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Jose Hermida (Multivan Merida) has decided not to attend the European Cross Country Championships taking place next week from June 7-10 in Moscow, Russia.

The Spaniard has won the elite European cross country title three times. Although he’s always been motivated to do the European championships, he is sitting out this year’s race.

“Sunday June the 10th was a date I had marked in my calendar. This season I’m having some problems that will not let me perform at my level,” said Hermida. “There are no bad results, but I’m not feeling like I should.”
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The 2010 world champion is hoping to regain his top form in time for the 2012 Olympic Games in London and as such is cancelling his plans to race the European championships so he can take a break.

“This will be my fourth Olympics and the race is my main goal of the year. That is why I want to get there as fresh as possible. I’ve focused on that date for months and the abnormal performance of the start of the season has led me to reschedule the next few weeks.

“After deep discussion with my coach and my confidence doctors, we decided that this break until the next World Cup will be a way to start again, albeit from an already high level. This reset will be both physically and mentally positive. I am sure my colleagues in the Spanish team will do a good job in Moscow,” said Hermida.

After making headlines at the beginning of the Giro d’Italia for his prologue victory and his finishing straight crash in Horsens, Taylor Phinney (BMC) reached Milan looking to bookend his race with a strong showing in the concluding time trial.

Phinney knew that a solid performance in the test would buttress his chances of getting the nod to represent the United States in the individual time trial at the London 2012 Olympics, even if he acknowledged that it would be difficult to leapfrog David Zabriskie (Garmin-Barracuda) and Levi Leipheimer (Omega Pharma-QuickStep).
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“The Milan time trial was really an important target of mine for the last couple of weeks, it was sort of the carrot I was chasing,” Phinney told Cyclingnews. “For myself to qualify as an Olympic spot, I needed to have a good result in that time trial. It wasn’t an automatic qualifier but it would have been a good way to show my abilities because you’ve got Dave Zabriskie winning races and Levi Leipheimer who’s always good.”

To Phinney’s dismay, however, his progress was stalled when his lead motorbike veered off course, and the American brought the curtain down on his Giro in 16th place in the time trial, 1:31 down on his BMC teammate Marco Pinotti.

“I wanted to have a good race in Milan but unfortunately I had a lead moto that kind of took me off course at a certain time,” Phinney said. “One could argue that we need to know the race course but after 21 days when you can only see it once and it’s a 30k course that has at least 30 turns in it, it’s a lot to ask.”

Joaquim Rodriguez (Katusha) was feted in his hometown of Parets de Valles on Tuesday evening following his second-placed finish at the Giro d’Italia, and the Catalan rider was stoical as he pondered his narrow defeat to Ryder Hesjedal (Garmin-Barracuda).

Rodriguez carried the pink jersey into the final day of racing and put up fierce resistance in the concluding time trial in Milan, ultimately missing out on the top step of the podium by just 16 scant seconds. Such a slender margin naturally leads one to wonder where Rodriguez might have recouped the necessary seconds over the course of the three weeks.

“Once you cross the finish line, you can’t look back,” Rodriguez insisted, according to EFE. “16 seconds is nothing and at the same time, it’s everything. Perhaps I made an error at Pampeago in leaving the responsibility to [Ivan] Basso and not going with Ryder.”

Rodriguez has opted to forgo the Critérium du Dauphiné and his next major goal is the Vuelta a España, which gets underway on August 18. On a course replete with short, sharp summit finishes, Rodriguez is expected to be the principal challenger to Alberto Contador, who returns from suspension just ahead of the race.
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“Alberto will be the clear favourite and it will be very difficult to beat him because he is very complete,” he said. “There are a lot of riders for the GC and Alberto will have a lot of responsibility.”

Rodriguez also ruled out the possibility of lining up at the Olympic Games road race in London, although he should be among the riders vying for leadership of the Spanish team at the world championships in Valkenburg, along with Contador, Alejandro Valverde and Samuel Sanchez.

“Every rider would like to compete [in the Olympics], but it’s such a flat course that it’s not suited to me,” he said. “Spain will only have five riders and it’s best to have a good team there to try and win the Olympics again.”

The 15th edition of the Craft Bike TransAlp is drawing several international top teams including Team Bulls, Topeak Ergon Racing, Multivan Merida and Stoeckli Pro Team. Reigning champions Urs Huber and Konny Looser will return to defend their title at the mountain bike stage race, which will start on July 14 and run through July 21.

In 2011, the two Swiss mountain bike pros surprised all by winning not only four out of eight stages at their first shared TransAlp participation but also the whole race with a lead of some nine minutes after 670 kilometers and more than 21,000 meters in elevation gain.

