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You bewdy: Patrick Bevin crosses the line ahead of Jeremy Yates to win the Lake Taupo Cycle Challenge yesterday.

Italy's Davide Rebellin promises to return to racing despite being stripped of his Olympic silver medal Tuesday.

Luke Harangody , a 6-8 senior forward at Notre Dame, led the voting yesterday for The Associated Press' preseason All-America basketball team, receiving 57 votes from the 65-member national media panel.

There are few people who have been more active in shaping American cycling over the past quarter century than Jim Ochowicz.

With Cadel Evans signing onto the team, BMC is virtually guaranteed a spot in the 2010 Tour de France.

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.

Other Sports Big move ... Evans signs with developing outfit BMC. Reuters Cadel Evans has uit Silence-Lotto and signed three-year deal with BMC Australia's world road race cycling champion Cadel Evans has signed a three-year deal with the American team BMC, according to the team's website.

Greenville, South Carolina will host the US pro road championships for the fifth straight year in 2010.

Just announced last Friday, the Tour of California will again have Lance back along with some of the greats in international cycling.

The announcement was made this morning via a Twitter exchange that took place shortly before 9 a.m. PT between Gov.

The International Association of Professional Cycling teams has requested a hearing with the International Cycling Union regarding last month's decision by the UCI to implement a ban of two-way radios in races.

Venezuela's Jos Rujano signed on Monday to ride with Italian team ISD in 2010, according to news agency RCD .

THE Tour Down Under, with its ProTour status, might be Australia's best-known cycling event, but in the mind of one of the world's leading riders the considerably smaller scale, six-stage race that begins in Ballarat today produces the more honourable champion.

Irishman Philip Deignan and German Martin Reimer lead the seven-man Cervlo TestTeam in the Sparkassen Mnsterland Giro in Germany on Saturday.

The future is bright for both U.S. mena s and womena s cycling. Thata s according to USA Cyclinga s director of athletics Jim Miller, who says therea s enough talent to assure more success by American riders on the road at the top levels of the sport.

Photograph by ABC/Bob D'Amico By Kathleen Fleury If You Go: The Dempsey Challenge , Simard-Payne Police Memorial Park, Lewiston.

Lance Armstrong is taking a bike ride in Los Angeles' Griffith Park, and several hundred cyclists are tagging along.

The inaugural Tour of Missouri in 2007 inadvertently served as a farewell tour for Team Discovery, then the only U.S.-based Pro Tour team and about to disband.

Liquigas racer Vincenzo Nibali has officially closed his 2009 season. Following an incident which occurred during the Eneco Tour, in which he sustained a fracture of his left collarbone, Nibali decided, in agreement with his team management and doctors, not to force the pace of his recovery and return to racing.

While the prestige and stature of the Tour of Missouri has grown with each of its three years, there's currently a question mark over a fourth edition of the stage race in 2010.