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Cycling News Highlights from July 18 -19 , 2011.  

July 19, 2011

Uran's all white for Tour de France:

Rigoberto Uran (Sky) came into the Tour de France as one of Bradley Wiggins' mountain domestiques but after the British rider crashed the Colombian has become the team’s leader, and with six stages left looks a strong candidate for the white jersey.

July 19, 2011

UCI involves ASO for the Tour of Beijing:

The inaugural Tour of Beijing, part of the UCI WorldTour, is co-organised by a local committee and Global Cycling Promotion, the company created by the UCI in 2009 to develop race organisations. Its director Alain Rumpf, the former manager of the ProTour, announced in Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux that Alan Rushton, the former organiser of the defunct Tour of Ireland and World Cup races in England, has been appointed to run the technical and logistic department of the event, while Australian company Jump Media of David Culbert will be in charge of the media department.

July 18,2011

Elliott impresses at US mountain bike nationals:

Tad Elliott impressed with a near podium finish in the elite men's cross country at the US Mountain Bike National Championships in Sun Valley, Idaho, on Saturday. No longer an under 23 racer globetrotting to do events as part of the development team, Elliott hasn't been seen at many national-level races this year, so his sixth place finish was a surprise to some and even himself.