Matt Crane (UnitedHealthcare-Maxxis) overcame a crash-marred final day at the Joe Martin Stage Race to edge teammate Karl Menzies for the win in the stage 4 criterium Sunday. Alexis Rhodes (Vera Bradley Foundation) attacked solo with three laps remaining and rode away from what remained of a decimated field for the victory in the women’s race.
Cadel Evans (BMC) is back in the pink jersey for the first time since he held it late in the 2002 Giro d’Italia. Evans was a relative newcomer to the road scene when he took the maglia rosa back then, only to lose it the next day in an infamous collapse in stage 17 to Folgaria. Racing the Giro for the first time since then, Evans says he’s now a different rider.
Garmin-Transitions scored a huge victory Sunday with Tyler Farrar’s victory in the second stage at the Giro d’Italia. Not only did Farrar prove yet again he’s a world-caliber sprinter, it also confirmed the team’s commitment to building a stronger team around the 25-year-old’s growing confidence.
2010 Giro d'Italia stage 2 photos
Switzerland's Martin Elmiger (AG2R) wins the 56th edition of the Four Days of Dunkirk.
2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 2 results
Cervélo TestTeam's Thor Hushovd fractured his collarbone out on a training ride in Italy on Sunday after colliding with a child.
Jonathan Cantwell (Fly V Australia) and Modesta Vzesniauskaite (Colavita-Baci) made it two in a row at the Joe Martin Stage Race Saturday. Cantwell, whose teammate Bernie Sulzberger took the stage 2 win, pulled off the bunch sprint ahead of Daniel Holloway (Bissell) and Aldo Ino Ilesic (Team Type 1).
Replay: Live coverage of stage 1 of the 2010 Giro d'Italia
Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Transitions) wins a very messy second stage of the Giro d'Italia as BMC's Cadel Evans takes the overall lead.
Bradley Wiggins is elated with his maglia rosa, but says it's a bit early to say he'll win the Giro.
2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 1 results
Brent Bookwalter (BMC) came within a few pedal strokes of the biggest win of his career when he stopped the clock just two seconds shy of the maglia rosa in the opening stage of the 2010 Giro d’Italia.
2010 Giro d'Italia stage 1 photos
Bradley Wiggins wins stage 1 of the 2010 Giro d'Italia
A look at the Giro d'Italia's opening time trial
British riders injured in Belgium
American-based BMC Racing is aiming to bring world champion Cadel Evans overall victory at the Giro d’Italia this month, but the country’s only Pro Continental team will also be sending a powerful squad to the Amgen Tour of California in search of stage wins. Leading that team will be U.S. national champion George Hincapie.
Race organizer AEG Sports announced the starting rosters Friday for the 2010 Amgen Tour of California. The 16-team competition will include seven ProTour squads.
Sulzberger, Vzesniauskaite fly to uphill wins at Joe Martin; Amaran, Powers lead overall
In 2010 the spring classics season belonged to one rider, Saxo Bank’s Fabian Cancellara. Over the course of three weekends — E3 Prijs, the Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix — Cancellara won three of the hardest one-day races in pro cycling, each time crossing the finish line alone against the best classics riders in the sport, and each time by a wider margin than the last. VeloNews managing editor Neal Rogers was on the ground in Belgium and Northern France to witness the Swiss rider’s domination and put it into perspective. VN tech editor Zack Vestal was also rattling along the cobblestones, and scored a shotgun seat in one of Mavic’s SSC Neutral Support cars at Roubaix. He came back with a memory card full of photos and war stories. Subscribe Now!
Tour of Missouri down but not out
Garmin aims for pink jersey, stage wins at Giro d'Italia
If you're looking for a stiff-and-sturdy wheelset in a sub-1,500-gram package, the Syncros FL carbons are your (pricey) ticket.
We take a close look at Pearl Izumi's newest road shoe.
2010 Giro d'Italia: Wide open, with some strong contenders
A conversation with Michael Barry
Confused by what you're buying? The RockShox product line is getting a new way of decoding the goods.
Webcor's Kathryn Curi Mattis and California Giant's Andrew Talansky win the opening stage of Arkansas' Joe Martin Stage Race
2010 Joe Martin Stage Race results
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David Millar is set to ride a new bike from Felt in the Giro d’Italia prologue on Saturday.
No clear favorite for Giro d'Italia
What biological values and ratios does the UCI's "Biological Passport" track?
A rushed European trip and a borrowed race bike leads to predictable results
While they dominated U.S. racing for much of the last decade, UnitedHealthcare-Maxxis (known under variatious sponsors' names) has, since 2005, struggled to find a stage win in one of the country’s major stage races. The team will get another shot when they take the start of stage 1 at the Amgen Tour of California.
