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Marc Sergeant declared Cadel Evans' World Championship victory in Mendrisio on Sunday the ideal remedy for one of the most difficult seasons of the Australian's nine-year career.

Fans who have followed the Vuelta a Espana for the past three weeks must have been wondering why so many riders were dropping out.

In what's no surprise, the Italian and Spanish teams are leading the odds to win Sunday's elite men's world title.

Alberto Contador, the two-time Tour de France winner, could quit his Astana team and join Quick Step, according to the Belgian team's manager.

Philippe Gilbert of Silence-Lotto is back at home in Monaco this week before he heads to the World Championships in Mendrisio, Switzerland, on Thursday.

Photograph: Tim Ireland/PA "I'm afraid I've got to go," Sir Paul Smith said, turning regretfully away from the Rapha-Condor team bus, parked just off Whitehall.

Carlo Bomans, the Belgian National Coach, has finished off his selection for Mendrisio by adding Bert De Waele as the 9th rider for the squad...The boys in light blue will have mostly Silencers and Quick Steppers on the squad with a couple of others in for good measure...Notable riders left off include Stijn Devolder , Johan VanSummeren, Serge ...

Vuelta 2009 - Stage 16: Greipel makes it three and takes back the points jersey for real.

Big German sprinter Andre Greipel moved back into the green jersey after securing a hat-trick of wins in the Vuelta .

AFP/BELGA/File Philippe Gilbert, seen here in June 2009, will lead the Belgian cycling team at the upcoming world road Mon Sep 14, 2:37 pm ET BRUSSELS Philippe Gilbert will lead the Belgian cycling team at the upcoming world road race championships it was announced by coach Carlo Bomans on Monday.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. -- Italian Francesco Chicchi has won the sixth stage of the Tour of Missouri.

Start List: Teams, Riders and race numbers The Univest Grand Prix, the finale of the USA Cycling Pro Tour, expands for 2009 with the addition of a team time trial stage in Allentown, Pennsylvania on Friday, September 11.

Cancellara, a Saxo Bank rider, won the 18.6-mile seventh stage through the streets of Valencia in 36 minutes, 41 seconds -- 32 seconds faster than British rider David Millar .

AndrA© Greipel doesn't think there should be an asterisk next to his victory in Tuesday's stage at the crash-marred finale at the Vuelta a EspaA a. Greipel was only one of six riders to make it past a horrible accident that wiped out nearly all of the major sprinters, including Tyler Farrar and Tom Boonen .

Slovenian rider Borut Bozic won the sixth stage of the Spanish Vuelta on Friday, and Andre Greipel kept his overall lead by finishing 10th.

Team Columbia-HTC rider Andre Greipel of Germany wins the fifth stage of the Spanish Vuelta in Vinaros on Thursday.

Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland won a rainy individual time trial to retake the overall lead at the Spanish Vuelta.

Greipel overtook Tom Boonen of Belgium in the final few yards to capture 108-mile fifth stage in 4 hours, 27 minutes, 54 seconds.

For tow-truck operator Ray Caveness, pulling the wreckage from a fatal semitrailer accident out of the Columbia River below the Bebee Bridge wasn't that hard.

German Andre Greipel of Columbia HTC won the fifth stage of the Vuelta a Espana in Vinaros to take the overall lead.

German Andre Greipel of Team Columbia headed a four-man sprint to win the treacherous 225km fourth stage of the Tour of Spain from Venlo in the Netherlands to the Belgian city of Liege on Tuesday.

Andre Greipel took advantage of a huge pile-up not far from the finishing line to win the fourth stage of the Vuelta a Espana here yesterday.

Switzerland's Fabian Cancellara claimed the Vuelta Espana golden jersey on Saturday with victory in the opening time-trial in the Dutch city of Assen.