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PARIS (AFP) - Australia's new cycling team GreenEdge announced its latest recruit on Monday, Lithuanian Tomas Vaitkus.

Editor's Note: Throughout the 2011 USA Pro Cycling Challenge, VeloNews.com will be publishing and analyzing SRM power data from UnitedHealthcare’s general classification star Rory Sutherland, who was seventh at the AMGEN Tour of California earlier this year. TrainingPeaks is providing the race data to us, as well as making Sutherland’s interactive race file available to the public.

1. Elia VIVIANI, Liquigas-Cannondale, in 4:04:31 2. Jaime CASTANEDA, UNE-EPM, at s.t. 3. Daniel OSS, Liquigas-Cannondale, at s.t. 4. Dennis VAN WINDEN, Rabobank Cycling Team, at s.t. 5. Jeffry LOUDER, BMC Racing Team, at s.t.

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. (VN) – The Liquigas-Cannondale train lined up 20km from downtown Steamboat Springs Thursday with a young Italian on the back. When he stormed through the middle of Bike Town USA for a fierce win, Elia Viviani stormed onto the radar for American cycling fans and the Italian world championships team.

USAPCC stage 4 finish-line analysis

Levi Leipheimer expects attacks Saturday

Stage

• 1. Elia VIVIANI, Liquigas-Cannondale, in 2:58:14
• 2. Michael MORKOV, Saxo Bank Sungard, at s.t.
• 3. Kenny Robert VAN HUMMEL, Skil-Shimano, at s.t.
• 4. Robert FÖRSTER, Unitedhealthcare Presented By Maxxis, at s.t.
• 5. Dennis VAN WINDEN, Rabobank Cycling Team, at s.t.

• 1. Levi Leipheimer, Team RadioShack, in 13:28:43
• 2. Christian Vande Velde, Team Garmin-Cervelo, at 00:11
• 3. Tejay Van Garderen, HTC-Highroad, at 00:17
• 4. Tom DANIELSON, Team Garmin-Cervelo, at 00:21
• 5. George Hincapie, BMC Racing Team, at 00:53

Colorado gallery: 12,000 feet with Brad Kaminski

VIDEO: Finish-line analysis in Aspen

• 1. Anne Samplonius, Now Cycling/now And Novartis For Ms, in 59'06
• 2. Kristin Armstrong Savola, Peanut Butter & Co. Twenty 12, at s.t.
• 3. Lauren Hall, Colavita / Forno D'asolo, at s.t.
• 4. Kristin McGrath, Peanut Butter & Co. Twenty 12, at 3
• 5. Kristin Sanders, Colavita / Forno D'asolo, at 6

ASPEN, Colo. (VN) — With the excitement of the incoming 2011 USA Pro Cycling Challenge as a backdrop, Olympic champion Kristin Armstrong of the Peanut Butter & Co.-Twenty12 team rode to overall victory in the inaugural 2011 Aspen/Snowmass Women's Pro Stage Race Wednesday before tens of thousands of cycling fans on the streets of downtown Aspen.

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CRESTED BUTTE, Colo. (VN) — The motivation running through the Garmin-Cervélo squad to win the inaugural USA Pro Cycling Challenge runs wide and deep.

Stage 1

• 1. Levi Leipheimer (USA) Team RadioShack in 4:29:22
• 2. Sergio Luis Henao Montoya (Col) Gobernacion De Antioquia - Indeportes Antiquia 0:00:04
• 3. Fränk Schleck (Lux) Leopard Trek 0:00:07
• 4. Cadel Evans (Aus) BMC Racing Team
• 5. Christian Vande Velde (USA) Team Garmin-Cervelo

• 1. Levi Leipheimer (USA) Team RadioShack 4:37:47
• 2. Christian Vande Velde (USA) Team Garmin-Cervelo 0:00:11
• 3. Tejay Van Garderen (USA) HTC-Highroad 0:00:17
• 4. Cadel Evans (Aus) BMC Racing Team
• 5. Robert Gesink (Ned) Rabobank Cycling Team 0:00:30

Editor's Note: Earlier this year VeloNews tech editor Nick Legan rode with the Rapha Continental team to scout the stages of the 2011 USA Pro Cycling Challenge in Colorado. VeloNews and Rapha partnered to produce videos about the stages. Today we are sharing the fourth video from the ride, focusing on the final stage, from Golden to Denver.

