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2010 TUCSON CLASSIC

UnitedHealthcare's Rory Sutherland and Specialized Designs for Women's Ruth Clemence win the opening time trial at the Tour de Murrieta in California.

Pepsi is the new presenting sponsor for one of the fastest growing road races in the U.S., the Tour of the Battenkill in Cambridge, New York. The soft drink company plans to provide riders and spectators at the April 18 pro race with a variety of its beverages, including Gatorade and Aquafina.

The Colavita/Baci Women’s Cycling Team presented by Cooking Light opens training camp Friday in Borrego Springs, California, ahead of the team's 2010 debut at the San Dimas Stage Race March 19-21.

Liquigas-Doimo scored a double in Europe Friday as the team's Daniele Bennati won the third stage of Tirreno-Adriactico the same afternoon as Peter Sagan won the fifth stage of Paris-Nice.

Liquigas's Peter Sagan scored a second stage victory in this year's Paris-Nice with a bold solo attack in the final two kilometers on Friday. Sagan, who also won stage 3, emerged from a group of about 40 survivors on what turned out to be a tougher-than-expected stage 5, a relatively short 157-km run from Pernes-les-Fontaines to Aix-en-Provence.

Amber reflects on her team's recent win at the Tour of New Zealand and the relationship between success and opportunity.

In the second installment of Singletrack.com's visit to Yeti Cycles' headquarters, Zack Vestal takes a look at what's keeping Yeti at the forefront of competitive mountain biking.

Quick Step's Tom Boonen won Thursday's second stage of the Tirreno-Adriatico, outsprinting Paul Martens (Rabobank) and Daniele Bennati (Liquigas) at the end of the 165-kilometer stage.

Tour de France champion Alberto Contador put his mark on the 2010 Paris-Nice Thursday, dominating the final climb of the critical fourth stage, a 173.5-kilometer run from Maurs to a mountain-top finish in Mende.

What's XXtra cool about SRAM's new group is that it works well not just on anorexic cross-country race hardtails, but on 5-inch, full-suspension trail bikes.

Tech editor Zack Vestal tries a saddle made specifically for time trialing and is pleasantly surprised by its comfort.

Team Type 1's criterium squad — nicknamed the Money Team — were just under the radar in 2009, but scored podiums in almost every crit in the second half of the year. This year they are aiming higher.

Gerdemann curtails a field sprint by taking off with three others in the final kilometer.

Changes in the 2010 racing calendar mean that Jens Voigt will not have a chance to make history at Critérium International title later this month.

German fan-favorite Jens Voigt takes the overall lead from Bos, as 20-year-old Peter Sagan scores a stage win.

Landis will ride for the team led by former U.S. professional criterium champion Rashaan Bahati.

A reader asks the coaches panel how to overcome a nagging Achilles tendon problem

The Atlantic Collegiate Cycling Conference traveled to Williamsburg, Virginia, for the fifth annual Tidewater Winter Classic hosted by the College of William and Mary.

Jet lag is a word that obviously isn’t part of Lance Armstrong’s vocabulary. While Europe has been gripped by its worst winter in decades, Armstrong’s road to the Tour de France this year has been full of sunny climes that would turn any jet-setting royal blue with envy.

The Rocky Mountain Collegiate Cycling Conference opened its nine-week season with Denver University’s City Park Criterium on Saturday and Metro State’s Roadrunner Time Trial on Sunday. Serving as the first races of the year for many collegiate cyclists, the weekend offered up exciting and unpredictable racing in every category.

2010 DU criterium and Metro TT results

The top of the overall standings were largely unchanged as race leader Lars Boom (Rabobank) finished in the front group.

A reader asks if it's worth the trouble of patching those pricey tubular tires.

The Tour of Utah announces a new title sponsor and a tough lineup of stages.

2010 Rutgers race results

2010 NMSU race results

After a full month without any collegiate races, approximately 120 riders from the Western Collegiate Cycling Conference eagerly saddled up for UC Santa Barbara’s race weekend, which featured a criterium, team time trial and road race.

2010 UC Santa Barbara race results

France's Paris-Nice and Italy's Terreno-Adriatico dominate this week's Euro' action

Sky's Greg Henderson takes the sprint at the end of a crash-filled stage 1. Among the crash victims: Leipheimer, Horner and Contador.

Ben Jacques-Maynes (Bissell) wins the Merced Foothills Road Race.

2010 Lindsey Wilson collegiate race results

Jens Keukeleire (Cofidis) closes out the Three Days of West Flanders with the overall title.

Graham Watson captures the prologue at the 2010 Paris-Nice.

’Crosser-turned-roadie Lars Boom wins a cold, windy prologue at Paris-Nice.

Frantisek Rabon (HTC-Columbia) clinches overall victory in the Vuelta a Murcia.

Kelly Benefit Strategies pulls out all the stops to put David Veilleux into the final leader's jersey, but the South African EMG team had other plans.

