Road

Edvald Boasson Hagen is back from an Achilles injury and hoping for a Tour start with Team Sky

2010 Critérium du Dauphiné results

Once again, the NRC is split between the mid-Atlantic and the Midwest. And another event in Oklahoma will draw the speedsters.

Team Milram on Wednesday, announced six of the nine riders it will bring to the Tour de France next month. The remaining three will be chosen based on their performances at the Criterium du Dauphine, the Tour de Suisse and the riders' respective national championships.

Zack Vestal gives Time's new carbon-sprung I-Clic pedals a spin

The Swiss rider underwent surgery Wednesday. He is being replaced by Portugal's João Correia on the Tour de Suisse team roster.

A bike fitter asks why so many clients require spacers for their left pedal spindles.

RAAM's first starters roll out of Oceanside, California

Brajkovic takes over at Dauphiné

Hilton Clarke, overall winner this year of USA Crits SpeedWeek, has signed with UnitedHealthcare-Maxxis for the remainder of 2010. Clarke, who was released by the Bahati Foundation team last week, will officially join his new team June 10th and will add needed firepower to the UHC sprint train.

Cervelo TestTeam announces its Tour de Suisse squad and reveals more information about Carlos Sastre's injuries.

Slovakia's Peter Velits is all but certain to miss the Tour de France after fracturing his collarbone in a fall on the second stage of the Citérium du Dauphiné on Tuesday.

David Millar concedes finishing on the podium at the week-long Dauphine Criterium would prove a considerable morale boost to his Garmin-Transitions squad ahead of its biggest test of the season next month.

Tejay Van Garderen (HTC-Columbia) is hoping to cap the first half of his successful debut with a strong showing overall at the Critérium du Dauphiné.

Saxo Bank's Juan Jose Haedo sprinted to victory in the second stage of France's Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré on Tuesday.

Lennard rode the Look Cyclosportive in Nevers, France, and saw Bernard Hinault pedaling a football!

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Cervélo TestTeam has ended speculation about Carlos Sastre's inclusion in this year's Tour de France by telling the former champion to get ready for the July 3-25 event.

A conversation with Mountain Khaki's Neil Bezdek on his first season as a pro.

Haimar Zubeldia's Tour de France campaign is under threat after the Spaniard suffered a fracture in a crash on Monday at the Dauphine Criterium.

Cervélo TestTeam's Thor Hushovd will return to racing Saturday, at the Tour de Suisse, his team announced Monday.

Brian Jensen and Coryn Rivera win the final event of the Tulsa Tough omnium, as Brad Huff and Jennifer Purcell wrap up their overall omnium wins.

Lampre's Grega Bole scored the biggest win of his career after countering Geraint Thomas (Team Sky) to claim the first stage of the Dauphiné Criterium stage race Monday.

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Philly 2010: A Casey B. Gibson gallery

Sparling takes wet Mt. Hood criterium as de Maar seals overall

2010 Philadelphia International Championship results

Matthew Goss finished off the HTC-Columbia double in Philadelphia Sunday afternoon, taking out the bunch sprint from a group of approximately 30 riders at the Philadelphia International Championship. Goss edged Peter Sagan (Liquigas-Doimo) for his first Philly win, less than a month after taking a stage at the Giro d'Italia.

Contador wins the prologue in 8:34, while American Tejay Van Garderen is just 2 seconds back in second place.

HTC-Columbia's Ina-Yoko Teutenberg takes her fourth Liberty Classic road race in Philadelphia. Next up Sunday: The TD Bank Philadelphia International Cycling Championships.

Matteo Carrara takes the Tour du Luxembourg as Gorka Izaguirre wins the final stage.

The USA national team finished off the Volta Ciclista Provincia Tarragona in Spain in fine style on Saturday, winning the final stage and taking the second spot overall at the national-event level race.

2010 Liberty Classic results

Jelly Belly's Brad Huff wins his second consecutive race at the Tulsa Tough omnium, and Cari Higgins wins her first.

Kenda Pro Cycling is offering a unique chance to get a spot on the UCI team via an internet competition. Kenda partnered with Strava, an online GPS-based cycling software company, to select a rider for a spot on the 2011 team.

Reigning Tour de France champion Alberto Contador will count Ivan Basso among his biggest challengers this year after the Italian's impressive victory in the Giro d'Italia.

2010 Giro Donne stage 3 results

Tony Gallopin (Cofidis) wins the third and penultimate stage of the Tour du Luxembourg as Matteo Carrara (Vacansoleil) retains the leader's golden jersey.

Contador: 'Tour prep, not Dauphine win, is crucial'

Brad Huff (Jelly Belly-Kenda) and Amanda Miller (Tibco) win Friday’s Blue Dome Criterium, the kickoff to the Tulsa Tough omnium.

De Maar takes stage, adds to overall lead at Mt. Hood

Saxo Bank's home-town hero Frank Schleck won the second stage of the Tour of Luxembourg on Friday but it was second place finisher Matteo Carrara (Vacansoleil) who grabbed the overall lead from previous incumbent Cyril Lemoine.