American Brent Bookwalter and classics lynchpin Marcus Burghardt are among Cadel Evans’ support staff to re-sign with BMC Racing for 2012.

VeloNews has made its home here since 1989. We know the state inside and out and with the USA Pro Cycling Challenge just days away, we thought we would fill you in on our choices for coffee and eats across the state.

Mark Cavendish headlines HTC-Highroad in what will be the men's team's final grand tour, the Vuelta a España.

Redant, who left the Omega Pharma-Lotto team late in 2010 to join the failed Pegasus Racing project, will join UHC as European team director beginning with the USA Pro Cycling Challenge next week.

Levi Leipheimer said Wednesday that he was never in danger of being dropped when Sergio Henao put in a race shattering attack on the final climb of the Tour of Utah last weekend. In an interview with KPCW community radio in Park City, Utah, Leipheimer (RadioShack) described the uneasy truce he made with Henao (Gobernacion de Antioquia) on the road to Snowbird resort on Sunday.

Lawson Craddock wouldn't let a little car/bike collision dampen his moment at last week's Tour de Guadeloupe. The Trek-Livestrong rider was hit from behind by an official's car immediately after he won the race's eighth stage.

Thor Hushovd won’t be riding the Vuelta a España with Garmin-Cervélo. Nor should he. The reigning world champion has had a strong 2011, topped by an amazing Tour de France (during which the multiple stage winner was a part-time bearer of the maillot jaune and a full-time badass). But that wouldn’t have made Jonathan Vaughters any less a fool to drop him into the team’s Vuelta mix.

Earlier this year VeloNews tech editor Nick Legan rode with the Rapha Continental team to scout the stages of the 2011 USA Pro Cycling Challenge in Colorado. VeloNews and Rapha partnered to produce videos about the stages. Today we are sharing the fourth video from the ride, focusing on stage 5, from Steamboat Springs to Breckenridge (see map below the video). Watch for the rest of the videos to be posted over the next week and a half.

BMC's Cadel Evans retained a six-point lead ahead of Philippe Gilbert (Omega Pharma) in the UCI WorldTour rankings, updated following the conclusion of the Eneco Tour Sunday.

Cadel warns Thor off the Tour; an attitude adjustment; Boxer comes clean on Armstrong comment & more

Stage

• 1. Jesse SERGENT, (NZL) Team RadioShack, in 17:55
• 2. Alex RASMUSSEN, (DEN) HTC-Highroad, at 14
• 3. Jurgen ROELANDTS, (BEL) Omega Pharma-Lotto, at 20
• 4. Vladimir ISAICHEV, (RUS) Team Katusha, at 27
• 5. Lars BOOM, (NED) Rabobank Cycling Team, at 27

GC

• 1. Edvald BOASSON HAGEN, (Norway) Team Sky, in 13:49:06
• 2. Philippe GILBERT, (Belgium) Omega Pharma-Lotto, at 12
• 3. David MILLAR, (Great Britain) Garmin-Cervelo, at 18
• 4. Taylor PHINNEY, (United States) BMC Racing Team, at 27
• 5. Jos VAN EMDEN, (Netherlands) Rabobank Cycling Team, at 47

Editor's Note: Earlier this year VeloNews tech editor Nick Legan rode with the Rapha Continental team to scout the stages of the 2011 USA Pro Cycling Challenge in Colorado. VeloNews and Rapha partnered to produce videos about the stages. In today's video, the crew tours the Moots bike factory in Steamboat Springs, which hosts the finish of stage 4 and the start of stage 5. Watch for the rest of the videos to be posted over the next week.

