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Romain Feillu (Vacansoleil) won the sprint over his countrymen Steve Chainel (Bbox Bouygues Telecom), Tony Gallopin (Cofidis) and Nacer Bouhanni (Francaise des Jeux) in Thursday’s second stage of the Tour de l’Ain

Today and tomorrow are the days for teams to recon particularly heinous sections of the route for Paris-Roubaix. Here are some of the day’s headlines.

The Team RadioShack leader, suffering from acute gastroenteritis, will be replaced by teammate Fumiyuki Beppu.

The Belgian neo-pro Jens Keukeleire (Cofidis) has won the Three Days of West Flanders (Cat. 2.1), and thus celebrated his third victory in five days.

Gert Steegmans and Tomas Vaitkus will race in the opening weekend’s races of the Belgian cycling season. Their participation was questionable after crashes in the third and first stages of last week’s Tour of Algarve.

In today’s cycling news, speculations about Eddy Merckx and cancer, cycling mourns to loss of Franco Ballerini, news updates and results from Mallorca:

In today’s cycling news, Lance Armstrong expected to go up against Evans and Sanchez at Criterium International, Cervelo makes Euro debut at Etoile de Besseges, US bans radios at NRC races, results from Italy and Qatar and more….

In today’s cycling news, will Gilberto Simoni ride for the Rock?, Cameron Meyer wins Aussie TT Champs, Stijn Devolder toughs it out in Belgium and more…

Pereiro to support Contador at Astana, UCI track changes may kill six day racing, Boasson Hagen and Lokvist say Columbia too focused on sprinters, Radio Shack steps back on Beppu matter and more

The management of the Skil-Shimano team expressed today that they were surprised by the news that Fumiyuki Beppu seems to have signed a contract for 2010 with Lance Armstrong’s Radio Shack Cycling Team.