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Team Type 1 has announced the first of several new rider signings as it pursues pro continental status for the 2011 season.

Like RadioShack teammate Lance Armstrong, Markel Irizar is a testicular cancer survivor (2002).

Thursday morning, Michael Morkov was obstructed by the UCI’s rules of competition and denied permission to take on the stage race

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The Euskaltel Euskadi cycling team has closed on the nine riders that will defend to ‘orange’ jersey in the 75the edition of the Tour of Spain.

Bike Pure and Bio Racer teamed up with 3 time Tour winner and former World Champion Greg Lemond to auction off a specially commissioned signed Bike Pure jersey for charity

152 riders took to the start of today’s 214.4km stage from St-Lievens-Houtem in Belgium to Roermond in the Netherlands.  Though today’s was the longest stage of the Tour, Jaroslaw Marycz (Saxo Bank) decided it was a good day to try to attack his way to victory, launching his first of numerous moves 7kms in.  13kms later, in the peloton, Christian Knees (Milram) crashed into a stop sign and had to abandon the race to go to a local hospital for stitches.
Marycz launched his second attack 35kms in.  Working with Adriano …

The final stage of the Tour du Limousin ran 180.8kms from Ambazac to Limoges. While an inevitable early break did indeed form, it was reeled back as the peloton faced the concluding four laps of the course. Cervelo seemed most assertive on the day, leading the chase to bring the break back in, then having their young sprinter Davide Appollonio launch a bold solo attack on the last climb with just 2kms to go. This attack proved to be successful, giving the Italian his first ever professional …

The UCI continental team will showcase four of its sponsors by wearing base layers emblazoned with the sponsor’s logo and wearing their jersey open through 4 stages of the race

The young Norwegian, who won the Oslo Grand Prix earlier in the week, outsprinted last year’s winner Kenny van Hummel (Skil-Shimano), with Stefan van Dijk (Verandas Willems) in third.