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January 2013
January 5, 2013


Photo: UCI Cyclocross World Cup at Rome.
CyclingFans: 2012-2013 Cyclocross season action continues Sunday with UCI Cyclocross World Cup at Rome, Italy. Live streaming video: Elite Men: 2:30pm CET (8:30am U.S. Eastern).










Photo: Crazy J.
TwistedSpoke: The Vuelta a Espana has become the Giro d’Italia under empresario Angelo Zomegnan.






Photo: Alberto Contador plans a heavy schedule leading up to the Tour. Photo: BrakeThrough Media | VeloNews.com.
VeloNews: Alberto Contador (Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank) will have a heavy race schedule this spring ahead of his return to the Tour de France, he will race Tirreno-Adriatico (March 6-12), followed by Critérium International (March 23-24) and the Vuelta al País Vasco (April 1-6).







Photo: Subaru National Road Series winner Luke Davison (Mark Gunter).
SBS: National Road Series winner Luke Davison claimed Stage 2 of the Jayco Herald Sun Tour, with Aaron Donnelly retaining the overall lead ahead of tomorrow's final stage.





Photo: Simon Clarke was looking comfortable on the Mt Massedon climb.
CyclingNews: The Australian National Team gave themselves every chance to blow the Jayco Herald Sun Tour apart on Saturday's second stage into Healesville.





Races & Results.
Jayco Herald Sun Tour - Jan 3-6 (Stages),
Giro d'Italia - May 4-26 (Stages),
Tour of California - May 12-19 (Stages),
Tour de France - June 29-July 21 (Stages),






Photo: Nick Stöpler .
VeloNews: Nick Stöpler and Yoeri Havik (CT De Rijke) are the new leaders in the Rotterdam Six after the second night of racing. 





Photo: An all Spanish final podium at the Vuelta (L-R): Alejandro Valverde, 2nd; Alberto Contador, 1st; and Joaquim Rodriguez, 3rd.
CyclingNews: 2013 route to contain one more mountain-top finish than 2012?





Photo: Yoann Offredo (FDJ).
CyclingNews: Frenchman frustrated by length of ban in comparison to former US Postal riders.





Photo: Tour de France champion Alberto Contador.
VeloNews: First shots of new Team Saxo Tinkoff kit.





PodiumCafe: Part III of three parts... that can only mean we're nearing the end of cyclocross season. Oh, the humanity!





PodiumCafe: Gould looking to medal at Nats and Worlds before entering mtb season.













Photo: David Howson said he has not had any contact with Lance Armstrong (Getty Images).
SBS: World Anti-Doping Agency director general David Howman says his organisation has had no approach from cyclist Lance Armstrong that would indicate he is about to admit using performance-enhancing drugs.





Photo: Lance Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles last year. (AP) .
DanWetzel: "So now, according to the New York Times, Lance Armstrong is considering coming clean and admitting the entire thing was a lie; that he did indeed use performance-enhancing drugs and blood transfusions to win all those Tour de France titles. And this would be news to … um, anyone?"





Photo: Lance Armstrong (pic courtesy Photosport International).
road.cc: Lance Armstrong could publically admit his secret doping and cheating that led him to seven Tour titles, in a bid to stage a comeback into sport.








Photo: Lance Armstrong.
NBC: The New York Times reported Friday that Lance Armstrong, who has strongly denied the doping charges that led to him being stripped of his seven Tour de France titles, has told associates he is considering admitting to the use of performance-enhancing drugs.





Photo: Radio Shack-Trek cycling empire.
PodiumCafe: Is this the Schleck's stale project, the Cancellara express, or something new?





Photo: Scott Spark 650.
BikeRadar verdict: 2.5 out of 5 stars. "We’re long-time fans of the Spark’s quirky take on trail riding, but the rear shock puts a downer on performance."





Photo: Team NetApp-Endura for 2013.
CyclingNews: Team NetApp-Endura is hoping for another wildcard invitation to the Giro d'Italia, and looking to claim its first grand tour stage win this year. The team sees its chances for the invitation as “better than last year,” when it was surprisingly invited to the race.





Photo: Liz Hatch will arrive today in Belgium.
CycleLive: Liz is flying now to Brussels and she arrives late in the evening today. After a very intense weekend of several fotoshoots, bikefitting and testing, she flies on monday, early in the morning to Spain, for a 18 days during trainingcamp.





Photo: Dr. John Hoberman sees a long, sordid history limiting current efforts to clean up cycling and world sport.
VeloNews: To say that Dr. John Hoberman is skeptical of the independent commission set to review the UCI — and even more so the authorities in world sport — is an understatement.






CyclingNews: Peter Luttenberger has denied claims from an anonymous source that he used a blood centrifuge to check his blood values.






SBS: American sprinter Tyler Farrar will make his return to racing at the Santos Tour Down Under later this month after sustaining concussion in a crash at the Tour of Britain in September which brought his 2012 season to a premature end.





VeloNation: Organizers expecting to build on success of punchy, difficult 2012 edition.









Photo: ance Armstrong, owner of various records in the way of nullifie.
PodiumCafe: Lance is going to confess. Maybe...















Photo: Road map to success? Andy Schleck weighs up his options in the woods of the Luxembourg Ardennes.
CyclingNews: Andy Schleck (RadioShack-Leopard) has claimed that cycling is already doing everything it can to combat doping and said that the Lance Armstrong case belonged to “another era.”





Photo: The Ghisallo.
InnerRing: The Madonna del Ghisallo was described as “the poor man’s spaceship” by Italian writer Gianni Brera for the way it allowed someone with a bicycle to copy Neil Armstrong and go up to the heavens. Only it’s not so much the vertical gain but because of the chapel at the top that is a Catholic shrine to cycling.





Photo: the Z5SL is as black a platform as it gets.
PEZ: Parlee Cycles have worked very hard over the past 10+ years to go from a "who?" brand in north America to an "it" brand virtually the world over...





Photo: Time trial world champion for 2012 Tony Martin (Germany).
CyclingNews: Tony Martin was well beaten by an Arabian racehorse in a special race in Dubai but he seemed to enjoy making an early season debut in the Middle East.





Photo: Cipollini’s range-topping RB1000 and RB800 frames.
VeloNation: Colnago no longer name sponsor or technical supplier to Italian ProConti team.





Photo: Merida Cyclo Cross - full bike.
road.cc: Merida’s aluminium disc-equipped cyclocross is ready to race or commute.












Photo: Andy Schleck.
VeloNation: Luxemburger felt abandoned by Johan Bruyneel; fighting to come back after a disastrous 2012.





CyclingNews: Photographer Graham Watson has defended Lance Armstrong, saying “Outright angels do not win a Tour de France. That is the domain of the most talented, hard, driven, ruthless and selfish riders.







VeloNation: Belgian cyclocross rider proclaims innocence on Twitter; replaced by Sven Vanthourenhout.






CyclingNews: Family, friends and the cycling community mourned the loss of Olympian Burry Stander after he was killed in an accident while training on Thursday.












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