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Constantino Zaballa (Loule-Louletano) makes a daring solo attack in the final stage of the Vuelta a Asturias and rides away with the stage victory and overall title.

Alejandro Valverde (Caisse d'Epargne) wins the final stage and takes the overall victory in the Tour de Romandie.

Marco Pinotti and André Greipel will lead HTC-Columbia at the 2010 Giro d’Italia, where American Craig Lewis will make his grand-tour debut.

Judging by the volume of article comments (many of them removed to keep this a family Web site), cycling fans are more interested in one of the SRAM Tour of the Gila podium girls than almost any aspect of the New Mexican stage race.

VeloNews Editor in Chief Ben Delaney participated in a remote round table discussion with CNN interviewer Larry King on Thursday, discussion Floyd Landis' admission that he doped and Landis' allegations against Lance Armstrong and others.

Taylor Phinney made it two in a row for his Trek-Livestrong squad on Saturday by winning the SRAM Tour of the Gila criterium, outsprinting Ivan Dominguez (Jamis-Sutter Home).

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Defending champion Levi Leipheimer sits in a position that is at once comfortable yet precarious heading into the final stage of the SRAM Tour of the Gila.

Things went smooth for Peanut Butter & Co. on Saturday, as the team ably protected Mara Abbott's race lead and took a stage win to boot.

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Silver City, New Mexico, woke up to crystal blue skies and a bit of a chill Saturday, as drivers poured over the scrubby high desert and through the mountains from Las Cruces, El Paso, Tucson and Albuquerque to gawk at the SRAM Tour of the Gila downtown criterium and its star riders.

Saxo's Rasmusen wins GP Herning

Duarte assumes lead at Asturias

Spilak takes stage at Romandie, Rogers keeps lead

2010 Giro d'Italia stage details

Results from the 2010 Rund um den Finanzplatz Eschborn-Frankfurt.

Fabian Wegmann (Milram) comes back from a broken collarbone to win the Rund um den Finanzplatz Eschborn-Frankfurt.

Results from the 2010 Spartanburg Downtown Criterium.

Jacob Keough (UnitedHealthcare-Maxxis) and Theresa Cliff-Ryan (Colavita-Baci) take the Spartanburg Downtown Criterium in South Carolina.

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Jesse Sergent (Trek-Livestrong) shocked the star-studded field at the SRAM Tour of the Gila Friday, winning the 16.15-mile Tyrone time trial in 34:09, 14 seconds ahead of race leader Levi Leipheimer (Mellow Johnny's).

Increased anti-doping protocols planned for Amgen Tour

Porte wins Romandie TT, Rogers takes over lead

Ace sprinter Mark Cavendish admitted he let emotions get the best of him Thursday when he gave an Italian version of a two-finger salute as he crossed the line victorious in the second stage at the Tour de Romandie.

Michael Barry and Bradley Wiggins headline Team Sky as the British team makes its grand tour debut at the Giro d’Italia.

The proliferation of helmet, or "wearable," cameras has never been greater, and there is one to fit just about every budget. Singletrack.com takes a look at the GoPro Hero, Epic Wide, the V.I.O. 1.5 and the ContourHD.

Olympic champion Samuel Sánchez turns his attention to the Tour de France.

On Thursday the wind turned SRAM Tour of the Gila into a survival test for many women. Colavita-Baci's Carmen Small won in a two-woman breakaway with teammate Andrea Dvorak, and the team's Cath Cheatley won the sprint for third. Mara Abbott of Peanut Butter & Co. Twenty12 used her powerful team to maximum effect, retaining her overall lead.

With the Tour de France just nine weeks away, a windblown Lance Armstrong was candid about his condition at the SRAM Tour of the Gila. It’s not great, but it’s coming around, he said. “Yesterday I did not have a good day; I was off,” Armstrong told VeloNews. “Today I felt better.”

Levi Leipheimer doesn't often challenge for sprint finishes, but on a blustery day in New Mexico Thursday, the SRAM Tour of the Gila race leader saw an opportunity and jumped on it, and almost came away with a second consecutive stage win.

South Carolina's Team Global Bike hits Speedweek trying not only for wins but also to raise awareness for Global Bike, a volunteer organization that provides bikes to developing countries.

Sastre sees strong Giro support

Vicioso takes over at Vuelta a Asturias

Cavendish takes stage at Romandie, Sagan keeps jersey

U.S. Scene This Week: Speed Week, Gila top the calendar

This year, Cervelo TestTeam's Ted King is seeing the front of the 2010 Euro peloton, and he likes what he sees.

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1. Aaron Kemps, Fly V Australia 2. Hilton Clarke, OUCH-Bahati Foundation 3. Andrew Pinfold, UnitedHealthcare-Maxxis 4. Jay Thomson, Fly V Australia 5. Matthew Crane, UnitedHealthcare-Maxxis

Levi Leipheimer opened up his defense of his SRAM Tour of the Gila title the same way he took his first red jersey in the race a year - with a solo win on the mountain-top finish Mogollon stage.