Top U.S. squads TIBCO-To The Top and Vera Bradley Foundation will split rosters this weekend, as each team focuses on a pair of National Racing Calendar events – the Liberty Classic and Tulsa Tough.

Zack Vestal takes a look at Rolf Prima's Aspin SL wheelset, an affordable high performance clincher using Rolf's patented technology.

More than 200 pros will toe the start line in Philadelphia Sunday as the TD Bank International Cycling Championships and the Liberty Classic roll out, and only one of those riders has stood atop the podium at the Eakins Oval.

Two of America’s most promising young riders made impressive grand tour debuts during the Giro d’Italia.

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Lampre's Pietro Caucchioli received a two-year racing ban for irregular values on his biological passport.

Thursday’s second road stage of the Indie Hops Mt. Hood Cycling Classic provided a rollercoaster of surprises and upsets, resulting in a dramatic solo stage win ahead of a hard-charging peloton for one rider and the loss of the race lead due to a time penalty for another.

Andrew Talansky, racing on the USA national team, is leading Spain's Volta Ciclista Provincia Tarragona after three stages.

VIDEO: Morgan Schmitt wins Mt. Tabor criterium at the Mt. Hood Cycling Classic

Cyril Lemoine of Saur-Sojasun took the overall lead in the Tour of Luxembourg on Thursday after Giovanni Visconti (ISD) won stage 1, from Luxembourg to Hesperange.

2010 Tour of Luxembourg results

UnitedHealthcare takes charge in Oregon as Northwest native Morgan Schmitt wins a rainy, hilly crit and takes the lead.

Some teams like to wait as long as possible before selecting their Tour de France squads — but not Rabobank, which announced its lineup Thursday.

Gustav Larsson is hoping his Giro d’Italia stage victory in Verona will punch his ticket to the Tour de France.

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Team RadioShack's Sébastien Rosseler broke a bone in his left hand and bruised his shoulder after colliding with a car while on a training ride, the team announced Wednesday.

Jimmy Engoulvent (Saur-Sojasun), won Wednesday's Tour of Luxembourg prologue, repeating his win in the same event in 2007.

The Astana captain completed a four-day reconnaissance of the decisive climbing stages in the mountains along the French-Spanish border and came away convinced that’s where the 2010 Tour will be decided.

Sugestions for a rider with one leg three centimeters shorter than the other

Under lights and heavy rain, defending champion Paul Mach (Bissell) took the prologue win at the Mt. Hood Cycling Classic Tuesday night, proving that he’s the man to beat again in 2010.

2010 Mt. Hood Cycling Classic prologue results

The U.S. peloton spreads across the country this week, as marquee events are on the calendar in Oklahoma, Oregon and Pennsylvania.

Coach Dirk Friel compares rider power files from the Tour of California and the Tour de France and comes to some surprising conclusions.

• 1. Luis Amaran Jamis Sutter Home/colavita 597 points
• 2. Ben Day Fly V Australia 428 points
• 3. Ben Jacques-Maynes Bissell Pro Cycling 365 points
• 4. Levi Leipheimer Team Mellow Johnny's 265 points
• 5. Alejandro Borrajo Jamis Sutter Home/colavita 251 points

Ben Kersten (Fly V Australia) and Theresa Cliff-Ryan (Colavita-Baci) stamped their names on one of America’s oldest cycling races Monday, taking wins at the Tour of Somerville in New Jersey. The National Racing Calendar criteriums closed out a full weekend of cycling events in Somerville and were the final tune-up ahead of next weekend’s UCI races in Philadelphia.

2010 Tour of Somerville results

2010 Giro Donne stage 2 results

The Giro d’Italia may not be the only stage race sending the pro peloton into snowy conditions this spring.

Lennard Zinn gets a heads up from a reader about some earlier advice.

With the Giro d’Italia in the rearview mirror, European racing shifts gears into a series of transition races as anticipation grows for July’s Tour de France.

Organizers of the Tour of Ireland have canceled the 2010 edition of the stage race, which had been scheduled for August 18-22.

Jelly Belly's Jeremy Powers tells his Amgen Tour of California stories, from the big breaks to the 'dots.'

Saxo Bank's Fabian Cancellara on on Tuesday dismissed claims that he used a motorised bike when winning this season's Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix classics.

Cervélo TestTeam was one of the revelations of last year’s Tour de France, but the team is patiently waiting word whether top stars Carlos Sastre and Thor Hushovd will be lining up July 3 in Rotterdam.

Memorial Day might be a holiday in the U.S., but it was Canadian riders who had reason to celebrate the return of the Killington Stage Race this weekend after a 10-year hiatus.

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Spanish cyclist Alejandro Valverde on Monday received a two-year ban from world sport's top court, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), over his implication in the Operación Puerto drugs scandal, which erupted in 2006.

Following the second event of the 2010 USA Cycling Professional Tour, HTC-Columbia's Michael Rogers leads the series' individual standings.