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CyclingFans: Wednesday's Paris-Nice Stage 4 departs Brive-la-Gaillarde at 11:50am CET (5:50am U.S. Eastern) and is expected at the finish at Rodez at around 4:19pm CET (10:19am U.S. Eastern). Paris-Nice live streaming video should get underway at around 3:00pm CET (9:00am U.S. Eastern).

VeloNation: Wiggins holds yellow after aggressive end to a long, calm day.

InnerRing: Stage 3 was 194km long and took four hours 36 minutes and 19 seconds. The difference came down to a matter of centimetres and milliseconds. After leg pedalling for hours the race was won thanks to a throw of the arms.

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CyclingNews: John Degenkolb made the cut in the second stage of Paris-Nice, catching on to the lead group when the wind broke up the field in a “crazy race.” The Project 1t4i rider was happy with his third place on the stage, behind winner Tom Boonen, while fellow sprinter Marcel Kittel mourned his lost chance.

CyclingNews: While his BMC teammates Tejay Van Garderen and Taylor Phinney were at the forefront of Paris-Nice on its early stages, former world champion Thor Hushovd has been rather discreet at the event until now. The Norwegian showed a good performance on stage one, the 9.4km time trial last Sunday, where he finished in 14th postion, 17 seconds down on winerr Gustav Larsson (Vacansoleil-DCM). But on Monday, Hushovd was a victim of the echelons like many others and was not in the mix for the sprint for stage victory in Orléans.

The Italian WorldTour-level stage race once again opens with a team time trial and finishes with a short 9.3km individual test against the clock. In between there are a selection of tough stages, not least stages four, five and six in the Apennine mountain range.

VeloNews: Team Tibco-To the Top will make its 2012 European debut this week at the Drenthe races in the Netherlands. The U.S. squad will include Olympic long team members Megan Guarnier and Amanda Miller.

road.cc: That James Straffon again; now turning his eye to famous cyclists' footwear.

road.cc: 'Speed To Go' aka 'a racing bike that folds' says new Taiwanese manufacturer.

VeloNation: Bradley Wiggins into yellow as rain and crosswinds hit the peloton.

SteepHill: Stage 1 start time: Wednesday 14:50 CET (5:50:00 AM PST); Earliest live video: 15:00 CET (6:00:00 AM PST); Approximate finish: 16:15 CET (7:15:00 AM PST). Tirreno-Adriatico live streaming video should get underway at around 3:00pm CET (9:00am U.S. Eastern).

Another set-back for Andy Schleck....

VeloNation: Gastroenteritis forces 2010 Tour winner out after two uncomfortable stages.

VeloNews: Doctors dealt Nick Nuyens’ Tour of Flanders defense a blow today, diagnosing the Saxo Bank rider with a small fracture in his right hip. Nuyens crashed in the stage 1 time trial at Paris-Nice Sunday and will take at least two weeks off the bike.

CyclingWeekly: Mark Cavendish begins the Tirreno-Adriatico stage race tomorrow in central Italy and enters the last warm-up phase ahead of Milan-San Remo. He aims to become the first cyclist in nearly 20 years to win the classic with the World Championship's rainbow jersey.

Today's Quote

“The white jersey is always a cool little prize; it’s never the goal, it’s always something nice." -  Tejay van Garderen  VeloNews

Peloton: Six amateur women including myself. Every last stage of cycling’s most beloved race. Every last kilometer. All 3,479 of them. There, I said it. (How do you announce such absurdity?).

PEZ: One of the strong men of Saturday’s Strade Bianche was Belgium and BMC rider, Greg Van Avermaet, winner of last year's Paris-Tours. On Monday, with the dust washed away, he took time to explain to PEZ readers about his Saturday on the ‘white roads’ of Tuscany, a ride that saw him attack on numerous occasions, netted him a spot in the group behind Cancellara, and fifth place in Siena.

Bicycling: Francisco Mancebo was the top U.S.-based cyclist in 2011. The Spaniard dominated the National Racing Calendar, winning the Tour of the Gila, Sea Otter Classic, Tour de Beauce, Redlands Bicycle Classic, and Cascade Cycling Classic. The only thing missing was glory in America's two biggest races, the Tour of California and Colorado's USA Pro Cycling Challenge (Mancebo's Realcyclist.com team didn't get invited to either event). In 2012, his renamed Competitive Cyclist Racing Team is looking to right that wrong, attacking the season aboard the Pinarello Dogma 2.

VeloNews: Brake pads are not exactly exciting, and for that I apologize. But excitement isn’t really the goal with anything brake related, is it? Mid-corner surprises should generally be spurned in favor of boring old durability and predictability.

Felt have a great reputation for smooth, efficient, energy-saving long-haul bikes. BikeRadar verdict: 4 out of 5 stars. "Felt’s DA2 is still a superbly comfortable bike. Frame and wheel flex are obvious in the handling if you’re a more muscular rider, though."

Women on Bikes SoCal: Let's Double the Number of Women & Girls Riding Bikes.

CXMagazine: It’s a stunning, well-executed race-worthy cyclocross bike, worthy of the Best Cyclocross Bike award along with Six Eleven Bicycle Co.’s brazed steel cyclocross beauty.

The Daily Distraction.

CyclingTips: Corsa dei Due Mari; Sanremo training and odds; Wiggo in control; Serpa wins Langkawil; Cancellara fires warning shot in Siena; McEwen wins crate; Tour lengthens time trials; Paris-Roubaix organiser faces more problems; Miss Ciclismo 2012.

VeloNation: Italian sprinter says he’s still fit and can succeed in his aims.

road.cc: Head injuries more prevalent in incidents involving by cars, while trucks (lorries) cause torso, pelvis and lower limb injuries.

BikeRadar: Fabian Cancellara (RadioShack-Nissan) not only scored a big win at last weekend's Strade Bianche, he also appeared to do so on a brand-new Classics-specific bike from team sponsor Trek that we expect to be officially unveiled later this spring.

VeloNews: One of my favorite indoor workouts as a cyclocross rider is to get on Youtube and put on a one hour ‘cross race, like a Euro World Cup. Inside Ride rollers are perfect for this.

RedKitePrayer: The junction of head tube, stem, top tube and … well, that other bit that isn’t quite top tube made for a truly exceptional-looking bike.

This is all about doing time on the OUTSIDE. The front graphic displays images of tire tracks as prison bars and also features the Prisoner number over the pocket.

Bicycling: Pedal on over to some of America’s premier craft breweries.

MurrietaPatch: Friday will bring the return of the popular IE Bikes time trial. Unlike any other time trial in Southern California, its European style terrain consisting primarily of paved roadway and a 1.2-mile portion of unpaved/hard compact dirt.

BikeRumor: Cyfac, pronounced see-fak, is based in France and builds custom steel, aluminum and carbon fiber bicycles. The carbon frames are hand built using tube to tube construction with Kevlar sections at each joint. Each one is hand made one at a time and painted in house. There are no decals. The Absolu takes 35 hours from start to finish, some pair schemes take 10 hours to complete.