Burke Swindlehurst headed back to the SRAM Tour of the Gila for the 16th time this week, but for the rider with the race's greatest number of stage wins (six) to his credit, Gila is a whole new beast this year.

Sagan takes over at Romandie

Basque sprinter Pablo Urtasun delivered victory his for Euskaltel-Euskadi team in Wednesday’s opener at the five-day Vuelta a Asturias in northern Spain.

Aaron Kemps (Fly V Australia) put his Australian national champion’s skinsuit on display Tuesday night, winning the third stop of USA Crits SpeedWeek in Beaufort, South Carolina.

Former LPR rider Gabriele Bosisio was hit with a two-year suspension by the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) on Wednesday after testing positive for the banned blood-booster EPO last fall.

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Wind gusts of up to 65 mph could batter riders during this week's SRAM Tour of the Gila. Besides the high winds — which are expected from Wednesday's opening stage through Saturday — rank and file pro riders will have to contend with the strongest fields, for men and women, ever assembled for the 24-year-old New Mexican race.

Results, Tour de Romandie

HTC-Columbia's Marco Pinotti won the prologue of the Tour de Romandie in Porrentruy, Switzerland, on Tuesday.

There was so much new equipment introduced at Sea Otter that it will take a few columns here to do it justice.

Defending Tour de France champion Alberto Contador took to the treacherous cobbled roads of northern France on Tuesday, preparing for terrain he admits could dent his bid for a third yellow jersey this year.

In a week that’s seen some ghosts of doping past step up and win big races after serving bans, yet another rider with a notorious past was back on the winner’s podium.

BMC fires Frei after doping admission

A word of warning: Don’t test ride Zipp’s 303 tubular wheels. If you do, you’ll be compelled to buy them.

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Astana’s Alexandre Vinokourov fires back at his critics, asking, "In what other sport are you allowed to participate without the right to win?"

Philippe Gilbert (Omega Pharma-Lotto) replaces Luis Leon Sanchez (Caisse d’Epargne) at the top of the UCI rankings.

For Singletrack.com columnist and pro XC racer Judy Freeman, the Sea Otter Classic is all about the bike — with some racing thrown into the Monterey mix.

Sylvain Chavanel will miss the Tour de France after crashing into another team's car during Liège-Bastogne-Liège.

"The sniper," Katusha's Alexandr Kolobnev, is taking aim at the Tour — and the worlds.

Results from the 2010 Historic Roswell Criterium.

Team Type 1 Ken Hanson and Theresa Clif-Ryan (Colavita-Baci) rock the ninth annual Historic Roswell Criterium.

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2010 Athens Twilight Criterium results

Carmen Small (Colavita-Baci) and Luis Amaran (Jamis-Sutter Home) showed New Mexico cycling fans that olive oil and wine go hand in hand as they won the omnium competitions Saturday at the Roadrunner Classic in Albuquerque.

Fly V's Tanner wins the final stage and the team wraps up a win for Darren Lill at Arizona's stage race

Nature Valley Grand Prix is banning aero equipment at its opening time trial, to even the playing field.

2010 Little 500 results

Frank Schleck got a warm round of applause from fans crowding around the Saxo Bank team bus Sunday, but it couldn’t erase his disappointment at not being able to win Liège-Bastogne-Liège.

Despite getting booed as he crossed the finish line Sunday in victory at Liège-Bastogne-Liège, a repentant Alexander Vinokourov (Astana) said fans and journalists should believe him when he says his win was clean.

2010 Liège-Bastogne-Liège results

Alexander Vinokourov (Astana) wins Liège-Bastogne-Liège.

In torrential rains, UnitedHealthcare's Karl Menzies and Colavita's Theresa Cliff-Ryan stay clear of the problems in Georgia.

Floyd Landis will wear a big OUCH on his chest for another season. The OUCH Sports Medicine Center is new co-sponsor of the pro cycling team formed by Rashaan Bahati, now to be known as the OUCH-Bahati Foundation team. Landis joined the team last month.

OUCH Sports Medical Center is the new co-title sponsor for the Bahati Foundation team, now to be called OUCH-Bahati Foundation.

Fly V's Darren Lill extends his GC lead, as UnitedHealthcare's Rory Sutherland wins the time trial.

Aften Euro' campaign is delayed by volcanic flight delays, Kelly Benefit Strategies gets over to Brittany for some pre-California race prep.

VeloNews European correspondent Andrew Hood snaps some pix of Alexander Vinokourov's flashy new Specialized.

Darren Lill (Fly V Australia) wins the Sulphur Springs Road Race and takes the lead in La Vuelta de Bisbee.

Angel Vicioso Arcos (Andalucia Cajasur) wins the 61st Grand Prix Llodio.