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The Missouri Partnership signed on as a Tour of Missouri sponsor and has been trumpeting the Show-Me State as a good  place to do business.

Its slogan: Real People. Real Opportunity.On Tuesday, Partnership reps introduced Andrew V. Lear, a CPA…

Often in bike races, teams and riders form alliances to work together, whether it be riders from different teams taking pulls on a breakaway, or different teams riding at the front of the peloton to pull  back a breakaway.

But Team…

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Mark Cavendish of American team Columbia thundered across the finishing line Monday afternoon in Kansas City, winning the first stage of the second Tour of Missouri.

The victory was Cavendish’s 15th of the season on the road, which…

Columbia will bring Mark Cavendish, a four-stage winner at this year’s Tour de France, to the Tour of Missouri.

This is huge. Given Tom Boonen’s issues this year, Cavs is probably the No. 1 sprinter in the world, and he could…

For the first time since 1998, neither an American nor a member of an American team stood atop the podium on the Champs-Elysees in Paris after the final stage of Tour de France.

But the 2008 Tour was not without a…

American team Columbia picked up its fifth stage win at the Tour de France, with Big Marcus Burghardt outsprinting Carlos Barredo of Quick Step-Innergetic and beating him across the finishing line Thursday in Stage 18.

Marcus Burghardt of Columbia celebrates his…

Halfway through the Tour de France, ol’ 10 Speed is gonna take a look back with some highlights and observations of the first 10 stages, in no particular order, just as they pop into my brain.

– Big Jens Voight and…

American team Columbia’s big opening week in the Tour de France has led to the maillot jaune.

Kim Kirchen grabbed the yellow leader’s jersey Thursday as he climbed with the other contenders to the mountaintop finish of Stage 6 at Super-Besse.

Ricardo…

Ol’ 10 Speed has had a few days of R&R from cycle blogging, but my Big Magnus Backstedt is back on its Selle San Marco and I’m dreaming of Foot-Hi Pies at Trailnet’s ride this weekend.

But until then, a little about the…

While some other elite sprinters, including Robbie McEwen, bailed out of the Giro d’Italia when the routes went uphill, Andre Greipel of American team High Road stuck with it.

The payoff: a presitigious stage win in a grand tour.

Greipel won Wednesday in Stage…