Jesse Anthony’s stage win in Ogden, Utah, Wednesday was big. But just how big?

• 1. Jesse Anthony, (USA) Kelly Benefit Strategies-Optumhealth, at 4.39:29
• 2. Sergio Luis Henao Montoya, (COL) Gobernacion De Antioquia - Indeportes Antiquia, at s.t.
• 3. Oscar Sevilla Ribera, (ESP) Gobernacion De Antioquia - Indeportes Antiquia, at s.t.
• 4. Levi Leipheimer, (USA) Team RadioShack, at s.t.
• 5. Janez Brajkovic, (SLO) Team RadioShack, at s.t.

Stage

• 1. André Greipel, Omega Pharma-Lotto (olo), in 4:07:21
• 2. Tyler Farrar, Team Garmin-Cervelo (grm), at 0
• 3. Edvald Boasson Hagen, Sky Procycling (sky), at 0
• 4. Jean-pierre Drucker, Veranda's Willems - Accent (vwa), at 0
• 5. Baden Cooke, Saxo Bank Sungard (sbs), at 0

GC

• 1. Taylor Phinney, Bmc Racing Team (bmc), in 8:35:38
• 2. Edvald Boasson Hagen, Sky Procycling (sky), at 3
• 3. David Millar, Team Garmin-Cervelo (grm), at 8
• 4. Alex Rasmussen, Htc-Highroad (thr), at 9
• 5. André Greipel, Omega Pharma-Lotto (olo), at 10

BOULDER, Colo, (VN) — Tour de France champion Cadel Evans and his fellow podium finishers Andy and Fränk Schleck will headline the inaugural USA Pro Cycling Challenge later this month. Organizers announced the BMC Racing and Leopard-Trek riders as part of the preliminary startlist Tuesday.

Like the rest of his Highroad teammates, Marco Pinotti isn't happy that the team is shuttering its doors at the end of the 2011 season after the team was left without a title sponsor.

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Three-time Italian champion Giovanni Visconti and German sprint phenomenon John Degenkolb will have new teams for the coming season.

• 1. Taylor PHINNEY, (USA) BMC Racing Team, in 6:57
• 2. Edvald BOASSON HAGEN, (NOR) Team Sky, at 7
• 3. David MILLAR, (GBR) Garmin-Cervelo, at 8
• 4. Alex RASMUSSEN, (DEN) HTC-Highroad, at 9
• 5. Lars BOOM, (NED) Rabobank Cycling Team, at 10

Men's Stage

• 1. Hilton Clarke, UnitedHealthcare, in 2:20:42
• 2. Jacob Keough, UnitedHealthcare, at s.t.
• 3. Jonathan Cantwell, V Australia, at s.t.
• 4. Ken Hanson, Jelly Belly, at s.t.
• 5. Carlos Alzate, Exergy, at s.t.

Men's GC

• 1. Luis Amaran, Jamis-Sutter Home, in 5:51:34
• 2. Bobby Sweeting, Kenda Pro, at 0:00:34
• 3. Chad Haga, Kelly Benefit, at 0:01:00
• 4. Freddy Rodriguez, Exergy, at 0:01:01
• 5. Farren Rolfe, V Australia, at 0:01:11

Women's Stage

• 1. Leah Kirchmann, Colavita Forno D' Asolo, in 0:48:44.
• 2. Joelle Numainville, Team Tibco/to The Top, at s.t.
• 3. Kacey Manderfield, Pure Energy Cycling-Proairhfa, at s.t.
• 4. Anne Samplonius, Now And Novartis For Ms, at s.t.
• 5. Mary Maroon, Rouse Bicycles, at s.t.

