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Vuelta officials release a few details about their plans for 2011.

But Van Garderen, Danielson and Frank Schleck are still in the hunt.

American Taylor Phinney won the 7.8-kilometer prologue at the 2010 Tour de l'Avenir Sunday, taking the first leader's jersey at the prestigious U23 stage race.

A list of Tour de l'Avenir winners since the race's inception in 1961.

• 1. Taylor PHINNEY, (USA), in 8:55
• 2. Alex DOWSETT, (GBR), at 6
• 3. Michael MATTHEWS, (AUS), at 7
• 4. Loïc DESRIAC, (FRA), at 19
• 5. John DEGENKOLB, (GER), at 21

• 1. David López, Caisse D'Epargne, 187.7km in 5:20:51
• 2. Roman Kreuziger, Liquigas-Doimo, at 0:06
• 3. Giampaolo Caruso, Team Katusha, at 0:13
• 4. David Moncoutie, Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne, at 0:21
• 5. Biel Kadri, Ag2r La Mondiale, at 0:27

Joaquin Rodriguez remains tied on time with the race leader.

SLIDESHOW: For mountain biking — or world championship mountain biking to be exact — 20 years is just old enough to afford a nostalgic look back and see what a long ride it's been. Legendary mountain biking photog Tom Moran gets the goods at Mont Saint Anne.

Kelly Benefit Strategies goes 1-2 at the Vermont stage race, while Ted King retains the overall lead. Janel Holcomb (Team Danbury Audi/Cyfac) wins the women's stage.

• 1. Reid Mumford, Kelly Benefit Strategies, in 2:49:33
• 2. David Veilleux, Kelly Benefit Strategies, at 0:00:00
• 3. Timothy Johnson, UnitedHealthcare-Maxxis, at 0:00:00
• 4. Jean-Michel Lachance, Nativo/pg/devinci, at s.t.
• 5. Gavin Mannion, Trek-Livestrong, at 0:00:00

Component manufacturers lay out their wares in the cavernous halls of Eurobike.

New road bikes from Wilier, De Rosa, Storck and Time

Ageless French racer Jeannie Longo crushes the competition.

SLIDESHOW: Spain's Jose Antonio Hermida — who crashed at least once, with pre-race favorite Julien Absalon on lap 1, and was as far back as 10th at one point — powered to an impressive win, handily holding off a late challenge from the Czech Republic's Jaroslav Kulhavy and South Africa's Burry Stander.

VeloNews.com diarist Ted King sets a course record in the individual time trial.

David Moncoutie (Cofidis) wins the Vuelta a España's first mountain stage on Saturday, as Euskaltel's Igor Anton takes over the lead

• 1. David Moncoutie, Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne , at
• 2. Serafín MartÍnez, Xacobeo Galicia, at 54
• 3. Johann Tschopp, BBox Bouygues Telecom, at 54
• 4. José Luis Arrieta, Ag2r La Mondiale, at 54
• 5. Joaquin Rodriguez, Team Katusha, at 1:29

Team manager Johan Bruyneel calls the three "classy riders" with "a lot of potential."

SLIDESHOW: Poland's Maja Wloszczowska won the women's world cross-country championships Saturday, riding away from Willow Koerber, Catharine Pendrel and Irena Kalentieva on a foggy, cool morning at Mount St. Anne, Quebec.

The Swiss continued their recent hammerlock on the international cross-country scene by sweeping the U23 men's race on Friday at the mountain bike world championships.

Team Sky pulled out Saturday of the 2010 Vuelta a España following a death of a staff member who died of a bacterial infection.

Floyd Landis, former teammate of Lance Armstrong, has filed a federal "whistle-blower" lawsuit, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

SLIDESHOW: Trials riding has its own following, and nowhere is that more evident than at the UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships (see, it's even in the official title of the event) in Mont Saint Anne.

VIDEO: With a little help from his friends — a few of whom you may well recognize — Adam Craig takes us on a pre-ride of the  MTB World Championships cross-country course in Mont Saint Anne.

• 1. Alessandro PETACCHI, (ITA) Lampre-Farnese Vini, at 4:36:12
• 2. Mark CAVENDISH, (GBR) HTC-Columbia, at 0
• 3. Juan José HAEDO, (ARG) Team Saxo Bank, at 0
• 4. Andreas STAUFF, (GER) Quick Step, at 0
• 5. Tyler FARRAR, (USA) Garmin-Transitions, at 0

Alessandro Petacchi took full advantage of a perfect lead out from his Lampre team to win the seventh stage of the Vuelta a España on Friday

UPDATED: Txema González, a Spanish massage therapist on Team Sky, died Friday in Sevilla, but team officials denied he succumbed to the same virus that is affecting the British-backed team.

Look shows a pedal-based power meter built around its Keo platform and designed to communicate with Polar cycling computers.

More spokes than you can shake a stick at. New 'sets from Zipp, Reynolds, Hed and Lightweight and others

Eddy goes aero, Colnago plays hide-n-seek with Di2 and Lapierre offers custom web options.

Ridley's lower priced Noah and its Flandrien collection: Belgium classics bikes for the masses. Canyon's basalt-enriched new aero bike with adjustable dropouts.

From the competition, to the course and even registration, Singletrack.com columnist Judy Freeman says what's different about racing a World Cup or the world championships versus a national event is, well, pretty much everything.

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The new course is half a kilometer longer and features a fly-over bridge.

Even more solutions for cyclists plagued by mystery noises on their rides.

The Gateway Cup in St. Louis, the Green Mountain Stage Race in Vermont and the Steamboat Springs Stage Race in Colorado highlight the Labor Day weekend.

