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• 1. Mark Cavendish, (GBR) HTC-Highroad, in 1:59:13
• 2. Mark RENSHAW, (AUS) HTC-Highroad, at 0
• 3. Robert FöRSTER, (GER) Unitedhealthcare, at 0
• 4. Geraint THOMAS, (GBR) Team Sky, at 0
• 5. Ben SWIFT, (GBR) Team Sky, at 0

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (VN) – Exergy Development Group appears set to enter the women’s peloton in a big way in 2012 and will announce plans Thursday to take over title sponsorship of a top women’s squad and revisit a classic U.S. race.

VeloNews' Lennard Zinn offers up a look at the first things that caught his eye at the 2011 Interbike trade show.

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LAS VEGAS, Nev. (VN) – The place: the bowels of Interbike, on the Circulus miniature velodrome. The showdown: Johnson versus Powers. The winner: Tim Johnson.

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Milan-San Remo champion Matt Goss will head up a strong Australian team at the world road race championships in Copenhagen, where compatriot Mark Renshaw will sit among the replacements.

PARIS (AFP) ― Tour de France stars Thomas Voeckler and Sylvain Chavanel will spearhead France's bid for the coveted rainbow jersey at the world road race cycling championships in Copenhagen later this month.

PRAGUE (AFP) — Roman Kreuziger will spearhead the Czech challenge in the world road race championships in Copenhagen from next week despite his wrist still being in plaster from a fall on the Tour de France, national cycling chief Marian Stetina said Tuesday.

• 1. Faria Da Costa Rui Alberto, Movistar Team (mov), in 5:20:18
• 2. Pierrick Fedrigo, Fdj (fdj), at 0
• 3. Philippe Gilbert, Omega Pharma-Lotto (olo), at 2
• 4. Jurgen Roelandts, Omega Pharma-Lotto (olo), at 2
• 5. Stefan Denifl, Leopard Trek (leo), at 2

Following his win in Friday's Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec, Philippe Gilbert has taken over the lead of the individual UCI World Tour rankings from Tour de France winner Cadel Evans.

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QUEBEC CITY, Canada (VN) — Saxo Bank’s Michael Morkov won the inaugural Challenge Sprint Pro Thursday evening in Québec City, besting Enrique Sanz (Movistar), Simon Clarke (Astana) and Robbie Hunter (RadioShack) in a final four-man heat at the crowd-friendly warm-up event held prior to Friday's WorldTour one-day race.

Stage

• 1. Francesco GAVAZZI, (ITA) Lampre-Isd, in 4:24:42
• 2. Kristof VANDEWALLE, (BEL) Quick Step, at 0
• 3. Alexandre GENIEZ, (FRA) Skil-Shimano, at 10
• 4. Nico SIJMENS, (BEL) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne, at 10
• 5. Matteo MONTAGUTI, (ITA) Ag2r La Mondiale, at 10

GC

• 1. Juan Jose COBO ACEBO, (Spain) Geox-Tmc, in 74:04:05
• 2. Christopher FROOME, (Great Britain) Team Sky, at 13
• 3. Bradley WIGGINS, (Great Britain) Team Sky, at 1:41
• 4. Bauke MOLLEMA, (Netherlands) Rabobank Cycling Team, at 2:05
• 5. Denis MENCHOV, (Russia) Geox-Tmc, at 3:48

2011 Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec startlist

Stage 2

• 1. Wouter WIPPERT, (NED), in 3:51:29
• 2. Moreno HOFLAND, (NED), at 0
• 3. Filippo FORTIN, (ITA), at 0
• 4. Raymond KREDER, (NED), at 0
• 5. Jan KELLER, (SUI), at 0

• 1. Sacha MODOLO, (ITA) Colnago-Csf, 4:19:55
• 2. Elia VIVIANI, (ITA) Liquigas-Cannondale, at 0
• 3. Manuel BELLETTI, (ITA) Colnago-Csf, at 0
• 4. Alessandro BERTOLINI, (ITA) Androni Giocattoli, at 0
• 5. Oscar GATTO, (ITA) Farnese Vini-Neri Sottoli, at 0

Lauren Hall (Colavita-Forno D’Asolo) and Isaac Howe (Kenda-5 Hour Energy) won field sprints and donned leaders' jerseys in day two of the THF Realty Gateway Cup on Saturday in St. Louis.

Results from the criteriums held Thursday in Bend, Oregon.

• 1. Peter SAGAN, (SVK) Liquigas-Cannondale, in 4:03:01
• 2. John DEGENKOLB, (GER) HTC-Highroad, at 0
• 3. Daniele BENNATI, (ITA) Leopard-Trek, at 0
• 4. Alessandro PETACCHI, (ITA) Lampre-Isd, at 0
• 5. Juan José HAEDO, (ARG) Saxobank-Sungard, at 0

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