.

Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski goes long at Colorado's Bailey 100 in preparation for the Leadville Trail 100 in August.

Kirchen recovering from heart attack

Horner, Brajkovic get Tour nods for Shack

Giro stage-winner Larsson left off Saxo Bank Tour selection

Menchov, Gesink to lead Rabobank at Tour de France

Roberts lands final Milram spot for Tour de France

Women’s TT, Men’s U23 road race highlight U.S. national championships

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The first check in with Dean Haas, a junior aiming for a national road race championship this week.

For a rider enjoying the most successful season of his career, the wins in 2010 haven’t come easy for Fly V Australia’s Ben Day.

Rahsaan Bahati (Bahati Foundation), Jacquelyn Crowell (Team Type 1), James Stemper (Kenda-GEARGRINDER) and Erica Allar (Vera Bradley Foundation) each took criterium wins over the weekend as the Tour of America's Dairyland pushed through its first weekend.

Contador will not defend his Spanish TT title

Stage 4 results, 2010 Tour of America's Dairyland

• 1. Luis Amaran Jamis Sutter Home/Colavita 923 points
• 2. Rory Sutherland Unitedhealthcare P/b Maxxis 565 points
• 3. Scott Zwizanski Kelly Benefits Strategies 515 points
• 4. Ben Jacques-Maynes Bissell Pro Cycling 490 points
• 5. Ben Day Fly V Australia 428 points

Although they’ve been racked by bad luck and injuries, all three of Cervélo TestTeam’s top stars — Carlos Sastre, Thor Hushovd and Heinrich Haussler — will line up for the 2010 Tour de France.

Belgian team Omega Pharma-Lotto will race the Tour de France without star rider Philippe Gilbert and French rider Jean-Christophe Péraud.

Olympic champion Samuel Sánchez will lead Euskaltel-Euskadi in the 2010 Tour de France.

Bissell’s Ian Boswell and Paul Mach finish one-two in the 50th annual Nevada City Classic.

Getting down a mountain you have just climbed is half the fun of climbing, and in a long Gran Fondo descending is more or less unavoidable.

The Clásica de San Sebastián – Spain’s most important one-day race held a week after the Tour de France on July 31 – will be more difficult this year for its 30th edition.

After racing in Europe and the Middle East earlier this season, American Ben King won the Best Young Rider competition Sunday at the Nature Valley Grand Prix. By placing 6th on the decisive final day, King secured his 7th overall spot on Father’s Day. After the race, the Trek-Livestrong rider was quick to give a shout out to his dad, who got him into cycling.

The German six-day rider Christian Grasmann of TransAlt.org p/b Rockstar Games won the 37th Harlem Skyscraper Criterium on Sunday in a breakaway that stayed away almost from the gun.

Throughout her race-winning 3,00-mile ride across the U.S., observers and fans talked of how recumbent racer Barbara Buatois looked as if she were out for a Sunday ride. And aside from appearing a bit darker than she did in Oceanside, California, at the start, she still looked much the same as she crossed the finish line in Annapolis, Maryland on Sunday, finishing in a time of 11 days, 19 hours and 48 minutes with an average speed of 10.59 mph.

2010 Nature Valley Grand Prix Stillwater Criterium women's results

Nature Valley Grand Prix Stillwater Criterium men's results

Rory Sutherland (UnitedHealthcare-Maxxis) once again used the final stage at the Nature Valley Grand Prix — and that stage's vicious Chilkoot Hill — to take the overall win.

The Mighty Tour De Nez wrapped up Saturday with a hilly, high-elevation circuit stage held at Northstar-At-Tahoe in Truckee, California. Luna's Katerina Nash and HBC's Graham Howard won the final stage.

Liquigas closed out of the Tour of Slovenia on Sunday with a double. Francesco Chicchi kicked to victory in the final stage while Vincenzo Nibali claimed the overall.

Shelley Evans (Peanut Butter & Co.-Twenty 12) went on the offensive Sunday on the 18-percent wall of Chilkoot Hill in the final criterium stage of the Nature Valley Grand Prix. Evelyn Stevens (HTC-Columbia) took a solo flyer with three laps to go to claim the stage win, but Evans took the overall win.

Lance Armstrong has played down his chances of winning an eighth Tour de France title despite lining up at the July 3-25 race with a quality-packed RadioShack team.

Replay: Live coverage of 2010 Tour de Suisse stage 9

Results from the 2010 Ster Elektrotoer.

Adam Hansen (HTC-Columbia) wins the 24th edition of the Ster Elektrotoer as Belgian Kris Boeckmans (Topsport Vlaanderen) takes the fifth and final stage.

David Moncoutie (Cofidis) wins the Route du Sud as Mitchell Docker (Skil-Shimano) takes the final stage.

Results from the 2010 Tour du Suisse.

Fränk Schleck (Saxo Bank) wins the 2010 Tour de Suisse after Tony Martin (HTC-Columbia) took the final stage, a 27km individual time trial in Liestal.

Casey B. Gibson's photos from stage 5 of the NVGP.

Start times - Final TT at Tour de Suisse

Nature Valley Grand Prix stage 5 pro women results

Nature Valley Grand Prix stage 5 pro men results

Erinne Willock (Webcor) wins the stage and Linda Melanie Villumsen (HTC-Columbia) takes the jersey at NVGP.

Team Type 1's Ken Hanson sprinted to victory at the end of a hilly road race in stage 5 of the Nature Valley Grand Prix.

Results from the 2010 Route du Sud.

Casey B. Gibson's photos from stage 4 of the NVGP.

Replay: Live coverage of the 2010 Tour de Suisse stage 8

A few months after retiring from one of the most successful careers in the sport, Kristin Armstrong is still living bike racing. Only now, the Olympic and two-time world time trial champion is in a new role as director of Peanut Butter & Co.-2012.

Caisse d'Epargne scores 1-2 in Swiss Tour stage, Gesink keeps lead

David Moncoutie (Cofidis) grabbed the leader's jersey in the Route du Sud after winning the second half of Saturday’s double-stage day.

Slovenian Jure Robic won his fifth Race Across America on Friday, finishing more than 12 hours ahead of runner-up Gerhard Gulewicz. Recumbent racer Barbara Buatois still leads the women’s race and is expected to finish early Sunday.

Jacquelyn Crowell (Team Type 1) and Juan Pablo Dotti (Aerocat Cycling Team) owned the road during Stage 2 of the Tour of America’s Dairyland presented by Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board.

Contador: ‘Alps won’t decide Tour’

Kelly Benefit Strategies was able to hold off assaults on Scott Zwizanski’s yellow jersey, but no one was able to answer Hilton Clarke in the final meters as he sprinted to his second Nature Valley stage win for UnitedHealthcare.