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VeloNews.com's panel of Amgen Tour of Colorado racers analyze Tuesday's stage 3.

2010 Amgen Tour of California stage 2 results

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Replay: Live coverage of stage 2 of the 2010 Amgen Tour of California

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

In 2005, former All-American 800-meter runner Paul Mach showed up to his first group ride in Davis, California. Five years later, he returns to City Park Monday morning wearing the red and yellow King of the Mountains jersey at the Amgen Tour of California.

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

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Casey B. Gibson captures the scene on the Nevada City to Sacramento stage

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.

Replay: Live coverage of the 2010 Amgen Tour of California stage 1

2010 Amgen Tour of California stage 1 results

Mark Cavendish starts off his 2010 Amgen Tour of California with a stage win in Sacramento

Five Amgen Tour of California riders preview Monday's second stage.

Coryn Rivera (Peanut Butter & Co.-Twenty12) strung her junior gears out in front of the capitol building as she bested a top field in the Sacramento Grand Prix Sunday. Fresh off a European stint with the U.S. National Team, the second-year pro stole the bunch sprint on the finishing circuits of stage 1 at the Amgen Tour of California.

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.

Start List: Amgen Tour of California

After all the pre-race pomp and circumstance, the fifth edition of the Amgen Tour of California rolls out of gold-mining town Nevada City at 11:45 a.m. Sunday morning, finishing in Sacramento roughly four hours later. Here is a look at the course.

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Results from the 2010 Tour de l'Aude.

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

Kiel Reijnen will make an emotional return to Nevada City for the start of stage 1 at the Amgen Tour of California Sunday. The second-year pro and his Jelly Belly-Kenda teammates will don purple wristbands and raise funds in remembrance of Reijnen’s aunt, who was murdered in neighboring Grass Valley in 2005.

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

Results from the 2010 Tour de Picardie.

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.

Euskaltel-Euskadi's Mikel Astarloza announces that he has been suspended for a positive doping control, but plans to appeal.

Seven-time Tour champ admits nothing is guaranteed, but adds that he believes he can win in July

Flanked by compatriots Lance Armstrong and Dave Zabriskie, RadioShack’s three-time Amgen Tour of California champion Levi Leipheimer sat front and center at a pre-race press conference Friday afternoon in Sacramento, stating that he was prepared to defend his title against a world-class field competing in America’s biggest race.

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The Amgen Tour of California is two days from its start in Nevada City, Calif. and race organizers have pleaded for cooperation from fans in keeping the roads paint-free. According to technical director Chuck Hodge, the tour risks permit losses going forward if the traditional practice of road painting continues.

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

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It's all California

On the eve of the fifth Amgen Tour of California, a pair of American overall favorites — three-time winner Levi Leipheimer and two-time runner-up Dave Zabriskie — spoke with VeloNews, assessing the riders most likely to win America’s biggest race, including each other.

Thor Hushovd — the defending Tour de France green jersey champion who broke his collarbone during a training ride in Italy on Sunday — underwent a successful operation Monday.

From climbing to cornering to accelerating, the Top Fuel 9.8 wants to race.

2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 5 results

The third part in our series on training for Grand Fondos and other long rides. This week's subject: climbing.

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

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Peanut Butter & Co's Mara Abbott takes the lead of the series after her overall win at the SRAM Tour of the Gila.

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

Having the Giro begin in Amsterdam was like mixing opera with Ska.

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

Officials have adjusted results for the SRAM Tour of the Gila to restore Dave Zabriskie to the final overall podium, bumping Phil Zajicek back down to fourth, race director Jack Brennan told VeloNews on Tuesday.

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

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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.

Jason Donald (OUCH-Bahati Foundation) and Kyle Wamsley (Bissell) left the Joe Martin Stage Race final day criterium with fractured clavicles after going down during Sunday's 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

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Marian University (of Indianapolis, Indiana) emerged victorious in an ultra-close USA Cycling Collegiate National Championship, which was decided by the final event of the weekend — a team time trial held at the Trek Bicycles headquarters in Madison, Wisconsin.

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