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There are a lot of big names expected for the 101st edition of Milan-San Remo next month, but Riccardo Riccò isn’t among them.

The first stage of the 2010 Amgen Tour of California will mark the 50th anniversary of one of the oldest races in America when it starts in Nevada City on May 16.

Linus Gerdemann (Milram) took an early-season win in Tuesday’s mountainous Trofeo Inca at the Mallorca Challenge. The former Tour de France yellow jersey-wearer escaped over the day’s final hurdle at the Cat. 1 Puig Major in the 157.2km stage over the highest climbs on Mallorca to claim victory ahead of two fellow escapees.

In three days of racing in the winds at the Tour of Qatar, four men have broken their collarbones after crashing.

The beefed-up BMC squad began its racing season in earnest at the Tour of Qatar this week

Quick Step’s Tom Boonen sprinted to victory in the third stage of the Tour of Qatar on Tuesday, powering in ahead of Heinrich Haussler (Cervélo TestTeam) and Saxo Bank’s Baden Cooke

Óscar Freire (Rabobank) was back in the winner’s circle Monday for the first time in nine months with victory in the second day of the Mallorca Challenge.

Tejay Van Garderen made his professional debut in Sunday’s opening day of the Mallorca Challenge, safely finishing 69th in the main field proudly wearing the HTC-Columbia team colors

American sprinter Tyler Farrar came to the Tour of Qatar with a prototype Mavic wheelset.

Lennard Zinn takes a close look at four sets of carbon wheels.

A new national track series aims to rally the best of the best – tracks and racers – for a chance to be named ATRA’s National Champion. The American Track Racing Association (ATRA) National Championship Series includes 11 events across the country.

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New collegiate time trial rules were in effect as the Southeast Collegiate Cycling Conference began its season with a race in sunny Gainesville, Florida, on Saturday and Sunday.

Southeast Collegiate Cycling Conference Gainesville, Florida, Feb 6-7, 2010

Ben Delaney takes a look at Edvald Boasson Hagen's Pinarello Dogma 60.1 bike.

Certain dates in cycling history have earned far greater importance than others — among them February 7, which saw an inauspicious debut and an untimely departure.

This week's racing brings the Mallorca Challenge, the Tour Mediterranéen and the Tour of Qatar.

Geert Steurs (Topsport) wins Stage 2 of the Tour of Qatar.

Robbie McEwen's back in the winner's circle after taking Sunday's Trofeo Palma, the kickoff to the five-day Mallorca Challenge in Spain.

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Samuel Dumoulin overcomes relegation in Stage 4 to take the overall at the Etoile de Bessèges.

Editor in chief Ben Delaney's snaps from Stage 1 of the 2010 Tour of Qatar.

German sprinter Gerald Ciolek and his Milram squad are riding Focus bikes this season.

It was a day of firsts for the Trek-Livestrong team at Stage 1 of the Tour of Qatar.

It was a day of firsts for Trek-Livestrong at the 2010 Tour of Qatar,

Sven Nys wins the seventh round of the Superprestige cyclocross series in Zonhoven.

Geert Steurs wins Stage 2 and Wouter Mol takes the lead at the 2010 Tour of Qatar.

Team Sky's eight-man squad flew to victory in the opening team trial at the Tour of Qatar. Sky posted a time of 9:41 on the windswept 8.2km course.

VeloNews.com will be following neo-pro rider Kirk Carlsen throughout the season as the 22-year-old rider races and trains around the world.

Luís León Sánchez, who pipped compatriot and friend Alberto Contador to win last year’s Paris-Nice, won’t be back to defend his title in 2010. The Caisse d’Epargne rider said he doesn’t want the pressure of riding Paris-Nice as defending champion and instead will race in Tirreno-Adriatico and avoid a showdown with Contador in the Race to the Sun.

French rider Arnaud Molmy pulled the double Saturday, winning the fourth stage at the l’Etoile de Bessèges and moving into the overall lead in what proved to be a controversial finale.

Boonen confident for Tour of Qatar: Qatar plus Tour of Oman will be good training for the classics, the Belgian sprinter says

Samuel Dumoulin (Cofidis) notched a victory in Friday’s third stage at the l’Etoile de Bessèges. Dumoulin out-kicked Borut Bozic (Vacansoleil) to end his two-day winning streak at the five-day French race. Bozic, winner of the opening two stages, came through second and retained the overall lead.

The record cold blasting Spain hasn’t kept 2008 Tour de France champion Carlos Sastre from training hard.

After her teammates spent much of the day chasing down breaks and keeping her in position, Cervélo TestTeam’s Kirsten Wild won the stage 3 sprint finish and thereby the overall title at the second Ladies Tour of Qatar.

Luxembourg's Franck Schleck said Friday he wanted to continue to race in the same team as his 2009 Tour de France runner-up brother Andy despite doubts over the future of their Saxo Bank team.

