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The Presidential Tour of Turkey has been around nearly half a century, but no one really paid much attention to it until about four years ago, when the UCI elevated its status and organizers up the ante to draw top teams.
Roman Kreuziger (Astana) and Michele Scarponi (Lampre) took morale-boosting victories Friday to put their rivals on notice going into next month´s Giro d'Italia.
ROME (AFP) - Giro d'Italia champion Ivan Basso will not be defending his title when the Giro begins on May 7 in Turin, he said Thursday.
Alberto Contador (Saxo Bank-Sungard) says he is still feeling the effects of a spring cold ahead of Wednesday’s Flèche Wallonne in what will be his only spring classic of the season.
Alberto Contador (Saxo Bank-Sungard) took what he could out of the Vuelta a Castilla y León despite missing a chance to win for the fourth time in five years.
Q.Dear Explainer, As a follow-up to your answer to an earlier question on the biological passport, I’m curious whether there is any science out there on the relative benefits of micro-dosing EPO and other methods designed to avoid detection in doping controls as compared to more traditional and easily catchable doping methods.
American cyclist Steven Cozza (Team NetApp) is offering a new cycling coloring book that is intended to educate youngsters about the wonders of road racing and raise money for disadvantaged kids.
With nearly all the major Tour de France hopefuls lining up this week at the Tour of the Basque Country, Alberto Contador has gone to the mountains.
The positive clenbuterol test of Tour de France winner Alberto Contador has consumed the cycling world since its announcement in September. While he's never tested positive before, Contador's career has been affected almost from its start by doping allegations — often against others.
Vuelta a España officials said they will release their wild-card invitations to the 2011 edition in May and suggested it may follow the lead taken by the Giro d’Italia, which recently invited five extra teams to the corsa rosa.
Christian Vande Velde isn’t going to tempt fate yet again and is steering clear of the Giro d’Italia this year as he prepares for a peak in form for the 2011 Tour de France.
Angelo Zomegnan wants the 2011 Giro d’Italia to be bigger than ever and it will be, at least this year.
Alberto Contador has reconfirmed he will make a run at the Giro d'Italia and is leaving the Tour de France in a wait-and-see posture for the time being.
When Marco Pantani died of an apparent cocaine overdose, alone in a Rimini hotel room seven years ago this St. Valentine’s Day, Riccardo Riccò was racing on a small amateur team called Grassi Marco Pantani. Riccò, then 20 years old, dreamed of emulating his hero by someday winning the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France.
A change in political winds in Washington, D.C., could sink plans to bring the Giro d’Italia to North America.
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.
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.
The 2011 Giro will include the white strada bianche and a ride up Europe's highest road in Austria.
The American is training Rocky-style for another go at the Tour next year.
"We got all the peas just right, but neglected the steak," says team partner Dave Brailsford on the British squad's first year.
UPDATED: A crash inside the final 10km takes Anton out of the race, sends Rodriguez off to the stage win and puts Nibali into the red leader's jersey.
In a video exclusive, Giro Donne winner Mara Abbott says freedom and community have made 2010 her best year yet.
Alexander Vinokourov remains an enigma for many watching the 2010 Tour de France.
HTC-Columbia sprinter Ina-Yoko Teutenberg takes her third straight stage at the Giro Donne. This time, in a time trial.
The American comes in 11th and says his goal is to help his BMC team all the way to Paris.
Ivan Basso (Liquigas) says returning to the Tour de France for the first time since 2005 makes him an outsider for victory and insists the favorite will be Alberto Contador.
Danny Pate has gone to the Tour de France for the past two years, but he’s not sure if he’s going back for a third.
Of the seven pre-race favorites, only three finished in the top ten.
Ivan Basso (Liquigas-Doimo) collects the final overall victory at the 2010 Giro d’Italia on Sunday as Erik Larsson (Saxo Bank) wins the final stage, a 15km time trial through the streets of Verona.
Johann Tschopp (Bbox Bouygues Telecom) wins the 20th stage of the Giro d’Italia as Ivan Basso (Liquigas-Doimo) defends his overall lead.
Basso out-climbs a tenacious Arroyo to take the Giro lead heading into the final two stages.
