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Andre Greipel (HTC Columbia) has won the 2nd stage of the 2010 Volta al Algarve and taken over the yellow jersey of overall leader.

The Rapha Condor Sharp team launched their 2010 season last night in central London. Now in their 4th season, the boys in black are arguably the strongest British road team outside of the ProTour and will look to build on the successes of last season.

Steven de Jongh (Quick Step) will end his professional riding career at the Tour of Piedmont and transition to a management position with Britain’s new Team Sky.

Ben Swift broke Edvald Boasson Hagen’s run of four successive stage victories in the Tour of Britain by winning the seventh leg from Hatherleigh to Yeovil.

Edvald Boasson Hagen (Columbia) has taken his third victory in a row at the Tour of Britain and takes over the overall race lead.

Cervelo Test Team’s Kirsten Wild racked up two victories over the weekend:
Omloop van Borsele:
Kirsten Wild was able to outsprint Marianne Vos (DSB/LTO) and Alexandra Greenfield (National Team Great Britain) to win today’s Omloop van Borsele in The Netherlands.
“Today’s race was in a windy Holland for a distance of 120 km,” stated Manel Lacambra Cervélo TestTeam Sports Director. “From the start, we had the whole team in the front and we gave it full power because of the narrow roads and the wind. We tried to attack and Regina was able …

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Ivan Basso second at Giro del Trentino, Fuji Servetto goes to the big dance while Italian champ Filippo Simeoni stays home, Heinrich Haussler and Thor Hushovd take a pass on the Giro and more…..
Results:

Przemyslaw Niemiec (Miche) finished 22 seconds ahead of Liquigas’ Ivan Basso to win the second stage of the Giro del Trentino. Janez Brajkovic (Astanta) takes the leader’s jersey away from teammate Andreas Kloden.

Disabled List:

Barloworld’s Daryl Impey has recovered enough to return home to …

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LOTS of news about Omloop Het Nieuwsblad today, new Sky TV team aims to put a Brit on the TdF podium by 2012, Barloworld and Milram headed to Grand Prix Insubria & Gran Premio di Lugano, spring programs change for the Schleck brothers and MUCH more…

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Dan Atherton of Great Britain edged his brother Gee at the opening round of the American National Gravity Calendar series in Boulder City Nevada. Dan’s time of 3mins 9.15 seconds was 0.14 seconds better than ithe time posted by 2008 world champion Gee. In the women’s pre division, Jackie Harmony clocked a 3:48.65 to beat Lisa Myklak by 1.5 seconds.
Here are the top finishers among the men:
Place Name Time Bib
1 Dan Atherton 3.09.1463 39
2 Gee Atherton 3.09.2911 37
3 David Klaassenvanodrschot 3.14.6458 54
4 Espen Johnsen 3.14.6676 51
5 Kevin Aiello 3.15.1941 17
and women:
Place Name Time …

A weekend of records and crashes just about sums up the three days the worlds best had at Copenhagen.
Star of the show has to be Taylor Phinney, setting, or should that be smashing the US records in both pursuit and kilo. Not only has Phinney set down a benchmark for future performances, but he may well have set the trend for future years with pursuiters racing the shorter event.
If Phinney walked away with a smile on his face Chris Hoy left the track with something else. A gold in the …