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Sue Butler (Monavie-Cannondale) suited up for the costume race at Cross Crusade No. 6 Sunday in Astoria and rode to her first series win of the season, while Barry Wicks (Kona) doubled up after taking Saturday’s opener in the Halloween weekend of racing. Mud from Saturday’s intermittent rain got tacky when Sunday turned into an unseasonably warm, clear day on Oregon’s northern coast.

Sir Chris Hoy won his third gold at the UCI Track World Cup on Sunday in Manchester as Great Britain ended the meeting with yet more medals. Four-time Olympic champion Hoy, who at this event was making his international return from injury, added team sprint gold to the keirin and sprint crowns he'd already won and in the process replicated his Beijing haul. In all Britain won 10 golds from 17 events, as well as four silvers and a bronze medal on their home track.

Seattle’s Nick Weighall (California Giant Strawberries-Specialized) ran away from Mike Broderick (Kenda-Seven-NoTubes) to win the MAC Beacon Cyclocross Saturday in Bridgeton, New Jersey. In contrast, Mary McConneloug (Kenda-Seven-NoTubes) rode away from a tough women’s field that included defending MAC champion Laura Van Gilder and perennial front-runner Dee Winfield (C3-Athletes Serving Athletes), and 2008 MAC champion Mo Bruno-Roy (MM Racing p/b Seven Cycles)

World road champion Cadel Evans has left Silence-Lotto for the U.S./Swiss team BMC for 2010, according to a press release from BMC. “A great opportunity has come for me to join a growing team of like minded individuals at BMC," Evans said in the statement released Sunday. "I look forward to working with the BMC group toward the same goals, including the Tour de France. I see the BMC Racing Team as a growing but very well structured and organized team. “Obviously, I would like to do better than my two second places at the Tour de France.”

Santa Rosa / Adelaide, 2009-11-01 BMC Racing Team Signs the Current World Champion Cadel Evans The BMC Racing Team today announced the signing of current World Professional Road Champion Cadel Evans to a three year contract. This partnership will create mutually beneficial opportunities for both the current World Champion as well as the BMC Racing Team.

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American Floyd Landis, who was stripped of his 2006 Tour de France victory after a positive doping test and a public battle to prove his innocence, has told a New Zealand newspaper that he may never compete again in cycling's most important race. Landis, now 34, told the Herald on Sunday newspaper that infighting between cycling's biggest movers and shakers will likely mean he will not be returning to the Tour.

Kona pro Barry Wicks came to Astoria Saturday and put the hurt on the Cross Crusade regulars, while Veloforma’s Alice Pennington fought back from several hard crashes to take her first win in a women’s A race after three runner-up finishes. Intermittent showers and sun breaks kept the temperatures warm and the course sloppy as the Cross Crusade invaded the northernmost tip of Oregon’s coast for a Halloween weekend doubleheader at the Clatsop County Fairgrounds.

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Track cyclist Colby Pearce gives a mountain bike stage race a try.

I’ve had my share of run-ins with crazy motorists on the road, who are driven nuts by being held up for thirty seconds by a cyclist or two. However, I’ve had it happen to me in reverse.

In his first weekly column for Singletrack.com, tech guru Lennard Zinn takes questions on disc brake performance and compatibility, the longevity of press-in bottom brackets and the availability of "special" Shimano tools/

Prosecutors and defense attorneys made closing arguments Thursday in Los Angeles, in the trial of a former emergency room doctor accused of injuring two cyclists when he stopped his car suddenly in front of them. Dr. Christopher Thomas Thompson's attorney said it was all an accident. "This was not an attempt to hurt anyone." Deputy District Attorney Mary Stone said Thompson's actions "crossed a line you cannot cross."

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Lance Armstrong's Treks make a post-season, cameo comeback of their own.

Just as cycling enters the off-season, threats of new doping scandals are looming on the horizon in Italy and Spain. In Italy, the sports daily La Gazzetta dello Sport reported that officials are going to re-test samples taken from the 2008 Giro d’Italia for the presence of the banned blood booster CERA. And in Spain, a magazine reports on a police investigation into an alleged doping ring, including some text messages reportedly between some well-known pro cyclists and a doctor.

Italian re-tests

Eighteen inches or more of fresh snow has forced organizers to move this Sunday's Boulder Cup race from a grassy city park in South Boulder to the sandy Boulder Reservoir. The new venue will be familiar to many — it's the same as used last year for the Saturday race of the North American Cyclocross Trophy series weekend in Boulder. This year, the Saturday race is being held at the Xilinx venue in nearby Longmont.

Response of the UCI to a report from AFLD relating to anti- doping activities at the 2009 Tour de France PART 1: GENERAL COMMENTS The concept of partnership

The UCI is striking back at the French anti-doping agency AFLD, which earlier this month accused the UCI of giving Astana special treatment at the Tour de France.

Basque-backed Euskaltel-Euskadi is trying to turn the page on a season of potentially fatal doping scandals that plagued the team during 2009. High-profile doping positives involving Iñigo Landaluze and Tour de France stage-winner Markel Astarloza nearly scuttled the team, but backers are supporting the team’s efforts to refurbish the squad with younger riders.