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January 2013
January 21, 2013



Photo: Mark Cavendish (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) wins the opening stage of the Tour de San Luis.
CyclingNews: Manx Missile victorious in Omega Pharma-Quick Step debut.





Photo: Jo Hogan (Team Jayco-VIS) took the second race with a solo break.
CyclingNews: Kimberley Wells remains in overall lead.






Photo: Belgian Classics star Tom Boonen undergoes surgery.
VeloNation: Another setback for Belgian Classics star; hopes for speedy recuperation.






Photo: USA Cycling.
CyclingFans: Monday's Tour de San Luis Stage 1 departs San Luis at 1:36pm local (11:36am U.S. Eastern, 17:36 CET) and is expected at the finish at Villa Mercedes at around 5:30pm local (3:30pm U.S. Eastern, 21:30 CET).








Photo: Contador hands over the new Saxo-Tinkoff jersey.
CyclingNews: Cavendish, Contador, Nibali ready for season debut in Argentina.





Races & Results.
Santos Tour Down Under - Jan 20-27 (Stages),
Santos Women's Cup - Jan 20-23 (Stages),
Tour de San Luis - Jan 21-27 (Stages),
Giro d'Italia - May 4-26 (Stages),
Tour of California - May 12-19 (Stages),
Tour de France - June 29-July 21 (Stages),
Vuelta a España - Aug 24-Sept 15 (Stages),





Photo: Morne de Klerk.
PodiumCafe: The course we know by now, a sprintfest spiced up by a hilltop finish at Old Willunga Hill to clear up the GC battle. The startlist is loaded, but unpredictable as it always is in January. Here is a look at some of the other things we can expect from the World Tour season premiere.






Photo: Bernard Sulzberger (Drapac Professional Cycling) leads the break.
CyclingNews: Drapac to provide Australian with improved 2013 race program.













Photo: Power wins Rás stage 4 into Listowel in 2006 – he twice won the race overall.
StickyBottle: Well established is the fact that Emma O’Reilly, Paul Kimmage and David Walsh suffered dreadful consequences for railing against Lance Armstrong during the Texan’s drug-fuelled rise to the top of cycling. But another who suffered just as badly was Waterford’s Ciarán Power.





Photo: Brim Brothers Zone 2.
road.cc: Cleat-based power measurement system scheduled for summer launch. 







VeloNation: Maiden World Cup for Czech rider; no Belgians on the podium; Niels Albert secures overall.







VeloNation: World champ rides away from Van PVeloNation: aassen, Ferrier-Bruneau takes third.





CXMagazine: At first glance, the bikereg.com registered riders list seems more like a promoter’s wishlist than a reality, but it’s really happening.










Photo: Santos Tour Down Under.
CyclingFans: Tuesday's (Monday evening U.S.) Tour Down Under Stage 1 (L'Oreal Men Expert stage) departs Prospect at 11:00am local (7:30pm U.S. Eastern Monday, 1:30am CET) and is expected at the finish at Lobethal at around 2:34pm local (11:04pm U.S. Eastern Monday, 5:04am CET).  Tour Down Under live streaming video should get underway at around 12:30pm local (9:00pm U.S. Eastern Monday, 3:00am CET).





Photo: Veteran commentator Phil Liggett.
road.cc: Veteran commentator also insists South Australia government got value for money on appearance fees it paid.





Photo: Lance Armstrong - Tour Down Under 09.
road.cc: Blood doping experts says state government should come clean over multimillion dollar payments to disgraced rider.





Photo: Dear Lance, Let me begin by saying that I bear you no malice.
RedKitePrayer: "While I doubt you even remember me, yours remain the most entertaining interview I ever conducted. It was a truly fun afternoon."





Photo: A WADA-authorised amnesty might be a better method of cleaning up cycling rather than simply punishing those who doped (AAP).
SBS: Amid the mountains of words written in Australia about Lance Armstrong’s recent interview with Oprah Winfrey, there has been surprisingly little serious debate about what this case means for how we should respond to drugs and doping in Australian cycling





Photo: Marc Wauters (Rabobank).
CyclingNews: Confidentiality clause stops Rasmussen discussing his past.





Photo: Adam Hansen’s Narrow Bars.
InnerRing: We’ve only had one exhibition criterium in Adelaide but already some sharp eyes have seen that some riders are using more narrow handlebars, a trend that’s probably coming to a ride near you.





Photo: Alberto Contador does the double?
VeloNation: Spaniard says the route and a stronger team could make a Giro/Tour double possible.





Photo: A resurgent Martin Bina follows Kevin Pauwels early in the World Cup finale.
VeloNews: The 2012-13 World Cup of cyclocross wrapped up with a snowy finale on Sunday in Hoogerheide, Netherlands, that offered few surprises — as long as one looked only at the final classification, that is.























Photo: Lance ans old directeur sportif, Johan Bruyneel.
Saddleblaze: "You can be pretty sure that one of the people who stayed up in his London home until 2am GMT to watch Lance Armstrong’s back-to-back interviews with Oprah at the back end of last week was his old directeur sportif, Johan Bruyneel."





Photo: Anne Gripper spearheads the biological passport.
CyclingNews: Former head of UCI anti-doping claims he was clean in 2009.





Photo: Bad blood.
TwistedSpoke: Every cycling journalist, sports writer and even talk show host Oprah Winfrey have given their opinions of the dark, doped years when Lance ruled the peloton. Hundreds of experts, anti-doping people, federation heads, the UCI, WADA and CNN, you name it.






Photo: UCI Independent Commission.
VeloNation: Considering amnesty and other issues, meeting could have crucial importance for Armstrong review.






Photo: Oprah Winfrey interview with Lance Armstrong.
VeloNation: Former USADA chief Madden backs suggestion attempt at $250,000 donation was made.





Photo: Dr Geert Leinders.
CyclingNews: Former Rabobank team doctor said to have facilitated doping at Dutch team.





Photo: Nash will be competing again teammate Georgia Gould in Louisville, KY - Anne-Marije Rook.
PodiumCafe: Nash might just stir things up at CX Worlds.





Photo: Alberto Contador, Fotoreporter Sirotti .
RoadCycling: Alberto Contador, a two-time winner of the Tour de France who was stripped of a third title for using a banned substance, says cycling needs to take something positive from the Lance Armstrong scandal. 






Photo: GreenEdge started off the season with a bang by winning the Santos Tour Down Under - Morne de Klerk.
PodiumCafe: Last year's Tour Down Under gave the world its first real sight of the new GreenEdge team, Australia's first World Tour level team and the fulfillment of a generation of Australian riders' dreams. .












Peloton: Two-time Tour de France champion Alberto Contador described Lance Armstrong's doping confessions as a bleak day for cycling, but insisted the battered and bruised sport can enjoy a drug-free future.















CyclingNews: Doping organized by the team, says Dutchman.






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