Women's GC

• 1. Leah Kirchmann, Colavita Forno D' Asolo, in 1:48:25
• 2. Anne Samplonius, Now And Novartis For Ms, at 0:00:02
• 3. Janel Holcomb, Colavita Forno D' Asolo, at 0:00:08
• 4. Robin Farina, Now And Novartis For Ms, at 0:00:14
• 5. Erinne Willock, Team Tibco/to The Top, at 0:00:15

Earlier this year VeloNews tech editor Nick Legan rode with the Rapha Continental team to scout the stages of the 2011 USA Pro Cycling Challenge in Colorado. VeloNews and Rapha partnered to produce videos about the stages. Earlier this week we posted the first video and Nick's article about the ride. Today we are sharing the video about stage 1, from Salida to Crested Butte.

• 1. Movistar Team, in 9:54
• 2. Katusha Team at 10
• 3. Acqua & Sapone at 13
• 4. Saur - Sojasun at 17
• 5. Caja Rural at 19

Stage

• 1. Daniel MARTIN, (IRL) Garmin-Cervelo, in 5:41:05
• 2. Wouter POELS, (NED) Vacansoleil-Dcm, at 1
• 3. Marco MARCATO, (ITA) Vacansoleil-Dcm, at 4
• 4. Przemyslaw NIEMIEC, (POL) Lampre-Isd, at 4
• 5. Tiago MACHADO, (POR) Team RadioShack, at 6

GC

• 1. Daniel MARTIN, (Ireland) Garmin-Cervelo, in 23:50:06
• 2. Peter SAGAN, (Slovakia) Liquigas-Cannondale, at 3
• 3. Marco MARCATO, (Italy) Vacansoleil-Dcm, at 3
• 4. Wouter POELS, (Netherlands) Vacansoleil-Dcm, at 17
• 5. Peter KENNAUGH, (Great Britain) Team Sky, at 19

What’s inside the September issue of Velo Magazine

Prologue

• 1. Hugo SABIDO, (POR) La-Antarte, in 3:04
• 2. Filipe Duarte sousa CARDOSO, (POR) Rabobank Continental Team, at 6
• 3. Bruno SILVA, (POR) La-Antarte, at 6
• 4. Sergio Ferreira SOUSA, (POR) Rabobank Continental Team, at 7
• 5. Ricardo VILELA, (POR) Onda, at 7

• 1. Rémi CUSIN, (FRA) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne, in 4:34:19
• 2. Matti BRESCHEL, (DEN) Rabobank Cycling Team, at 0
• 3. Daniele BENNATI, (ITA) Leopard-Trek, at 2
• 4. Sacha MODOLO, (ITA) Colnago-Csf, at 2
• 5. Daniele COLLI, (ITA) Geox-Tmc, at 2

PARIS (AFP) - Frenchman Tony Gallopin will ride for RadioShack as of next season after signing a two-year deal with the American outfit, according to the French Cycling Federation (ffc.fr) Thursday.

BOULDER, Colo. (VN) — Sébastien Rosseler will add more time trial and classics zip to Garmin-Cervélo in 2012.

Stage 2

• 1. Marcel KITTEL, (GER) Skil-Shimano, at 3:38:35
• 2. Heinrich HAUSSLER, (AUS) Garmin-Cervelo, at s.t.
• 3. Graeme BROWN, (AUS) Rabobank Cycling Team, at s.t.
• 4. Caleb FAIRLY, (USA) HTC-Highroad, at s.t.
• 5. John DEGENKOLB, (GER) HTC-Highroad, at s.t.

Omega Pharma is joining the Quick Step team as a sponsor for the 2012 and 2013 season, Quick Step announced Monday.

Colavita Forno d'Asolo-Cooking Light walked away with the team title in the final standings of the Women's Prestige Cycling Series, followng the last series race, the Bend Memorial Clinic Cascade Cycling Classic. The squad also claimed the sprinter's jersey for Leah Kirchmann, whose standing got a big boost when she won the Wheaties FUEL Sprint jersey at the Nature Valley Grand Prix in June.

