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The Omega Pharma-Lotto strongman attacks for the win in the final kilometer as a daylong break comes to naught.

Hunter Allen and Andrew Coggan discuss some simple ways a power meter can help riders track performance changes over time.

Ah, the pain and joy of testing time trial gear. Zack Vestal installs and rides Zipp's Vuka R2C shifters and VukaShift aero extensions.

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• 1. Luis Amaran, Jamis Sutter Home/Colavita, at 1139 points
• 2. Rory Sutherland, UnitedHealthcare-Maxxis, with 805 points
• 3. David Veilleux, Kelly Benefit Strategies, with 743 points
• 4. Jonathan Cantwell, Fly V Australia, with 735 points
• 5. Ben Jacques-Maynes, Bissell Pro Cycling, with 632 points

Luis Amaran (Jamis-Sutter Home) had enough lead to coast across the finish line of the 2010 National Racing Calendar individual standings.

V Australia's Jonathan Cantwell notches another crit win, this time at the NRC-closing Chris Thater in New York. His win helped V Australia lock up the 2010 NRC team rankings win.

• 1. Jonathan Cantwell, Fly V Australia
• 2. Bernard Sulzberger, Fly V Australia
• 3. Hilton Clarke, United Heathcare
• 4. Kyle Wamsley, Bissell
• 5. Andres ignacio Pereyra, Jamis/Sutter Home

The Cervelo TestTeam exodus begins as Xavier Tondo signs with the Spanish squad now known as Caisse d'Epargne. Thor Hushovd says he's talking to several teams.

HTC-Columbia says there's no pressure on the rising young star, who is in Spain to learn.

• 1. Yauheni Hutarovich, Française des Jeux, 4:35:41
• 2. Mark Cavendish, HTC-Columbia, s.t.
• 3. Tyler Farrar, Garmin-Transitions, s.t.
• 4. Alessandro Petacchi, Lampre-Farnese Vini, s.t.
• 5. Antonio Lea Cardoso Manuel, Footon-Servetto-Fuji, s.t.

Yauheni Hutarovich — the lanterne rouge of the 2009 Tour de France — claims his first grand-tour victory ahead of race leader Mark Cavendish and Tyler Farrar.

SLIDESHOW: Catch the elite men and women's cross-country action at the Windham World Cup final.

VIDEO: Flat tires stifled the momentum of almost every North American hopeful at the first World Cup in the United States in five years. Mishaps didn't slow Windham World Cup winner Jaroslav Kulhavy, however.

Tibco's former national champ calls it quits after a successful team effort — just as she wanted.

VIDEO: Two-time Olympian Julien Absalon had some bad luck at the Windham World Cup race, which meant he was out of contention for the overall series title for 2010.

• 1. Samantha Schneider, Tibco
• 2. Catherine Cheatley, Colavita-Baci
• 3. Joanne Kiesanowski, Tibco
• 4. Modesta Vzesniauskaite, Colavita-Baci
• 5. Brooke Miller, Tibco

USA Crits series action continues Sunday with the men's event.

• 1. Mark Cavendish, HTC-Columbia, 13km in 14:06
• 2. Peter Velits, HTC-Columbia, at 0:01
• 3. Martin Velits, HTC-Columbia, at 0:01
• 4. Lars Ytting Bak, HTC-Columbia, at 0:01
• 5. Hayden Roulston, HTC-Columbia, at 0:01

Graham Watson captures the unusual nighttime team time trial that kicked off the 2010 Vuelta a España

HTC-Columbia set the early top time in the nighttime stage and it withstood challenges from Liquigas-Doimo and Saxo Bank.

VIDEO: Canada's Catherine Pendrel wins Windham World Cup and the overall 2010 World Cup overall. Marie-Helene Premont finishes second with her eye on hometown victory at next week's Worlds at Mont Saint Anne.

Stefan Schumacher will have to wait a bit longer for his return to professional cycling after serving a two-year suspension for doping.

Vuelta a España organizers must have known what was in store when they decided to schedule a night-time team time trial to kick start the 65th edition of the Spanish grand tour.

Garmin team CEO Jonathan Vaughters says the merger will add classics strength and a women's team. He said the two teams' management share a philosophy about anti-doping and sport development.

Team Garmin-Transitions and Cervélo SA will join forces for the 2011 season to create a new team that will be known as Garmin-Cervélo.

VIDEO: Canada's Catharine Pendrel leads the overall World Cup points battle, but Eva Lechner of Italy and American Willow Koerber are right on her wheel. How will Pendrel come out in the battle for the title?

VIDEO: Adam Craig's season was late to start due to knee rehab. How does the Maine native view the Windham, New York World Cup course and having the "Euros" invade the U.S.? Watch on...

Of the six season titles up for grabs, only one — four-cross — has been mathematically won. Prendrel, Lechner and Koerber all aiming for women's XC overall honors.

HTC-Columbia breaks its own rules to let the 22-year-old American start a grand tour. 'I'm not going to be a tourist,' the first-year pro promises.

The Saxo rider says he's fully recovered from his Tour de France crash and ready to challenge for the win, with the help of brother Andy

Full-carbon 29ers just keep getting lighter and are appearing more often atop the podium domestically, and, finally, internationally as well. Want proof? World XC champ Nino Schurter and his Scott Swisspower teammate Florian Vogel are checking out two-niners.

Lennard Zinn fields questions about the need for headset top caps and why shortened seatposts don't creak, and shares another long list of potential sources for bicycle mystery noises.

