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USA Cycling announced today the eight-person U.S. roster for the upcoming UCI Track World Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark, March 24-28.

USA Cycling’s development efforts are paying with strong showings in BMX, road, cyclocross and track racing.

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

The 2009 USA Cycling Elite Track National Championships continued at the Home Depot Center velodrome on Friday with both Taylor Phinney (Boulder, Colo./Trek-Livestrong) and Sarah Hammer (Temecula, Calif./American Track Foundation) catching their opponents in their respective men’s and women’s individual pursuit final to add to their collection of national titles.

In all eight Stars-and-Stripes were awarded on the second day of competition.

Here are all of the confirmations (so far) for Lance Armstrong’s Radio Shack Cycling team.

The Pro Tour comes to Canada, Steegmans seeing interest from several fronts, Barloworld to end sponsorship, Valverde continues to win and more cycling news

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.

Lance Armstrong headed to the mountains around Aspen to do some final high altitude training before heading to France to recon some key stages of the Tour, plus more road racing news…

Here’s today’s notes from the Giro d’Italia, race results from around the world and other news from Bike World News, your home for cycling news.