Xavier Florencio has been suspended by his team on the eve of the Tour de France after he was found to have violated the squad’s anti-doping policies by using medication without notifying medical staff.
Alberto Contador admits he doesn’t have the strongest team in the Tour de France, but he’ll be sleeping easier at night knowing that his eight Astana teammates this year will be working for him.
Cadel Evans looked decidedly less upbeat and confident the day before he begins his bid to relaunch his Tour de France career after a disappointing performance in 2009.
Tour de France sprint king Mark Cavendish admitted he could face a tougher challenge from his rivals this year as he takes aim at more stage wins in the three-week race.
Inside the Tour with John Wilcockson: With scattered thunderstorms, a 40-percent chance of rain and a brisk north wind in the forecast for Rotterdam Saturday, the 97th Tour de France could open with some major surprises.
Ina Teutenberg (HTC-Columbia) won the first stage of the Giro Donne ahead of Giorgia Bronzini (Gause RDZ Ormu) and Kirsten Wild (Cérvelo), taking the race’s first leader’s jersey.
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Start times for 2010 Tour de France prologue.
Team HTC-Columbia brings a squad to this year’s Tour de France capable of winning stages of all types.
Russian challenger Denis Menchov claims he has the form to finally give his Rabobank team a reason to cheer during the Tour de France this month.
Brushing off rumors of the immenent departure of his two star riders, Saxo Bank's Bjarne Riis says his team's focus is solely on winning this Tour de France.
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The New England classic NRC race has a new stage order that is sure to shake up the GC.
BMC introduces its newest frame at the Tour de France. The impec boasts in-house carbon weaving and highly tunable ride characteristics.
A photo report from the team introduction Thursday.
The seven-time Tour de France champion is planning another comeback next year — in triathlon.
Carlos Sastre says he's uncertain about his condition for this Tour, but is certain he will fight to the end.
Depending on his perspective, American Tyler Farrar enters his second Tour de France with either no pressure at all, or more pressure than he’s faced in his career.
Team RadioShack is one of the few teams not hosting a pre-race press conference in Rotterdam.
Thor optimistic for Tour green
Graham Watson stage 10 photos
Garmin-Transitions' top GC rider starting Tour with pain and uncertainty
The Garmin-Transitions team has ambitious goals as it heads into its third Tour de France.
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Tour de France chief Christian Prudhomme believes the quality of challenger to reigning champion Alberto Contador will make for the most openly competitive race in years.
The Tour de France is about surviving and hanging on for three weeks, but some big names are missing out this year even before the race leaves the start house with Saturday’s prologue in Rotterdam.
Swiss rider Thomas Frei has been handed a two-year ban after testing positive for the banned EPO in March, the Swiss Olympic committee announced on Wednesday.
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Quick Step names Boonen replacement for Tour
Pereiro to retire after Vuelta
It's a Riccò violation.
Shimano unveils the new Dura-Ace PD-7900 pedal and C35 wheels ahead of the Tour de France.
Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong announced on Twitter Monday that this year's Tour with his RadioShack teammates will his final one.
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Damiano Cunego and Alessandro Petacchi will be in the hunt for stage victories as the pair leads Lampre-Farnese Vini at the 2010 Tour de France.
Recently crowned French national champion Thomas Voeckler will lead Bouygues Telecom while Cofidis brings a squad full of stage-hunters.
Rinaldo Nocentini has battled back from injury to return to the 2010 Tour de France with Ag2r-La Mondiale.
Michael Olheiser (TriStar) had time to zip his dark blue jersey up before crossing the line alone on the front of the U.S. men’s elite national road race championship Sunday in Bend, Oregon.
For 2011, Specialized has a new women’s race bike that isn’t a watered-down men’s model.
Ivan Basso (Liquigas) says returning to the Tour de France for the first time since 2005 makes him an outsider for victory and insists the favorite will be Alberto Contador.
A crash at the Critérium du Dauphiné will keep former King of the Mountains winner Juan Mauricio Soler sidelined during the 2010 Tour de France.
Bahati Foundation's Yosvany Falcon and Southern California Velo's Pam Schuster won Sunday's Manhattan Beach Grand Prix criterium in California.
2010 Manhattan Beach Grand Prix results
Michael Olheiser won the men's elite national road championships in Bend, Oregon, Sunday, attacking on the Archie Briggs climb on the penultimate lap and solo'ing to the finish.
2010 USA Cycling elite men's national road race championships results
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2010 USA Cycling womens road race championships results
The French have long given up on trying to win the Tour de France, so it’s no surprise that FDJeux brings a team loaded with opportunists looking for a shot at a stage victory.
Mara Abbott (Peanut Butter & Co.-Twenty12) won Sunday's women's elite road nationals in Bend, Oregon, solo'ing across the finish line about 5 seconds ahead of a chase group.
Alberto Contador admits that his Astana squad might not be the strongest, but at least he’s not losing sleep over whom it will be backing come July.
Many national jerseys changed hands Sunday as many European countries held their championship road and time trial events.
Specialized kicked off its 2011 product presentation this weekend at Keystone Resort in Colorado.
Ben King (Trek-Livestrong) attacked out of a three-man break and soloed to victory on Saturday in the men’s U23 national road race championship.
Results from stage 9 of the 2010 Tour of America's Dairyland.
Sarah Caravella (Team CARD) and James Stemper (Kenda-Geargrinder) defend their respective in the Tour of America’s Dairyland.
After crashing out of the Women’s Elite criterium Friday night at the USA Cycling national road championships, Brooke Miller (Tibco-To The Top) spoke with VeloNews about the crash that split the front of the race and her emotions after the finish.
Andy Schleck crashes, but OK for Tour
Shelley Evans (Peanut Butter & Co.-2012) survived a late crash Friday evening to power to a win in the women's criterium at the USA Cycling road national championships.
Vande Velde, Farrar lead Garmin into Tour de France
Phinney resting up before splitting rest of season with Shack, national team
Reaney grabs elite criterium title
Talansky to carry TT title to Garmin in 2011
Tour of America's Dairyland - Results
2010 Tour de France stage maps
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.