Rahsaan Bahati (Bahati Foundation), Jacquelyn Crowell (Team Type 1), James Stemper (Kenda-GEARGRINDER) and Erica Allar (Vera Bradley Foundation) each took criterium wins over the weekend as the Tour of America's Dairyland pushed through its first weekend.
Contador will not defend his Spanish TT title
Stage 4 results, 2010 Tour of America's Dairyland
Although they’ve been racked by bad luck and injuries, all three of Cervélo TestTeam’s top stars — Carlos Sastre, Thor Hushovd and Heinrich Haussler — will line up for the 2010 Tour de France.
Belgian team Omega Pharma-Lotto will race the Tour de France without star rider Philippe Gilbert and French rider Jean-Christophe Péraud.
Olympic champion Samuel Sánchez will lead Euskaltel-Euskadi in the 2010 Tour de France.
Bissell’s Ian Boswell and Paul Mach finish one-two in the 50th annual Nevada City Classic.
Getting down a mountain you have just climbed is half the fun of climbing, and in a long Gran Fondo descending is more or less unavoidable.
The Clásica de San Sebastián – Spain’s most important one-day race held a week after the Tour de France on July 31 – will be more difficult this year for its 30th edition.
After racing in Europe and the Middle East earlier this season, American Ben King won the Best Young Rider competition Sunday at the Nature Valley Grand Prix. By placing 6th on the decisive final day, King secured his 7th overall spot on Father’s Day. After the race, the Trek-Livestrong rider was quick to give a shout out to his dad, who got him into cycling.
The German six-day rider Christian Grasmann of TransAlt.org p/b Rockstar Games won the 37th Harlem Skyscraper Criterium on Sunday in a breakaway that stayed away almost from the gun.
Throughout her race-winning 3,00-mile ride across the U.S., observers and fans talked of how recumbent racer Barbara Buatois looked as if she were out for a Sunday ride. And aside from appearing a bit darker than she did in Oceanside, California, at the start, she still looked much the same as she crossed the finish line in Annapolis, Maryland on Sunday, finishing in a time of 11 days, 19 hours and 48 minutes with an average speed of 10.59 mph.
2010 Tour de Beauce results
2010 Nature Valley Grand Prix Stillwater Criterium women's results
Nature Valley Grand Prix Stillwater Criterium men's results
Kelli Emmett wins Sunday's cross-country race at the Massanutten Triple Crown; takes series overall. Jeremiah Bishop is victorious on his home turf. Check out the slideshow.
2010 Harlem Skyscraper Criterium results
Rory Sutherland (UnitedHealthcare-Maxxis) once again used the final stage at the Nature Valley Grand Prix — and that stage's vicious Chilkoot Hill — to take the overall win.
The Mighty Tour De Nez wrapped up Saturday with a hilly, high-elevation circuit stage held at Northstar-At-Tahoe in Truckee, California. Luna's Katerina Nash and HBC's Graham Howard won the final stage.
Liquigas closed out of the Tour of Slovenia on Sunday with a double. Francesco Chicchi kicked to victory in the final stage while Vincenzo Nibali claimed the overall.
Shelley Evans (Peanut Butter & Co.-Twenty 12) went on the offensive Sunday on the 18-percent wall of Chilkoot Hill in the final criterium stage of the Nature Valley Grand Prix. Evelyn Stevens (HTC-Columbia) took a solo flyer with three laps to go to claim the stage win, but Evans took the overall win.
Lance Armstrong has played down his chances of winning an eighth Tour de France title despite lining up at the July 3-25 race with a quality-packed RadioShack team.
Replay: Live coverage of 2010 Tour de Suisse stage 9
The short-track and Super-D events were held at the Massanutten Triple Crown finale on Saturday. Check out the slideshow.
Results from the 2010 Ster Elektrotoer.
Adam Hansen (HTC-Columbia) wins the 24th edition of the Ster Elektrotoer as Belgian Kris Boeckmans (Topsport Vlaanderen) takes the fifth and final stage.
David Moncoutie (Cofidis) wins the Route du Sud as Mitchell Docker (Skil-Shimano) takes the final stage.
Results from the 2010 Tour du Suisse.
Fränk Schleck (Saxo Bank) wins the 2010 Tour de Suisse after Tony Martin (HTC-Columbia) took the final stage, a 27km individual time trial in Liestal.
Casey B. Gibson's photos from stage 5 of the NVGP.
Start times - Final TT at Tour de Suisse
Nature Valley Grand Prix stage 5 pro women results
Nature Valley Grand Prix stage 5 pro men results
Erinne Willock (Webcor) wins the stage and Linda Melanie Villumsen (HTC-Columbia) takes the jersey at NVGP.
Team Type 1's Ken Hanson sprinted to victory at the end of a hilly road race in stage 5 of the Nature Valley Grand Prix.