Initial specs and geometry for the new v-10 may change as Santa Cruz Syndicate riders are just now beating on prototypes, but expect 8.5 and 10 inches of travel and an adjustable head angle independent of the travel adjustment.
Andrew Talansky comes out of nowhere to establish himself with the best young rider prize at the SRAM Tour of the Gila
A look at the risks inherent in a sport contested at high speeds on narrow and often dangerous roads.
U.S. Scene: Collegiate Nationals and Joe Martin
Illness forces Freire out of Giro
Lennard Zinn offers a look at retro and modern tech at Sea Otter.
Lewis poised for Giro debut
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Kenda Cup 5 in Big Bear, California, which was scheduled for May 15-16, has been cancelled due to excessive amounts of snow, trail damage and closures.
Giro promises tougher controls in 2010
André Greipel: 'I have proved myself.'
Giro issues preliminary start list
A few months after signing with Trek World Racing, young American downhill prospect Neko Mulally is sidlelined with a broken arm and will miss the first two World Cup events.
Racing this Week: Giro, Dunkirk and China
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Our readers speak out on Ben Day's tapeworm and Mark Cavendish's brash nature.
Franco Pellizotti, second in last year’s Giro d’Italia and winner of the polka-dot jersey in the 2009 Tour de France, will not start this year’s Giro after the UCI alleged that a check of his so-called biological passport found “abnormal values.”
Lampre will start the Giro d’Italia with two former champions, Italians Gilberto Simoni and Damiano Cunego.
Spaniard Oscar Freire, winner of the 2010 Milan-San Remo, will lead Rabobank in the Giro d’Italia.
Belgium's Quick Step will field a largely Italian team for the Giro d'Italia
Alejandro Valverde’s victory in the Tour de Romandie gave him the lead in the UCI world rankings issued Monday.
World Champion and defending World Cup champ Jared Graves kept up his winning ways over the weekend at the first World Cup 4-cross competition of the year in Houffalize, Belgium.
Christian Vande Velde is hoping to see a repeat of his highly successful 2008 Giro d'Italia, but not last year’s hard-knock Giro, when he crashed out with several broken bones in the first week.
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After her second-place finish over the weekend in Belgium and her second place last weekend in England, American Willow Koerber leads the 2010 World Cup, making her the first American since Alison Dunlap eight years ago to wear the leader's jersey.
2010 SRAM Tour of the Gila results
Darren Lill (Fly V Australia) attacked his breakaway companions 16 miles from the end of the SRAM Tour of the Gila's final stage Sunday and solo'd to one of the biggest wins of his career.
Results from the 2010 Tour de Korea.
Americans Michael Friedman (Jelly Belly-Kenda) and Jesse Anthony (Kelly Benefit Strategies) go one-two on general classification at the Tour de Korea.
Results from the 2010 Vuelta a Asturias.
Omega Pharma-Lotto is bringing a mix of youth and experience to the Giro d’Italia.
BMC Racing’s Mauro Santambrogio has the green light to return to competition after a preliminary internal investigation found no evidence that he was involved in doping at his former team, Lampre.
Constantino Zaballa (Loule-Louletano) makes a daring solo attack in the final stage of the Vuelta a Asturias and rides away with the stage victory and overall title.
Alejandro Valverde (Caisse d'Epargne) wins the final stage and takes the overall victory in the Tour de Romandie.
Marco Pinotti and André Greipel will lead HTC-Columbia at the 2010 Giro d’Italia, where American Craig Lewis will make his grand-tour debut.
Judging by the volume of article comments (many of them removed to keep this a family Web site), cycling fans are more interested in one of the SRAM Tour of the Gila podium girls than almost any aspect of the New Mexican stage race.
VeloNews Editor in Chief Ben Delaney participated in a remote round table discussion with CNN interviewer Larry King on Thursday, discussion Floyd Landis' admission that he doped and Landis' allegations against Lance Armstrong and others.
Taylor Phinney made it two in a row for his Trek-Livestrong squad on Saturday by winning the SRAM Tour of the Gila criterium, outsprinting Ivan Dominguez (Jamis-Sutter Home).
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Defending champion Levi Leipheimer sits in a position that is at once comfortable yet precarious heading into the final stage of the SRAM Tour of the Gila.
Things went smooth for Peanut Butter & Co. on Saturday, as the team ably protected Mara Abbott's race lead and took a stage win to boot.
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Silver City, New Mexico, woke up to crystal blue skies and a bit of a chill Saturday, as drivers poured over the scrubby high desert and through the mountains from Las Cruces, El Paso, Tucson and Albuquerque to gawk at the SRAM Tour of the Gila downtown criterium and its star riders.