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Alberto Contador (Astana) won the queen stage of the Volta al Algarve and took over the lead of the race from Andre Greipel (HTC Columbia).

In today’s cycling news, no shortage of soundbites from Lance Armstrong, Mathias Kessler in criticial condition after crash in Mallorca, U.S. ‘cross squad named, Six Days of Bremen starts and more

In today’s cycling news, Lance Armstrong steps out of team leadership role, Honda joins the cycling scene, Alberto levels expectations for 2010 and more…

In today’s cycling news, Gran Fondo takes hold in America, Valverde gets a reprieve, Doctor Mabuse back to jail, Kloden denies (and makes) payment to stop a doping investigation.

Kloden, Rast and Popovych have now been confirmed for the team.

Johan Bruyneel has successfully negotiated his exit from Astana and is free to run the Radio Shack team in 2010.

In today’s racing news, Europe reacts to the death of Vandenbrouke, new investigation into Astana, Radio Shack loses a few potential riders and more…

Tyler Farrar won his second stage in the Eneco Tour and his third race in 5 days.

It won’t be until later in the fall when we start to see a definitive list of Radio Shack Cycling riders for 2010. That said, we can start to handicap the picks based on loyalties and some other information.

Welcome back to Bike World News and our coverage of the 2009 Tour de France. In today’s news, Cavendish takes his 5th stage, Contador won’t answer doping suspicions, Schleck spent but still hoping to get his brother on the podium with him and more…