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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.

2010 Tour of Catalonia results

Johan Bruyneel says the Giro d'Italia didn't fit Team RadioShack's plans for 2010 — instead, the team will focus on defending Levi Leipheimer's streak at the Amgen Tour of California.

Alberto Contador is skipping the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya in favor of the Critérium International — where Lance Armstrong is also slated to race.

While the NRC gets under way in the U.S. this week, Team Type 1 will send a contingent to line up for the team’s first international stage race of the season, the 23rd Tour of Morocco.

It was just passed 10:00 Saturday night as I made my way down the dark, cobbled lane near Erie Basin in Brooklyn. In search of the staging area for the third Red Hook Criterium, a 20-lap race for track-bike riders with a penchant for unorthodox racing, I hoped to spy some of the participants at registration before things got underway.

Hilton Clarke scored the first major win for his Bahati Foundation team in the Incycle/Cannondale Old Town Grand Prix criterium Sunday evening, the final stage of the San Dimas Stage Tace. Clarke, overall winner at San Dimas in 2002, beat out Alejandro Borrajo (Jamis-Sutter Home) and Raymond Kreder (Holowesko Partners) for the stage 3 win.

Bill Demong, who won gold and silver medals in the Nordic combined at Vancouver, is the guy who rode double with Chris Horner at the 2008 Cascade Classic. But he'd like to be known for more in the cycling world.

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2010 La Roue Tourangelle results

Last year the second half of Boonen's campaign was compromised following a career-threatening second positive test for cocaine, but this season the big Quick Step rider, a world champion in 2005, appears reborn.

2010 Classic Loire Atlantique results

2010 Cholet Pays de Loire results

Local rider Jens Mouris of Vacansoleil broke from a 15-rider group in the final kilometers to take an 11-second solo win at the Dutch one-day Ronde van het Groene Hart. Belgian Nico Eckhour (An Post-Sean Kelly) won the field sprint for second, followed by Sep Vanmark (Topsport Vlaanderen).

2010 Ronde van het Groene Har results

Grajales, who teammate Nathan O’Neill calls Gecko, is making a comeback of sorts from the no man’s land to which he had banished since early 2008. “Difficult to describe,” he quickly answered when asked about his previous two seasons with Rock Racing, during which he bounced between the team’s professional and amateur rosters and was even fired and rehired once within the same week.

Defending champs BMC will not start America's Queen of the Classics

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Benjamin takes San Dimas stage win, Abbott holds lead

Replay of live coverage for 2010 Milan-San Remo

Peanut Butter & Co.'s Mara Abbott and Fly V Australia's Ben Day repeats their 2009 wins.

Sky's Michael Barry heads into the classics season knowing that victory takes a full effort by every member of the team.

Winter's not over yet, and Zack Vestal takes a look at some of the Pearl Izumi winter gear he's been wearing — and likely will continue wearing for a few weeks more.

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If Mark Cavendish is to be believed, he's not among the favorites to win this year's la classica di Primavera

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If one could create a three-week national tour out of thin air, using only unbridled enthusiasm, Frank Arokiasamy might just be the one to pull it off.

Lance Armstrong will ramp up his preparation for the Tour de France by taking part in the Circuit de la Sarthe from April 6-9, the organisers said Thursday.

Philippe Gilbert went on a tear at the end of 2009, winning four races in a row including the season-closing classic Giro di Lombardia. This year, the Omega Pharma-Lotto rider is aiming for wins in the spring classics, beginning with Milan-San Remo on Saturday.

Former world time trial champion and Tour de France stage winner Santiago Botero of Colombia won a gold medal in the individual time trial at the South American Games in Medellin, Colombia, Wednesday. Botero, racing for the Colombian national team, rode the 40km course in 49:04.055, beating second-placed Matias Medici of Argentina by 21 seconds.

2010 South American Games results

The world’s best professional women’s team will take the start Friday at the San Dimas Stage Race. After camp in the team’s NorCal hometown of San Luis Obsipo, HTC-Columbia prepared for San Dimas and the Redlands Bicycle Classic before heading to Europe.

The Redlands Bicycle Classic launches the 2010 National Racing Calendar March 25-28. Race promoters have released the preliminary start lists for men and women.

2010 Redlands Bicycle Classic preliminary start list

While U.S. pros have shown up in big numbers to regional races over the last two weeks, the U.S. domestic season gets underway in earnest this week as the San Dimas Stage Race runs Friday – Sunday in San Dimas, California. The three-stage race is the final tuneup ahead of the NRC opener in Redlands, California, a week later.

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2010 San Dimas stage race start lists

BMC will be led by Italian Alessandro Ballan, who preceded Evans as world champion in 2008, with American George Hincapie, Dutchman Karsten Kroon and German Marcus Burghardt expected to play key roles. Americans Jeff Louder and Brent Bookwalter also will start.

Jens Keukeleire, 21, has already won Three Days of West Flanders and Le Samyn this year.

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Thanks to good results at the Tour Down Under and Paris-Nice, Caisse d'Epargne's Luis-Leon Sanchez leads the UCI points series.

How men and women experience the same stretch of technical singletrack is different. Hopefully, understanding this could help some gals progress further on the bike. And if it saves a relationship or two, well, that'd also be sweet.

Pacific plunges in February, SEALS training and DJ AM. It's all good.

In a report from a grueling Paris-Nice, Ted says he's proving Albert Einstein's theory about repetition and insanity.

Following a tough win at Paris-Nice, defending Tour de France champion Alberto Contador has reconfigured his racing schedule for the next two months.

Italy's Stefano Garzelli won the Tirreno-Adriatico overall on Tuesday after Norwegian Edvald Boasson Hagen prevailed in the seventh and final stage.

Defending NRC team champion opens title defense at Redlands.

Lennard Zinn suggests you avoid removing 11-speed chains for maintenance. Clean and re-lube on the bike.

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2010 UC Davis results

Snow forces the cancellation of Saturday's events at Boise State, but Sunday's crit went off without a hitch

2010 Boise State criterium results

2010 Stevens Institute results

Zack takes a quick look at some new products from Campagnolo, Rotor, Ritchey and more.

Russia's Mikhail Ignatiev won the 134 kilometer sixth stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico, between Montecosaro and Macerata on Monday. The Katusha rider was followed across the line by Italian Stefano Garzelli (Acqua & Sapone) with Australian Cadel Evans (BMC) in third. Italy's Michele Scarponi, riding for the Androni team, retained his lead in the overall standings.

Lance Armstrong confirms he will race at Milan-San Remo

Organizers of the Amstel Gold classic have announced the last of six wildcard teams invited to the April 18 event. Twenty four teams will participate. The new wildcard teams announced Monday by race director Leo van Vliet are Cervelo TestTeam, BMC Racing Team, Topsport Vlaanderen and Landbouwkrediet. Earlier, the Dutch pro continental teams Skil-Shimano and Vacansoleil received a wildcard.