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After two years in the professional wilderness, Australian rider Luke Roberts will return to the ProTour with Team Milram at January's Santos Tour Down Under in Adelaide, Australia.

"Comeback 2.0: Up Close and Personal" is the story of Lance Armstrong's return to professional cycling in 2009.

AFP/File Sprinter Robert Forster, pictured in 2007, will spearhead the German Team Milram at Australia's Tour Sun Nov 29, 5:54 pm ET SYDNEY Sprinter Robert Forster will spearhead the German Team Milram at Australia's Tour Down Under in January, organisers said on Monday.

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One month ago, gifted high-school student Rodolfo Rojo and his two best friends decided to ride their bicycles from one boy's Miami Shores house to another's home in North Miami.

The Landbouwkrediet-Colnago team will go by the name of Landbouwkrediet in 2010 although the team will retain Colnago as a sponsor.

Contentpolis-Ampo manager Jose Antonio Ortuo has admitted that the future of the team is not guaranteed, in contrast to his statements from earlier this month.

Soon after the qualifying races in the team's sprint at last week's World Cup event in Melbourne, a rival coach sidled up to Justin Grace and said: "Look out, the Kiwis are coming". The New Zealand track cycling team is famous for their individual and team pursuit riders, not sprinters.

I am a rider/racer on the road and mountain bike. I have been training for fitness for the past 10 years and compete in about 10 races per year as a Cat 3 racer.

Following in Lance Armstrong's tyre tracks - Leamington charity cyclist rides his way back from cancer By Sundari Sankar Leamington business owner Sean Newman is supporting a friend who survived cancer by joining him in a 3,500-mile charity cycle ride across the USA.

Grab the front of the saddle as you swing your right leg over it. Dear readers, I know that I promised to describe how to eliminate front brake shudder on a cyclocross bike in today's column, but I only just got the parts today that I think will definitively eliminate it, and I didn't have a chance to install them today, much less test them.

Gabriele Bosisio pleaded his innocence at a hearing with the Italian Olympic Committee's Anti-doping prosecutor on Monday.

This photo was taken Friday afternoon during a VeloNews photoshoot. Sometime over the weekend, one of these bikes was stolen.

What's that you say? You've just finished up your team meetings in Switzerland, and you're now flying from Basel back home to the United States, and you have a brief layover in Frankfurt, Germany, yet very unseasonably windy weather caused your first flight to land well after your second flight took off, so now you have a comp'ed hotel room for the ...

AUSTRALIAN great Robbie McEwen will try to kick-start his stalled cycling career at Tour Down Under in Adelaide in January.

A Team Trek-Livestrong time trial bicycle valued at $10,000 was stolen this past weekend from Lance Armstrong's Mellow Johnny's bicycle shop in downtown Austin.

Two giant pandas due to begin a 10-year stay at an Australian zoo could give the local economy a bigger boost than recent visits by Tiger Woods or Lance Armstrong, officials said Wednesday.

Former Liquigas rider Gianni Da Ros has been handed a 20-year ban for drug offences by Italy's National Anti-Doping Tribunal.

You might have noticed that the VeloNews crew often preaches the use of tubulars for cyclocross, particularly if you're serious about the discipline.

Cadel Evans will parade more than just the coveted UCI world road champion's rainbow jersey at the Santos Tour Down Under in January.

The future of Tour de France champion Alberto Contador's Astana team is again in doubt after cycling's ruling body made new demands for financial guarantees.

AUSTIN, Texas a ' Lance Armstrong's new RadioShack racing team is getting ready to ride and will be training in Tucson next month.

Lance Armstrong 's new RadioShack racing team is getting ready to ride. Armstrong, a seven-time Tour de France champion, came out of retirement to race the 2009 tour with Astana and finished third at age 37, making him the second-oldest rider to make the podium.

Cycling's governing body confirmed Wednesday it will deliver proposals to the IOC for a track race program at the 2012 London Olympics that offers equal gold medal opportunities for men and women, and likely would deny American phenom Taylor Phinney a chance to compete in his specialty event.

Team Vorarlberg-Corratec has announced its first seven riders for the 2010 season, including newcomer Piergiorgio Camussa.

Cyclist Christian Pfannberger has been banned for life by the national anti-doping agency NADA after a second doping offense, the Austrian cycling federation said Saturday.

The comings and goings at Astana continue with the news that Kazakh rider Dmitriy Muravyev has decided to leave the team from his home country and take up an offer to follow Johan Bruyneel, Lance Armstrong, and many others to Radio Shack.

Heinrich Haussler would rather skip the World Championships in Australia next year than ride for team Germany.

THE Yeovil-based Pendragon Sports, Le Col, Colnago professional cycling team are pleased to announce their line up for the 2010 road season.

The Wall Street Journal called him the fastest American in France. Tyler Farrar is a member of Team Garmin-Slipstream, America's top professional cycling team.

