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Skil-Shimano's Marcel Kittel’s bronze medal at last year’s U23 world championship time trial marked him as a big talent against the watch, but he showed his sprinting skills in taking the third stage of the Tour de Langkawi.

Stage:

• 1. Marcel KITTEL, (GER) Skil-Shimano, in 3:14:18
• 2. Anuar MANAN, (MAS), at s.t.
• 3. Andrea GUARDINI, (ITA), at s.t.
• 4. André SCHULZE, (GER) CCC Polsat Polkowice, at s.t.
• 5. Boris SHPILEVSKY, (RUS) Petrochemical Tabriz Cycling Team, at s.t.

• 1. Andrea GUARDINI, (ITA), in 8:43:44
• 2. Anuar MANAN, (MAS), at 7
• 3. Marcel KITTEL, (GER) Skil-Shimano, at 18
• 4. Deon LOCKE, (AUS), at 20
• 5. Hamid SHIRISISAN, (IRI), at 21

The Czech Republic's world cyclocross champion, Zdenek Stybar, will join the Quick Step road team March 1 and may make his road debut with the team at the Tour of California or the Tour of Belgium, the team announced Tuesday

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Forget carbon molds, how about a little soul? Making of a Soulcraft

Tour de France winner Alberto Contador will reportedly face a one-year suspension as a result of his positive doping test at last year's event, Spanish newspapers said Tuesday.

Chainring flex, mid-foot cleats, bottom bracket drilling and more

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Men:

• 1. Niels Albert, Bkcp - Powerplus, with570 points
• 2. Kevin Pauwels, Telenet - Fidea, with499 points
• 3. Sven Nys, Landbouwkrediet, with484 points
• 4. Bart Aernouts, Rabobank-Giant Offroad Team, with392 points
• 5. Francis Mourey, Fdj, with369 points

• 1. Sanne Van Paassen, with 310 points
• 2. Katherine Compton, with 300 points
• 3. Marianne Vos, Nederland Bloeit, with205 points
• 4. Sanne Cant, with 203 points
• 5. Hanka Kupfernagel, with 198 points

• 1. Cameron Meyer, Team Garmin-Cervelo, with 106 points
• 2. Harley Goss Matthew, HTC-HighRoad, with 93 points
• 3. Ben Swift, Sky Procycling, with 82 points
• 4. Michael Matthews, Rabobank Cycling Team, with 70 points
• 5. Laurens Ten Dam, Rabobank Cycling Team, with 52 points

Organizers of the Nature Valley Grand Prix have announced the establishment of the "Carla Swart Sportsmanship Award" as a memorial to the racer, who was killed after being hit by a truck in South Africa last week.

Movistar's Vendoso scores the first big win on Campy's electric shifters

USA Cycling will announce Monday a new team designation, “Domestic Elite,” which national events director Micah Rice hoped would bring improved organization to elite teams in the men’s and women’s pelotons. The new category is effective immediately and will affect National Racing Calendar points standings and criteriums on the circuit.

You’ve probably never heard of Robbert De Kock or the World Federation for the Sporting Goods Industry, but pay attention. As the secretary general of the WFSGI, De Kock may be the man to unite the cycling industry and give it real power in its dealings with the UCI.

The UCI rocked the cycling industry in December when it announced that a new bicycle approval process would be implemented on January 1, 2011. The UCI later delayed the program by a month.

Alberto Contador rejoins his Saxo Bank-Sungard teammates this week with a training camp on Mallorca as he waits to hear word on his ongoing doping case.

Johan Bruyneel says there’s “nothing new” to the latest round of doping allegations leveled at Lance Armstrong, who raced his final international cycling event with Sunday’s conclusion at the Tour Down Under.

Hell yeah them boys are doped!

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130 riders from 18 countries will take on six days and 450km in South America

• 1. Andrea Guardini, (ITA) Farnese Vini - Neri Sotttoli, in 3:26:26
• 2. Boris Shpilevsky, (RUS) Tabriz Petrochemical Team, s.t.
• 3. Anuar Manan, (MAS) Terengganu Proasia Cycling, s.t.
• 4. Vidal Celis Zabala, (ESP) Le Tua Cycling Team, s.t.
• 5. Marcel Kittel, (GER) Skil Shimano Cycling Team, s.t.

