Road

Bernard Eisel (HTC-Columbia) takes Ghent-Wevelgem.

Pierrick Fedrigo (Bbox Bouygues Telecom) wins the Critérium International.

Joaquim Rodriguez (Katusha) wins the 90th Tour of Catalonia.

Sky’s Russell Downing won the 75 kilometer second stage of the Criterium International in Porto-Vecchio, Corsica, on Sunday.

Hilton Clarke (Bahati Foundation) and Theresa Cliff-Ryan (Colavita-Baci) won the stage 2 criteriums at the Redlands Bicycle Classic.

Luna Chix Katerina Nash and Marla Streb offer some off-season training tips for the Sea Otter Classic in April.

Double Tour de France champion Alberto Contador endured a painful start to the Criterium International on Saturday when he suffered an allergic attack.

Former skier Tara Whitten of Canada won the women's omnium gold at the world track cycling championships in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Saturday.

2010 E3 Prijs Vlaanderen-Harelbeke results

Track cycling speed queen Victoria Pendleton eased the pressure on medal-shy Britain by winning her fourth consecutive and fifth career sprint title at the world championships Saturday.

France's Samuel Dumoulin of the Cofidis team won the sixth stage of the Tour of Catalonia, a 161.9km run between el Vendrell and Barcelona in north-eastern Spain on Saturday.

Australian Cameron Meyer claimed his third gold of the world track cycling championships when he teamed up with Leigh Howard to win the men's Madison crown on Saturday.

Two-time world pursuit champion Taylor Phinney is Trek-Livestrong’s marquee rider.

France's defending world champion Gregory Bauge drew first blood in the battle for men's sprint supremacy when he dominated qualifying at the world track cycling championships Saturday.

After training hard all winter in anticipation of his ProTour debut, New Hampshire native Kirk Carlsen came out flying at the Tour of Qatar in February.

There was a time when New Zealand's dreams of Olympic gold in track cycling revolved around the endurance and pursuit teams. But that is about to change.

Photo Galleries - 2010 Redlands Bicycle Classic

Fresh off a victory at the Belgian semi-classic Dwars door Vlaanderen, Danish road champion Matti Breschel is eager for more success at the upcoming classics. A key Saxo Bank teammate of Fabian Cancellara, Breschel proved his own ability last year, placing sixth at the Tour of Flanders and 10th at Paris-Roubaix. He will take the start Sunday at Ghent-Wevelgem.

Amber Neben became the first rider to defend the Redlands leader's jersey on the Beaumont circuit Friday, finishing at the same time as stage winner Ina-Yoko Teutenberg (HTC-Columbia), who now sits 14 seconds behind Neben on the GC.

Teun Mulder of the Netherlands upset French hopes of a first gold at the world track championships Friday when he blitzed his way in record time to victory in the men's kilometer.

Slovenian Mark Kump (Adria) won the fourth stage of the Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali on Friday, outsprinting Lampre's Simone Ponzi and De Rosa's Claudio Corion on the 184km stage from Rovigo to Finale Emilia.

Australia narrowly edged New Zealand in qualifying for the men's team pursuit gold medal ride-off and will now meet Britain later Friday at the world track cycling championships.

In what’s good news for French racing, French credit company Cofidis le Credit en Ligne has decided to extend its title sponsorship through 2012.

Sprinter Ivan Dominguez, the Cuban Missile turned American citizen, has won a stage in each of the major American tours — California, Georgia and Missouri — but will not have the opportunity to add to that tally at this year’s Amgen Tour of California, as his Jamis-Sutter Home team has not received an invitation to the race.

Davide Malacarne (QuickStep) won the fifth stage of the Tour of Catalonia, a 181.2-kilometer race from Asco to Cabaces in northeastern Spain on Friday.

Astana's Alberto Contador insisted on Friday that he was not trying to send a message to Lance Armstrong by lining up against him in the Criterium International this weekend.

Chris Hoy, the reigning Olympic sprint champion who missed the world championships last year due to injury, could face his biggest challenge yet as he bids to win back the title.

Britain will insist that only the London Olympics really matter, but track cycling's world pacesetters were left trailing for the second day in a row by a rampant Australia on Thursday.

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2010 Lindenwood University collegiate results

Amber Neben (Dare To Be-BMW-Bianchi) flew into the 2010 National Racing Calendar Thursday with the prologue win at the Redlands Bicycle Classic ahead of Mara Abbott (Peanut Butter & Co. Twenty12) and Evelyn Stevens (HTC-Columbia).

The splits: Phinney v. Sergent for the gold

American Taylor Phinney easily beat New Zealand's Jesse Sergent to successfully defend his individual pursuit title at the world track championships in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Thursday.

A tired reader asks how to tell if he is overtrained.

Britain's four-time Olympic champion Sir Chris Hoy reclaimed his world keirin crown after a dominating display in the final of the men's event at the world track cycling championships Thursday.

Andrew Hood chats with veteran sprinter and lead-out man Julian Dean on his career and how he can help Tyler Farrar beat Mark Cavendish in the sprints this year.