AFP/File Former winner Martin Elmiger will lead French team Ag2r La Mondiale at Australia's Thu Nov 19, 9:11 pm ET SYDNEY Former winner Martin Elmiger will lead French team Ag2r La Mondiale at Australia's Tour Down Under in January, organisers said on Friday.

Each year, we give you the chance to select the riders, teams, races, moments, equipment and photos that have really stood out from the pack in the last 12 months.

Alberto Contador has agreed to finish the final year of his Astana contract on condition that the team receives its Pro Tour license.

"Cyclists ARE the only problem on the road.... We should enact legislation to keep cyclists of the street.

Five athletes, including gold medal winner Rashid Ramzi, have been sanctioned by the International Olympic Committee following positive results on doping tests.

The famed Six Gap loop in North Georgia is one of the State's most popular and difficult routes for cyclists.

Craig M. Romer, a construction worker with an "infectious laugh" and a young daughter, was on a first-name basis with many in Suttons Bay.

Disgraced cyclist Floyd Landis has parted company with the OUCH-Maxxis Professional team with immediate effect and is targeting a return to European competition.

Watching Armstrong ... Cadel Evans World champion cyclist Cadel Evans is wary of the threat Lance Armstrong will pose next year.

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Envivio has revealed that its 4Caster C4 video encoder is being used by French mobile operator Bouygues Telecom to encode video for its a TV 3G+a mobile video service.

In this Aug. 9, 2008 file photo Italy's Davide Rebellin stands on the podium after clinching the silver medal of the Men's Road Cycling Race, at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing,China. The Italian Olympic Committee has been asked by the International Olympic Committee Tuesday, Nov.

TDU veteran and a stage winner at last year's event - heads up a strong Dutch team.

New British cycling team Sky has signed up two new riders in the shape of Australia's Commonwealth Games road race champion Mathew Hayman and French national Nicolas Portal.

AN OPEN LETTER TO: Mr. Pat McQuaid, President of the Union Cycliste Internationale ; and Mr.

Should the number of medical-marijuana dispensaries be cut in half? Senator Chris Romer has been the state legislator most willing to wade into the medical-marijuana morass -- and an article in yesterday's Boulder Daily Camera provides more information about a proposal he expects to offer in January on the subject.

Former professional rider Agustn Sagasti Murgia has died at the age of 39. Sagasti was found deceased in his home and the cause of death is not yet known.

Colorado Springs, Colo. USA Cycling announced today the dates and locations for the majority of its 2010 National Championship events.

Twenty years ago, on November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall opened, and for the first time in decades, citizens of East Germany were able to enter West Berlin legally and easily.

Style.com recently produced a video addressing the 'Colliding Forces' of art and fashion.

Italian veteran Dario Cioni will ride for Team Sky in 2010, according to La Gazzetta Dello Sport .

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By Thomas Hochwarter A top Austrian cycling team has dissolved after losing its main sponsor, it emerged today .

Americans won 11 medals, including five world titles, at the UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships held November 4-8 in Manchester, Great Britain.

Idaho officials plan to designate the mountain road where cyclist Kristin Armstrong trained for her gold-medal ride in the 2008 Beijing Olympics as the "Kristin Armstrong Bikeway." The designation in honor of the 36-year-old Boise resident will cover the first eight miles of Bogus Basin Road, or about half of the winding stretch leading to the ski ...

Australia's Zak Dempster will join British Continental squad Rapha Condor for the 2010 season.

Zdenek Stybar may have suffered a narrow loss to Niels Albert in the third round of the cyclo-cross World Cup in Nommay, France on Sunday, but the Czech rider is pleased with the progression he has shown throughout the season and is confident he will be standing on the top of the podium soon.

Italian cyclist Matteo Priamo was banned for four years Thursday for supplying doping products to a teammate.

Tim Hockey, CEO and President of TD Canada Trust in Toronto, was the 2009 champion of the Chartis CEO Cycling Challenge hosted in Greenville, SC on November 7, 2009.

Lance Armstrong's return to professional bike racing has had a direct impact on the number of cyclists registering with USA Cycling in 2009.

The euro, meanwhile, was pushing back up towards 15-month dollar highs while the pound slid over a cent against the dollar after the Bank of England appeared to welcome the fall in the currency as a means of rebalancing the British economy away from domestic consumption towards export-led growth.

Spaniard Patxi Vila has started to prepare for a return to professional cycling and has confirmed that he has spoken to a number of teams, including Astana and his former team, Lampre.

Belgian Philippe Gilbert will skip the Tour de France again next season to give more attention to one-day races.

Hall of Fame and the induction ceremony will include the unveiling of the new facility.

Left: Bradley Venables was lucky to escape relatively uninjured after he was struck by a car in Beaconsfield.

Celebrity spawn and Bride Wars star Kate Hudson says she has men, or "boys" as she calls them, all figured out - all they're interested in is "game scores, masturbation and food". The stunning starlet, who's been dating Yankees slugger and Madonna cast-off Alex Rodriguez for the past six months, offers her take on the male of the species in ...

Christine Richards finished the 90-mile Livestrong Challenge in Austin, Texas, almost three years after she was hospitalized from a terrible bicycle accident that left her broken and bedridden.

