CyclingFans:  February 24, Belgium - Race starts at 12:15pm CET (6:15am U.S. Eastern). Finish at around 4:56pm CET (10:56am U.S. Eastern). Live video from 3:15pm CET (9:15am U.S. Eastern).

CyclingFans: Sunday's Tour de Langkawi Stage 4 departs Tapah at 10:00am local (3:00am CET, 9:00pm U.S. Eastern Saturday) and is expected at the finish at Kapar at around 1:52pm local (6:52am CET, 12:52am U.S. Eastern).  Tour de Langkawi live streaming is being provided during each stage.

CyclingFans: The 2013 GVA Bpost Bank Trophy Cyclocross at Oostmalle (Sluitingsprijs-Oostmalle) is Sunday, February 24. Live streaming video: 1:45pm CET (7:45am U.S. Eastern).

CyclingNews: Luca Paolini (Team Katusha) won the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad by beating his breakaway companion Stijn Vandenbergh (Omega Pharma - Quick-Step Cycling Team) in a two-up sprint.

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Omloop Het Nieuwsblad - Feb 23 (Start List),
Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne - Feb 24 (Start List),
Le Tour de Langkawi - Feb 21-Mar 2 (Stages & Results),
UCI Track World Championships - Feb 20-24 (Races & 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),

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CyclingNews: Meiyin Wang took his biggest career victory to date when he crossed the finish line minutes ahead of the field in the Cameron Highlands.

PodiumCafe: The qualifying rounds of the men's sprint and the last three rounds of the men's omnium, and the women's sprint and points race, and the first three rounds of the women' omnium - and if yesterday's men's elimination race wasn't enough, the women ride that today.... and generally ride with tactics that'll keep you on the edge of your seat.

SBS: New Zealand's Aaron Gate snatched the omnium world championship from Australia's Glenn O'Shea after taking an eventful kilo time trial victory at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Minsk, Belarus.

CyclingWeekly: Racing in northern Europe kicks off in earnest on Saturday February 23 with Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, accompanied by fellow semi-classic Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne the following day (Sunday, February 24).

Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Preview and Kuurne Brussels Kuurne Preview...

InnerRing: The spring classics start this weekend with the double-header of the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad on Saturday followed by Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne on Sunday. Time for the hardmen to fight.

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VeloNews: In his pre-race press conference earlier this week ahead of Saturday’s Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Tom Boonen (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) admitted his confidence for the race was lacking.

InnerRing: Luca Paolini and Stijn Vandenbergh slip away from a lead group of 10 riders after the Paddestraat section of cobbles. The pair took 10 seconds, 15 seconds and quickly the gap couldn’t be bridged by an attack, only a concerted chase would work.

VeloNews: The Giro d’Italia is headed for Ireland and a big logistical challenge in 2014, but race director Michele Acquarone was confident this week that his team would pull off a seamless transfer back to home roads in the race’s first week.

CyclingNews: Belgian riders Tom Boonen, Thomas De Gendt and Sep Vanmarcke are having fewer and fewer out-of-competition doping controls for the blood passport program. “Meanwhile, they know our values,” Boonen said.

CyclingNews: Dani Navarro (Cofidis) beat Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) and Bauke Mollema (Blanco Cycling) on a testing uphill finish to win the Vuelta a Murcia.

CyclingNews: When the rider wearing the white jersey of the best Asian rider, Meiyin Wang took off in the day's early breakaway at Le Tour de Langkawi, he wasn't thinking about the stage win.

BikeRadar: Not many custom bicycle companies have a talent pool deep enough to be able to build cutting edge carbon wonder bikes as well as  classic steel frames bike with equal levels of mastery.

WSJ: he U.S. Department of Justice has decided to join a whistleblower lawsuit against former cyclist Lance Armstrong, according to people briefed on the matter..

Blazin'Saddles: If Martians came down from space and all of a sudden picked up a passing interest in professional cycling, they'd be forgiven to think that the whole sport was centred around Ireland and the Irish

VeloNews: When Dr. Michele Ferrari made the claim that Lance Armstrong could have won all seven of his Tour de France titles without doping, he based his argument on the assertion that altitude would produce an increase in hemoglobin (Hgb) mass on the order of five-to-10 percent, and that the effect of Armstrong’s doping would not exceed this same magnitude.

CyclingNews: Says RadioShack-Leopard rider didn't work enough in off-season.

CyclingNews: It is time for the truth to come out about doping at the former Rabobank team, Stefan Matschiner has said. “Everyone who worked there must finally tell that there was organized doping at Rabobank,” he said.

road.cc: Rider who served three-month ban will race in Switzerland tomorrow, but any more issues and he's out...

CyclingNews: Guarnier and Johansson round out top three

VeloNews: Geraint Thomas slipped away into a promising move in Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and finished fourth today in Ghent, Belgium. More importantly, his Sky team played its hand and proved on track for the classics season.

CyclingWeekly: Breathing heavily in the Belgian cold after the finish and with the back of his jersey torn, Geraint Thomas got off his bike and spat out one word to Sky race coach Rod Ellingworth before getting on the Team Sky bus: "Bastards!"

VeloNation: First Irish track gold medallist in over 100 years speaks, Cycling Ireland’s president gives velodrome update back to home roads in the race’s first week.

BikeRadar verdict: 3.5 out of 5 stars. "Quality kit, fine handling and a good price, but with a solid rear end and poor brake pads."

CyclingNews: Denied having Fuentes as a doctor on ONCE, Liberty Seguros.

CyclingNews: Decries personal element in acrimony.

road.cc: Yates wins points race at age of 20, while Kenny succeeds Chris Hoy to rainbow jersey in the keirin.

CyclingNews: Former rider wants a velvet revolution at the European Cycling Union.

CyclingWeekly: German sprinter John Degenkolb starts his classics season tomorrow in Ghent, Belgium, with Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, and hopes to come out of it a star.

VeloNews: Sep Vanmarcke’s lithe six-foot-two frame was twisted up like a pretzel in the back of a small, Euro-style camper van to change clothes after completing the final time trial at the Volta ao Algarve (Tour of the Algarve) last weekend.

BikeRadar verdict: 4 out of 5 stars. "Still one of the finest handling bikes ever despite the frame starting to show its age."

CyclingNews: According to Jacques-Maynes, the driver swerved into the two riders who were on the front of the 15-man paceline, causing a crash.

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