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PROVO, Utah (VN) — It was supposed to be a fairly uneventful day designed to throw a bone at the sprinters during the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah.

Reigning world champion Thor Hushovd will not be racing the Vuelta a España with Garmin-Cervélo, a decision that team boss Jonathan Vaughters strongly defended for "what's best for the team."

Stage

• 1. Philippe GILBERT, (BEL) Omega Pharma-Lotto, in 4:54:53
• 2. Grega BOLE, (SLO) Lampre-Isd, at 8
• 3. Ben HERMANS, (BEL) Team RadioShack, at 8
• 4. Koen DE KORT, (NED) Skil-Shimano, at 8
• 5. Linus GERDEMANN, (GER) Leopard-Trek, at 8

GC

• 1. Philippe GILBERT, (Belgium) Omega Pharma-Lotto, in 13:30:34
• 2. Edvald BOASSON HAGEN, (Norway) Team Sky, at 5
• 3. David MILLAR, (Great Britain) Garmin-Cervelo, at 13
• 4. Dominique CORNU, (Belgium) Topsport Vlaanderen-Mercator, at 23
• 5. Ben HERMANS, (Belgium) Team RadioShack, at 25

Among the names on the potential winners list of the 2011 Leadville 100, Alban Lakata's will be the least familiar for most. Unless you're a true devotee of the mountain bike racing game, you may not know that this 32-year-old Austrian won the 2010 world marathon title and is his country's reigning cross-country national champ.

Caley Fretz rides Shimano's new electric group. Is it better than its big brother Dura-Ace Di2?

ANDENNE, Belgium (AFP) - Belgium champion Philippe Gilbert of the Omega Pharma team won the third stage of the Eneco Tour on Thursday to take the overall race lead from American Taylor Phinney of BMC.

Olympic Games organizers say they will hold a road racing test event a scheduled Sunday despite growing violence in London suburbs.

UCI Press Release on Gerard Vroomen comments

PARIS, Aug 11, 2011 (AFP) - World cycling's ruling body has angrily hit back at suggestions by Cervélo co-founder Gerard Vroomen that the UCI has lacked bite in implementing its own biological passport program.

MELBOURNE (AFP) — Tour de France champion Cadel Evans arrived back in Australia on Thursday for a victory parade after spending "the best part of his life" working for the historic cycling victory.

Whitman is setting no specific time goals for 2011. Instead he simply hopes to "have a great race and feel strong during the last few miles on the Boulevard. If that happens it will mean I was able to stay with the top guys for a good portion of the race. That would be satisfying."

PARIS (AFP) — Belgian Ben Hermans has signed a two-year deal with the Leopard-Trek team, the Luxembourg-registered outfit announced Thursday.

Two more big names are confirmed for the Vuelta a España with Michele Scarponi (Lampre-ISD) and Jurgen Van den Broeck.

Green-jersey contender José Joaquín Rojas and Ángel Madrazo have each extended with Spanish outfit Movistar.

BRUSSELS (AFP) — Belgian cycling star Philippe Gilbert is edging closer to signing for American team BMC, according to Belgian press reports quoting the rider's manager Vincent Wathelet.

ANDENNE, Belgium (AFP) — Mark Cavendish's key lead-out man, Mark Renshaw, has signed a two-year deal that will see him spearhead Rabobank's bid for sprint success, the Dutch outfit confirmed Thursday.

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

Pro saddle choices, worn-out wrenches and more

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Pro rider Nate Whitman gives us the daily update on the Leadville Trail 100 from the Herbalife24 Basecamp. Here the latest weather and trail conditions. Nate also breaks down the pro womens race and gives you the key riders to watch.

• 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.

OGDEN, Utah (VN) — With a brutal 50 miles to go and temperatures in the mid-90s, Jesse Anthony launched a solo attack trying to bridge a gap to a group of four leaders a few minutes up the road.

Interview with Todd Wells

Interview with Gretchen Reeves

New shoes, stems and handlebars from the component giant

Recovery tip from Todd Wells

He may not be a pro in the traditional sense of the word. But as one of North America's best known cycling coaches, it's certainly interesting to see what Chris Carmichael will saddle up come race day at the 2011 Leadville 100.

Gretchen Reeves Pro Tip Video

John Heiss, PhD and Herbalife24 Director of Sports and Nutrition, gives us tips on pre-race nutrition.

I was invited to former President George W. Bush's inaugural Warrior 100K Mountain Bike Ride, called the W100K, in April, along with 14 servicemen and women who were injured or lost limbs in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Whether your goal is outright victory, a sub-9-hour time, or simply to finish the race inside the 12-hour cutoff, there are definitive tactics for long-haul racing that can tip the scales of success in your favor.

