The Giro d’Italia to date has been an exceptional race, with excitment and drama supplied by …

– The American team Columbia High-Road with five stage wins: the opening stage team time trial,  two by sprinter Mark Cavendish, and one each by Edvald Boasson Hagen…

Columbia-High Road’s Mark Cavendish started his finishing sprint just a tick late, enough to let Alessandro Petacchi of LPR Brakes jump past him and win the second stage of the Giro d’Italia on Sunday.

Still, Cavendish maintained the overall lead in…

So says cyclingnews.com.

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It’s been more than 20 years since an American won the Giro d’Italia (Andy Hampsten in 1988), and this, the 100th anniversary of the Giro, is as good a time as any for an American to don the maglia rosa…

A little more than three weeks since undergoing surgery to repair a broken collarbone, Lance Armstrong has told Giro d’Italia organizers that he’ll be in the race as planned.

The Giro begins May 9 and ends May 31. Armstrong’s participation had been in…

Not that a broken collarbone is something I’d wish on anyone, but I’m thinking  Lance Armstrong’s broken collarbone might turn out to be a good thing from a sporting perspective for the seven-time Tour de France winner.

Mainly, I think it eliminates…

Alberto Contador put in a game effort Sunday in the final stage of Paris-Nice, but it wasn’t enough to affect the overall race result.

Contador finished second in the stage behind former teammate Antonio Colom of Katusha, and he took back but 17…

A couple of the doping cases at the 2008 Tour de France have come back to haunt two of the teams caught in the doping cross-fire.

Neither Fuji-Servetto, formerly Saunier Duval-Scott, nor Barloworld received invites to the 2009 Giro d’Italia, nor any other…

Apparently Filippo Simeoni and Lance Armstrong won’t renew acquaintances this year at the Giro d’Italia.

Simeoni, the reigning Italian champ, is not on any of the team’s invited to the Giro for Armstrong’s first appearance in the race and his first…

Unless something was lost in the translation — English to Italian and back to English — Lance Armstrong appears to be coming around to the idea that his re-appearance in the pro peloton has been somewhat divisive, both within cycling…