Saxo Bank's Jens Voigt won the fourth stage of the Tour of Catalonia on Thursday, a 210-kilometer state from Oliana to Asco in northeastern Spain.

Australia's women's pursuit team defeated reigning world champions Britain in the gold medal ride-off on Thursday at the world track cycling championships.

The National Racing Calendar will roll into Anniston, Alabama and onto web-enabled devices during the Sunny King Criterium on April 17th.

A reader asks about those riders who have won in their first appearance at the Tour de France.

2010 Redlands Bicycle Classic time trial start list

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RadioShack will include Americans Lance Armstrong,Chris Horner and Matt Busche on its Criterium International team this weekend.

This weekend took the Atlantic Conference to Doswell, Virginia, and the Virginia State Fairgrounds for races hosted by both Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Virginia. Both Saturday and Sunday were criteriums around the same loop, though with some changes to the parking lot section of the course. In addition to Saturday’s mostly flat and rectangle course, one end included a section of four quick 180-degree turns, providing more pedal scraping and occasional crashing than actual pedaling. Sunday, which was reversed, was bit more moderate, with only two 180’s in addition to the rectangle.

World sprint champion Gregory Bauge selflessly blamed himself on Wednesday as France lost their coveted team sprint crown to Germany at the world track cycling championships. Germany, who last won the three-lap power event at world level in 2003, clocked a winning time of 43.433 to leave France, the champions since 2006, with the silver medal.

The U.S.'s Sarah Hammer held off Britain's Wendy Houvenaghel to reclaim the women's individual pursuit title at the world track cycling championships on Wednesday.

Australia's Cam Meyer defended his world's points race title Wednesday at the world championships in Copenhagen.

Rain comes to Lindenwood as the Midwest Conference rolls into Spring Break season.

Saxo Bank's Danish road champion Matt Breschel won Wednesday's Dwars door Vlaanderen, the 204-kilometer Belgian semi-classic, in a 22-kilometer solo breakaway.

2010 Dwars door Vlaanderen results

Spain's Xavier Tondo (Cervelo TestTeam) won Wednesday's third stage of the Tour of Catalonia, a 185.9-kilometre run from La Vall d'En Bas to La Seu d'Urgell in northeastern Spain.

Britain's Wendy Houvenaghel will face former world champion Sarah Hammer of the USA in the women's 3000 meter pursuit gold match at the world track cycling championships later Wednesday.

With the Tour of California moving to May this year, the first major test of the U.S. racing calendar returns to late March in Redlands, California.

Jason Queally, Olympic gold winner in the men's kilometer at the Sydney Games in 2000, is making an audacious bid for a coveted place in Britain's world-beating pursuit team at this week’s world track championships.

2010 UCI Track World Championships results

Breaking 14-year-old world records might not yet be on Jack Bobridge's radar, but all eyes should be riveted on the Australian Thursday in the men's pursuit at the world track championships.

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Garmin-Transitions rider Cam Meyer will be racing the track world championships for Australia on a distinctively shaped new handlebar from 3T.

2010 Track World Championships galleries

Graham Watson's gallery from stage 2 of the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya.

This year a composite team of American military members will compete in the Race Across America with the goal of raising $100,000 for the Wounded Warrior Project.

Liquigas takes a double-stage day as the Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali gets under way.

Americans Taylor Phinney and Sarah Hammer are looking forward to a little friendly competition as track worlds kick off Wednesday in Denmark.

HTC-Columbia speedster Mark Cavendish sprints to victory in stage 2 of the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya.

Cervélo's Dominique Rollin is back after a battle with mononucleosis, and this season he hopes to race his way onto the podium instead of into the doctor's office.

Sir Chris Hoy is back on track for the 2010 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Colombia swept the 2010 South American Games road cycling events this week, as former ProTour rider Santiago Botero won the games' time trial and road race and Colombians Maria Luisa Calle and Ana Paola Villegas won the women's time trial and road race, respectively.

Lennard Zinn's readers weigh in on ways to choose, fix and maintain tires and those super-narrow 11-speed chains.

A wild swing in the weather, from over 60 degrees on Thursday to blizzard conditions early Friday morning forced the cancellation of two out of the three events Colorado State University intended to host this weekend. Saturday’s crit and short team time trial got the axe, while Sunday’s classic Oval Criterium continued as planned.

2010 CSU Oval Criterium results

2010 Philly Phlyer results

Penn State University used its depth to edge out overall Divison 1 leader University of Pennsylvania for top honors this weekend, scoring no fewer than 30 points in every race category to better UPenn 212 to 188. Rounding out the podium with 164 points was MIT.

Andrew Hood takes a look at what's sure to be one of the busiest weeks of the year.

2010 Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali results

2010 Tour of Catalonia gallery

Milram's Paul Voss won Monday's prologue at the Tour of Catalonia, beating RadioShack's Levi Leipheimer by one second over the 3.6-kilometer course. RadioShack's Andreas Kloeden was third, another second back.