Cannondale's cross-country racing bikes and forks spoiled Singletrack.com ridden-it-all tech guru Lennard Zinn. That's pretty hard to do. Find out how Cannondale did it…

Final Approach. Something about flying into a town stirs nostalgia and excitement for pro cyclist Ted King.

Giro marketers chose Livigno, Italy as the venue to introduce to the world their new line of seven shoe models

• 1. Thor Hushovd, Cervélo TestTeam, in 3h 36' 20''
• 2. Daniele Bennati, Liquigas-Doimo, at 0
• 3. Grega Bole, Lampre-Farnese Vini, at 0
• 4. Allan Davis, Astana, at 0
• 5. Filippo Pozzato, Team Katusha, at 0

Nino Schurter not only beat Julien Absalon at the line in the 2010 World Cup cross-country opener, he topped the Frenchman one more time by winning the World Cup overall title, which Absalon had won the last four years. And what about last year's MTB worlds?

UPDATED: Thor Hushovd won the sixth stage of the Vuelta a España, easily taking a sprint into Murcia on Thursday.

Coach Frank Overton shares some of his favorite 'cross workouts

A load of hot European 'cross bikes at Germany’s massive Eurobike trade show in Friedrichshafen

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• 1. Luis Amaran, Jamis Sutter Home/colavita, with 1139 points
• 2. Jonathan Cantwell, Fly V Australia, with 855 points
• 3. Rory Sutherland, Unitedhealthcare P/b Maxxis, with 805 points
• 4. David Veilleux, Kelly Benefits Strategies, with 743 points
• 5. Ben Jacques-maynes, Bissell Pro Cycling, with 632 points

VIDEO: The 20th edition of the UCI Mountain Bike and Trials World Championships at Mont Sainte Anne, Canada, started Wednesday with the team relay. Switzerland wins gold; U.S. finishes in ninth.

They’re rivals now, but next season, Tyler Farrar and Thor Hushovd will ride side-by-side on the new-look Garmin-Cervélo team.

VeloNews editor at large John Wilcockson leads the magazine's complete coverage of the 2010 Tour de France. Relive all the action of the world's greatest race, and go inside the stories you saw from the outside on television. Subscribe today!

Garmin-Slipstream's Tyler Farrar won the fifth stage of the Vuelta a España on Wednesday, outsprinting some of the best in the business

• 1. Tyler Farrar, Garmin-Transitions, in 5h 03' 36''
• 2. Larrea Koldo FernÁndez De, Euskaltel-Euskadi, at 00:00
• 3. Mark Cavendish, HTC-Columbia, at 00:00
• 4. Matteo Tosatto, Quick Step, at 00:00
• 5. Alessandro Petacchi, Lampre-Farnese Vini, at 00:00

An over-stretched chain will usually wear your cassette and chainrings to the point of incompatibility with a new chain, causing the need for an entirely new drivetrain. Singletrack.com's Zach White takes a look at a new precision chain guage that makes keeping track of your chain easy.

John Wilcockson, VeloNews editor at large, recalls the late French champion.

Six more riders, including Heinrich Haussler, Roger Hammond and Brett Lancaster, will join Thor Hushovd on the new Garmin-Cervelo team for 2011.

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VIDEO: Windham World Cup wrap-up in moving pixels...

Stanley is returning is a national sponsor of the 2010 Greenware US Gran Prix of Cyclocross and the title sponsor of the series final weekend, in Portland, Oregon, December 4 and 5.

Omega Pharma-Lotto has been catching flack due its lackluster season that has included a paltry four victories.

UPDATED The Euskaltel-Euskadi rider pips Nibali, as Gilbert retains the lead.

The Tour champion is resting after sliding out on a training ride.

French President Sarkozy, Bernard Hinault, Greg LeMond, Lance Armstrong and others pay tribute to the two-time Tour winner.

• 1. Igor ANTON HERNANDEZ, (ESP) Euskaltel-Euskadi, in 5:00:29
• 2. Vincenzo NIBALI, (ITA) Liquigas-Doimo, at 0
• 3. Peter VELITS, (SVK) HTC-Columbia, at 1
• 4. Joaquin RODRIGUEZ OLIVER, (ESP) Team Katusha, at 1
• 5. Philippe GILBERT, (BEL) Omega Pharma-Lotto, at 5

Two-time Tour de France winner Laurent Fignon has died at the age of 50 following a battle with cancer

Singletrack.com's tech editor Zack Vestal tested Northwave's Razer MTB shoe. Does the shoe fit?

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The race will feature a long list of national champions and other stars from the U.S. and abroad.

Jonathan Vaughters says the Norwegian strong man will complement the team's current top sprinter, Tyler Farrar.

SLIDESHOW: The 2010 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup is officially in the books as racing wrapped up on Windham Mountain in New York's Catskills on Sunday with the men's and women's downhill contests.

Team Sky loses two riders to illness on stage 3, and other riders and staff are struggling with similar symptoms.

Christian Vande Velde has a minor crash on the Vuelta's third stage, outside an olive oil factory. The American vet is looking to finish off his 2010 season with a strong Vuelta.

Beñat Intxausti, the highly touted Basque rider, has penned a three-year deal to join Team Movistar, the team currently known as Caisse d'Epargne

• 1. Philippe Gilbert, Omega Pharma-Lotto, 157.3km in 4:06:12
• 2. Joaquin Rodriguez, Team Katusha, at 0:13
• 3. Igor Anton, Euskaltel-Euskadi, at 0:13
• 4. Vincenzo Nibali, Liquigas-Doimo, at 0:15
• 5. Grega Bole, Lampre-Farnese Vini, at 0:15