“We want to repeat the win,” said 26-year-old marathon specialist Huber, who is the current Swiss marathon champion.

“That’s the goal for sure. Everything else would be a disappointing result,” said European U23 marathon champion Looser, 23.

They realize it will be difficult to meet those expectations.

“There were many riders who didn’t expect that I – being pretty young – could persevere with the high pace over the whole distance and eight days,” said Looser. “I guess we proved them wrong. But due to this, no one will allow us to pull away this time.”
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To be the number one again will require proper training. Although both note that they are full on target, Huber lost some vital training time at the end of April and the beginning of May due to a flu.

“It’s been important that I had enough time to recover, which I actually did.”

Looser admits that he is a little bit out of shape right now. “I’m still waiting for my peak form. Although it’s getting better and better, it seems that I can’t put it all together in the races.”

Still, both have enough time to gain the necessary stamina and fitness which will be important for being able to win the TransAlp again; all the more so as the battle for the crown is estimated to be a tough and close one this year.

“Team balance is all that matters,” said Huber. “We definitely benefited from being equivalent. In every other team there was at least one team member who faltered at least once. But although I reckon that the most top teams won’t show any weakness this time, we will be hard to beat this year again.”

Cyclingnews caught up with British rider Geraint Thomas shortly after he finished his time trial in the final stage of the 2012 Giro d’Italia on Sunday afternoon, and the Team Sky rider reflected on his performance overall and his progress throughout the season.
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Thomas has been splitting his time between road and track this year as he prepares for the London 2012 Olympics and has had an extremely busy couple of months. He reveals that he is looking forward to going home and having two weeks off before the final six-week puish towards the Games.

Thomas was in first place at the time of the interview. In the end his time was bettered by BMC’s Marco Pinotti but the Briton finished second on the stage. He also praised the work of his teammates in leading out red jersey runner-up Mark Cavendish and their efforts in helping Sergio Henao and Rigoberto Uran into the top ten in the overall GC. Canada’s Ryder Hesjedal (Garmin-Barracuda) was the overall winner of the race.

Dutch team Vacansoleil-DCM are coming off the best weekend of road racing in their history after Thomas De Gendt won stage 20 of the 2012 Giro d’Italia at the top of the Stelvio on Saturday and then produced a good display in the following day’s time trial to clinch third spot in the overall GC ahead of last year’s winner Michele Scarponi (Lampre-ISD).

General manager Daan Luijkx is still coming to terms with the excitement of it all and what it means to to the team, who were founded in 2008 and only became a WorldTour team in 2011. De Gendt had already proven his form this season with a stage win at Paris-Nice earlier in the spring, but his efforts here far outweigh anything achieved by a rider in team colours to date.

“When Thomas was four kilometers below the summit [on stage 20], I had boarded the plane [to Italy],” Luijkx told De Telegraaf. “The purser had to come and tell me that he had won the stage.
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“It was the most beautiful thing. And in Italy it was obviously important that we were on our Bianchi bikes with a sticker that referred to the performance of their hero Fausto Coppi, who won the Giro and Tour using the same brand.

“Beforehand [ahead of the final stage time trial] we were more than satisfied that the fourth place was good. Thomas had Scarponi ahead of him on the podium, for whom it was death or the glory. And the day before the leaders had not to kicked a lot.

“But I want to stress that the success is not just down to Thomas. Three-and-a-half years ago there was nothing, just some promising riders plus some older ones because we had no history. Now we have. The whole staff deserve a big compliment.”

Team Exergy’s Freddie Rodriguez, a three-time winner of the US Pro Road Racing Championship, has high hopes for a good result heading into this year’s 185km race in Greenville, South Carolina, on Monday.

The 38-year-old, who retired from racing in 2009 after 12 years of competing in the US and in Europe, signed with Team Exergy in 2011 and has had his best season in years so far. He was the top American in the bunch sprint ending stage 1 of the Tour of California with a third-place finish, and he followed it with a respectable 29th-place result on the difficult Mt. Baldy stage as the first pure sprinter to make it up the climb.

“I’m going into (nationals) with a very positive attitude coming out of the Tour of California, which was very good for me because the harder the racing is the better,” Rodriguez told Cyclingnews Saturday evening. “The competition is going to be hard. There are a lot of guys who want the jersey, but I’m not nervous about it. I’ve won three of them already, so I have a good feeling.”

Although all of his US Pro wins came on the former course in Philadelphia, Rodriguez said he has raced the Greenville course “three or four” times and knows how the tactics in South Carolina generally evolve.

