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“Honestly, I enjoyed myself today,” said U.S> national champion Ben King. “I’ve never done anything like it before. It was unbelievable.”

The VeloNews crew eyeballs Leopard-Trek's prototype Bontrager wheels before Tour of Flanders.

Team RadioShack on Friday announced its team for next week's Volta a Catalunya (Tour of Catalonia).

SAN BENEDETTO DEL TRONTO, Italy (VN) – It is four days before the season’s first one-day monument at Milan-San Remo and 2008 winner Fabian Cancellara (Leopard-Trek) is making plans. But those plans are much farther reaching than the 300 kilometers he’ll face Saturday.

RadioShack’s Andreas Kloden positioned himself for overall victory at Paris-Nice after taking a stage victory in Thursday’s 193km fifth stage ahead Samuel Sanchez.

Must Reads: Mosquera still in limbo, Armstrong campaigns for cig tax

Jens Voigt (Leopard Trek) admits that his chances of claiming a record sixth victory at Critérium International are slim, but at least he’ll be at the start line this year to have a shot.

Leopard-Trek has announced the signing of Austrian rider Thomas Rohregger, who last rode for Milram.

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.

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.

Johan Bruyneel says there’s “nothing new” to the latest round of doping allegations leveled at Lance Armstrong, who raced his final international cycling event with Sunday’s conclusion at the Tour Down Under.

Andy Schleck says he doesn’t want to win the Tour de France by default if Alberto Contador is disqualified from the 2010 edition. He wants to beat him straight up on the roads of France.

Leopard-Trek gets geared up for the 2011 season.

In advance of next week's Tour Down Under, the RadioShack team has unveiled a new jersey for the 2011 season.

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Jakob Fuglsang is latest young rider to be billed as a “future Tour de France winner,” a burden the ex-mountain biker is not especially keen to bear.

Nick Legan, at the team camp in Mallorca, takes a quick look at the new team's Bontrager helmets.

Bontrager to unveil new wheels under Team Leopard Trek and Team RadioShack

A quick look at the bikes used by the new team

The name of the new Leopard-Trek team came about almost by accident, but its goals are nothing short of domination in the classics and the Tour de France during the 2011 season.

The Luxembourg team will enter the No. 1 spot on team rankings even before it lines up for its first race.

The still-unnamed Luxembourg team saved the best for last, announcing Tuesday its debut 2011 roster is officially closed with the arrival of Swiss star Fabian Cancellara.

Andy Schleck – the man who just might be proclaimed winner of the Tour de France – says he believes Alberto Contador and his claims that his positive test from clenbeturol came from eating contaminated meat.

The Luxembourg team announces it has hired three more young riders: two from Denmark and one from the Netherlands.

The "team without a name" continues to make headlines in the off-seaon by filtering its signings in dribs and drabs, but who can blame them when there's not a lot going on.

As expected, Australian Stuart O’Grady will join several of his former Saxo Bank teammates on the new Luxembourg pro team headed up by Frank and Andy Schleck.

Team RadioShack director Johan Bruyneel is fined 10,000 francs and suspended two months for the team's jersey-swapping violation on the final stage of the Tour

Johan Bruyneel admits that RadioShack will not be among top candidates for the yellow jersey, but suggested Brajkovic may be a wild-card at next year's Tour de France

Jose Luis 'Chechu' Rubiera will retire from cycling at the end of the month, the RadioShack team announced.

The Shack hires a young Portugese time trial specialist and an Irish all rounder.

Ireland's Philip Deignan has signed a deal that will put him on the RadioShack team next year

BMC Racing's Jim Ochowicz talks with VeloNews about signing Taylor Phinney and the team's role in developing young riders.

The team is being called before a disciplinary hearing for wearing un-approved kit on the last day of the 2010 Tour de France

The Trek-Livestrong rider adds a pro road title to the two U23 national titles he's earned this year.

The Tour of Romandy gets UCI permission to add a 26th team — RadioShack — to the race.

Team RadioShack has released its roster for this Wednesday's GP de Wallonie, a UCI category 1.1 race in Belgium.

Team RadioShack will start Lombardy after all

RadioShack is asking the Court of Arbitration for Sport for damages after the team was not invited to the fall classic, Tour of Lombardy

The Lithuanian still suffering from shoulder he broke in February.

Team manager Johan Bruyneel calls the three "classy riders" with "a lot of potential."

Javier Guillén says the race features a 'colossus' climb and a stellar field, including the Schlecks, Menchov, Sastre, Cavendish, Freire and others

The U23 squad fields favorites for Utah TT, signs Craddock, Eastman, Jones for next season

Haimar Zubeldia hadn’t won a race in 10 years – now he’s back on the winner’s podium for the second time in a week.

In an exclusive interview, the RadioShack team boss talks about the team's Tour de France, its new stagiaires, 'jerseygate,' Contador and the team's future.

The China Daily reports that Fuyu Li's second sample has tested positive for a banned substance.

A new generation of riders will get their first taste of big-time European racing next week as the latest crew of stagiaires enters the peloton for the second half of the season.

Team RadioShack's fashion faux pax in stage 20 has not gone unnoticed by the UCI, which will open disciplinary proceedings against the team "for breaching the regulations governing riders’ clothing."

The Kiwi will head overseas next week after wrapping up the Cascade Classic.

A look at Levi Leipheimer's quiver of Trek Madone Series 6 Tour bikes

If Caisse d'Epargne is in a break, expect to see RadioShack there, too.

RadioShack’s stagiare and neo-pro train in the Alps with USA Cycling Champion’s Club, visit the Tour

Armstrong says helping Leipheimer get on the podium and helping RadioShack win the team GC are top priorities

Alberto Contador stops by the RadioShack bus with gifts for Armstrong and Bruyneel.

Team RadioShack is one of the few teams not hosting a pre-race press conference in Rotterdam.

Phinney resting up before splitting rest of season with Shack, national team

For RadioShack team director Johan Bruyneel, “We Might As Well Win” — the title of his 2008 book — has given way to a more relaxed attitude.

Horner, Brajkovic get Tour nods for Shack

The team was not included in the list of 22 squads invited to the 2010 Vuelta, set to start Aug. 28 in Sevilla. Sixteen teams were already selected, but RadioShack was not among the final six wild-card selections revealed Monday.

Team RadioShack announces its Tour of Switzerland roster

Haimar Zubeldia's Tour de France campaign is under threat after the Spaniard suffered a fracture in a crash on Monday at the Dauphine Criterium.

Team RadioShack's Sébastien Rosseler broke a bone in his left hand and bruised his shoulder after colliding with a car while on a training ride, the team announced Wednesday.

The UCI has issued a provisional suspension of RadioShack rider Li Fuyu after he tested positive for the stimulant Clenbuterol at last month’s Tour of Flanders.

RadioShack’s Sébastien Rosseler won Wednesday’s Brabantse Pijl out of a three-man breakaway in Belgium.

RadioShack riders will be lining up on bikes uniquely prepared for the world’s toughest single-day bike race.