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Alex Grant and Benjamin Sonntag will join Jeremiah Bishop and Tinker Juarez on CFR in time for first ProXCT race in California.

The splits: Phinney v. Sergent for the gold

American Taylor Phinney easily beat New Zealand's Jesse Sergent to successfully defend his individual pursuit title at the world track championships in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Thursday.

A tired reader asks how to tell if he is overtrained.

2010 Redlands Bicycle Classic results

Britain's four-time Olympic champion Sir Chris Hoy reclaimed his world keirin crown after a dominating display in the final of the men's event at the world track cycling championships Thursday.

Andrew Hood chats with veteran sprinter and lead-out man Julian Dean on his career and how he can help Tyler Farrar beat Mark Cavendish in the sprints this year.

The UCI has filed an appeal to the International Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) challenging a decision by the Swiss Olympic Committee to end its doping case against 1997 Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich.

Saxo Bank's Jens Voigt won the fourth stage of the Tour of Catalonia on Thursday, a 210-kilometer state from Oliana to Asco in northeastern Spain.

Australia's women's pursuit team defeated reigning world champions Britain in the gold medal ride-off on Thursday at the world track cycling championships.

The National Racing Calendar will roll into Anniston, Alabama and onto web-enabled devices during the Sunny King Criterium on April 17th.

A reader asks about those riders who have won in their first appearance at the Tour de France.

2010 Redlands Bicycle Classic time trial start list

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RadioShack will include Americans Lance Armstrong,Chris Horner and Matt Busche on its Criterium International team this weekend.

This weekend took the Atlantic Conference to Doswell, Virginia, and the Virginia State Fairgrounds for races hosted by both Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Virginia. Both Saturday and Sunday were criteriums around the same loop, though with some changes to the parking lot section of the course. In addition to Saturday’s mostly flat and rectangle course, one end included a section of four quick 180-degree turns, providing more pedal scraping and occasional crashing than actual pedaling. Sunday, which was reversed, was bit more moderate, with only two 180’s in addition to the rectangle.

World sprint champion Gregory Bauge selflessly blamed himself on Wednesday as France lost their coveted team sprint crown to Germany at the world track cycling championships. Germany, who last won the three-lap power event at world level in 2003, clocked a winning time of 43.433 to leave France, the champions since 2006, with the silver medal.

The U.S.'s Sarah Hammer held off Britain's Wendy Houvenaghel to reclaim the women's individual pursuit title at the world track cycling championships on Wednesday.

Australia's Cam Meyer defended his world's points race title Wednesday at the world championships in Copenhagen.

Rain comes to Lindenwood as the Midwest Conference rolls into Spring Break season.

Saxo Bank's Danish road champion Matt Breschel won Wednesday's Dwars door Vlaanderen, the 204-kilometer Belgian semi-classic, in a 22-kilometer solo breakaway.

2010 Dwars door Vlaanderen results

Spain's Xavier Tondo (Cervelo TestTeam) won Wednesday's third stage of the Tour of Catalonia, a 185.9-kilometre run from La Vall d'En Bas to La Seu d'Urgell in northeastern Spain.

Britain's Wendy Houvenaghel will face former world champion Sarah Hammer of the USA in the women's 3000 meter pursuit gold match at the world track cycling championships later Wednesday.

With the Tour of California moving to May this year, the first major test of the U.S. racing calendar returns to late March in Redlands, California.

Jason Queally, Olympic gold winner in the men's kilometer at the Sydney Games in 2000, is making an audacious bid for a coveted place in Britain's world-beating pursuit team at this week’s world track championships.

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.

Reader letters on collegiate cycling and female athletes

James Williamson died Tuesday morning before stage three after his riding partner Shaun Lewis could not rouse him.

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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.

Eight Americans, including a current and a former world champ, queue up for track worlds in Copenhagen

German tire company finally offering 29-inch Rocket Ron and Nobby Nic rubber and a white 26-inch Rocket Ron.

Lennard Zinn's readers weigh in on ways to choose, fix and maintain tires and those super-narrow 11-speed chains.

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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.

2010 Tour of Catalonia galleries

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 Gran Premio San Giuseppe results

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

2010 Tour of Taiwan results

San Dimas, 2010, Stage 1 - Photo Gallery

Graham Watson: The 101st edition of Milan San Remo.