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MOA and Nalini came to Interbike with the goal of making more of a impact in the U.S. market with every-day riders. They are focusing their promotion on their extensive 100% Italian made fall & winter line.

Johan Bruyneel, the UCI and the Kazakh Cycling Federation are in agreement that all financial guarantees have been paid and that there are no licensing issues that would prevent the Lance Armstrong and the Astana team from lining up for the Tour de France.

Today’s stage is relatively short, just a little over 145 km from Las Rozas to Segovia. The route is nicely split with the day’s two category 1 climbs coming at km 45 and km 89 (the Puerto de Navacerrada and the Puerto de Navafria, respectively). From there, it’s basically downhill into Segovia, where there is a bit of an uphill finish. We’ll see how this affects the sprinters at the end of the race.
Paolo Bettini (Quick Step), Stefan Schumacher (Gerolsteiner) and Filippo Pozzato (Liquigas) all dropped out of the race overnight. …

Today’s stage travels from yesterday’s arrival town of Valladolid to the city of Las Rozas. The road tilts gently upward for about the first 85 kilometers and then the stage gets a little more bumpy, culminating in the climb up Category 3 Alto des Leones at the 128km mark. From there, the riders will have a 38km downhill ride into the town of Las Rozas. The sprinters will have some time to recover before the finish. 
As anticipated this morning, Tom Boonen dropped out and headed home to rest up for …

Today’s stage from Potenza to Peschici starts and ends with climbing, with a fairly long, flat section in the middle. The race organizers listened to the riders and shortened today’s stage by removing the Circuito del Gargano. This will allow the riders to get back to their hotels earlier for meals and massages. The organizers also moved the start of the race out a half hour to give them a little more sleep time.
No one dropped out of the race during the night but Enrico Poitschke (Milram), Kevin De Weert (Cofidis) abandoned early in the …

Yesterday, we saw a solo breakaway by Rik Verbrugghe of the Cofidis team, but he was not able to hold on all the way to the end. Today, five riders (Luis Laverde (CSF), Johannes Froehlnger (Gerolsteiner), David Millar (Slipstream Chipotle), Pavel Brutt (Tinkoff) and Francisco Perez Sanchez (Caisse d’Epargne)) were able to get away and stay away.
The group of five led by as much as 9 minutes with 87 km to go, and saw their lead decrease little by little over the remainder of the race. By the 28 km mark, the peloton was starting to …