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February 2013
February 3, 2013



Photo: Welcome to the 2013 Tour of Qatar.
CyclingFans: Monday's Tour of Qatar Stage 2, a 14km Team Time Trial at Al Rufaa Street, gets underway at 2:45pm local (12:45pm CET, 6:45am U.S. Eastern) and is expected to finish at around 3:52pm local (1:52pm CET, 7:52am 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).







Photo: American rider Brent Bookwalter.
VeloNation: American and two others hold off peloton, nabs biggest victory thus far.






Photo: Jonathan Hivert on the podium after winning the 2013 Étoile de Bessèges..
VeloNews: Jonathan Hivert (Sojasun) won the 43rd edition of the Étoile de Bessèges after the sixth and final stage, a 9.7km individual time trial through the streets of Ales.






Photo: Samuel Dumoulin wins the penultimate stage of the 2013 Étoile de Bessèges..
VeloNews: Samuel Dumoulin (Ag2r La Mondiale) won stage 5 of the Étoile de Bessèges on Sunday.







Photo: Kenny Dehaes.
VeloNation: Belgian wins first race of Balearic island series after long break from Perrig Quémeneur.





Races & Results.
Tour of Qatar - Feb 3-8 (Stages),
Ladies Tour of Qatar - Jan 29-Feb 1 (Races & Results),
CX World Championships - Feb 2-3 (Races & Results),
Santos Tour Down Under - Jan 20-27 (Results),
Santos Women's Cup - Jan 20-23 (Results),
Tour de San Luis - Jan 21-27 (Results),
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: This particular walled-in breaking machine is for impact testing cranks and bottom brackets.
RBAction: Originally the home of Truvativ, that is until SRAM bought the crank, handlebar, stem, and seatpost brand in 2005.





Photo: I’m going to ride up Mt Buffalo.
RideOn: "You don’t forget your first mountain. Mine was Mt Buffalo more than a decade ago, conquered as a naive teenager on a family camping trip to Victoria’s high country."
































Photo: UCI President Pat McQuaid at the UCI headquarters in Aigle.
CyclingNews: Cookson stands by UCI leadership.






Photo: ohnny Hoogerland (Vacansoleil-DCM) scored the most points on the Grand Prix de Wallonie's seven classified climbs and won the mountains classification.
CyclingNews: Vacansoleil-DCM rider hit by car in Spain.





Photo: Timmy Duggan (Liquigas-Cannondale) arrives on the podium..
CyclingNews: Women's pro championships to debut in Chattanooga, coinciding with men's races.






Photo: Greg Lemond gives Lance the big stare.
road.cc: Tour de France winner 'in pain, but recovering'.







Photo: As the day’s racing progressed, temperatures rose and the course conditions deteriorated. .
CyclingTips: The emotions displayed as riders crossed the line summed up the days racing beautifully; Marianne Vos and Sven Nys took very different victory in Louisville, Kentucky. Neither of the newly crowned World Champions were a huge surprise, but that didn't take away from the excitement of the racing.





Photo: What was the course is now part of the Ohio River.
CyclingNews:Louisville crews held off the mighty Ohio River.






Photo: Now we get to party! There’s an extra day on the schedule.
BikeHugger: Know how to party and love CYCLOCROSS!





Photo: Peanut Christine Vardaros.
SlowTwitch: Christine Vardaros has been living in Belgium the last 5 years now and while this NY raised cyclocross Pro has settled in nicely now, it hasn't always been easy.





RedKitePrayer: To paraphrase, “Austin, we have a (credibility) problem.”






VeloNation: No racing for rider due to implication in Operación Puerto.


















Photo: New EPO test.
VeloNation: Far better window of detection available.





Photo: There was even a copycat Dirk Hofman sign spotted.
InnerRing: Well done to the Louisville race crew who put on a great event.





Photo: Coquard’s part of a promising new wave of French cavaliers.
InnerRing: A 20 year old neo-pro with two stage wins in his first race? That’s quite a start for Europcar’s Bryan Coquard.





Photo: Argos-Shimano celebrates Kirsten Wild's third overall title at the Ladies Tour of Qatar.
VeloNews: Despite criticism by some of the sport’s biggest stars about the state of women’s cycling, it appears to be starting on the right foot in 2013.





Photo: Dani King leads GB women's Team Pursuit at London 2012.
road.cc: Will bid for more BMX and MTB events, plus points races on the track.





Photo: There’s Martinez from Euskaltel, skinny, born to climb; Ballan from Lampre, loose limbed, classy; Fedrigo from Bouygues, stocky, desperate for a result and Schumacher from Gerolsteiner, robotic, powerful.
PEZ: "TDF Roadside: Stage 19 may be less than memorable in Tour history, but it was epic for PEZ. For the first time, we rode the entire stage on a “photo moto” – complete with our own pilot."





Photo: The term ‘hybrid’ can mean many things in the cycling world.
BikeRadar verdict: 4.5 out of 5 stars. "High quality kit on a mountain bike-style frame creates a great urban bike."





Photo: Marianne Vos (Netherlands).
CyclingNews: Looks to race MTB in the future












VeloNews: It wasn’t meant to be. The rainbow jersey that has eluded American Katie Compton for so many years was once again just out of reach Saturday in Louisville, Kentucky.







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