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January 2013
January 15, 2013



Photo: Lance Armstrong, 2005.
CyclingFans: Live online streaming: Oprah and Lance Armstrong: The Worldwide Exclusive: Thursday, January 17 and Friday, January 18 at 9:00pm ET (3:00am CET).





Photo: Reuters/Reuters - Lance Armstrong, founder of the LIVESTRONG foundation, takes part in a special session regarding cancer in the developing world during the Clinton Global Initiative in New York September 22,
Yahoo!: Lance Armstrong "did not come clean in the way I expected" on whether he used performance-enhancing drugs in his cycling career, celebrated talk show host Oprah Winfrey said on Tuesday, a day after a lengthy interview with the disgraced athlete.





Photo: Amstel Gold Race.
CompetitiveCyclist:  Eighty seven days 'til the most underrated classic of the year, the Amstel Gold Race. Your enjoyment will be greatly enhanced through a better grasp of the geopoliticial underpinnings of Holland's, or the Netherlands', most important bike race:






Photo: Katusha team given a Pro Continental licence by the UCI.
VeloNation: Team reaffirms intention to push for WorldTour license registration.





Photo: Thor Hushovd at the BMC team presentation.
CyclingNews: After an illness-hit season, Norwegian believes he is getting back to his best.





Races & Results.
USA Cross Championships - Jan 9-13 (Races),
Giro d'Italia - May 4-26 (Stages),
Tour of California - May 12-19 (Stages),
Tour de France - June 29-July 21 (Stages),
Vuelta a Espaņa - Aug 24-Sept 15 (Stages),






Photo: The Cauberg was the main feature of today's stage.
CyclingNews: Moving the finish said to open the race to more contenders.





Photo: Rudy Project Genetyk ImpactX sunglasses.
BikeRadar verdict: 4 out of 5 stars. "“Unbreakable” lenses coupled to a frame that can be fitted to nearly any shape face."





Photo: The complete Vision wheel lineup was on display under the bright lights of Hollywood at Paramount Studios.
VeloNews: Since entering the crowded wheel market in 2009, the engineers at Vision have tested more than 350 rim profiles using computational fluid dynamics, endeavoring to produce a complete wheel line with optimized rim depths for all riding conditions.





VeloNews: USA Cycling announced its roster for the 2013 UCI Elite Cyclocross World Championships on Monday. Top automatic qualifiers and national champions Jonathan Page (EGNVT) and Katie Compton (Trek Cyclocross Collective) will lead the 22-person team in Louisville, Kentucky, February 2-3.



















Photo: Olympic Committee member Richard
CyclingNews: All of cycling could lose if UCI is proven complicit in covering up doping.











Photo: Oprah with grilled Lance..
TwistedSpoke: Welcome to the the Twisted Spoke, All Armstrong, All Week Extravaganza. Race previews for San Luis, Qatar and Oman — who needs that meaningless crap?





Photo: Armstrong chats with Winfrey in an Austin hotel.
VeloNews: Lance Armstrong answered the questions that “people around the world have been waiting to hear” in an two-and-a-half hour interview, talk show host Oprah Winfrey said Tuesday.







Photo: UCI President Pat McQuaid at the UCI headquarters in Aigle.
CyclingNews: Governing body calls on Armstrong to testify to Independent Commission.






Photo: Armstrong will testify against senior UCI officials.
InnerRing: Lance Armstrong to confess to doping? Thanks to USADA there’s already hundreds of pages of evidence. At first the Oprah Winfrey interview looked like a celebrity stunt. Only the story now seems to be going a step further with reports that Armstrong will testify against senior UCI officials, shifting the story away from sofa interview into the saddle of pro cycling.





Photo: Bradley Wiggins says an Armstrong admission to doping would prove the Nineties a
VeloNews: British cycling star Bradley Wiggins said Lance Armstrong’s anticipated admission of doping in a two-episode interview with talk-show host Oprah Winfrey would be both a “great” and “sad” day for the sport.





Photo: The chain is the most important part of the transmission.
BikeRadar: If you’ve let the muck build up on your bike, here's a step-by-step guide that will get it looking like new – and running much better – in less than an hour.





Photo: James Huang is the AngryAsian. He's actually not angry.
BikeRadar: Cables and housing – the lifelines of your bike – translate input at the controls into an output at the other end.





Photo: the Edict Nine LTD competes with the best of them on the cross-country racecourse.
MBAction: The year 2013 is an important year for Felt Bicycles. With the introduction of several brand-new and redesigned models, the Southern California-based company is making yet another big push.







AP: Lance Armstrong confessed to Oprah Winfrey during an interview Monday that he used performance-enhancing drugs to win the Tour de France, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press.





Neil Browne: Lance Armstrong is interviewed by Oprah. Will it be the whole truth and nothing but?





















Photo: CEO Tygart suggests UCI has ‘blindfolded and handcuffed’ Commission.
VeloNation: Agency says lack of amnesty for witnesses, terms of references and timeframe are of concerns.















Photo: What's left to say about Lance Armstrong?
CyclingTips: Will we be able to believe a word of Lance's confession after so many lies? When history looks back at this, Oprah vs Lance will be the sporting world's soft fluffy version of Frost vs Nixon.






Photo: It becomes increasingly difficult for Lance Armstrong to keep his balance after the speed surrounding his doping case picked up quickly on Monday.
VeloNews: A game that was once painfully slow and perfectly managed by Lance Armstrong is now at warp speed, and it seems the fallen champion finds himself on more unstable sporting and legal grounds than ever before. 





Photo: Lance was at the height of his reign in 2005, seen here at the Tour of Courage.
PEZ: "As Lance Armstrong wrapped his interview with Oprah Winfrey – the most important of his career, I was reminded that it was almost 9 years ago exactly that PEZ was getting ready for the biggest interview of our career – with Lance Armstrong. Man, how things can change…"





Photo: British paper reaches settlement with Betsy Andreu.
RedKitePrayer: It’s a relatively benign story, reported in other media outlets, but the incident illustrates the hurdles the media faced in dealing with Armstrong.





Photo: The 2013 Blanco team poses for its team photo on the seafront at Playitas.
CyclingNews: Violations after January 1 2008 will lead to immediate dismissal.





Photo: The event will begin on Monday February 11th with a 162 kilometre road stage.
VeloNation: Wiggins, Contador, Cavendish, Evans and world champion Gilbert among best-ever lineup.





Photo: Riding into a glorious winter morning is wonderful.
Off The Beaten Path: Winter is a great time for riding around here. We have a choice between cold and sunny or  not-so-cold and rainy. If we can, we pick the sunshine, but that often means starting our rides when it is just below freezing.





Photo: Three wheel sizes go knob-to-knob; 26-inch, 27.5-inch and 29-inch. We pick our favorite and give you the reasons why..
MBAction: Mountain Bike Action took three Jamis hardtails and conducted a shootout. The difference? The wheel sizes. There was a 26, 27.5 and a 29er in the mix.





CyclingNews: Garmin-Sharp manager hopes he will help the broader fight against doping.











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