Slight change to our news coverage. Note that this post is now called “Road News and Results.” There will be a separate post for cyclocross coverage.

After receiving notice last week that he would be welcome at the Giro, Lance Armstrong has now confirmed that it’s on his calendar. This is his first time to do [...]

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I just realized that I’ve been focusing on the close of the Vuelta and all of the new product announcements that have been coming through and haven’t covered the racing world for a while. Here are some of the latest headlines.

World Championships News:

Levi Leipheimer will lead the US contingent of Steven Cozza, Lucas Euser, Tyler Farrar [...]

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Tour of Georgia Wrap-Up:Â
By the time I finally got back to posting, the Tour of Georgia (I refuse to call it the Tour de Georgia) was mostly over. Cycling News and VeloNews both had good coverage of all of the action. Kanstantsin Siutsou (Sivtsov? I’ve seen both) of Team High Road took the overall win, with Trent [...]

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In the TOC’s first mountain stage, we saw defending TOC champion Levi Leipheimer (Astana) working with Robert Gesink (Rabobank) to take the overall lead away from Tyler Farrar. Farrar, incidentally, dropped out of the race early in the stage due to trouble with a stomach virus.
Today’s stage rolled out in the new starting city of [...]

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In a rain-soaked day, Tom Boonen takes the stage win, while Tyler Farrar takes advantages of time bonuses to step into the leader’s jersey.
Most of the riders would probably have preferred to spend the day in their comfy buses rather than brave the rain and temperatures under 50 F. The first several kilometers of the [...]

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