Results from the 2010 Route du Sud.
Casey B. Gibson's photos from stage 4 of the NVGP.
Replay: Live coverage of the 2010 Tour de Suisse stage 8
A few months after retiring from one of the most successful careers in the sport, Kristin Armstrong is still living bike racing. Only now, the Olympic and two-time world time trial champion is in a new role as director of Peanut Butter & Co.-2012.
Caisse d'Epargne scores 1-2 in Swiss Tour stage, Gesink keeps lead
David Moncoutie (Cofidis) grabbed the leader's jersey in the Route du Sud after winning the second half of Saturday’s double-stage day.
Slovenian Jure Robic won his fifth Race Across America on Friday, finishing more than 12 hours ahead of runner-up Gerhard Gulewicz. Recumbent racer Barbara Buatois still leads the women’s race and is expected to finish early Sunday.
Former Luxembourg national champion Kim Kirchen has been placed in an artificial coma after suffering a heart attack on Friday, his Katusha team said.
Jacquelyn Crowell (Team Type 1) and Juan Pablo Dotti (Aerocat Cycling Team) owned the road during Stage 2 of the Tour of America’s Dairyland presented by Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board.
Contador: ‘Alps won’t decide Tour’
Kelly Benefit Strategies was able to hold off assaults on Scott Zwizanski’s yellow jersey, but no one was able to answer Hilton Clarke in the final meters as he sprinted to his second Nature Valley stage win for UnitedHealthcare.
Pro men results from stage 4 of the Nature Valley Grand Prix
Shelley Evans takes over the Nature Valley lead as Chloe Hosking wins stage 4
Pro women's results for the fourth stage of the Nature Valley Grand Prix
Transported from the sedate streets of Sparks to the rowdy downtown corridors of Reno, the Tour de Nez fired up again Friday night for a stage 2 circuit race. Under-23 hard man Tucker Gerald (Park Place Dealerships) nosed out the win for the men while U.S. National team rider Janel Holcomb was awarded the top step for the women after a crash-marred final sprint.
The 18th annual Mighty Tour de Nez sprinted to a start under clear skies and perfect temps on Thursday, June 16th.
Chocolate milk and blue skies kicked off stage one of the Tour of America’s Dairyland presented by Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board on Thursday during the Shorewood Criterium Cycling Classic presented by Tim Hart DDS, Jesse Smith DDS, and Jerry Pearce, Rainbow Jersey Bicycles.
Stage 2 results, 2010 Tour of America's Dairyland
Michael Barry is in the running for the final spot of the Team Sky’s Tour de France team.
Basso readies for Tour de France
Vachon wins Route du Sud opener
Henderson wins at Elektrotoer
Replay: Live coverage of the 2010 Tour de Suisse stage 7
Burghardt scores again at Tour de Suisse, Gesink keeps jersey
John Eustice is a legend in American cycling and a central piece of the East Coast cycling scene. Daniel McMahon takes a look at what makes the Harlem Cycling Classic promoter tick.
Second-placed Gerhard Gulewicz's crew remained optimistic of their rider's chance at overtaking leader Jure Robic, who is charging toward his third RAAM victory.
Singletrack.com's tech editor Zack Vestal isn't usually blown away by baggy shorts. What's his verdict on Mavic's Stratos short?
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After the Minnesota state patrol received reports of nearby tornadoes from the national weather service, stage 3 of the Nature Valley Grand Prix was brought to a halt 14 miles in.
The usually upbeat spirit of the thousand or so people traveling the route of the Race Across America was darkened when Spanish rider Diego Ballesteros was struck by a car near Maize, Kansas.
With the start of the Tour de France just 15 days away, it’s a reasonable question to wonder which Armstrong will show up in Rotterdam. VeloNews.TV polled several prominent figures in the pro peloton for their opinion, including Michael Rogers, Jens Voigt, and last year’s Tour runner up Andy Schleck.
A rash of carbon fork steerer breakages has some concerned.
Mountain biking legend Joe Breeze's first new Breezer mountain bikes in a decade are now available in the U.S. and Europe.
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Replay: Live coverage of the 2010 Tour de Suisse stage 6
Replay: Live coverage of 2010 Tour de Suisse stage 6
Gesink wins climbers' stage to grab lead at Tour de Suisse
British sprinter Mark Cavendish has pulled out of the Tour of Switzerland prior to the race's sixth stage, his HTC-Columbia team said Thursday.
2010 Nature Valley Grand Prix stage 2, Casey B. Gibson photos
Cane Creeks's new AngleSet threadless headset will let riders transform the head angle of their mountain bikes by up to six offset angle adjustments allowing for steeper or slacker positions from 0.5 to 1.5 degrees.
Lampre confirms talks with Kashechkin