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There is a notable difference between amateur racing and the professional ranks, not just in the race style but also in the riders themselves. There are some riders in the peloton who seem to command respect, the ones who make their hardest efforts appear effortless, never showing the strain that their bodies are surely going through.
The bitter taste is subsiding and Henk Vogels will soon be back in the United States with a new-look V Australia team for 2011. Vogels revealed the squad’s roster Thursday and gave his thoughts on returning to race in the U.S. three months after Pegasus Racing collapsed.
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South African Darren Lill was third in the fourth stage of his country's home tour on Wednesday.
The European racing calendar gets busier with each passing week and this weekend sees the opening of the Belgian racing season with two important semi-classics that will see the top guns sharpening their form with the northern classics just around the corner.
The blogosphere is wondering about another vaunted new team, Leopard-Trek, which up until Monday had not registered a single victory since it debuted at the Tour Down Under just over a month ago.
JAEN, Spain (VN) – A day after losing in a photo-finish, Fran Ventoso (Movistar) got it right to claim victory in Tuesday’s stage 3 at the 57th Ruta del Sol.
The French wave continued Monday as Jonathan Hivert delivered Sojasun-Saur its second consecutive win in a bunch sprint when he out-kicked the fastest of the Spanish armada in the second stage at the Ruta del Sol.
Sarah Hammer of the United States wins the women’s omnium at the UCI World Cup track cycling meet in Manchester, England.
Sven Nys (Landbouwkrediet) clinched the overall victory in the GvA Trofee series on Sunday as Belgian champion Niels Albert (BKCP-Powerplus) won the finale in Oostmalle.
HTC-Highroad's Mark Cavendish scored a sprint victory in the final stage of the 2011 Tour of Oman as Robert Gesink wraps up the overall.
Sir Chris Hoy escapes a spectacular crash to win the World Cup keirin in Manchester. Azizulhasni Awang takes the overall title and collects a seven-inch splinter in one leg to go with it.
André Greipel wins stage 4 of Algarve while Stephen Cummings leads the overall.
Daniele Pietropolli proves fastest of a 10-man break at the Trofeo Laigueglia.
ALBUFEIRA, Portugal (VN) ─ Tejay Van Garderen (HTC-Highroad) is picking up where he left off after his break-out rookie season with a strong ride at the five-day Volta ao Algarve in southern Portugal.
Kevin Sireau, the French sprinter, proved Friday at the World Cup meet in Manchester he will be one of the favorites at the London Olympics
Now that Retirement 2.0 has come, what did Lance Armstrong’s comeback mean for big time American racing? And can the Amgen Tour of California and Quiznos Pro Challenge survive in his absence? One way to answer the question is to look at the effect his presence, or absence, has made on previous events.
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A reader asks if time-sensitive athletes can substitute high-intensity workouts for high volume.
John Degenkolb (HTC-Columbia) nipped Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Cervélo) to win the second stage at the Volta ao Algarve in Portugal in Thursday’s 186.5km run from Lagao to Lagos.
SUR, Oman (AFP) - Dutch rider Theo Bos of Rabobank won the third stage of the Tour of Oman Thursday as Australia's Matthew Goss held the leader's red jersey.
Julien Absalon is the torch-bearer for a generation of racers. Is he ready to pass the flame to Nino Schurter?
Australian Matthew Goss (HTC-HighRoad) won the second stage of the Tour of Oman on Wednesday taking the leader's red jersey from Dutchman Theo Boss of Rabobank.
The merits of tubular tape, more on the stack-and-reach concept, Mavic freehubs and more
Mounting up the new accessory shifters.
LONDON (AFP) - British cycling's Team Sky may relax its "zero tolerance" doping policy as they seek to hire staff capable of improving the outfit's performance, it was reported Tuesday.
AL SEEB, Oman (AFP) — Rabobank's Dutch rider Theo Bos saw off HTC-HighRoad's Mark Cavendish and Skil-Shimano's Roger Kluge to win the first stage of the Tour of Oman here on Tuesday.
MUSCAT, Oman (AFP) - Reigning world road race champion Thor Hushovd has admitted his days of pushing to the front in a bid to win every bunch sprint that is within his grasp are now practically over.
American Jonathan Page falls just short of the podium as Kevin Pauwels wins the GP Heuts.
MUMBAI, India (VN) – Robbie McEwen and Robbie Hunter – aka the “Two Robbies” – delivered a big thank you to RadioShack with top racing over the weekend in a pair of one-day races in India.
Robbie McEwen is “95 percent sure” that this year will be his last among the pro ranks and hinted that the 2012 Tour Down Under could be a perfect way to bow out of the sport.
DOHA, Qatar ─ Australian Mark Renshaw (HTC-HighRoad) won the Tour of Qatar here Friday after the fifth and final stage was claimed by Italy's Andrea Guardini (Farnese Vini-Neri Sottoli).
NASHIK, India (VN) – India made history Friday by hosting its first-ever international road race, with Italian up-and-comer Elia Viviani (Liquigas-Cannondale) kicking to victory ahead of pre-race favorite Robbie McEwen (RadioShack) in wild ride across the rugged hill country of Maharashtra.
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The most anticipated professional debut for an American in a generation is set to roll next week. Taylor Phinney will make his first start for BMC Racing at the Tour of Oman February 15-20.
Robert Förster is bringing the vision he’s gained over a decade in the European trenches to the young riders at UnitedHealthcare and he’s looking for wins — whether it’s him or one of his teammates.
Tom Boonen said Monday that every year it gets a bit harder to win the Tour of Qatar, a race he's won three times.
