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January 2013
January 6, 2013


Photo: Here, Driscoll takes the win at Cross After Dark. © Phil Beckman/PB Creative.
CXMagazine: Compared to yesterday’s surprise snow storm, the elite racers started in perfect conditions today. .








Photo: Calvin Watson (Jayco-VIS-Apollo), winner of the 60th Jayco Herald Sun Tour.
CyclingNews: Calvin Watson (Jayco-VIS-Apollo) will do well to top his 20th birthday, claiming the overall win at the 60th Jayco Herald Sun Tour - the youngest-ever victor of the prestigious stage race. 







Photo: Kevin Pauwels wins an off road criterium in Rome.
VeloNation: A bad day for Sven Nys sees Niels Albert take control of overall World Cup. 






Photo: Marianne Vos (Rabobank).
VeloNation: Compton takes second to secure World Cup title.





Photo: Mathieu van der Poel, shown here at World Cup Zolder, won again today at Rome © Bart Hazen.
CXMagazine: On a blistering fast, flat course, World Champion Mathieu van der Poel continued his winning ways to take yet another World Cup title ahead of Italy’s Gioele Bertolini and Dutchman Martijn Budding. 





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: Eurosport - Britain's Chris Hoy (Reuters).
EuroSport: Jason Kenny might be the young pretender to Sir Chris Hoy's throne but the latter is proving there is life in the old dog just yet as he replaced his compatriot at the top of the Six Days of Rotterdam leaderboard.





Photo: Oli Beckingsale takes National Trophy overall victory.
CyclingWeekly: Endura MTB Racing's Oli Beckingsale secured overall victory in the National Trophy cyclo-cross series with a strong ride in the final round in Derby on Sunday.





Photo: Eli Tomac.
MBAction: No, it wasn't John "Johnny T" Tomac who won the Anaheim Supercross last night. It was his son. 










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





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).





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: Jonathan Page enjoyed one of his best results of the season in Baal.
CyclingNews: Vermont-based firm ENGVT supports Page's bid for fourth elite title.





Photo: Burry Stander and his wife Cherise.
CyclingNews: "I love you," were the last words of mountain biker Burry Stander, to his wife Cherise before he was tragically killed by a taxi while on a training ride on Thursday in Shelley Beach in South Africa.





Photo: Jens Voigt.
VeloNation: Says Australian event is ‘perfect and well balanced’.





Photo: Frankie Andreu brings years of experience to the team for another year of directing.
CyclingNews: Frankie Andreu has told Cyclingnews that he has no concerns over managing Francisco Mancebo as part of the 5-hour Energy/Kenda Racing Team.





Photo: Ryder Hesjedal – The first Canadian to win a Grand Tour.
IrishPeloton: To win a Grand Tour having never before won a stage race is highly unusual. But in May 2012, Ryder Hesjedal achieved just this.





Photo: The women's field prepares to depart on thirty two laps of the downtown criterium course.
CyclingNews: After a successful introduction into a four-day stage race in the spring of 2011 for the elite men's event, the Merco Cycling Classic presented by Mercy Medical Center announced that the women's Pro/1-2 event for 2013 will change from a three-day omnium to a four-day stage race, to be called the Dignity Health Medical Group Merced Women’s Stage Race.





Photo: the roads are very small and see almost no traffic..
Off The Beaten Path: The “Bavarian Forest” is a lovely landscape that offers some of the best cycling anywhere. The name is deceptive, because most of the “forest” is an agricultural landscape that has been farmed for many centuries.





Photo: Genesis Croix De Fer - riding 2.
road.cc: Capable on- and off-road steel milemuncher; well worth the extra money over the CdF.





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.





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: Lampre Merida rider José Serpa.
VeloNation: New Lampre Merida rider has his bike stolen.





Photo: Sylwester Szmyd; the Pole .
VeloNation: Polish climber ready for new direction.





Photo: Pierre Cogan .
InnerRing: Pierre Cogan died just days short of his 99th birthday. He was eleventh in the 1935 Tour and seventh in the 1950 Tour, his career cut in half by war. But he’d been known for an alternative longevity, that as the oldest Tour de France rider.






Photo: Alessandro Ballan .
VeloNation: No date set for return to racing.





Photo: paracyclist Colin Lynch.
Cyclismas: Colin is an Irish Paracycling Team member, C2 Class, where he is the current UCI World Champion in the Time Trial and Pursuit and is working towards Rio 2016.





Photo: BMC’s TMR01 is derived from their TM01 time trial machine.
BikeRadar verdict: 4.5 out of 5 stars. "Addictively fast and surgically precise machine."





Photo: Villopoto's S-Works Epic 29er is built up with Roval carbon wheels.
MBAction: Specialized Bicycles has been a supporter or motocross athletes for over ten years dating back to Jeremy McGrath's and Ricky Carmichael's careers.






PodiumCafe: Lance is going to confess. Maybe...














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.”











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