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Cycling News Highlights from August 4 - 9, 2011.

9 August, 2011

Tour of Utah raises competition level in USA

The Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah is one of three stage races to attract the sport's top teams in 2011, and together with the Amgen Tour of California and the USA Pro Cycling Challenge in Colorado it has brought about the "heyday" of cycling for the United States, according to USA Cycling CEO Sean Petty.

7 August, 2011

The 2012 Tour of Poland could be held during the Tour de France

The 2012 Tour of Poland could be held at the same time as the Tour de France in order to avoid the London Olympic Games, organiser Czeslaw Lang has told Cyclingnews.

“We’ve asked the UCI if it’s possible to move the dates,” he said. “Because of the TV coverage, it's impossible to have the race at the same time as the Olympics.”

6 August, 2011

Olympic test event: Cavendish, Goss and Farrar confirmed

Mark Cavendish, Matt Goss and Tyler Farrar will go head to head at next week’s Olympic test event. The London Organising Committee for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympics Games today released the provisional start list for the London Surrey Cycle Classic.

5 August, 2011

Tour of Beijing enters WorldTour

The UCI announced this week that its licensing commission has awarded the Tour of Beijing a WorldTour license for the next four years, but despite a requirement of the top ProTeams to compete in all WorldTour events, AIGCP president Jonathan Vaughters indicated that the top squads might not be present on the start line come October 5th.

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Cycling News Highlights from August 1 - 3, 2011.  

August 3, 2011

Rosseler to join Garmin-Cervélo

Belgian Sebastien Rosseler announced yesterday that he intends to sign with the Garmin-Cervélo team for the coming seasons. The 30-year-old from Borgloon, Belgium revealed the switch on his personal web site yesterday.Cyclingnews received confirmation of the potential acquisition, but according to Slipstream Sports CEO Jonathan Vaughters, Rosseler has yet to put a pen to the paperwork to finalize the deal.

Rosseler's announcement indicated that he is being brought in as a motor for the team's time trial squad with an aim toward the new team time trial world championship race which is being instituted in 2012.

August 2, 2011

Menchov aiming for third Vuelta victory

Dennis Menchov has passed very much under the radar this season. Affected by allergies and physical problems at the Giro d'Italia, the Russian rarely featured in that race’s key moments as he finished a slightly disappointing eighth overall. Sidelined from the Tour de France for the first time in a decade as a result of his Geox-TMC team’s failure to get an invite, he instead rode the Tour of Austria, finishing fifth overall. He now looks towards the Veulta Espana which starts in less than three weeks.

August 1, 2011

Skil-Shimano enjoys its first WorldTour victory

German neo-pro Marcel Kittel, the winner of the Tour of Poland's, made history for his Skil-Shimano team on Sunday in Warsaw. Kittel's victory was the team's first WorldTour success since the Dutch Pro Continental squad formed in 2005.

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Cycling News Highlights from July 25 - 31, 2011.  

25 July, 2011

Evans tops UCI WorldTour rankings.

Cadel Evans (BMC Racing Team) rode his Tour de France victory to the top of the International Cycling Union's WorldTour ranking. Leopard Trek, which saw brothers Andy and Fränk Schleck finish second and third in the race, moved up to first on the team ranking, while Spain maintained its lead amongst the nations.

28 July, 2011

Contador says Giro-Tour double is possible with a stronger team.

Alberto Contador believes it is possible to win both the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France in the same season, but has suggested he would need “a more powerful team” than he had around him this year. The Saxo Bank - Sungaurd team leader made his comments after being welcomed home to Pinto in Spain on Wednesday evening.

30 July, 2011

Roche ready to make amends for Tour de France.

Nicolas Roche (Ag2r-La Mondiale) lines up in the Clasica San Sebastian determined to kick-start his season in the wake of a disappointing Tour de France. A week after finishing 26th overall in Paris, Roche arrives at the race with the Vuelta a España already in mind.

31 July, 2011

Marc De Maar wears first ever Curaçao champion's jersey.

Yellow and blue, with stripes and stars, the Curaçao National Champion's jersey was worn for the first time by Marc De Maar on stage one of the Tour of Poland.

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Overall Winners & Jersey Holders of Tour de France, 2011.

Overall winners of Tour de France :

1^st – Evans Cadel – BMC Racing Team.

2^nd- Schleck Andy – Team Leopard Trek (Leo).

3^rd – Schleck Frank - Team Leopard Trek (Leo).

Overall Jersey Holder:

Yellow Jersey - Thomas Voeckler, Team Europcar.

Green Jersey – Mark Cavendish, HTC High board.

White & Red Jersey – Sanchez Samuel, Euskatel – Euskadi.

White Jersey – Rolland Pierre, Team Europcar.






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ID Sports goes to Tour de France 2011!

Dr. Akil Khan, CMD, ID Sports meets the retiring Director General- Pierre Jeanne Strevel, Union Cycliste Internationale, President- Patrick McQuaid, UCI and GCP Director Alian Rumpf to discuss the

next steps of Tour de India.

What's more? India has a close watch on Tour de France 2011 as we witness the race, first hand.

Catch this space to know more of ID Sports at the Tour de France 2011.

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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.

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Cycling News Highlights from July 14 - 15 , 2011.  

International

·        July 15, 2011

Garmin-Cervelo celebrate third Tour win in Tour de France 2011.

Team Garmin-Cervélo celebrated its third ever Tour de France stage win today in Lourdes. A week and a half after its team time trial win and win with Tyler Farrar, World Champion Thor Hushovd took number three in Lourdes.

·        July 15, 2011

      Danielson becomes Garmin's Tour de France leader

American Tom Danielson surprised many followers of the Tour de France by becoming Garmin-Cervélo's leader. He starts the stage to the holy city of Lourdes today ninth overall, one day after the race's first mountain stage.

·        July 14, 2011

       Geraint Thomas: "I had goosebumps on the Tourmalet

The toast of the Tour on today's twelfth stage was former British champion Geraint Thomas (Team Sky).
He made the day's main breakaway and led the Tour for most of the Col du Tourmalet, despite two crashes on the upper part of the Hourquette d'Ancizan descent 40 kilometres earlier. At one point, he was the virtual yellow jersey. 

·        July 14, 2011

       Box Hill declared limited access for Olympic RR

After missing out on the vast majority of track cycling tickets, prepare to be short-changed at the Olympic road race: you'll need to wear a wristband to get anywhere near the best bits.

The London-Surrey Cycle Classic (August 14), the test event for the 2012 Olympic road race, provides a taste of the restrictions imposed on would-be spectators on two key parts of the route.