Italian rider Andrea Guardini showed that his Stage 1 victory was well deserved when he took another impressive sprint victory in the Tour de Langkawi.

Garmin's Matt White has been fired for violating a team rule concerning riders and outside medical care.

Dan Seaton shoots the finale to the men's cyclocross World Cup in the Netherlands.

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Dan Seaton shoots the finale to the women's cyclocross World Cup in the Netherlands.

Marco Arriagada (Chile) secured the overall title at the Tour de San Luís after finishing safely in the bunch in Sunday’s seventh and final stage.

Stage 6:

• 1. Hector AGUILAR FIGUEIRAS, (URU), in 3:45:55
• 2. Marcos CRESPO, (ARG), at s.t.
• 3. Mauro Abel RICHEZE, (ARG), at s.t.
• 4. Bernardo RICCIO, (ITA), at s.t.
• 5. Roberto FERRARI, (ITA) Androni Giocattoli-Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni, at s.t.

• 1. Marco ARRIAGADA, (CHI), at 25:51:54
• 2. Jose Rodolfo SERPA PEREZ, (COL) Androni Giocattoli-Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni, at 38
• 3. Enzo MOYANO, (ARG), at 1:49
• 4. Eros CAPECCHI, (ITA) Liquigas-Doimo, at 1:50
• 5. Miguel Angel RUBIANO CHAVEZ, (COL), at 2:42

• 1. Niels Albert (BEL), BKCP-Powerplus, at 1:04:21
• 2. Kevin Pauwels (BEL), Telenet-Fidea, at 0:06
• 3. Sven Nys (BEL), Landbouwkrediet, at 0:32
• 4. Zdenek Stybar (CZE), Telenet-Fidea, at 0:37
• 5. Klaas Vantornout (BEL), Sunweb-Revor, at 0:38

Katie Compton wins the finale as Sanne Van Paassen claims the 2010-11 World Cup.

• 1. Katherine Compton (USA), 40:59
• 2. Hanka Kupfernagel (Ger), 41:17
• 3. Marianne Vos (Ned), 41:30
• 4. Sanne Van Paassen (Ned), 41:50
• 5. Katerina Nash (Cze), 42:00

• 1. Andrea Guardini, (ITA) Farnese Vini - Neri Sotttoli, s.t.
• 2. Sungbaek Park, (KOR) Korea National, s.t.
• 3. Harrif Salleh Mohd, (MAS) Terengganu Proasia, s.t.
• 4. Luca Barla, (ITA) Androni Giocattoli, s.t.
• 5. Kenny Van Hummel, (NED) Skil Shimano, s.t.

Niels Albert wins the finale in Hoogerheide and clinches the World Cup title.

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Stage 6:

• 1. Ben Swift, Sky, in 1:53:47
• 2. Greg Henderson, Sky, s.t.
• 3. Matthew Goss, HTC-HighRoad, s.t.
• 4. Robbie McEwen, RadioShack, s.t.
• 5. Juan Jose Haedo, Saxo Bank Sungard, s.t.

• 1. Cameron Meyer, Garmin-Cervelo, in 17:54:27
• 2. Matthew Goss, HTC-HighRoad, at 0:02
• 3. Ben Swift, Sky, at 0:08
• 4. Michael Matthews, Rabobank, at 0:09
• 5. Laurens ten Dam, Rabobank, at 0:10

Equaling the closest-winning margin 10 years ago, Cameron Meyer and his Garmin-Cervélo team held off all and sundry in Sunday’s final stage to win the 2011 Santos Tour Down Under.

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Garmin-Cervélo team manager Matthew White says the 2011 Santos Tour Down Under has come down to one of two men: his charge and current leader, Cameron Meyer, or Matthew Goss of HTC-HighRoad,

VeloNews editor in chief Ben Delaney takes a look at HTC-HighRoad's time trial bike.

• 1. Rob Peeters (Bel), 58:50
• 2. Zdenek Stybar (Cze), 58:57
• 3. Sven Nys (Bel), 59:01
• 4. Klaas Vantornout (Bel), 59:23
• 5. Jonathan Page (USA), 59:29

American Jonathan Page finishes fifth as Rob Peeters wins the Kasteelcross Zonnebeke.

