The Vuelta a España - the cycling season's third major tour - gets under way this weekend against a background of successive doping scandals but with promises of greater controls.

The second annual bicycle race across Missouri is Sept. 8-14.

Volunteer opportunities are still available for the First Annual Priority Health Grand Cycling Classic on Sunday, Sept. 7. Described as the intensity of Tour de France meeting the excitement of NASCAR, the Priority Health Classic will run from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and feature races attracting some of the best professional and amateur cyclists from across the nation.

CADEL EVANS will more than likely re-sign with his Belgian Silence-Lotto team as long as they can bolster the calibre of riders who will support him in next year's Tour de France - unlike this year, when he was isolated for most of the race in which he placed second overall.

Set aside for the day’s top riders, the winner’s circle in Loughrea served as a photo booth as fans of all ages took turns posing for pictures with Mark Cavendish. The Team Columbia rider again won handily at the Tour of Ireland, in the 158km stage 2 from Thurles to Loughrea, and the popularity of the four-time Tour de France stage winner is only swelling. A crash just inside the final kilometer ...

The Spanish Vuelta, cycling season's third major tour, gets under way this weekend against a background of successive doping scandals but with promises of greater controls and a glittering array of the sport's top riders.

MADRID, Spain - The Spanish Vuelta - the cycling season's third major tour - starts Saturday against a background of doping scandals but with promises of greater controls and a glittering array of top riders.

Rumors of a new Cervélo professional cycling team have been confirmed, at least in part, by a formal announcement by the Canadian bicycle manufacturer on Thursday.

MADRID, Spain - The Spanish Vuelta-the cycling season"s third major tour-gets under way this weekend against a background of successive doping scandals but with promises of greater controls and a glittering array of the sport"s top riders.

Sastre leads CSC-Saxo BankCarlos Sastre will lead CSC-Saxo Bank as the Tour de France champion tries to double in the Vuelta a España. The Spanish media will be playing up the duel against 2007 Tour winner Alberto Contador, but Sastre says he wants nothing more than to enjoy what should be an exciting and wide-open race. “The Vuelta has always been in my calendar and always on my mind. I am ...