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SNOWBIRD, Utah (VN) — After winning the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah as a solo rider last year, Levi Leipheimer brought his RadioShack teammates with him for 2012.
Edvald Boasson Hagen (Team Sky) won the final stage and the overall at the Eneco Tour on Sunday.
Great Britain's Mark Cavendish won the Olympic road race test event in London on Sunday.
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SALT LAKE CITY (VN) — By the end of the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah’s stage 4, the sweat – if there was any fluid left in the peloton – was dripping in buckets.
Flu knocks Jesse Anthony out of the Tour of Utah.
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LEON, Spain (VN) — Call it the "rebound and reload tour."
TOOELE, Utah (VN) — Before the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah even began, most observers were pointing to Sunday’s epic stage from Park City to Snowbird as the race that would decide it all.
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."
Caley Fretz rides Shimano's new electric group. Is it better than its big brother Dura-Ace Di2?
Two more big names are confirmed for the Vuelta a España with Michele Scarponi (Lampre-ISD) and Jurgen Van den Broeck.
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?
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
It has indeed been a busy year for Michael Rasmussen. Only nine months ago he still didn’t have a team to race for. Today he co-owns and heads a team that was put together at sprint speed just for him. This week his Christina Watches Onfone team raced the Tour of Denmark – the biggest race so far for the Continental squad — but the team's ambitions go much higher. The hope is to get a wild card for the Giro d’Italia already next year and, eventually, earn a place in the Tour de France.
Bobby Sweeting (Kenda-Geargrinder) and Leah Kirchmann (Colavita-Forno d'Asolo) win stage 2 of the sixth annual Alexian Brothers Tour of Elk Grove.
Simon Gerrans (Sky) won the Tour of Denmark on Sunday as Theo Bos (Rabobank) sprinted to victory in the final stage.
Peter Sagan (Liquigas-Cannondale) won the 68th Tour of Poland on Saturday after finishing second on the final stage.
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With the collapse of the HTC-Highroad team at the end of the 2011 season, all eyes are on where cycling's most productive sprinter will land next year.
Bob Stapleton, owner of HTC-Highroad, confirmed Thursday that he was unable to secure a satisfactory sponsorship partner to carry the team forward at the competitive and ethical level that he and his staff wanted.
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.
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It's transition time in Europe, with some races picking up leftovers form the Tour de France and others serving as platforms for the upcoming Vuelta a España.
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A crash late in Monday's second stage of the Tour of Poland knocked BMC's Alessandro Ballan out of the race and prevented teammate Alexander Kristoff from contesting the sprint finish.
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.
I write from Salt Lake City, Utah, a place I once tried to forget.
Philippe Gilbert (Omega Pharma-Lotto) wins the Clásica San Sebastián with a bold attack in the final kilometers.
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.
Editor's Note: Phil Gaimon, 25, is a Velo magazine columnist and third-year pro racer for Kenda-5 Hr Energy Presented by Gear Grinder. He has an English degree from the University of Florida, and owns online stores at podiumcycling.com and sharethedamnroad.com.
After a week in France, Velo editor in chief Ben Delaney wrote about his choice for the top-10 moments of the first week. Now with the great gift of hindsight, we'll pick the top 10 most impressive moments of weeks 2 and 3.
Eleven North Americans started the 2011 Tour de France and 10 of them made it to Paris — although one of them used a body double.
Sprint king Mark Cavendish (HTC-Highroad) became only the second Briton to step onto the Tour de France podium after securing the green jersey with his fifth stage win of this year's race on the final day.
1. Mark Cavendish, HTC-Highroad, 2h 27' 02" 2. Boasson Hagen Edvald, Sky Procycling, s.t. 3. André Greipel, Omega Pharma-Lotto, s.t. 4. Tyler Farrar, Team Garmin-Cervélo, s.t. 5. Fabian Cancellara, Team Leopard-Trek, s.t.
Cadel Evans (BMC Racing Team) became the first Australian to win the 2011 Tour de France on Sunday as Mark Cavendish (HTC-Highroad) took the final stage on the Champs-Élysées.
GRENOBLE, France (VN) — “There’s a car, a car … il y a une voiture!” You could hear the panic in the voice of a television technician who was being pinned back against the trunk of a race official’s red Skoda by a solid mass of media crews. The mob was moving en masse like a giant bubble around the rider wearing a yellow skinsuit, Andy Schleck, who’d just thrown every last ounce of energy into defending (unsuccessfully) his Tour de France lead against Cadel Evans.
Does anyone know the Heimlich maneuver?
The green jersey remains up for grabs; Edvald Boasson Hagen is "a beast"; and Jens Voigt's good for one more year ... at least.
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COL DU GALIBIER, France (VN) — Thursday’s gigantic stage 18 at the Tour de France was all about survival, whether that was simply to stay in the race and fight a more strategic battle to remain in the race for the yellow jersey.
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PUY SAINT PIERRE, France (VN) - As teams whose top-five GC hopes have faded often do, Garmin-Cervélo is chasing the teams classification at the Tour de France. But with four stage wins, a week in the maillot jaune and an American rookie fighting for the top-10, Garmin’s Tour has been their best ever and Tom Danielson leads the squad in a run at the final podium in the final three days of the race.
COL du GALIBIER, France (AFP) - British sprint king Mark Cavendish survived being eliminated from the Tour de France after the epic 18th stage to the Col du Galibier Thursday.
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Andy Schleck rode the stage of his life on Thursday, with a dramatic 60km-plus solo breakaway that put the Leopard-Trek rider into position to win the 2011 Tour de France.
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GAP, France (VN) — Jonathan Vaughters (Garmin-Cervelo) says he's encouraged by signs that this Tour de France is a cleaner race.
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SAINT-PAUL-TROIS-CHATEAUX, France (VN) — Mark Cavendish's fourth stage win Sunday didn't sit well with some of the other top sprinters who couldn't hold back their frustration that perhaps Cavendish made it through Saturday's brutal climbing stage up Plateau de Beille with something more than his own two legs.
SAINTE CÉCILE LES VIGNES, France (VN) - Four days in the mountains and a Belgian classics rider lie in the way of Mark Cavendish and his green jersey dreams. As the Tour de France heads for its final week in the Alps, Cavendish (HTC-Highroad) is closer now than ever to taking the maillot vert home, but he’ll have to outdo two rivals and 12 categorized climbs to stand on the podium in Paris in green.
A cold hard rain is forecast for Tuesday's stage 16. John Wilcockson takes a look at how such conditions have turned previous Tours upside down.
Excerpted with permission from: The Tour Is Won on the Alpe by Jean-Paul Vespini, translated by David V. Herlihy
if other teams don't want to ride for a sprint, what's the point of bringing a sprinter here?” asks Mark Cavendish. "If I was in a team that didn't want to ride for a sprint, it would be a bit of a knock to my ego. A sprinter is a bit of an egotistical person, you know."
No French rider has won the Tour de France since Bernard Hinault in 1985. A French rider hasn't reached the final podium since Richard Virenque in 1997. That's a long time to wait and French fans and media are fanning the fires of Voeckler fever.
Mark Cavendish delivers once more after Philippe Gilbert tries to steal a march on the sprinters in the final kilometers.
Tyler Farrar is riding pressure-free going into the third week of the Tour de France.