If the classics are known for the cobbles and the bergs, the Tour of Qatar is known for the wind. The six-day men’s race is dead flat, yet the field can often be shattered by ferocious desert crosswinds. The preceding three-day Ladies Tour of Qatar has already had a taste of the sideways forces, with stage 2 shortened for conditions Thursday.

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Italy's Giorgia Bronzini improved on her second place in stage 1 by winning the second stage and taking the overall lead of the Ladies Tour of Qatar on Thursday.

Jason Sumner visits the Vermarc clothing factory in Belgium - where Tom Boonen's clothing is made.

Following a breakthrough 2009 season, highlighted by a mountaintop stage victory in the Vuelta a España, it’s no surprise that Ryder Hesjedal is hungry for more.

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Lithuania’s Raissa Lelivyte won the opening stage of the second annual Ladies Tour of Qatar on Wednesday. The 20-year-old with the Italian Safi-Pasta Zara Manhattan team out sprinted a 30-woman pack at the end of the 104km stage from the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha to Al Khor Corniche.

Tasmanian Belinda Goss added to an impressive list of victories when she collected her fourth straight points race gold medal at the Australian Track Cycling Championships at Adelaide's Super-Drome on Wednesday.

Tom Boonen is looking for a smoother ride following a 2009 season that spiked and dipped like the Dow Jones

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After a long history with Shimano, Armstrong is joining the rest of his RadioShack team on Look Keo Blade pedals for 2010.

Race radios for riders will be banned in nearly all USA Cycling road and track races going forward. The USCF Board of Trustees met this week and on Tuesday afternoon amended the rule regarding radios in response to a request from the UCI.

In Michael Barry's first column of the new year, he talks about his new team, Sky, and the sharp transition from winter training to racing.

Norwegian Thor Hushovd has pulled out of the Etoile de Besseges stage race because of illness, his Cervelo TestTeam said Tuesday.

Garmin-Transitions' Jack Bobridge claimed his second individual pursuit title in emphatic style Tuesday, setting the third fastest time ever for the four-kilometer event, Cycling Australia announced.

Readers offer feedback on the subject of latex tubes and high-speed blow-outs.

Two trips in the race ambulance help Amber Neben find growth in embracing adversity.

Can world road champ Cadel Evans (BMC) win the Giro d’Italia or Tour de France before it’s too late? He thinks so.

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Reporting to us from southern California, Neal Rogers managed to snap a few photos of the sparkling BMC bikes of the eponymous ProTour team.

HTC-Columbia veteran Ina-Yoko Teutenberg is startlingly forthright, fiercely protective of her teammates and profoundly driven to win.

Press Release: Cycling legend Greg LeMond and Trek Bicycle Corporation announced an agreement to close out all remaining issues for the business venture they began in 1995, and to provide funding for a charity near Greg’s heart.

The collegiate cycling season kicked off this weekend with the University of Arizona Criterium in Tucson

Danilo Di Luca draws a two-year suspension after testing positive for CERA during the 2009 Giro.

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Alessandro Petacchi wins Stage 2 of the Giro della Provincia Reggio Calabria. Matteo Montaguti retains the overall lead.

Alessandro Petacchi (Lampre-Farnese Vini) wins Stage 2 of the Giro della Provincia Reggio Calabria.

Jonathan Hivert (Saur-Sojasun) wins the French road-racing opener of 2010.

Jonathan Hivert (Saur Sojasun) wins the French season kickoff, the GP La Marseillaise.

World Cup champion Zdenek Stybar delights the home-country crowd with a commanding victory in the UCI Cyclocross World Championships in Tabor, Czech Republic.

Marianne Vos leads wire to wire to add a third world cyclocross crown to her already bulging palmares.

European season opens in Reggio Calabria

Results from the Southwestern Collegiate Cycling Conference

HTC-Columbia Women's Team gets its racing season underway in the Tour of Qatar next week, and they're aiming for a strong start to 2010.

It was brotherly love, or at least appeared to be, on the podium Saturday as Pawel and Kacper Szczepaniak went one-two in the U-23 cyclocross world championships in Tabor.

Czech rider Tomaš Paprstka held off Julian Alaphilippe of France to win the world junior cyclocross title in Tabor, the Czech Republic, on Saturday. Dutchman Emiel Dolfs rounded out the top three.

It is Steve Bauer’s goal to take Team SpiderTech powered by Planet Energy to the Tour de France in 2012. Moreover, he wants to see a team member in the yellow jersey. If that happens, it will have been 22 years since a Canadian last donned the Maillot Jaune and you would be correct if you guessed that the last Canadian to do so was Bauer himself.

Vania Rossi, a top Italian cyclocross racer and girlfriend of Riccardo Ricco, has tested positive for the blood booster CERA, the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) announced Friday.

The Adidas Adizero and Ryders Sprint sunglasses are lightweight, but are they great fitting?

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Casey Gibson spent another day at BMC's January camp in California.