• Annemiek VAN VLEUTEN, (Netherlands) Arc, 287 points 1 (2)
• Marianne VOS, (Netherlands) Arc, 280 points 2 (1)
• Emma JOHANSSON, (Sweden) Hpu, 212 points 3 (3)
• Judith ARNDT, (Germany) Tcw, 163 points 4 (4)
• Ina TEUTENBERG, (Germany) Tcw, 143 points 5 (5)

SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain (VN) - Philippe Gilbert (Omega Pharma-Lotto) just keeps on winning at will, but there's one race that he's determined to win one day, and that's the world championships.

SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain (VN) — The dust has barely settled following the Tour de France and big-time racing returns across Europe with a busy weekend.

MADRID (VN) - There's no rest for the weary for Ryder Hesjedal.

A California appellate court has rejected an appeal by David Thompson, the physician who was convicted in 2009 of assaulting two cyclists by intentionally stopping his car directly in front of them.

The women’s USA Cycling National Development program showed a strong performance at Tour du Limousin in France this weekend. The team's performance there came after an impressive result the prior week's Tour of Bretagne Feminin, where Jacquelyn Crowell (Team Type 1 Development) finished fouth in the GC, one second off of the podium.

BOULDER, Colo. (VN) — VeloSwap, one of the largest consumer cycling shows and swap meets in the country, will come to the East Coast this fall as part of the two-day Providence Cyclocross Festival in Rhode Island.

• 1. Grete Treier (Est) S.C. Michela Fanini Rox, in 10:05:19
• 2. Tatiana Antoshina (Rus) Russian Federation, at 0:00:05
• 3. Grace Verbeke (Bel) Belgium, at 0:01:00
• 4. Karol-Anne Canuel (Can) Mixed Vienne, at 0:02:11
• 5. Yulia Iliynikh (Rus) Russian Federation, at 0:03:00

Women's

• 1. Janel Holcomb (Colavita/Forno d'Asolo), in 10:47:44
• 2. Anne Samplonius (NOW and Novartis For MS), at 0:00:23
• 3. Clara Hughes (Cycling BC), at 0:01:09
• 4. Erinne Willock (Team TIBCO/To the Top), at 0:01:22
• 5. Kristin Mcgrath (Peanut Butter & Co.Twenty12), at 0:01:28

• 1. Francisco Mancebo (Realcyclist.Com Pro Cycling), in 10:42:00
• 2. Lachlan Morton (Chipotle Development Team), at 0:00:42
• 3. Jeremy Vennell (Bissell Pro Cycling), at 0:00:49
• 4. Luis Romero Amaran (Jamis Sutter Home), at 0:00:55
• 5. Tom Zirbel (Jamis Sutter Home), at 0:01:09

• 2011 3431km (5489.6m),180 starters, 167 finishers (93%); Winner: Cadel EVANS, 34, avg: 39.8 kph (24.9 mph)
• 2010 3642km (5827.2m),180 starters, 170 finishers (94%); Winner: Alberto CONTADOR, 27, avg: 39.6 kph (24.7 mph)
• 2009 3459km (5534.4m),180 starters, 156 finishers (87%); Winner: Alberto CONTADOR, 26, avg: 40.3 kph (25.2 mph)
• 2008 3559km (5694.4m),180 starters, 145 finishers (81%); Winner: Carlos SASTRE, 33, avg: 40.5 kph (25.3 mph)
• 2007 3570km (5712m),189 starters, 141 finishers (75%); Winner: Alberto CONTADOR, 24, avg: 39.2 kph (24.5 mph)

A look at some relative recent time trial results of the top 10 riders in the 2011 Tour de France after Friday's stage.

Cadel Evans has the advantage, but Andy Schleck is confident

L’ALPE D’HUEZ, France (VN) — On a day when all French eyes were on L’Alpe d’Huez as the pride of the country Thomas Voeckler carried the maillot jaune toward the final weekend of the Tour de France, it was his teammate Pierre Rolland who stole the show. Rolland (Europcar), long pegged as the 25-years-later successor to Bernard Hinault, silenced his doubters when he won alone atop the biggest climb in the sport.