Cervélo TestTeam will not ride into the 2011 season, but team officials confirmed that Cervélo will become the new bike sponsor for Garmin-Transitions. The women’s team will continue next season

Organizers of October’s Cincinnati UCI3 Cyclocross Festival say the race will offer the largest women's prize list of any cyclocross race in the world

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The third and final grand tour of the season gets underway in Spain on Saturday, with several leading riders eyeing their chances amid the absence of the world's top road racer Alberto Contador.

The bike manufacturer announced Thursday that it would stop sponsoring the Cervelo TestTeam after this season, but would remain involved with cycling 'at the highest levels of the sport."

A reader asks about the most effective way to stretch for improved cycling performance

The Chris Thater Memorial closes out the National Racing Calendar, while the Hotter 'n Hell and the Winters Road Race keep Texas and California racers busy.

Garmin's new Edge 800 cycling GPS unit offers more features — including a color touchscreen — than the minimalist Edge 500. But it's not much bigger.

A knot of pro men are vying for the lead in the six-day, lung-busting event known as the Breck Epic in Colorado. Read some of the mental wanderings of Sarah Uhl, someone not vying for the lead but busting butt nonetheless at the Epic.

Now VeloNews.com readers will get training tips and advice from the same folks who advise Contador, the Schlecks, Fabian Cancellara, Taylor Phinney and others.

In the first question and answer column in VeloNews.com's new Training Center feature, a reader asks whether he should buy a cyclocross bike that is smaller than his road bike.

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Singletrack.com recently caught up with four North American contenders for the podiums at the World Cup final at Windham, New York and at the mountain bike world championships at Mont Ste Anne — Georgia Gould, Katie Compton, Geoff Kabush and Todd Wells.

Riders like Julien Absalon, Nino Schurter, Willow Koerber, Catharine Pendrel, Greg Minnaar, Gee Atherton, Steve Peat, Sabrina Jonnier, Anneke Beerten and Jared Graves will be vying for rainbow jerseys in their various disciplines at Mont Saint Anne Sept. 1-5.

Next month Canada will host the first ProTour events to be held in North America, the GP Montreal and GP Quebec. Horner, Leipheimer, Boasson Hagen, Sanchez, Hesjedal and Basso highlight the start lists released Wednesday.

Start lists for the two Canadian ProTour races

Javier Guillén says the race features a 'colossus' climb and a stellar field, including the Schlecks, Menchov, Sastre, Cavendish, Freire and others

Two-time Vuelta winner Denis Menchov goes into this year's race as a five-star favorite.

Tuesday's third stage of the Breck Epic somewhere above Breckenridge, Colorado saw a brutal day in the saddle where riders climbed over the Continental Divide twice in 44 miles, gaining over 9,400 feet. And did we mention it was cold...?

• 1. Marianne VOS , (Netherlands) , with 270 points
• 2. Emma JOHANSSON , (Sweden) Red Sun Cycling Team, with 209 points
• 3. Kirsten WILD , (Netherlands) Cervelo Test Team, with 202 points
• 4. Charlotte BECKER , (Germany) Cervelo Test Team, with 182 points
• 5. Judith ARNDT , (Germany) Team Columbia HTC Women, with 161 points

Photos from the final stage.

The Luxembourg cycling federation announced Tuesday that Tour de France runner-up Andy Schleck will not race the world road championships

Haussler had hoped to race for Australia this year, but a lingering knee injury will keep him at home.

HTC-Columbia's Tony Martin wraps up his Eneco Tour by winning the final time trial. Now he's looking toward the world time trial championships in Australia.

• 1. Tony MARTIN, (GER) HTC-Columbia, in 20:24
• 2. Maarten TJALLINGII, (NED) Rabobank Cycling Team, at 6
• 3. Alex RASMUSSEN, (DEN) Team Saxo Bank, at 9
• 4. Richie PORTE, (AUS) Team Saxo Bank, at 20
• 5. Koos MOERENHOUT, (NED) Rabobank Cycling Team, at 20

Defending champion Cadel Evans will lead the home team at the world road championships next month.

Manolo Saiz — the controversial Spanish sports director who was among eight people arrested in the Operación Puerto doping scandal back in 2006 – hopes to be back in the international peloton with a new team.

Emanuele Sella – the diminutive Italian climber who tested positive for EPO – has penned a deal to join Androni Giocatolli-Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni for the 2011 season.

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Retired road and cyclocross star Lyne Bessette has found a new interest — para-cycling. The Canadian and her partner won a world championship this weekend.

The American from Kelly Benefit Strategies takes the overall at the cat. 2.2 Festningsrittet three-day event.

Vincenzo Nibali and Roman Kreuziger will lead the team in Spain

Although electrical storms moved through well before the start of the Fool's Gold Rush race in Georgia on Sunday, heavy and steady rains remained causing a viscous mud bath at race 7 in the National Ultra Endurance Series.

• 1. André GREIPEL, (GER) HTC-Columbia, in 5:12:25
• 2. Jurgen ROELANDTS, (BEL) Omega Pharma-Lotto, at0
• 3. Edvald BOASSON HAGEN, (NOR) Team Sky, at0
• 4. Elia VIVIANI, (ITA) Liquigas-Doimo, at0
• 5. Lucas Sebastian HAEDO, (ARG) Team Saxo Bank, at0

Zack Vestal takes Exustars Look-style carbon and titanium road pedals and deems them solid, light and inexpensive.

Tony Martin holds the overall lead going into Tuesday's time trial.

Mountain bike stalwart Tinker Juarez, 49, takes second at his first Mt. Washington Auto Road Bicycle Hillclimb.

The Spanish veteran, who has finished on the podium three times, will be starting his third grand tour of the year.

With Alejandro Valverde on suspension, Caisse d'Epargne packs the one-two punch of Giro d’Italia runner-up David Arroyo and Luis León Sánchez.