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Schleck says he hasn't seen someone with as much fitness and drive as Wiggins in a long time

While embattled RadioShack-Nissan director goes quiet, Chris Horner may be back in the Tour de France

Struggling Luxembourger has broken vertebra from Dauphine crash and is RadioShack's second star to miss the start in Liege

American says he has not heard from RadioShack management in weeks and won't allow the team to impact his Olympics selection

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Here's the RadioShack-Nissan bike to watch through the detailed eye of tech editor Caley Fretz

Frank Schleck has pulled out of today's stage 15 at the Giro - he'd been suffering from injuries sustained a crash Wednesday

Chris Horner and company are laying their cards on the table and waiting for someone to call

In this video from RadioShack-Nissan, Chris Horner and Jens Voigt do what they do second best — tell stories about getting into cycling

Fränk Schleck to lead RadioShack at 2012 Giro d'Italia

Dutch and French squads among four wildcards for Tour of Spain

Schlecks and company return to square one for the Tour after classics disappointments

Andy and Fränk Schleck are determined to take another win at Liège-Bastogne-Liège

Disappointing day for RadioShack-Nissan at Amstel Gold Race, but Fränk Schleck looked ahead to Liège with confidence

Daniele Bennati says the Cancellara's injury has damaged the motivation for RadioShack-Nissan at Paris-Roubaix

The RadioShack-Nissan rider is suffering from acute gastroenteritis

Zubeldia his transition from Tour podium contender to helper as well as the merger between RadioShack and Leopard-Trek

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Lance Armstrong will not have a public role in the newly merged RadioShack-Nissan-Trek team

Strength in numbers will help vs. long TTs

The Leopard Trek Continental squad, led by director Andriano Baffi, consists mostly of U-23 riders and aims "to build for the future."

The powerhouse RadioShack-Nissan-Trek squad has designs on victories in classics and grand tours as it looks forward to the 2012 season.

The UCI License Commission has approved the registration of the RadioShack-Nissan-Trek team and granted a WorldTour license to GreenEdge Cycling Team, the world governing body announced on Monday.

American veteran Chris Horner is relaxed, recovered and ready heading into the coming week, which marks the first training camp for the newly merged all-star squad of RadioShack and Leopard-Trek members.

Matthew Busche, who enjoyed a fine season in his second year in Europe, will be riding with the new-look RadioShack-Nissan-Trek team next season.

Johan Bruyneel names the sport directors who will be part of the merger between RadioShack and Leopard-Trek for the coming season.

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Haimar Zubeldia says Andy Schleck will have a better chance to win the Tour de France riding under the guidance of Belgium director Johan Bruyneel next season under the merger of RadioShack and Leopard-Trek.

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HARO, Spain (VN) — Bjarne Riis says he's not worried about the fusion of RadioShack and Leopard-Trek for one simple reason: Alberto Contador.

The French sports daily L'Equipe reported Monday that the team's financial backer, Luxembourg investor Flavio Becca, will announce later this month that the team will close at the end of this season.

Fulgsang said Leopard-Trek riders have heard nothing from team staff about an alleged merger

Rumors are flying that Leopard-Trek and RadioShack are poised to fuse their two teams for 2012 under the guidance of Belgian sport director Johan Bruyneel.

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RadioShack lines up for the Vuelta a España with a strong team centered around Jani Brajkovic and Andreas Klöden.

PARIS (AFP) - Frenchman Tony Gallopin will ride for RadioShack as of next season after signing a two-year deal with the American outfit, according to the French Cycling Federation (ffc.fr) Thursday.

It's not taking long for riders and teams to make moves with new transfer limit bumped back to August 1.

SAINT-PAUL-TRES-CHATEAUX, France (VN) ─ As the dust settled for Monday's rest day in the Tour de France, many inside the peloton were looking at Leopard-Trek with a critical eye.

How a skilled PR man and former Riis Cycling insider polished an entrepreneur’s idea, snagged Spartacus and the Schleck brothers, and built the world’s No. 1 team

AURILLAC, France (VN) – While many of the other favorites have lost skin and time to crashes — if not crashing out entirely — Leopard-Trek’s two-brother GC front is sitting pretty. Fränk and Andy Schleck are now fourth and fifth overall, just three and 11 seconds behind BMC’s Cadel Evans, the highest-placed GC contender.

Nick Legan pokes around Leopard-Trek's Tour de France support car.

RadioShack pushed its four riders through the mayhem in Saturday's opening stage of the 2011 Tour de France, but team boss Johan Bruyneel shot down suggestions that the Shack was driving the bunch when Alberto Contador was caught behind the main pack with a crash in the closing kilometers.

LES HERBIERS, France — In a survey of 94 Tour de France team managers and riders conducted by L’Équipe on Tuesday, only three mentioned Levi Leipheimer as a potential podium pick. The two American veterans say they are ready to upset the odds

Brian Nygaard, team manager at Leopard-Trek, promises that the Schleck brothers will be attacking in the Tour de France and especially aggressive in the high mountains.

Team RadioShack's main sponsors have agreed to a two-year extension of their sponsorship contracts with the world’s No. 3-ranked UCI ProTeam.

Levi Leipheimer insists there will be no leadership battles within RadioShack during the upcoming Tour de France despite the team having as many as four riders capable of riding for GC.

RadioShack for the Tour de France:

• Jani Brajkovic (Slo)
• Chris Horner (USA)
• Markel Irizar (Sp)
• Andreas Klöden (G)
• Levi Leipheimer (USA)
• Dmitriy Muravyev (Kz)
• Sérgio Paulinho (P)
• Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr)
• Haimar Zubeldia (Sp)

RadioShack has four of its Tour nine already confirmed, but team boss Johan Bruyneel is asking fans' help in rounding out the squad.

Levi Leipheimer didn't start the 2011 Tour de Suisse expecting to win what many call Europe's "fourth grand tour."

The road to the Tour de France heads through Switzerland for the Schleck brothers and time trial star Fabian Cancellara.

Police carried out a search at the RadioShack team hotel in Falcade on Monday, a day after former Lance Armstrong teammate Tyler Hamilton accused him on "60 Minutes" of participating in a sophisticated doping program, according to The Associated Press

Inside the Team RadioShack mobile kitchen

Newcomers Busche and King play major role in the Horner-Leipheimer show

LIVORNO, Italy, May 10, 2011 (AFP) - The Leopard Trek team withdrew from the Giro d'Italia on Tuesday, a day after team member Wouter Weylandt died in a crash during the second stage, the team announced in a statement.

RAPALLO, Italy (VN) — There was no immediate word from Leopard-Trek on whether the team would continue in the Giro d’Italia following the tragic death of Belgian rider Wouter Weylandt in Monday’s third stage.

Tiago Machado will lead RadioShack at the 2011 Giro.

Brice Feillu replaces the injured Daniele Bennati on Leopard-Trek’s 2011 Giro d’Italia roster.

“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.

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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.