Bike World News

Gert Steegmans and Tomas Vaitkus will race in the opening weekend’s races of the Belgian cycling season. Their participation was questionable after crashes in the third and first stages of last week’s Tour of Algarve.

Lance Armstrong and Team Radio Shack made their 2010 roster announcement today. The all new squad will include 26 riders from 16 countries.

Lance Armstrong’s Radio Shack team numbers 24 riders now and is likely nearing its final form.

Darren Lill claimed victory for Team Type 1 Thursday on one of the most difficult days of the event billed as “America’s Toughest Stage Race.”

Rock Racing’s Francisco and Oscar Sevilla showed the Tour of Utah peloton that Rock’s Not Dead, breaking away on the East Canyon Dam climb to grab a 25 second lead that they were able to maintain all the way into the finish in Salt Lake City.

Nearly 30 riders stayed grouped at the front for more than three laps at the start of the race. During the fourth lap, however, Phillipp Walsleben made a break that resulted in a decisive victory for the German.  His lead grew from 20 meters to almost 30 seconds as none of the followers had an answer for his attack. In the final sprint to determine who would get silver, another German, Christoph Pfingsten, finished just ahead of Polish rider Pawel Szczepaniak.
Bjorn Selander recovered from an early crash and mechanical problems …

From USA Cycling:
Colorado Springs, Colo. (January 14, 2009)-USA Cycling announced today the five athletes that were nominated to represent the United States in the elite men’s category at the 2009 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships on Feb. 1 in Hoogerheide, Netherlands.
Ryan Trebon (Bend, Ore.), Tim Johnson (Middleton, Mass.) and Jeremy Powers (Hadley, Mass.) all earned automatic nominations to the team as the top three Americans in the UCI rankings.
Trebon (20th) and Powers (27th) will head to the Netherlands to contest the event. Johnson, ranked 22nd in the world, has declined his …

This will probably be the last news digest that I put out until around January 5th. I have a few reviews to publish and will monitor the headlines for anything that merits a newsflash.
Here are the headlines:

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Colorado Springs, Colo. (December 19, 2007)—USA Cycling announced today its first lot of nominations to the U.S. National Team for the 2008 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Treviso, Italy, Jan. 26-27.
Sixteen athletes were nominated to the squad in the elite women’s, U23 men’s and junior men’s categories based on their competitive performance over the course of the last year.

After capturing a silver medal at the 2007 world championships, Katie Compton (Colorado Springs, Colo./Spike Shooter) received an automatic nomination and will lead the elite women’s squad. Compton is currently ranked second …