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Ryder Hesjedal — and Garmin’s fitness division — ended up in the winner’s circle over the weekend.Hesjedal, 31, part of the Garmin-Barracuda cycling team, on Sunday won the 2012 Giro d’Italia, one of the three biggest cycling races in the world.

Timmy Duggan won the USA Cycling Professional National Championship road race Monday after attacking solo from the breakaway inside 15 miles from the finish.

Amid the dusty hustle and bustle in the team parking lot immediately following the 2012 Amgen Tour of California 's closing sprint through downtown Los Angeles, Jacob Rathe , Garmin-Barracuda 's barely 21-year-old neo-pro, was alternately speaking with media and signing autographs for fans who had ventured over from the more high-volume podium ... (more)

Over 100 cyclists raced through the roads of Contra Costa County, up Mt. Diablo and down Marsh Creek Road in East County on Tuesday, May 15, during Stage 3 of the Amgen Tour of California 2012 Bike Race.

Guillaume Boivin , Canada, same time. LOS ANGLES -- Eight months after breaking his leg in a training accident, Dutchman Robert Gesink sealed his overall race title Sunday with a main field finish in the eighth stage of the Amgen Tour of California.

Longest of long shots: Raj Pal Kahlon of Palmdale faces 32-year veteran Mike Antonovich in only contested L.A. County Supervisor race David Zabriskie, left, Robert Gesink and Tom Danielson celebrate Sunday, May 20, 2012 at the finish of the Amgen Tour of California.

Peter Sagan of Slovakia won the final leg. The 22-year-old Sagan claimed the 42.6-mile road race from Beverly Hills to downtown Los Angeles with a late burst to take his fifth win of the eight-stage event.

PEZ's Darrell Parks captured all the action here... Batman & Robin let me shoot the 1st KOM from the roof of their Bat Mobile .

Rabobank rider Robert Gesink, who broke his right leg in four places after a training incident in September, took the seventh stage of the Amgen Tour of California cycling road race and the overall standings lead after winning a close battle with Jhon Atapuma on Saturday.

You might think this sort of pre-stage confidence in Ontario on Saturday came from Tom Danielson , Chris Horner or Robert Gesink .

Team RadioShack Nissan Trek rider Chris Horner right rides during the seventh stage of the Tour of California against with Tom Danielson, left, and Joe Dombrowski, middle, of Team Bontrager-Livestrong. However, Robert Gesnick of Rabobank ended up winning the stage and has the overall lead.

Coming into this year's Amgen Tour of California, all eyes were on top American riders to claim the overall win at their nation's biggest race.

After four days of bunch sprints, the general classification is finally starting to evolve in the 2012 edition of the Amgen Tour of California : the race lead has been assumed by time trial winner David Zabriskie but his 34 second lead over second placed Tejay van Garderen and even the 2:50 he has on last year's winner Chris Horner may not be a big ... (more)

More than 80 national, local vendors . 10:30 a.m.: Course and road closures; spectators located on course will be there for duration of the race.

With Thursday's stage 5 time trial looming on the horizon, followed by stage 6 into Big Bear and the stage 7 summit finish on Mount Baldy, RadioShack-Nissan is preparing for a GC battle at the Amgen Tour of California in defense of Chris Horner's 2011 title.

Peter Sagan overcame a flat tire with five miles left Sunday to take the first stage of the Amgen Tour of California in a wild sprint finish in downtown Santa Rosa.

SANTA ROSA – After riding and crashing and periodically winning bike races around the globe for a decade, Tom Danielson had had enough.

All sorts of cycling plots and subplots might unfold over the next week to make the seventh edition of the Amgen Tour of California one of the most intriguing yet when it starts its eight-day trek to Los Angeles on Sunday.

The 2011 Amgen Tour of California GC podium was all-American: Levi Leipheimer , Chris Horner and Tom Danielson (Garmin-Cerv For the second year in a row the UCI will not carry out any blood tests at the Amgen Tour of California .

With their teammates currently leading the Giro d'Italia, eight Garmin-Barracuda riders head to the start of the Amgen Tour of California on Sunday aiming to claim a leader's jersey of their own.