Haussler v. Cav'; Contador's mystery meat; Bauer dreams big
For the second consecutive day, Tyler Farrar kicks to victory at the Mallorca Challenge in Spain.
Al KHOR CORNICHE, Qatar (VN) — Tom Boonen stretched out his long-unused sprinter legs to win the first stage of the Tour of Qatar on Monday and take the lead.
Anthony Ravard (AG2R-La Mondiale) claimed overall victory in the Etoile de Bessèges on Sunday.
HTC-Highroad hit a milestone with victory at the 2011 Ladies Tour of Qatar, which marked the team’s 400th victory since 2008.
Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Cervélo) won Sunday’s Trofeo Palma, the first round in the five-day 2011 Mallorca Challenge, but it appears that the UCI may refuse to recognize the legitimacy of the event after riders refused to compete without radio earpieces as per the governing body’s edict.
Lars Boom (Rabobank) claims victory in the prologue of the Tour of Qatar.
Italian Elia Viviani (Liquigas-Cannondale) kicks to victory in Saturday’s GP Costa degli Etruschi.
Anthony Ravard (Ag2r-La Mondiale) retakes the lead in the l'Etoile de Bessèges as
Kevin Pauwels (Telenet-Fidea) won a thrilling photo-finish sprint with teammate and world champion Zdenek Stybar to take the GVA Trofee stop at Lille.
Quick Step's Tom Boonen and HTC-HighRoad's Mark Cavendish head the field at the 10th Tour of Qatar, which begins in Doha on Sunday and promises some lively duels between the sport's top sprinters.
Ellen Van Dijk won the Ladies Tour of Qatar on Friday as HTC-Highroad put four riders into the top 10 overall, two of them on the podium.
Samuel Dumoulin (Cofidis) sprinted to victory in Friday’s third stage at the Étoile de Bessèges in southern France.
Spanish sprinter Fran Ventoso, the first rider to win a race on the new Campagnolo electronic shifters, calls them "a marvel."
Ellen Van Dijk takes the sprint from a small breakaway group and moves into the overall lead in Qatar.
French rider Lloyd Mondory delivered the first win of the season for Ag2r-La Mondiale after taking the flowers in Thursday’s second stage at the Étoile de Bessèges in southern France.
Omega Pharma-Lotto enters the 2011 season with high expectations.
Perhaps it’s hard to believe for an Italian rider, but former world champion Alessandro Ballan has never raced the Giro d’Italia.
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The five-day “star” of Bessèges dates back to the early 1970s and has since grown into France’s first stage race of the year.
Yauheni Hutarovich (FDJ) won the opening stage of the five-day Étoile de Bessèges in Tuesday’s 150km run from Beaucaire to Bellegarde in southern France.
Details of the 2011 Amgen Tour of California stage routes and participating teams are beginning to take shape. Most notably, VeloNews has learned, the race will feature two summit finishes, including one atop San José’s steep Sierra Road climb on stage 4.
After six days of trying, the breakaway specialists in Le Tour de Langkawi finally had their say Monday, going clear during a shortened stage to Nilai and fighting it out for the win.
Team Movistar’s official presentation is Tuesday in Madrid, but Franco Pellizotti won’t be signing a late-hour contract with the Spanish team because his ongoing doping case remains unresolved.
Daniele Pietropolli (Lampre-ISD) wins the Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria as Manuel Belletti (Colnago-CSF Inox) takes the finale.
After taking a frustrated second on Saturday's stage to Tampin, UnitedHealthcare's Robert Forster went one better to blaze home first into Jasin on the eighth leg of the Tour de Langkawi.
Andrea Guardini (Farnese Vini-Neri Sottoli) won his fourth bunch sprint in the Tour de Langkawi on Saturday.
After the general classification battles of the past two days, the Tour de Langkawi returned to flatter terrain, and Andrea Guardini (Farnese Vini –Neri Sottoli) clocked up his hat-trick of sprint victories in the race.
Showing that he can still compete strongly at 43 years of age, Libardo Nino Corredor (Le Tua) took over the general classification lead at the Tour de Langkawi Thursday. The veteran Colombian rider placed second on the gruelling stage to Genting Highlands, battling wind and rain to finish just behind the victorious Venezuelan rider Jonnatha Monsalve (Androni Giocattoli).
Two weeks ago, (UnitedHealthcare) was looking for miles in the saddle ahead of the Tour of Langkawi. On Thursday he’ll be looking for the leader’s jersey when the race hits the brutal slopes of the Genting Highlands.
Asian riders showed their improving strength Wednesday when riders from that continent took the top spots on the first mountain stage of this year’s Tour de Langkawi, putting Japan’s Takeaki Ayabe into the overall lead.
The Fondriest Cross Carbon reviewed — smooth frame, annoying fork and lots of F words from the reviewer
Skil-Shimano's Marcel Kittel’s bronze medal at last year’s U23 world championship time trial marked him as a big talent against the watch, but he showed his sprinting skills in taking the third stage of the Tour de Langkawi.
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Italian rider Andrea Guardini showed that his Stage 1 victory was well deserved when he took another impressive sprint victory in the Tour de Langkawi.
Marco Arriagada (Chile) secured the overall title at the Tour de San Luís after finishing safely in the bunch in Sunday’s seventh and final stage.
Equaling the closest-winning margin 10 years ago, Cameron Meyer and his Garmin-Cervélo team held off all and sundry in Sunday’s final stage to win the 2011 Santos Tour Down Under.
Garmin-Cervélo team manager Matthew White says the 2011 Santos Tour Down Under has come down to one of two men: his charge and current leader, Cameron Meyer, or Matthew Goss of HTC-HighRoad,