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February 2013
February 10, 2013




Photo: Thomas Lövkvist takes the final yellow jersey in the Tour Méditerranéen..
VeloNews: Thomas Lövkvist (IAM Cycling) claimed the overall victory at the 40th Tour Méditerranéen on Sunday.







Photo: World champion Sven Nys celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win the seventh round of the Superprestige series in Hoogstraten.
VeloNews: Sven Nys (Crelan-Euphony) prevailed in a muddy, two-up battle with Klaas Vantornout (Sunweb-Napoleon Games) to take the penultimate round of the Superprestige series on Sunday.






Photo: Tour of Oman 2013 logo.
road.cc: After last week’s sprintfest in Qatar, dominated by Mark Cavendish with four successive stage wins and the overall, the action on the Arabian peninsula this week turns to the rather bumpier landscape of Oman.





Photo: Timmy Duggan (Saxo-Tinkoff) in his new U.S champion colors.
CyclingNews: American champion recovering from two broken bones.





Photo: France's Julien Absalon competes during the 2012 men's elite XCO world championship race (Getty).
SBS: The list, based on based on rider rankings from 2012, allocate 15 teams each in the Endurance (XCO) and Gravity (DH) disciplines.





Photo: Alessandro Ballan MSR 2012 (© Simon MacMichael).
road.cc: Ex-world champion rushed to hospital due to complications related to training crash in December as he continues slow recovery.





Races & Results.
Tour Méditerranéen - Feb 6-10 (Stages & Results),
Tour of Oman - Feb 11-16 (Stages),
Tour of Qatar - Feb 3-8 (Stages & 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 Espańa - Aug 24-Sept 15 (Stages),





Photo: This was the last day of Velo Classic Tour’s “Spring Classics I: The Cobbles” trip, and the second peak of what began with the Tour of Flanders a week previous.
PEZ: " On Sunday April 8th 2012, I had the once again once in a lifetime experience of chasing the most feared Monument of the year – Paris-Roubaix. And just like my ride across these hellish roads a couple days prior, this day was nothing short of ‘epic’."







VeloNation: Team set to withdraw from race.








CyclingNews: Monfort moves into race lead, Boom one second back.







Photo: Tyler Hamilton has urged his former team directors Johan Bruyneel and Bjarne Riis to admit to their part in the doping.
road.cc: Says that they should be given a fresh start if they do.







Photo: Mario Cipollini did something that nobody expected: he retired.
VeloNation: Gazzetta dello Sport repeats claims sprinter underwent prolonged doping regime with Fuentes.





Photo: radley Wiggins (left) trains with his Sky mates on Sunday ahead of the Tour of Oman.
VeloNews: Bradley Wiggins (Sky) confirmed Sunday that he will limit his racing ahead of the Giro d’Italia, using a Tenerife training camp instead of Tirreno-Adriatico.





Photo: Oliver Zaugg is the latest Team Saxo Tinkoff rider to be sidelined as a result of a fall.
VeloNation: Roche aiming to move up from fifth overall for Team Saxo Tinkoff.





Photo: Peter Sagan (Cannondale) sets the pace in the gruppetto.
CyclingNews: Viviani co-leads Cannondale.





Photo: Dutch cyclists slipping on icy corner,
road.cc: More than 10 times more dangerous than riding at 75 years old.





Photo: The eSoles eFit modular footbed system has been created from research into foot shapes.
BikeRadar verdict: 4 out of 5 stars. "A hidden riding aid that you won’t appreciate until you try it."





Photo: Lampre-Merida Warp time trial bike.
CyclingWeekly: Nothing concentrates the mind more than the acquisition of a WorldTour team and no suitable rig on which to ride the inevitable time trial, or in this case, the team time trial; Which was exactly the inspiration for the 2014 Merida Warp TT bike.









CyclingNews: Italian said to have blood-doped in 2002 World Championship year.
















Photo: A raid on Eufemiano Fuentes's office started the Puerto ball rolling ... it hasn't stopped yet.
VeloNews: Riders take the stand this week for what could be explosive testimony as the Operación Puerto trial enters its third week.





Photo: The 2009 Tour de France presentation with Alberto Contador, Lance Armstrong and Andreas Klöden .
CyclingNews: Denies USADA's claim of blood-doping in 2009 Tour de France.





Photo: Jonathan Vaughters is the only man with a brain in pro cycling.
TwistedSpoke: "Sometimes I think that Jonathan Vaughters is the only man with a brain in pro cycling. That’s not fair but thanks to his position of influence, he wins the competition as sole human with requisite brain and power to change things."





Photo: Mario Cipollini’s getting the scandal treatment.
InnerRing: Wounded Lion King. One thing still making money is a doping scandal, it’s been front page news in La Gazzetta Dello Sport this weekend.





Photo: Bram Tankink (Blanco) has been riding well since his season debut at Tour Down Under.
CyclingNews: Fourth Dutch rider to be injured within a week.





Photo: Sarah Hammer will be seeking another world title in Belarus this month.
USACycling: Sarah Hammer (Temecula, Calif./OUCH Pro Cycling) has been selected as the lone representative for the United States at the 2013 UCI Track World Championships in Minsk, Belarus, Feb. 20-24.





Photo: Elia Viviani in the men's kilometer time trial at the 2012 Olympics..
VeloNews: Elia Viviani (Cannondale) shifts his full focus to the road this year after a season aimed at the London Olympics.





Photo: Ragley bikes are designed in the UK, for UK riding,
BikeRadar verdict: 4 out of 5 stars. "Good value, but the fun factor is the big draw here – this bike dishes out oodles of it."











CyclingNews: The blame game, MPCC and just who should clean up cycling.










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