CyclingFans: Sunday's Tour de Romandie Stage 5, a 16.24km Individual Time Trial to Crans-Montana, gets underway at 1:31pm CET (7:31am U.S. Eastern) with the departure of the first rider. Tour de Romandie live video streaming should get underway at around 4:00pm CET (10:00am U.S. Eastern) with a slight chance of an earlier feed.

CyclingWeekly: Rabobank's Luis Leon Sanchez took his second stage win in as many days in this year's Tour de Romandie to snatch the yellow jersey away from Team Sky's Bradley Wiggins.

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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),
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In a perfect world, the selection process for the men’s US Olympic road and time trial team is a straightforward, objective process.

Pedal: Garneau-Quebecor ace rider from New Zealand, Brett Tivers, was knocked unconscious yesterday during a multi-rider pile up at the Stage 2 road race during the Joe Martin Stage Race in Arkansas.

CyclingIQ: When general classification leader Sung Baek Park came forward to pull on a fresh yellow jersey at the end of today’s seventh Tour de Korea stage, it was the first time all day the KSPO rider had been visible for any significant period of time. One team manager called it “the most disgraceful example of stage racing by a yellow jersey that I have ever seen”.

VeloNation: Italian wins first race since crashing out of Paris-Roubaix; builds form heading into Giro.

CyclingNews: RadioShack-Nissan confirmed yesterday that proposed team leader Jakob Fuglsang is to miss the 2012 Giro d'Italia because of knee problems, and it now appears that his place in the squad will be filled by Fränk Schleck.

CyclingFans: Sunday's Tour of Turkey Stage 8 departs Istanbul at 12:00pm CET or 6:00am U.S. Eastern and is expected at the finish at Istanbul at around 2:47pm CET or 8:47am U.S. Eastern.  Tour of Turkey live streaming video should get underway at around 2:00pm CET or 8:00am U.S. Eastern.

VeloNation: Van Garderen was hit in the face by the wayward branch, sustaining a cut to his nose that required stitches. Despite starting the day in 17th place overall, just 15 seconds behind Team Sky’s then race leader Bradley Wiggins - and only four behind white, young riders’ jersey Andrew Talansky (Garmin-Barracuda) - the 23-year-old was forced to abandon the race.

CyclingNews: Iljo Keisse (Omega Pharma-QuickStep) won a dramatic stage 7 at the 2012 Tour of Turkey in the capital city of Izmir, surviving a dramatic crash on the final bend with 500 metres to go. Keisse had soloed to a 40 second lead and looked to be coasting home until hitting the floor within site of the finish.

Pedal: Specialized-lululemon topped the podium again with Trixi Worrack (Ger) taking the honours in the Stage 3 Lichnov Circuit, 105 km, over Alena Amialiusik (Blr) Be Pink in second with Worrack’s teammate Evelyn Stevens in 3rd. Stevens remains at the top of the GC.

VeloNews: Well it was a dramatic day, Stage 5: one that left me and just about everyone else here feeling sick to the stomach, and, I have to admit, wondering for more than just a moment just why I am in this mad sport.

Pedal: The Whiskey Off Road event kicked off yesterday with the Fat Tire Crit in downtown Prescott, Arizona. Canada’s Geoff Kabush of SCOTT-3Rox Racing made a well-timed last lap attack over the final climb top seal the victory in the Pro Men’s field. Georgia Gould (Team LUNA Chix) won the women’s race.

BikeRadar verdict: 4 out of 5 stars. "Great handling bike for the race of truth, at a great price."

road.cc: The new, the nifty, the quirky gear du jour.

BikeRumor: SE Bikes loves the classics, still manufacturing the fluted seatpost. Now, they have additional retro bling in the lineup. SE’s 10mm Retro Headset Spacers emulate threaded lock nuts to make threadless headsets look old-school threaded.

VeloNation: Tour de France podium finisher will replace injured Fuglsang.

PEZ: By 1943, Italy was in chaos. For even a well-known sporting hero such as Gino Bartali, his public profile was no guarantee of his safety. Yet Bartali chose an even more risky course of action, as foreshadowed in Part 1. He would subsequently go on to even greater sporting and public glory.

CyclingNewsAsia: Each year we look forward to the Bianchi booth, we're always welcomed with a smile.

EuroSport: Floyd Landis, stripped of his 2006 Tour de France win after testing positive for testosterone, is the subject of a federal investigation into a $450,000 defence fund he created and later abandoned, a legal source has said.

VeloNews: American fans will get their first glimpse of German sprinter ace Marcel Kittel as he’s set to make his U.S. racing debut next month at the Tour of California.

In one of cycling's worst kept secrets since Jan Ullrich's curried bratwurst addiction, pint-sized dynamo McEwen told the Belgian press that he was "definitely done after the Tour of California" in May.

VeloNews: One name surprisingly missing from Lampre-ISD’s list of nine riders heading to the Giro d’Italia is Italian sprinter Alessandro Petacchi.

BikeHugger: There’s nothing like steel on the road and the Fondriest SF2 is what you’d expect from high-end, Italian steel.