For the past 20 yearsA Lance Armstrong hasA had former olympian and his personal coach Chris Carmichael at his side.A In his new book, "The Time Crunch Cyclist," Carmichael says you can be fit, fast, and powerful in just 6 hours a week.A A FOX 7's Loriana Hernandez checked out the philosophy.A Click on the video to see some of theA tips Carmichael ...

Christchurch cyclist Alan Williams is annoyed at being painted as a reckless villain for his part in the crash that forced defending champion Hayden Roulston out of the Tour of Southland on Monday.

Bradley Wiggins described Team Sky as the Manchester United of cycling teams. Photograph: Bryn Lennon/Getty Images Team Sky will delay naming their full line-up with the final roster hingeing on their ongoing last-ditch efforts to sign Bradley Wiggins from the American Garmin-Slipstream team.

At first glance, the fact that Springfield -- the capital city of Illinois -- has formed a Bicycle Advisory Council sounds like a major victory for cyclists in the city.

USA Cycling has announced that it has received and is reviewing 12 applications for men's UCI Continental Team status for the 2010 season.

Canadian-Continental team Planet Energy may have been prematurely invited to compete in the two ProTour races held in Quebec next September.

Floyd Landis dropped to 17th on the final day of the Tour of Southland, which included two stages on New Zealand's South Island.

Tooele Mayor Patrick Dunlavy stands with family members after election results were posted at the Tooele County Building Tuesday night.

Seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong enjoyed a muffin and a cup of coffee outside Bunbury's Coffee Shop in Piermont today.

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It's not every day one can claim to zip past a Tour de France-calibre rider. When you are not in the field then the next best thing is to be there when it does happen.

Australia's world road racing champion, Cadel Evans, will ride at next year's Tour Down Under against Lance Armstrong after his BMC Racing Team were offered a wildcard entry to the race.

There's a lot of information in here. A few items stand out, however, as essential knowledge for collegiate riders: the Club of the Year Award in the Team News section, the 2010 Collegiate Rule Changes, National Rankings, and Changes to the MTB Omnium in National News, and How to Qualify for Cross Nats in the Explainer.

Bahati is set to run his own team. Photo: Kurt Jambretz - file photo Former U.S. Criterium champion Rahsaan Bahati will leave Rock Racing at seasona s end to form his own team.

This is an Aug. 15, 2008, file photo showing Taylor Phinney, of the United States, competing during a cycling men's individual pursuit qualifying event, at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

Jens Voigt Looks Back at the 2009 Season Jens speaks about the ups and downs of his 12th pro year... With his nasty crash in mind during the Tour de France following six weeks of absolute rest, one would think that Jens Voigt would look back on the 2009 season with resentment.

German cyclist Stefan Schumacher has made his case to overturn a two-year ban for doping at the 2008 Tour de France.

CADEL EVANS abandoned Silence Lotto to join BMC in a bid to strengthen his claim for a maiden Tour de France victory but the wheels could fall off his challenge before the race even starts.

Cheryl Reckelhoff would love to meet Lance Armstrong, the cancer survivor who won the Tour de France, the world's most famous bicycle race, seven times.

Cycling Australia has announced its now accepting votes for the Scody 2009 People's Choice Cyclist of the Year award.

Respected Australian cycling coach Dave Sanders has often acted as sounding board for Cadel Evans but admits he was surprised by the world champion's choice of new professional team.

Disgraced United States cyclist Floyd Landis was in a jovial mood before the Tour of Southland's second stage yesterday.

Who would have thought that the 'finale' Trek Madone Tour de France bike ridden by Lance Armstrong at this year's tour and designed by Damien Hirst would sell for a half a million dollars? Perhaps it was the fact that the bike is covered in real butterflies that drove up the Sotheby's auction price.

Over the past two days, the Times has written five articles about bicycling in Los Angeles.

Openwave Systems Inc . , one of the world's leading software innovators offering a proactive mediation platform and tools to mobilize the Internet, has announced that Bouygues Telecom, a French mobile operator that is part of the Bouygues Group, has selected Openwave's traffic management solution to manage and optimize its network traffic.

Three-time champion Hayden Roulston crashed while United States-based New Zealand professional Heath Blackgrove grabbed the leader's yellow jersey after a tumultuous opening day of cycling's Tour of Southland.

Nov 1st 2009 at 3:03PM J Vineyards and Winery has unveiled its 2009 limited edition J Vineyards LiveStrong Bicycling Jersey, the third in an ongoing campaign which contributes ten of all proceeds to the Lance Armstrong Foundation for the support of cancer research and awareness.

Will he stay or will he go? If you ask the Kazakhs, Tour de France winner Alberto Contador is staying in an Astana jersey in 2010.

Rob Hayles upstaged Great Britain's Olympic cycling heroes at the opening Tour of Britain stage in London yesterday.

American cyclist Floyd Landis has told a New Zealand newspaper it is unlikely he will compete again in the Tour de France.