No Cadel Evans of Silence-Lotto, but the Giro d’Italia lineup is still stacked:

Two past Giro champs: Danilo DiLuca of LPR Brakes, Gilberto Simoni of S. Diquigiovanni-Androni G.

The Astana three: Alberto Contador, Levi Leipheimer and Andreas Kloden

Past Vuelta champ: Denis Menchov…

What a cuppla days for the Astana cycling team.

Johan Bruyneel’s team is bound for the Giro d’Italia after the Giro organizer, RCS, reversed field and extended an invitation to the race.

And on Sunday, Andreas Kloden wrapped up the…

The organizers of the Giro d’Italia apparently have come to their senses and invited the best team in cycling — Astana — to the Giro, which starts next week.

Better late than never, I reckon.

The Associated Press reports that Astana’s…

With apologies to American teams High Road and Slipstream-Chipotle and the boys from U.S.-sponsored CSC, ol’ 10 Speed is thinking that a rider from either Astana or Rock Racing will stand atop the podium at the end of the Tour de…

Yep, the team barred from the Tour de France sits atop of the UCI world rankings as the top team in cycling.

So much for Tour director Christian Prudhomme’s pronouncement after naming the teams invited to the Tour de France: ”These are, I…

Astana’s Alberto Contador and Silence-Lotto’s Cadel Evans, the one-two finishes in last year’s Tour de France, went head-to-head last week in the Vuelta al País Vasco — aka Tour of Basque Country — in the Basque region of Spain.

But alas, because…

Yes, the Pat McQuaid, the president of the Union Cycliste Internationale.

McQuaid took time out his schedule Tuesday to speak with 10 Speed in what we hope is the first of many conversations with some of the major players in cycling.…

A 10 Speed reader gave me the headsup on this: A racer in last week’s Cat 3/4 bike race in the Hillsboro-Roubaix posted a video of the race, on YouTube.

The video gives you a feel of what it’s like in a…

Laurens Ten Dam of Rabobank won the opening stage of the Criterium International on Saturday, turning an early breakaway into a 10-second win in the 193 km stage from Signy-le-Petit to Charleville-Mézières.

American Ian McKissick of BMC joined Ten Dam in…

Despite rumors that he might switch to Caisse d’Epargne and defend his Tour de France title, Alberto Contador says he’s sticking with Astana, which received an un-vitation to the TdF and other events promoted by the Amaury Sports Organization.

Bully…