EuroSport: Bradley Wiggins clung on his six-second advantage on Saturday and will need to keep his wits about him if he is to become the first British rider in 45 years to win the Paris-Nice race.

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VeloNation: Stage-long attack sees Belgian triumph alone; Movistar puts Omega Pharma-Quick Step leader under pressure on the final descent.

CyclingNews: Levi Leipheimer (Omega Pharma-Quickstep) started stage 7 at Paris-Nice in third overall, just 10 seconds down on leader Bradley Wiggins (Sky), but by the finish a trio of crashes had eliminated any hope of overall victory with only tomorrow's Col d'Èze time trial remaining. The 38-year-old American, accompanied by three of his teammates, crossed the finish line 16:50 down on solo stage winner Thomas De Gendt and more than nine minutes in arrears of the peloton which contained all of Leipheimer's general classification rivals.

CyclingFans: Saturday's Paris-Nice Stage 7 departs Sisteron at 12:00pm CET (6:00am U.S. Eastern) and is expected at the finish at Nice at around 5:44pm CET (11:44am U.S. Eastern).  Paris-Nice live streaming video should get underway at around 4:30pm CET (10:30am U.S. Eastern).

VeloNation: Dutch champion finishes three lengths clear after AA Drink-Leontien.nl isolates her in the closing stages.

CyclingNews: Andy Schleck (RadioShack-Nissan) will now ride the Volta a Catalunya to compensate for his withdrawal from Paris-Nice. Schleck was stricken by gastroenteritis and pulled out of the French race after losing over ten minutes on stage two.

Racy Language Homage to a good friend of American cycling - Gerard F. “Jerry” Casale Jr., co-founder of the Philadelphia International Championships passed away at 70.

SaltCycle: King describes the past year and a half of cycling as incredibly serendipitous. "There are a lot of really talented people who never get the chance [to race professionally] because they don't have a good support network. I was taught early on that preparedness, networking and taking every opportunity you can is key to success in racing. Hard work and talent go a long way, but it's that extra five or ten percent you need to get you to that next level. I feel very lucky to have learned that as a Cat 5 instead of a Cat 1."

VeloNews: After an eight-month absence from the action, Chris Horner (RadioShack-Nissan-Trek) surged back into the high life Saturday, capturing the race leader’s jersey in the fourth stage at Tirreno-Adriatico.

VeloNation: Defending champion Evans loses time.

CyclingFans: Saturday's Tirreno-Adriatico Stage 4 departs Amelia at 9:30am CET (3:30am U.S. Eastern) and is expected at the finish at Chieti at around 4:18pm CET (10:18am U.S. Eastern). Tirreno-Adriatico live streaming video should get underway at around 2:40pm CET (8:40am U.S. Eastern) with English feeds starting around 3:15pm CET (9:15am U.S. Eastern).

CyclingNews: If you play word association with the spring classics maybe you'll think of legends, history and longevity. After all the word classic is often used to describe long-standing or ancient things, like a classic car or classical Greece.

Wonderful Pistachios Cracks the Mold of the Traditional Cycling Team.

PEZ: With several of cycling’s top teams folding or being forced to share sponsors, the traditional definition of success in the sport is changing. Teams are breaking out of the conventional limitations of what a cycling team’s role is in supporting their sponsors and figuring out how to further justify the corporate investment.

Today's Quote

“For drugs such as HGH and EPO, the window for using them is in the preparation phase, not actually during the Games. The testing during the Games is a fantastic deterrent but it's a pretty stupid athlete who would be using drugs during the Games.” -  David Millar  VeloNation

Trek Madone 3.5 BikeRadar verdict: 5 out of 5 stars. "Wonderful ride, great value and it even has mudguard mounts!"

road.cc: We've been busy with Taipei Show reports but not everything is going on in Taiwan.

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The Daily Distraction.

TwistedSpoke: It was a good news and bad news day for the two seniors of the peloton, 40 year old Chris Horner (RadioShack Nissan Trek) and 38 year old Levi Leipheimer (Omega-Pharma-Quick Step.

CyclingNews: Live streaming video on Saturday. The pre-race broadcast will begin at 6PM, eastern standard time, with the women's race beginning at 7PM and the men at 8:15PM.

CyclingNews: Stage 1 of the newly upgraded Tour de Taiwan has given Australia’s Anthony Giacoppo the opportunity to grab his first international victory at UCI 2.1 level. The 25-year-old from Genesys Wealth Adviser jumped out of a group of six breakaway riders to anticipate an expected bunch sprint in front of the Taipei City Hall and the 528-metres high Taipei 101 tower at the end of a 52-km long race in the streets of the Taiwanese capital.

VeloNation: Radioshack-Nissan strong man barely misses Paris-Nice stage win.

VeloNews: Situated near its namesake waterway, Cane Creek has built a success story despite hard economic times. Production has shifted back in favor of domestic manufacturing and the company is hiring new employees instead of downsizing.

BikeRadar: Bearings are a very small part of your bike, but play one of the biggest roles in terms of its performance. It may be easy to dismiss bearings simply as little metal balls, but the truth is: bearings have developed to be as innovative as have frames, forks, and virtually every other part of the bicycle. So while composites have changed the way frames evolved, so to have space age materials changed the bearings we use today.

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This week we have some really great off-season news for you: Bart Wellens has been cleared of suspicions of doping on two counts; Katie Compton makes a quick transition and grabs a podium in Texas; Adam Myerson walked off a plane and won an early season bike race; Colnago with a disc brake road bike, are things in the works for a ’cross racer for next year? Amy Dombroski has been up to some off-season antics, and Tim Johnson starts training in anticipation of his Ride on Washington.

BikeRumor: Carbon fiber rims and heat don’t make a happy family. Hard braking is known to tear them up. Made of a carbon fiber and resin combo, the heat generated from the friction of the brake pad against the sidewall can warm things up enough that the resin may soften too much from the heat, letting the sidewall deform and lead to possible blowouts or reduced braking performance.