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The traditional opening race of Spain's racing calendar – the five-day Mallorca Challenge – will be saved after all and will run next month as scheduled.

The organizers of New York's Tour of the Battenkill are withdrawing the event's pro men's race from the UCI calendar due to sponsor difficulties — and in response to USA Cycling's decision to allow higher ranked teams to compete at National Racing Calendar criteriums, but not at NRC road races or stage races.

Can dry needle therapy help with knee tendonitis?

Team Type 1’s knows it has a tough battle to try to secure an invitation to the 2011 Giro d’Italia, but Giro race director Angelo Zomegnan told VeloNews the U.S.-based team fits the profile of the kind of team he’s looking for

Although shortened from five to three days, the Vuelta a Murcia in Spain will see a top field for the race set for March 4-6.

Questions of epic tire failures, the real wheel behind the team label and possible refinements in electronic shifting.

Zach White gets a grip on Easton's alu and carbon bars. Stem too...

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After battling the UCI on its decision to ban radios in all but major events, Johan Bruyneel tells VeloNews that major changes are needed in the way important issues are decided in the sport.

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Team Type1, BMC and RadioShack are all confirmed to race the Giro del Trentino in April as the Giro d’Italia warm-up race continues to reveal details of the 35th edition of the race set for April 19-22.

Spain's ongoing doping scandals took their ultimate toll this week with the apparent suicide of Alberto León.

The BMC Racing Team has its sights set on making a good first impression in its ProTeam debut Sunday in the Santos Tour Down Under.

An injured reader wants to know if it is "worth all the trouble to file a lawsuit."

Christian Prudhomme hopes that the Alberto Contador doping case is settled one way or another before the start of the 2011 Tour de France.

Spain’s traditional opening race to the cycling calendar – the five-day Mallorca Challenge – is at risk of being cancelled just weeks before the start of the 2011 season.

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MOORESVILLE, N.C. (VN) — Chris Boardman is a relaxed man. Maybe his six children make him that way (or maybe it’s only a relaxed man who could enjoy six children as much as he does).

Killeen and Neethling join Giant Factory Off-Road, AC back to Rabobank-Giant

USA Cycling will announce Wednesday the hiring of former Cervélo Test Team director Marcello Albasini’s Alba Radsport firm to manage the national U23 development program.

Leopard-Trek gets geared up for the 2011 season.

In advance of next week's Tour Down Under, the RadioShack team has unveiled a new jersey for the 2011 season.

UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling has boosted its European pedigree with the signing of former Milram director sportif Vittorio Algeri to head the program’s operations on the continent. Thierry Attias, president of Momentum Sports Group, which owns the team, confirmed the hiring to VeloNews Tuesday night.

The Vuelta a España returns to the Basque Country for the first time in more than three decades in a 21-stage route that favors the climbers.

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Jakob Fuglsang is latest young rider to be billed as a “future Tour de France winner,” a burden the ex-mountain biker is not especially keen to bear.

Readers and companies offer feedback on Zinn's recent New Year's resolutions for the bike industry.

A reader asks Lennard Zinn about running Shimano chains on SRAM cassettes.

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Team Liquigas-Cannondale's new clothing supplier, Sugoi, released pictures Monday of the team training in the 2011 kit in Sardinia recently. This marks the first time that Sugoi — like Cannondale a division of Dorel Industries — has supplied a pro race team. The company said full replica editions of the team kit will be available to consumers in April.

Former Spanish mountain bike rider Alberto Leon, one of six people accused last month as part of a probe into sports doping, was found dead in an apparent suicide, reports said Monday. More soon on this developing story.

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Former Spanish mountain bike rider Alberto León Herranz found dead in an apparent suicide

Pancreatic cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related deaths and one U.S.-based Continental team is pitching in this month to build awareness and further research of the disease. The Wonderful Pistachios Pro Cycling Team has announced that a portion of the sales of their team clothing will go to a UCLA Medical Center program.

Perhaps Mauro Gianetti should paraphrase Mark Twain, who famously said, “the report of my death was an exaggeration.”

Nick Legan, at the team camp in Mallorca, takes a quick look at the new team's Bontrager helmets.

Switzerland’s top court has reject an appeal by Alejandro Valverde, who had sought to overturn an earlier a Court of Arbitration for Sport ruling suspending him until 2012.

It didn’t take long for Danilo Di Luca to find a ride. Back from his ban for CERA, shortened by nine months after he cooperated with Italian officials about his doping practices,

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HTC-Highroad's Hayden Roulston launched a solid attack and soloed in to victory in New Zealand's national road championships on Sunday.

Niels Albert (BKCP) won one of cyclocross' most coveted titles on Sunday, earning the first Belgian national championship title of his career.

The Spanish cycling federation has passed the hot potato that is the Alberto Contador doping case back to the UCI and the World Anti-Doping Agenc

Ted King and Tim Duggan might not be the center of attention during Monday’s Liquigas team rollout in Milan, but the American pair should be getting plenty of chances to show their stuff when it counts most during the upcoming racing season.

Mike Creed has found his fire again. If he can keep the coals hot – and his head out of the way – in his first season with Kelly Benefit Strategies, that could mean trouble for the peloton from Redlands to Asia.

Bontrager to unveil new wheels under Team Leopard Trek and Team RadioShack

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A quick look at the bikes used by the new team

2011 Tour Down Under start list

After an unusual team camp at Specialized’s California headquarters, HTC-HighRoad will open the 2011 ProTour season later this month at the Tour Down Under. Aussies Mark Renshaw and Matt Goss are particularly fired up for racing.

USA Cycling is set late Friday morning to announce the members of the 2011 cyclocross world championship team. Communications director Andrea Smith confirmed to VeloNews that the team should be named before 12:00 p.m. Mountain Time. Jeremy Powers (Cannondale-Cyclocrossworld.com) and Katie Compton (Planet Bike) are expected to lead the automatic selections, while a number of discretionary picks should build out the team’s roster, which may total as many as five riders in each category.

A reader wants to know about his options when a private land owner shut off access to a long-used trail.

The Rallon's 150mm targets enduro and all-mountain shredders

I have a question about supplements. I'm a Category 4 racer in my local area and do fairly well, most of the time. But as I consider the move up to Cat. 3, I am thinking about supplementation in my diet — things like Optygen or similar have been suggested. Are there supplements out there that are safe, legal, and effective? If so, can you run through a list of these for us readers to help us make sense out of a lot of advertising jargon about things that are supposed to make us go faster?

The 2011 Orbea Rallon R3

Questions on wheel-change technique, pumps for lightweight riders, and steel in the pro peloton

At least Fabian Cancellara can now laugh about one of the most preposterous “scandals” of the 2010 season.

Organizers of Minnesota's Nature Valley Bicycle Festival have announced details of the stages of the festival's stage race, the Nature Valley Grand Prix, June 15 to 19. The organizers also announced that the festival's track event, the Minnesota Fixed Gear Classic, will be held once again. The track races are being held June 10-12 at the National Sports Center Velodrome in Blaine, Minnesota.

Guessing game taken out of helmet cams by using mobile phone