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Lloyd Lloyd on stage 10 Matt Lloyd (Omega Pharma-Lotto) is getting accustomed to wearing the green King of the Mountains jersey at the Giro d'Italia, but concedes that it will take smart riding for him to keep it all the way to Verona.
Report from Tuesday's stage of the 2010 Giro d'Italia, the Plan de Corones time trial.
On the Giro's second rest day Cervelo's Ted King takes some time to define some new additions to the Giro d'Italia vocabulary.
Giro d’Italia race director Angelo Zomegnan must be a very happy man. With a week to go, no one knows who will win the 2010 Giro, and that’s just the way he wants it.
Ivan Basso (Liquigas-Doimo) triumphed in stage 15 of the 2010 Giro d’Italia, shedding world champion Cadel Evans (BMC Racing) in the final 3km of a hellishly mountainous race after a five-man break came to grief on the steeps of the Monte Zoncolan.
Arroyo takes maglia rosa as Giro's standings get another reshuffle and Vincenzo NIbali wins stage 14 in solo break.
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2010 Giro d'Italia, stage 11 report
With each passing stage, lexander Vinokourov is quietly gaining confidence that he can win the Giro.
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Brett Lancaster of the Cérvelo TestTeam has become one of Thor Hushovd’s most trusted leadout-men, helping his team to victories in the Tour de France and Volta a Catalunya last year. But Lancaster can win in his own right too, as he proved in Santa Rosa on Monday.
Farrar takes his second win of the 2010 Giro d'Italia with a blistering sprint into Bitonto.
Carlos Sastre (Cervélo TestTeam) would like to hit the repeat button and do the entire first week of the 2010 Giro d’Italia all over again.
The young Australian ride the HTC-Columbia leadout train to victory, as the sprinters' teams end the streak of breakaways
Mark Cavendish starts off his 2010 Amgen Tour of California with a stage win in Sacramento
Saxo Bank's Chris Sorensen rides away from a 17-man breakaway on the final climb to win the first real mountain stage of the 2010 Giro d'Italia.
Inside Cycling with John Wilcockson: The Giro battle has only just begun
Breakaway again: Australian Matthew Lloyd wins Giro d'Italia stage 6 solo after attacking his breakmate on the final climb. Nibali retains overall lead.
Jérôme Pineau (Quick Step) won Thursday's fifth stage of the 2010 Giro d'Italia after working a nearly day-long four-man breakaway and outlasting the chase pack by seconds.
Having the Giro begin in Amsterdam was like mixing opera with Ska.
The Giro d'Italia offers some competitions and prizes that vary a bit from what many Americans have learned about through the Tour de France and domestic races. Here's a look at the competitions.
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Just a day after nearly everything went right for Garmin-Transitions, capped by Tyler Farrar’s stage victory Sunday, nearly everything went wrong less than 24 hours later.
Wouter Weylandt (Quick Step) wins stage 3; Alexander Vinokourov (Astana) leads the Giro.
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.
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.
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.
Bradley Wiggins wins stage 1 of the 2010 Giro d'Italia
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.
Racing this Week: Giro, Dunkirk and China
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.
Former LPR rider Gabriele Bosisio was hit with a two-year suspension by the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) on Wednesday after testing positive for the banned blood-booster EPO last fall.
Bertolini surprises sprinters at Trentino
Results - Giro del Trentino
Astana's Alexander Vinokourov won the first stage of the Giro del Trentino in northern Italy on Tuesday.
After a few frenetic weeks, with sometimes as many as four races in one day, European racing takes a relative breather.
Prior to Tyler Farrar’s win at the G.P. Scheldeprijs on Wednesday, VeloNews had a seat in the Garmin-Transitions car riding along with the team’s director, Australian Matt White.
IN: Jelly Belly, Kelly Benefit Strategies, Sky. OUT: Jamis, Bahati
There are some heavyweights heading to this year’s Giro d’Italia, confirmed Thursday with the release of the preliminary start list.
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.
Chris Horner remains second at the Giro di Sardegna as Alessandro Petacchi takes the stage win.
Despite being in only its fifth year and lasting just eight days, the Amgen Tour of California is fast approaching the status of a three-week grand tour — in terms of the publicity it generates. That was shown by last week’s online release, over four days, of the 2010 stage details, and by the number of Tour de France contenders choosing to compete in the U.S. when the Giro d’Italia is under way in Europe.