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Already winner of two stages of the Tour Mediterranean last year, including the opening, Belarus’ Yauheni Hutarovich (FdJ) won the first stage of the 2010 edition Wednesday in Sauviac.

In today’s cycling news, squad announcements for upcoming races from Quick Step, Ceramica Flaminia and Ag2R ; Gert Steegmans wants to get paid; David Kopp returns; Steve Bauer aiming for Canada-based Pro Tour team and more….

In today’s cycling news, UHC announces roster, more TDU rosters, Nys takes win going into Christmas weekend and more…

AG2R-La Mondiale has announced their complete roster for 2010. Nine riders have left the team and there are seven new recruits for a total of 28 riders.

Martin Elmiger will return to competition on Sunday at the Tour de Vendee.

Ten days before the start of the Tour de France, seven of the 20 participating teams have completed their rosters for the race. There will be a couple more iterations of this list until we can call this Version 1.0

TdF team announcements from Euskaltel, AG2R and Milram, Valverde appealing case to CAS, Boonen and Quick Step to sue ASO and more!

Stage 3:
Slovenian rider Jure Kocjan (Carmiooro A-Style) won the stage and took the overall on Day 3 of the Etoile de Besseges. Wednesday’s race was hillier than the previous days and a change was certain to come after the two opening stages won in bunch sprints by Jimmy Casper (Besson Chaussures).
Yury Trofimov (Bouygues Telecom) and Kocjan fought for the lead over the Baraque climb, but worked together to fend off Johnny Hoogerland (Vacansoleil) by seven seconds and another chase group led by Matthieu Ladagnous (FDJeux) by 18 seconds.
Kocjan had enough …

Full team rosters have been released for the Amgen Tour of California. All of the heavy hitters are going to be there, and while some may argue that this is not the strongest international field ever seen on American soil, it has to be pretty close. You could certainly make the argument that it’s a very strong international field and the strongest domestic field (nine teams) that we’ve ever seen.
Astana will be there with defending champion Levi Leipheimer, and of course, Lance Armstrong. Saxo Bank will be sending the Schleck …

Here’s some of the latest news:

Dauphine Libere:

George Hincapie (High Road) took Stage 2 and moved into 4th place. Thor Hushovd (Credit Agricole) still in the maillot jaune.
Stage 3: Alejandro Valverde (Caisse d’ Epargne) poured on the power to take the hilly, rainy time trial. He moves into the lead, and Levi Leipheimer (Astana) is 23 seconds behind.
Stage 4: Cyril Dessell (AGR2 – La Mondiale) wins the stage, but no huge changes in the G.C.

The fallout from Tom Boonen’s positive cocaine test continues. He was initially excluded from the Tour de Suisse, …