Photos from the final stage of the 2010 Tour de Langkawi.

Fly-V Australia's Ben Kersten sprints to victory in the OCBC Cycle Singapore criterium.

Venezuelan Jose Rujano Guillen captured the 15th Tour de Langkawi on Sunday after finishing 44th in the event's seventh and final stage.

Bahati Foundation Pro Cycling and HTC-Columbia crush the Merco Credit Union Cycling Classic Downtown GP.

Maxim Iglinskiy wins the Montepaschi Strade Bianche.

Fly V Australia is aiming to become the first Australian ProTour team — and the first Aussie squad to race the Tour de France.

Robert Wagner (Skil-Shimano) wins Stage 2 of the Three Days of West Flanders.

Maxim Iglinskiy wins a three-up sprint to take the Montepaschi Strade Bianche.

Graham Watson shoots Stage 4 of the 2010 Vuelta a Murcia.

Czech rider Frantisek Rabon (HTC-Columbia) wins the individual time trial at the Vuelta a Murcia.

A photo gallery from Stage 6 of the 2010 Tour de Langkawi.

Venezuelan Jose Rujano Guillen Saturday conquered the cruel slopes of the Genting Highlands to win the sixth stage of the Tour de Langkawi and capture the overall lead.

Bissell wins the TTT at the Merco Credit Union Cycling Classic.

USA Cycling has named its team for the upcoming UCI Track World Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark, March 24-28.

Belgian rider Jens Keukeleire (Cofidis) won the opening stage of the Three Days of West Flanders on Friday. The 21-year-old neo-pro won a bunch sprint ahead of French rider Rony Martias and German Paul Voss.

The newly-elevated Tour de New York, (a UCI 2.2 event), will open a new chapter in the state’s racing history, bringing high-level competition to the western part of the state, centering a six-day event in the City of Rochester.

José Enrique Gutiérrez – the Spanish rider who finished second to Ivan Basso in the 2006 Giro d’Italia and was later linked to the Operación Puerto doping scandal – says he is retiring because Rock Racing has not been able to secure its future.

Malaysian cyclist Anuar Manan won the fifth stage of the Tour de Langkawi on Friday while German Tobias Erler maintained the overall lead.

Catching up with Triple Crown winner Stephen Roche on the eve of Paris-Nice, a race he won once and finished second four times.

Johnny Bellis, the British rider who nearly died in a motor scooter accident last fall, will be released from a London hospital this weekend and return to his home on the Isle of Man.

The Vuelta Independencia wraps up and Team Ten Speed Drive head out for the post-race festivities, otherwise known as 'the 11th stage.'

The 2010 USA CRITS Championship series has new final races for both men and women. The women’s series will conclude at the Chris Thater Memorial race, after four races. The men’s competition will conclude at the TX Tough Grand Prix, after eight events. The series is now nine events strong, visiting as many states.

It was like déjà-vu all over again Thursday at the Vuelta a Murcia in Spain.

The adventure in the Philippines continues as race organizers swap routes and racers face another hot, hilly course on rough roads, and the GC battle tightens between the American Kelly Benefit Strategies team and the South African EMG squad.

Japanese rider Taiji Nishitani (Aisan Racing) won the fourth stage of the Tour de Langkawi on Thursday, while German Tobias Erler retained the overall lead.

On a day when visitors were stunned by a killer closing climb, a local boy takes the win, while Kelly Benefit Strategies' Reid Mumford takes the overall lead.

Following an emotional victory Saturday at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, a newly confident Juan Antonio Flecha (Team Sky) is still holding out on his dream of winning one of the major cobblestoned classics.

Robbie Hunter delivered Garmin-Transitions its first win on the 2010 season after taking a sprint victory in Wednesday’s opening stage at the Vuelta a Murcia in Spain.

Readers seek advice on storing and reusing tires and getting that gunk off of tubular rims.

It's official — coming into today's stage my teammates and I were almost completely cracked.

Another report from the Dominican Republic's Vuelta Independencia, where correspondent Josh Liberles sprints in rush-hour traffic, has his time trial bike run over by a bus ... and then kicks butt in his eighth race in six days.

As the 2010 race season heats up, the pace of new tech and product introductions is ramping up as well.

Despite KBS clearly being the strongest team in this year’s Tour of Luzon, and having held the race lead since Ryan Anderson's time trial stage victory on day 2, they had yet to make it first across the line on a road stage; until stage 4 that was, when Jesse Anthony crossed the line at the head of a breakaway group to take his first win of the year.

Tyler Farrar was one of the break-out riders in 2009. With 11 victories and a constant threat in the sprints, the 25-year-old vaulted into the elite pro ranks.

Professionals in search of sun and miles mixed it up with elite amateurs on the banks of Nevada’s Lake Mead last week at the Callville Bay Classic.

South African Jay Thomson, representing his national team, won the Tour de Langkawi's second stage in Malaysia Tuesday