CyclingFans: Wednesday's Tour de Romandie Stage 1 departs Morges at 12:35pm CET (6:35am U.S. Eastern) and is expected at the finish at La Chaux-de-Fonds at around 5:24pm CET (11:24am U.S. Eastern).  Tour de Romandie live video streaming should get underway at around 4:05pm CET (10:05am U.S. Eastern).

RedKitePrayer: Maxim Iglinskiy’s impressive, yet shocking victory at the 98th Liège-Bastogne-Liège on Sunday ended a spring classics season that lived up to current expectations: predictably unpredictable.

CyclingNews: Team Sky's Geraint Thomas prevailed in the short 3.34km prologue at the Tour de Romandie, topping Radioshack-Nissan rider Giacomo Nizzolo and 2008 prologue winner Mark Cavendish by a handful of seconds.

TwistedSpoke: To win the Tour de France, your build-up for the three week torture test must be near flawless. No crashes, no extended illness, no screw-ups in race calendar, no extraneous events adding stress or discord, no doping suspensions.

CyclingIQ: A cruel finale blunted the lingering suspense of a stage-long escapade by two riders in today’s third Tour de Korea stage. Not only were 2011 Tour de Korea points jersey winner, Paul Odlin (Subway Cycling Team), and 2009 British Road Cycling Champion, Kristian House (Rapha Condor-Sharp), unable to hold off their pursuants until the finish, a controversial final sprint by Team Type 1 – Sanofi’s Alexander Serebrayakov sucked all attention away from the hard-fighting pair’s efforts.

Tour of Turkey - April 22-29 (Stages & results),
Tour de Romandie - April 24-29 (Stages & results),
Liège - Bastogne - Liège - April 22 (Results),
Giro del Trentino - April 17-20 (Stages & results),
Giro d'Italia - May 5-27 (Stages),
Amgen Tour of California - May 13-20 (Stages),
Tour de France - June 30 - July 22 (Stages),
2012 Olympic Games - July 28 - August 12 (Races),
Vuelta a España - August 18 - September 9 (Stages),
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VeloNation: Former Tour de France leader speaks about Colombia Coldeportes project.

Peloton: The first week will be our wake up call. The thing about getting ready for something so inconceivably overwhelming is that all of the months behind July evaporate completely.

BikeHugger: Simoni’s Cannondale with brass weights added to comply with 6.8kg rule, image from cyclingnews.

Clara Hughes: "I was a rotten teenager and didn’t listen to my Mom very much.  Through the many years of tug-of-wars I usually won, there was one thing my Mom would not budge with.  She always made me finish what I started."

CyclingNews: Andre Greipel (Lotto-Belisol) raced to victory at stage two of the 2012 Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey 2012 in the south western city of Antalya, overcoming high temperatures and a host of world class riders.

CyclingFans: Wednesday's Tour of Turkey Stage 4 departs Fethiye at 12:00pm CET or 6:00am U.S. Eastern and is expected at the finish at Marmaris at around 3:20pm CET or 9:20am U.S. Eastern.  Tour of Turkey live streaming video should get underway at around 2:00pm CET or 8:00am U.S. Eastern.

CyclingNews: GreenEdge's Robbie McEwen has confirmed he will stop his racing career after the Amgen Tour of California in May. The Australian indicated that he would convert from racer and sprint coach for his GreenEdge teammates to a completely advisory role.

EuroSport: Ivaïlo Gabrovski won the third stage of the Tour of Turkey in Elmali to earn a first ever win on home soil for his team, Konya Torku Seker Spor.

CyclingNews: Tom Boonen (Omega Pharma-QuickStep) continues to lead the UCI WorldTour rankings after Maxim Iglinskiy (Astana) clinched an impressive solo triumph in the final Spring Classic of 2012, Liège-Bastogne-Liège, but the gaps are beginning to close at the top of the table on the 31-year-old Belgian.

RedKitePrayer: Gilbert’s BMC squad was clearly focused on controlling the race in preparation for what it hoped would be a decisive attack by Gilbert (or someone else). Unfortunately, this kept too many riders and teams in contention after La Redoute. Without a major selection at this point in the race, there were too many men left to settle things over the remaining 30 kilometers.

VeloNation: Irish pro hoping for good legs after recent illness.

Cyclismas: Daniel Friebe answers some questions about his biography of the greatest cyclist our sport has known: Eddy Merckx – The Cannibal. Along the way we meet some true characters, consider the truth behind Savona, and take a trip back in time to the 1971 Tour de France.

PodiumCafe: : With a spectacular spring classic season in the record books, and May just around the corner, it's time to turn our attention to the season's first grand tour, la corsa più bella del mondo (the most beautiful race in the world), the Giro d'Italia.

BikeRumor: So the story goes like this: One of Hayes’ sales guys left his bike with their marketing and product managers and road crew at Sea Otter with instructions to ship it home to him.

road.cc: Interviu magazine says masseur gave sworn statement saying he saw rider injected with insulin at Tour de France.

InnerRing: Cycling and coffee often seem to go together; but what about politics and cycling? First here’s a bizarre brew of Colombian cycling and Italian politics. Then there’s a more general look at those who have tried to swap pedal power for political power.

Gunn Rita Dahle Flesjå: It's still fantastic winning a race. My victory in Münsingen gives me affirmation that I am headed in the right direction. In London at the Olympic Games, I'll be riding the Merida Big Nine.

Lee Rodgers: "It’s a challenge, trying to stay in race condition for a month after such an extended block of racing between Qatar, Oman and Langkawi. The body naturally needs a break and also the mind, but the difficult part is revving up again before the next race."

CyclingNews: With the Spring Classics season now done and dusted, RadioShack-Nissan boss Johan Bruyneel is focussing on the rest of the season and hoping that his team can pick up the pace in the next few weeks and months.

VeloNews: Christian Vande Velde starts the Tour de Romandie Tuesday with an eye on the Giro d’Italia and the Tour de France. He’ll help Garmin-Barracuda teammate Ryder Hesjedal in his bid to win the Giro and then have his own chance in July.

Bicycling: A heart-rate monitor is still a smart training tool—as long as you listen to your body.

CyclingNews: Liquigas-Cannondale's Vincenzo Nibali is reportedly close to signing a two-year contract extension with the team, according to La Gazzetta dello Sport. The 27-year-old Italian has been at Liquigas since 2006 and is seen as one of the key members of the squad.

It would be difficult to name a more experienced professional than Rubens Bertogliati (Switzerland & Team Type 1) he’s been in the pro peloton since 2000, ridden all of the Grand Tours and pretty much every other race you can think of, from New Zealand to Normandy by way of the United States.

VeloNews: One of the BB30’s claims to fame is improved ankle clearance.

BikeHugger: The Turbo works on pedal action: faster you pedal, the faster the motor spins and the bike is fast, like snap-your-head-back fast.