PARIS (AFP) — Sprinter Jimmy Casper has joined AG2R-La Mondiale on a one-year deal with the option of a second, the French team announced in a statement on Wednesday.

Lennard gets more feedback on tubulars v. tubeless, plus answers questions on fork fatigue, inner-tube fatigue, pedal threads and more

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

ARDOOIE, Netherlands (AFP) — German sprint specialist André Greipel of Omeg-Pharma claimed his second successive stage victory on the Eneco Tour, finishing ahead of American Tyler Farrar (BMC) and Norway's Edvald Boasson Hagen (Sky) Wednesday.

PARK CITY, Utah (VN) — Utah has a nice history of producing top-level cyclists.

Former Danish road champion Alex Rasmussen is the latest HTC-Highroad rider to find a new home for 2012. The winner of the 2011 Philadelphia International Cycling Championship, and four-time track world champion, will join Garmin-Cervelo next year.

Pieter Weening is the latest rider confirmed for the Aussie-backed GreenEDGE program.

THE HAGUE (AFP) - Mark Cavendish's key lead-out man, Mark Renshaw, has agreed a deal that will see the Australian become the top sprinter at Dutch outfit Rabobank for the next two years, according to a report Wednesday.

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Racing in France and Holland dominate the action in Europe this week. The Eneco Tour, which began Monday with the prologue victory of Taylor Phinney (BMC), is the week's main event while the Tour de l'Ain will see the return to action of Tour de France phenomenon Pierre Rolland.

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Trail Watch Tue. Aug 9 - Leadville Trail 100

• 1. Sergio Luis Henao Montoya, Gobernacion De Antioquia-Indeportes Antio, in 4:05
• 2. Francisco Mancebo Perez, Realcyclist.com Cycling Team, in 4:07
• 3. Oscar Sevilla Ribera, Gobernacion De Antioquia-Indeportes Antio, in 4:10
• 4. Tejay Van Garderen, HTC-Highroad, in 4:10
• 5. Thomas Danielson, Team Garmin-Cervelo, in 4:12

So....I got a call from my fella, Tom, on Friday while I was driving to a race in Snowmass, Colorado.

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.

PARK CITY, Utah (VN) — When organizers released the list of teams participating in the 2011 Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah, there was a fair amount of grumbling that certain domestic teams were excluded in favor of lesser-known teams from Colombia. Those complaints can stop now.

Tips from Ken Chlouber

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Herbalife Leadville 100 - Weather and Trail Conditions for August 8th.

I first met Jeremy Powers in 2008, when he was living in a huge barn-looking house in Hadley, Massachusetts, with a wide assortment of cyclocross racers, amateur teammates of mine, and their significant others.

World champion Thor Hushovd, who will begin a three-year commitment with BMC Racing in January, told Norwegian TV 2 Sport that he was frustrated with Garmin-Cervélo’s approach to the classics in 2011. But it's worth noting that at BMC he'll join a star-packed team that may not always be aligned with his ambitions.

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.

Wherever Smith ends up on August 13th, she'll arrive there aboard a Breezer Cloud 9 29er, a bike she calls "absolutely perfect" for the fire-road heavy Leadville circuit.

The speculation is over. World road champion Thor Hushovd will join BMC Racing for three years beginning in 2012, the team announced Tuesday.

Stage 1

• 1. André Greipel, Omega Pharma-Lotto, in 4:21:20
• 2. Denis Galimzyanov, Katusha Team, at s.t.
• 3. Tyler Farrar, Team Garmin-Cervelo, at s.t.
• 4. Theo Bos, Rabobank Cycling Team, at s.t.
• 5. Tom Veelers, Skil-Shimano, at s.t.

GC

• 1. Taylor Phinney, Bmc Racing Team, in 4:28:17
• 2. Edvald Boasson Hagen, Sky Procycling, at 7
• 3. David Millar, Team Garmin-Cervelo, at 8
• 4. Alex Rasmussen, HTC-Highroad, at 9
• 5. Lars Boom, Rabobank Cycling Team, at 10

2011 Tour of Utah prologue starting times

SINT WILLEBRORD, Netherlands — André Greipel (Omega Pharma) won the first stage of the Eneco Tour Tuesday, as prologue winner Taylor Phinney (BMC) retained the leader's jersey.

On August 13, Jacques will be piloting a custom Eriksen 650b hardtail.

On August 13, Jacques will be piloting a custom Eriksen 650b hardtail.

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The Cuban Missile just couldn’t do it. Eight months after quietly retiring, Ivan Dominguez is back on the bike and aiming for the professional peloton in 2012.

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

SALT LAKE CITY (VN) — Over the years the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah has developed a well-earned reputation for difficulty and even proclaims itself “America’s Toughest Stage Race.”

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Rider discuss the appeal of the Leadville 100 MTB race