CyclingFans: Monday's Tour of Turkey Stage 2 departs Alanya 11:50am CET or 5:50am U.S. Eastern and is expected at the finish at Antalya at around 3:24pm CET or 9:24am U.S. Eastern.  Tour of Turkey live streaming video should get underway at around 2:00pm CET or 8:00am U.S. Eastern.

CyclingNews: One year after a complete domination of the Ardennes week, Philippe Gilbert (BMC) leaves the Ardennes and the whole spring classics season empty-handed. After chasing his best form during the past months, Gilbert felt he was finally back in good shape on the eve of Liège-Bastogne-Liège. The 29-year-old Belgian believed that he would be able to grab his last chance of a big win in La Doyenne.

CyclingNews: Theo Bos (Rabobank) won the sprint of the first stage of the Tour of Turkey to become the first race leader. Matthew Goss (GreenEdge) was second in the sprint, which was marred by a huge crash shortly before the finish line. Daniele Colli (Team Type 1) took third, with Alessandro Petacchi (Lampre) in fourth.

CyclingIQ: Huddled at the start line of today’s first Tour de Korea stage, 121 riders shivered as frigid winds forced whispy rain onto their exposed limbs whilst the countdown to 10:40am ticked slowly by.

Rabobank sprinter feels circumstances are right to challenge.

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CXMagazine: April cyclocross? In 80 degree weather? On a race car track?

TwistedSpoke: In light of the terrible news that Levi Leipheimer will barely make it to the Tour of California in mid May after his life-threatening crash, the odds of Chris Horner (RadioShack Nissan-Trek) repeating as champion jus went up significantly.

CyclingNews: Maxim Iglinskiy (Astana) attacked out of a small chasing group to catch Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas-Cannondale) within sight of the flamme rouge and take the win in the 2012 Liege-Bastogne-Liege. Nibali had jumped from the field on the penultimate climb and tired to solo in the last 20km, but the Kazakh gave chase to claim his first Classic win.

InnerRing: For a while it looked like Vincenzo Nibali was going win Liège-Bastogne-Liège but he was reeled in with one kilometre to go by Maxim Iglinskiy and the Astana rider sailed past and soloed to the line, look carefully and you can spot the losing shade of lime green above. But perhaps this time there was no single winning moment and today’s race was instead defined by attrition and endurance?

CyclingNews: Kim Andersen has hit the headlines this week but even the Danish directeur sportif is probably slightly bemused by the tug of war he’s central to at RadioShack-Nissan.

CyclingNews: Theo Bos scored a meaningful victory at the end of stage 1 in the 48th Presidential Tour of Turkey. As the event is being held this year in the opposite direction as previous editions, from Alanya to Istanbul, the Dutchman's success took place in the same town where a dramatic crash happened in the final sprint three years ago. Following that incident, he was suspended by the UCI for one month because of he allegedly tarnished the image of cycling. Ironically, this time Bos outsprinted Matt Goss who is now a teammate of that crash's victim - and overall winner - in 2009, South Africa's Daryl Impey.

Just when you thought you'd seen all the trickest parts and heard all the coolest stories, along comes the incredible hubs from the Kappius family. Despite being the coolest looking hubs on the planet (with a carbon outer shell rotating around an inner hub axle and beautifully machined aluminum end caps), the hubs are quickly becoming the stuff of legend for their performance features.

CyclingNews: Andy Schleck is determined to be a factor in Liège-Bastogne-Liège, even if the 2009 winner acknowledged that his brother Fränk and Chris Horner will be the natural leaders of the RadioShack-Nissan team on Sunday.

VeloNews: Lars-Petter Nordhaug (Sky) is a success story nearly 10 years in the making.

VeloNews: According to race officials, Valverde and others rode onto a shortcut designed to allow photographers’ motorcycles to safely pass ahead of the peloton after coming off the decisive Redoute climb with about 32km to go.

Cyclismas: At a dinner gala in Luxembourg to honor Uzbekistan socialite Gulnara Karimova on Thursday, RadioShack-Nissan team owner Flavio Becca unleashed a tirade of angry comments after a dismal start to the 2012 season for his high-priced WorldTour squad.

road.cc: British team takes delvery of new XF Sportbrake model.

PodiumInsight: Alison Powers (Now and Novartis for MS) is on a roll, making it three for three.  The former US time trial national champion won the time trial, stage 3 of  the Sea Otter Classic women’s stage race on Saturday afternoon.

PodiumInsight: Nate English (Kenda/5-Hr Energy) clocked the fastest time of 17 minutes and 19 seconds on the time trial, third stage of the Sea Otter Classic men’s stage race on Saturday afternoon.

Cyclelicious: A steel prototype of their LongBow bike. They’re calling it the “Viaje”, and they categorize it as a “steel adventure road bike,” suitable for cyclocross and off-road adventuring.