stage5

Results from stage 5 of the Tour de France, a 155.5km stage from a 155.5km Ypres to Arenberg, Belgium

Graham Watson captures the finale to the 2012 Tour of Beijing

Martin took a huge lead on stage 2 and never relinquished it

“The Denver time trial has been my carrot that I’ve been chasing this whole week,” Phinney said

You can't race if you don't recover, and the smart riders were resting en route to Colorado Springs

Garmin adds another prize to its palmares in stage 5

"You know, it’s a tough day for cycling but we’re going to carry on from here," says Armstrong's longtime friend

Jens Voigt sees an ending: "Now we draw a line — that is the past and we just let it rest in peace now"

A solo break by Javier Chacon enlivens an otherwise tedious stage

An irate Tyler Farrar goes hunting for Argos-Shimano sprinter Tom Veelers after stage 5

Editor's Note: Throughout the 2011 USA Pro Cycling Challenge, VeloNews.com will be publishing and analyzing SRM power data from UnitedHealthcare’s general classification star Rory Sutherland, who was seventh at the AMGEN Tour of California earlier this year. TrainingPeaks is providing the race data to us, as well as making Sutherland’s interactive race file available to the public.

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Andy Schleck 'sad to lose the race in the final 300 meters'

Leipheimer's 'another day closer to Denver'

1. Elia VIVIANI, Liquigas-Cannondale, in 4:04:31 2. Jaime CASTANEDA, UNE-EPM, at s.t. 3. Daniel OSS, Liquigas-Cannondale, at s.t. 4. Dennis VAN WINDEN, Rabobank Cycling Team, at s.t. 5. Jeffry LOUDER, BMC Racing Team, at s.t.

Liquigas-Cannondale's Elia Viviani did it again on Saturday, winning stage 5 of the USA Pro Cycling Challenge in Breckenridge, Colorado.

VALDEPENAS, Spain (VN) - Kanstantsin Sivtsov says he secured his future long before the collapse of the HTC-Highroad team, which will shutter its doors at the end of the 2011 season.

• 1. Joaquin RODRIGUEZ OLIVER, (ESP) Team Katusha, in 4:42:54
• 2. Wouter POELS, (NED) Vacansoleil-Dcm, at 4
• 3. Daniel MORENO FERNANDEZ, (ESP) Team Katusha, at 5
• 4. Bauke MOLLEMA, (NED) Rabobank Cycling Team, at 7
• 5. Michele SCARPONI, (ITA) Lampre-Isd, at 8

VALDEPENAS DE JAEN, Spain (AFP) - Spaniard Joaquim Rodriguez won the mountainous fifth stage of the Tour of Spain on Wednesday, a 187km ride from the ski resort of Sierra Nevada.

Earlier this year VeloNews tech editor Nick Legan rode with the Rapha Continental team to scout the stages of the 2011 USA Pro Cycling Challenge in Colorado. VeloNews and Rapha partnered to produce videos about the stages. Today we are sharing the fourth video from the ride, focusing on stage 5, from Steamboat Springs to Breckenridge (see map below the video). Watch for the rest of the videos to be posted over the next week and a half.

Dan Wuori is one of the funniest Twitter bards in the cycling world (follow him at @dwuori). This month, he will be expanding a bit beyond 140 characters to share periodic journals during the Tour de France. Today's is the sixth.

CAP FREHEL, France (VN) - The official medical communique of Wednesday's sixth stage at the Tour de France only lists eight names, but the pain and suffering went much deeper than that.

Nick Legan rides Cervelo's new S5 (the same model Mr. Hushovd is using). Plus a look at Hushovd's personal bike.

Training to peak for a key event may be more art than science, but Chris Horner is two-for-two this season.

Cavendish's leadout man talks about the dangerous Tour and Cav's first win of this Tour

Delaney and Hood on the pushing and shoving - before, during and after stage 5

CAP FREHEL, France (VN) —With 800m to go in Wednesday's crash-filled fifth stage, Rolf Aldag thought that HTC-Highroad had blown another chance at victory.

CAP FREHEL, France (AFP) - Australian Robbie McEwen said he is concerned about what he feels is a recent trend to reduce victory opportunities to sprinters on the world's biggest cycling races.

• 1. Mark Cavendish, Htc - Highroad, in 3h 38' 32"
• 2. Philippe Gilbert, Omega Pharma - Lotto, at s.t
• 3. Joaquin Rojas Jose, Movistar Team, at s.t.
• 4. Tony Gallopin, Cofidis Le Credit En Ligne, at s.t.
• 5. Geraint Thomas, Sky Procycling, at s.t.

Mark Cavendish won Wednesday’s stage 5 of the 2011 Tour de France, a 164.5-kilometer race from Carhaix to Cap Fréhel.

Breakfast with Bernie: Stage 5 of the Tour de France

CAP FREHEL, France (AFP) - Reigning champion Alberto Contador and fellow yellow jersey contenders Bradley Wiggins and Robert Gesink survived crashes to continue the fifth stage of the Tour de France on Wednesday.

July 6 Stage 5: Carhaix to Cap de Fréhel, 164.5km (102 miles)