“It’s a course that I know well, and I think I understand it,” he said. “Looking back at it, I’ve always liked Philly better, but I think I understand how this race plays out and what needs to be done to be up there. The Greenville course, basically it’s all about getting over that last climb with the front group, and then it’s a little bit up in the air because there are so many attacks and it’s a little bit undulating up and down. Moves go away that sometimes don’t look threatening because the contenders aren’t up there.”

Exergy team manager Remi McManus said the squad is fully behind Rodriguez’s nationals bid, and he predicts the elder statesman of his team will have the best chance of any rider in Greenville to walk away with another stars-and-stripes jersey.
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“His form coming in is just stupendous,” McManus said. “A couple of months ago he broke his ribs, and I thought, this is going to be hard to get ready for Tour of California. But maybe it was a blessing in disguise. He had the chance to go to altitude, prepare and train for California. He got a good test in the Tour of the Gila and then came to California ready to rock and roll.”

If Rodriguez keeps his current form going and indeed manages to “rock and roll” a top result at nationals, he and his team hope it will springboard him onto the US Olympic road race team heading for London at the end of July.

“I think it’s apparent that Freddie is one of the best, if not the best lead out men for a guy like Tyler (Farrar) in the United States,” McManus said. “He also has the ability to finish himself. So whether or not the United States decides they’re going to take the superstars or they’re going to take a team that wants to win the Olympics, that’s up to them. But as far as we’re concerned, Freddie’s the best lead out guy for the US.”

Taylor Phinney (BMC) made it through to finish his maiden Giro d’Italia, finishing 16th in the final time trial in Milan. The American would have finished higher on the stage, but was led off course by a race motor bike.
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Still Phinney was more than content with his performance over the last three weeks. After having won the opening time trial in Denmark, he defended the jersey until the team time trial. The next phase of the race was about supporting his team and surviving all the way to Milan.

In this exclusive video for Cyclingnews Phinney talks about his Giro experience, his weight loss throughout the last three weeks and how he feels after completing his first grand tour.

Swiss Cycling has selected the three male and two female mountain bikers who will comprise the Swiss National Team headed to the 2012 Olympic Games in London in August.

Florian Vogel and Ralph Näf joined the already selected Nino Schurter on the men’s team while Katrin Leumann and Esther Süss will make up the women’s team.

Based on his past performances, Schurter was selected in September 2011. He won a bronze medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and finished second at the 2011 world championships in Champery.

In addition to Vogel, 30, and Näf, 32, three other men had met the selection criteria: Fabian Giger, Lukas Flückiger and Christoph Sauser. Giger, 24, was selected as the reserve team member.
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It will be Näf’s third time at the Olympic Games. He was also in Athens in 2004 and in Beijing in 2008, although as a reserve rider, he did not race in Beijing. Vogel will be at his second Olympic Games, having already raced in Beijing in 2008.

Süss, 38, will make her Olympic debut while Leumann, 30, will be in her second Olympic games after having already competed in Athens in 2004. No reserve female rider was nominated because no other Swiss woman met the selection criteria.

The elite women’s cross country Olympic race will take place on Saturday, August 11, 2012 while the elite men’s cross country race is scheduled for Sunday, August 12, 2012.

Thomas De Gendt was the surprise winner at the top of the Passo dello Stelvio, the highest peak of the 2012 Giro d’Italia, on the eve of the closing 30-km individual time trial in Milan. He went away on the Mortirolo prior to keeping his momentum over the legendary climb that he has been very familiar with for the past six years. In a previous video interview with Cyclingnews posted on May 22, the Belgian from Vacansoleil-DCM already expressed his positive feelings towards the Stelvio and his new role as a GC contender after making a name for himself as an attacker at Paris-Nice last year.

At one point of the queen stage, he was even in a position to win the Giro d’Italia, considering the time trial abilities that he showed at last year’s Tour de France by finishing fourth in Grenoble behind Tony Martin, Cadel Evans and Alberto Contador.
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In a new exclusive video interview with Cyclingnews, he mentioned his fear that he might not perform as well as he’d normally do against the clock on Sunday after the huge effort he produced in the mountains. History recalls that his other performance was to finish sixth at l’Alpe d’Huez the day prior to the time trial in Grenoble.

“This year I’m not doing the Tour de France”, De Gendt said. “I’ve always had Giro and Vuelta on my schedule. This Giro will help me to prepare for the Vuelta where I’ll ride for GC again. Now if I keep my fourth place overall here, it’s a bonus.” However, there’s a high chance that De Gendt will even finish on the podium of the 2012 Giro d’Italia. He has to beat Michele Scarponi by 27 seconds in the streets of Milan. Shall the top three be – in whatever order – Hesjedal, Rodriguez, De Gendt, it would be the first podium with no Italian rider since 1995 (Tony Rominger, Piotr Ugrumov, Evgeni Berzin).