Friday's Tour of Qatar Stage 6 departs Sealine Beach Resort at 1:10pm local (11:10am CET, 5:10am U.S. Eastern) and is expected at the finish at Doha Corniche at around 3:56pm local (1:56pm CET, 7:56am U.S. Eastern). Tour of Qatar live video streaming is expected to begin at around 3:00pm local (1:00pm CET, 7:00am U.S. Eastern).

Based on five stages so far, two things have been made abundantly clear in Qatar. FIrst, Mark Cavendish is off to a fast start and more ominously for his rivals, is showing that he doesn’t need a big HTC-Highroad train to kill people and embarrass the slow.

Briton earns leader's jersey.

"It hasn’t been all that bad really - in fact by the end of Stage 4 when I powered away from my co-dropees to take erm 101st place on the stage I was actually feeling not quite as 100% dead as the previous days."

World champion separated his from team but despatches his rivals with ease.

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Filippo Pozzato (Farnese Vini-Selle Italia) sustained a broken collarbone in a fall at the Tour of Qatar on Thursday, but his team remains hopeful that he will make a full recovery in time for the Spring Classics.

As American Tom Zirbel enters his first season with the Optum Pro Cycling p/b Kelly Benefit Strategies team, he is coming off a solid off-season of training and is more motivated than ever to return not just to his previous level of prowess in time trials, but aims to be "unbeatable" in 2012.

Alberto Contador's points haul made the difference between Saxo Bank being in the Pro Tour for 2012 and being in the lesser Pro Conti level. But this new UCI ruling could well fall foul of WADA and the CAS.

"The story so far: the blazers are happy, but how do we see the process a year on? Here's how..."

New Vacansoleil signing ready for first season at WorldTour level.

CXMagazine: Sitting Down With Jeremy Powers - “I didn’t know I’d win Nationals.”

Powers in the new National Champion, and that he managed a 26th place at Worlds as the second highest ranked American.

Rims without a hub and spokes don’t have much radial strength. If you’re putting Continental tubulars on them, you’ll have a tough time.

The Overade folding helmet is the product of a collaboration between engineer Philippe Arrouart and Patrick Jouffret of French design firm Agence 360, a company who've previously worked on Look's Kéo Blade pedal and 920/986 cross-country bikes.

At Worlds, she rounded out the top 20, just behind Nicole Duke, one of the other US racers. Clearly, Koksijde was a great course for the American women, with three of the five women landing in the top 20.

The Daily Distraction.

Patrice Ciprelli, the trainer and husband of legendary French cyclist Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli, has reportedly confessed to purchasing the blood-boosting hormone Erythropoietin (EPO) in 2010 and 2011 on L'ÉquipeTV, but contended the drug "was for his own, personal use".

Two-year suspension for retired German rider; forfeits final Tour de France podium.

“The CAS decision itself wasn't so exciting. What will be much more interesting is what Jan [Ullrich] will say. He knows what he can say. In any case, it is of course silly that such a finding is only issued six years after his last race."  -  Rolf Aldag CyclingNews

Partnership between triathlon organiser and Lance Armstrong Foundation aims to raise $1 million for cancer sufferers.

The special bike is called the C59 Ottanta – which means eighty in Italian and has a gold finish. It was inspired by the iconic Colnago bikes of the past that were used so successfully by so many legendary professional riders and loved by thousands of cyclists around the world.

For cyclists that typically use bifocals or reading glasses off the bike, being able to read the road ahead and their speed on the computer can be a challenge.

As riders in their mid-30s retire, McQuaid feels “there’s less and less pressure on the younger ones to dope.” That said, he is realistic that as age starts to affect today’s younger riders‘ ability to perform, they will again face temptation.

Patrice Ciprelli, the husband and coach of Jeannie Longo, has been taken into custody by French police following a raid on the apartment the couple own at Alpe d’Huez on Wednesday morning. A simultaneous search was also carried out at the couple's home in Saint-Martin-le-Vinoux, Isère.