• 1. Francisco Ventoso, Movistar, in 3:06:10
• 2. Michael Matthews, Rabobank, s.t.
• 3. Matthew Goss, HTC-HighRoad, s.t.
• 4. Jose Joaquin Rojas, Movistar, s.t.
• 5. Luke Roberts, UniSA-Australia, s.t.

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If history is any indication, Garmin-Cervélo’s Cameron Meyer will win the Santos Tour Down Under this Sunday in Adelaide.

• 1. Leandro MESSINEO, (ARG), in 4:04:44
• 2. Cristiano SALERNO, (ITA) Liquigas-Doimo, at 22
• 3. Adrian PALOMARES VILLAPLANA, (ESP), at 35
• 4. Alexander WETTERHALL, (SWE) Endura Racing, at 41
• 5. Marco ARRIAGADA, (CHI), at 57

Ryan Trebon (Kona-FSA) has withdrawn his name from the U.S. elite men’s team for the cyclocross world championships. Trebon fell ill during a recent trip to California for training and informed USAC cyclocross program manager Marc Gullickson on Thursday that he would not join the team in St. Wendel, Germany, next week. Trebon’s absence means that just four Americans will line up for the elite men’s race January 30.

The Tour’s loss could be the Giro’s gain. Denis Menchov — just a day after he found his Geox-TMC team was not invited to participate in the 2011 Tour de France – has confirmed he will “race the Giro to win.”

Garmin-Cervélo's Cameron Meyer gave his team reason to smile at the Tour Down Under when he took the race leader's ochre jersey after a well-deserved stage win Friday.

Scott Zwizanski is one of the new faces pulling on the UnitedHealthcare skinsuit after the team expanded to join the Pro Continental ranks in 2011. After just one hour in the saddle of his new prototype Boardman time trial bike, the 2010 runner-up to David Zabriskie at the U.S. national time trial championship proved his place amongst his new teammates Thursday with a podium ride against the clock at the Tour de San Luis.

A change in political winds in Washington, D.C., could sink plans to bring the Giro d’Italia to North America.

Brent Bookwalter (BMC Racing) kicked his grand tour career off with a narrow miss in the prologue of the 2010 Giro d’Italia. Bookwalter followed his second-place breakthrough up with solid rides through the Giro and Tour de France and told VeloNews Thursday about the toll — and benefits — he saw from those efforts.

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Anthony Tan touches bases with all the players to look at how Saxo Bank is surviving a mass exodus and uncertainty about its star recruit, Alberto Contador

Sympathy for the devil? Patrick O'Grady muses on Floyd Landis' past and future.

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Andy Schleck says he doesn’t want to win the Tour de France by default if Alberto Contador is disqualified from the 2010 edition. He wants to beat him straight up on the roads of France.

Doctors have successfully removed a metal plate and six screws from Frank Schleck’s collarbone in the last step of recovery from his crash in last year’s Tour de France.

• 1. Cameron Meyer, Garmin-Cervélo, in 2:57:55
• 2. Thomas De Gendt, Vacansoleil-Dcm, s.t.
• 3. Laurens ten Dam, Rabobank, at 0:03
• 4. Matthew Wilson, Garmin-Cervélo, at 0:10
• 5. Matthew Goss, HTC-Highroad, at 0:24

McCaul, Sorge and Lenosky are all veterans

Not UCI compliant, and the better for it

Saxo Bank team manager Brad McGee called for patience from Richie Porte Thursday after a failed attack late on the Tour Down Under's third stage scuppered his protege's chance.

• 1. Xavier TONDO VOLPINI, (ESP), in 23:23
• 2. Jorge GIACINTI, (ARG), at 8
• 3. Scott ZWIZANSKI, (USA) UnitedHealthcare, at 15
• 4. Juan Esteban ARANGO CARVAJAL, (COL) Colavita / Sutter Home Presented by Cooking Light, at 23
• 5. Marco ARRIAGADA, (CHI), at 25

Xavier Tondo pulled the double Thursday, winning the 19.5km individual time trial and claiming the overall leader’s jersey at the Tour de San Luís in Argentina. U.S. time trial specialist Scott Zwizanski (UnitedHealthcare) is third in the stage.

Cavendish and others are using the new Shimano Di2 shift option at the Tour Down Under