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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.

Check out Nick Legan's author page.

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.

L'ALPE d'HUEZ, France (VN) —Alberto Contador was too proud to finish a frustrating and injury-plagued Tour de France lying down.

PINEROLO, Italy (VN) — Pedro Delgado says Cadel Evans is in the driver's seat to become the first Australian to win the Tour de France.

Their “no risk” tactics is playing into the hands of Evans and Contador

GAP, France (VN) - Cadel Evans is riding a Tour de France of opportunity and his team sees more chances to take time on the horizon with an unlikely ally in Alberto Contador. Evans (BMC Racing) vaulted off a Contador (Saxo Bank-Sungard) attack late in Tuesday’s 16th stage to take time on his GC rivals at the foot of the Alps.

Pro Men

• 1. Tyler Wren,in 04:27:04
• 2. Zack Vestal,in 04:29:48
• 3. Benjamin Blaugrund,in 04:30:18
• 4. Jeff Louder,in 04:30:52
• 5. Paul Mach,in 04:34:36

• 1. Clara Hughes,in 05:21:12
• 2. Rachel Cieslewicz,in 05:42:22
• 3. Tana Stone,in 05:42:49
• 4. Kris Walker,in 05:58:15
• 5. Lauren Frisk,in 06:05:06

... Voeckler retains a GC lead of 1:49 over Frank Schleck, 2:17 over Andy Schleck, and a devastating 13-day gap over their little-known brother, Ruprecht ...

Norwegian joins an elite band of 16 rider over worlds’ 84-year history

LUZ-ARDIDEN, France (VN) — Tom Danielson charged into the top-10 overall and became Garmin-Cervélo's lone GC bet.

CARMAUX, France -- Luís León Sánchez says despite his stage-winning ride Sunday that catapulted him into second place overall, he will still ride for Rabobank team captain Robert Gesink.

Check out Matt De Neef's author page.

• 1 57:41 Dereck Treadwell 36 Laurens NY
• 2 1:02:09 Robert Douglas 45 Honeoye Falls NY
• 3 1:02:11 Austin Orth 38 North Conway NH
• 4 1:02:25 Timothy Tapply 36 Sherborn MA
• 5 1:02:29 Chris Yura 32 Philadelphia PA

• 1 1:04:12 Marti Shea 48 Marblehead MA
• 2 1:09:12 Amy Bevilacqua 37 Wilton CT
• 3 1:13:34 Crystal Anthony 30 Beverly MA
• 4 1:18:30 Liz Feeney 48 Philadelphia PA
• 5 1 52 1:20:52 Dominique Coderre 52 Montreal QC

• 1. Coryn Rivera , Peanut Butter & Co.twenty12
• 2. Martina Patella , Red Racing
• 3. Mary Ellen Ash , Metromint Cycling
• 4. Pascale Maria SCHNIDER ,
• 5. Megan Melack (1 - Cat2) , Red Racing

• 1. Ricky ESCUELA , Full Circle Sports
• 2. Rahsaan Bahati (1 - Cat1) , Sklz P/b Pista Palace
• 3. Eric Marcotte (2 - Cat1) , Sklz P/b Pista Palace
• 4. Eric Barlevav (1 - Pro) , Full Circle Cycling
• 5. Logan Loader (3 - Cat1) , Ride Clean P/b Patentit.com

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• 1. Fredrik Kessiakoff, Astana
• 2. Leopold *koenig, Team Netapp
• 3. Carlo Sastre, Geox-Tmc
• 4. Thomas Rohregger, Leopard-Trek
• 5. Denis Menchov, Geox-Tmc

USA Cycling has confirmed the death of Mark Whitehead, a member of U.S. Olympic track cycling team in 1984.

Editor's note: The following article appeared in the March 2011 issue of VeloNews magazine. We thought our web readers would enjoy a look at the what the Garmin-Cervelo team said about team cooperation before the season really started.

Dan Wuori is one of the funniest Twitter bards in the cycling world (follow him at @dwuori). This month, he will be expanding a bit beyond 140 characters to share periodic journals during the Tour de France. Today's is the fifth.

Norwegian continues to set records at the Tour de France

A reader wants to know why Roberto Heras' case is being handled in Spanish civil courts.

EL DORADO, Kans. (VN) — All but one of the top ten solo males were beyond the half-way point of the 2011 Race Across America on Monday morning. This second half of RAAM has a distinctly different flavor than the first. For many, the attitude for the first half is one of “charge!” or “full speed ahead,” but by that halfway point (7 miles east of Pratt, Kansas) for some the mantra becomes “survival” or “What was I thinking?”

Omnium

• 1. Leif Lampater (GER) with 44 points
• 2. Bobby Lea (USA) with 40 points
• 3. Anibal Borrajo (ARG) with 36 points
• 4. Douglas Repacholi (AUS) with 35 points
• 5. Stalin Quiterio (USA) with 32 points

On the third day of the 2011 Race Across America race leader Christoph Strasser and chaser Marko Baloh were both on record pace, with Strasser’s overall average speed being 18.31 mph and Baloh holding 17.29 mph.