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CyclingNews: South Africa’s top marathon racers got the 2012 ABSA Cape Epic off to a blazing start when they dominated the top positions in the 27km prologue time trial that heralded the start of the international eight-day mountain bike stage race in Durbanville on Sunday.

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VeloNation: Spaniard jumps to second overall with strong move.

Pedal: Canada’s Joelle Numainville (Optum Pro Cycling-Kelly Benefits) scored the win on Saturday at the 60-min City of Redlands Stage 2 Criterium over race leader Megan Guarnier (Team TIBCO) in second with yesterday’s winner Loren Rowney (Specialized-lululemon) in third.

The Optum Pro Cycling presented by Kelly Benefit Strategies women’s team executed their game plan nearly to perfection in the first stage of the Redlands Bicycle Classic, the City of Beaumont Circuit Race. Canada’s Joelle Numainville claimed second place in a frantic field sprint, and Jade Wilcoxson and Numainville claimed the Queen of the Mountain and points jerseys, respectively, in the 72 mile, 3 lap race.

CyclingNews: There was no major changes to the general classification with ovenight leader Oscar Sevilla remaining firmly in control. The Spaniard still holds a more than 3 minute lead over his rivals.

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CyclingNews: At the end of the 74th edition of Gent-Wevelgem the flowers were once again awarded to Tom Boonen (Omega Pharma-QuickStep), just as they had been in Friday’s E3-Prijs Harelbeke. The 2005 world champion continues his impressive demonstration of form and confidence which started early this season in Argentina’s Tour de San Luis.

VeloNation: BMC Racing Team leader in control in Corsica.

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“I was isolated before the Monteberg. It’s as simple as one wheel; someone loses the wheel in front of you, and you’re gapped.” - Mark Cavendish VeloNews

VeloNews: Peter Sagan's Liquigas Cannondale SuperSix Evo, which was ridden to second place at Sunday's Ghent-Wevelgem. Liquigas is on SRAM Red and uses Mavic wheels, Fizik saddles and FSA components.

RBAction: TechLite is a new name in the road market. They’re not exactly jumping into the road scene head first, but rather testing the waters with a conservative approach with just two wheelsets: a carbon 38mm and an alloy 24mm—both available in either clincher or tubular versions.

VeloNation: Michael Rogers milliseconds back in runner-up slot.

VeloNation: Several GC riders lose time in crosswind splits.

VeloNation: Time trial victory moves him above team-mate Huzarski.

BikeRadar: In its eight year history, South Africa's Cape Epic has firmly established itself as the premier mountain biking stage race in the world. And there's no man more closely linked to that history than four-time champion, Karl Platt.

 

CycleSport: About a week ago, Tom Boonen wrote a blog for Het Nieuwsblad in which he played down his ambitions in bunch sprints. “Nowadays the guys take too big risks,” he complained. Since then, he’s won E3 Prijs, in a sprint. And today he won Ghent-Wevelgem, also in a sprint.

Earlier, the first ever edition of a women’s race at Gent-Wevelgem, Great Britain’s Lizzie Armistead, now racing for the Dutch outfit Team AA Drink/leontien.nl takes the win.

Pedal: Elisabeth Armitstead (Gbr) AA Drink – leontien.nl Cycling Team won the inaugural 113.7km Gent Wevelgem for women on Sunday besting Iris Slappendel (Ned) Rabobank Women in second with Jessie Daams (Bel) AA Drink – leontien.nl Cycling Team in third. The women’s version is apparently not ranked as a National Race with no UCI points.

CyclingNews: For the second time in a less than a week Oscar Freire (Team Katusha) was left frustrated in a bunch sprint finish, taking 4th place in Gent-Wevelgem. Three days prior to today’s result, the Spaniard had come out second best to Tom Boonen (Omega-Pharma QuickStep) in the E3 Prijs Vlaanderen-Harelbeke and once again it was the Belgian who made the trip to the top step of the podium in Wevelgem.

CyclingNews: Having missed the entire Classics campaign in 2011 through injury, Taylor Phinney (BMC) was among the starters at Gent-Wevelgem.

VeloNews: Though he’s never won the race, world champion Mark Cavendish will start as one of the big favorites Sunday morning at the 74th edition of Ghent-Wevelgem, the second Belgian WorldTour race of the weekend after Friday’s E3 Harelbeke.

CycleSport: The crux of this weekend’s Ghent-Wevelgem race is the famous Kemmelberg climb, featured in Cycle Sport’s Iconic Places series earlier this year.