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Tyler Farrar, a 27-year-old road cyclist from rural Wenatchee, Wash., learned young that he wasn't any good at baseball or basketball.

Salina South's 4x100m relay team leads the pack as Michael Jones passes the baton to Marcus Cutler during the state track meet on Friday, May 25, 2012 in Wichita, Kan.

Zabriskie, van Garderen and Danielson are just a few of the big-name riders who will race in Greenville this weekend.

Recently retired as a pro cyclist, Charly Wegelius was in the Garmin-Barracuda team car following and advising via radio Ryder Hesjedal over the climbs on the way to Cortina d'Ampezzo, "the pearl of the Dolomites". Late at night, he admitted to Cyclingnews that his protg is the main beneficiary of stage 17 .

This coming Saturday, May 20th, kicks off an astonishing 60th year of bike racing in Southeast Portland's Mount Tabor Park.

It's unlikely that Exeter native and 2008 U.S. Olympic mountain biker Adam Craig will qualify for the U.S. team for the coming 2012 Summer Games in London.

Monday passed at the Giro d'Italia with Mark Cavendish blocked and unable to unleash his sprint yet again, but the world champion should have another chance on Wednesday in Montecatini.

Consider the first few days of this year's Amgen Tour of California an important audition for Team Exergy cyclist Fred Rodriguez.

The Amgen Tour of California - the eight-day cycling race that began on Sunday in Santa Rosa and concludes next Sunday in downtown Los Angeles - returns to Big Bear after a one-year absence.

World Champion Mark Cavendish won his second stage at the 2012 Giro d'Italia by once again winning the bunch sprint and showing his spot as one of the top sprinters in the peloton.

Garmin-Barracuda had a day of extremely mixed fortunes at the Giro d'Italia on Friday.

Two years ago, Italian cyclist Adriano Malori earned the unwanted honor of the laterne rouge by finishing last at the Tour de France.

Four riders have reportedly dropped out of the 2012 Giro d'Italia on today's stage 6 from Urbino to Porto Sant'Elpidio. Former world champion Thor Hushovd , American Tyler Farrar and Romain Feillu abandoned today, and Pablo Lastras has crashed out of the race, injuring his collarbone.

Miguel Angel Rubiano Chavez of Androni Gioccatoli finished off a solo attack, out-pacing a chase by Adriano Malori, Alex Dyachenko, Michel Golas and Cesare Benedettl to take the win in today's Giro d'Italia stage to Porto St.

World champion Mark Cavendish and his Sky leadout train held class Thursday on the Adriatic coast as the Manxman won stage 5 of the Giro d'Italia in a nearly picture-perfect bunch sprint finale.

Sky looked as good as the old HTC lead-out train to jettison its rocket over the line.

I confess, I don't have a huge amount to say about Thursday's stage 5 of the Giro d'Italia . What? At loss for words? Well, not really.

Ramunas Navardauskas of Lithuania wears the pink jersey of the overall leader of Giro d'Italia after his Garmin-Barracuda squad won the team time trial in the fourth stage, in Verona, Italy, Wednesday May 9, 2012.

Mark Cavendish has called on the Italian Roberto Ferrari to be ejected from the Giro d'Italia after the Androni Giacattoli-Venezuela rider caused him to crash heavily in the final 100 metres on Monday's stage.

Orica-GreenEdge rider Matthew Goss won his team's first Grand Tour win of the season at stage 3 of the Giro d'Italia after escaping a late crash that took down World Champion Mark Cavendish and overall race leader Taylor Phinney .