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Fabian
Cancellara won the 2014 Ronde van Vlaanderen. Due to injury,however, he
will not be able to defend his title.
Sunday's Tour
of Flanders departs Brugge at 10:15am CET (4:15am U.S. Eastern) and
isexpected at the finish at Oudenaarde at around 4:47pm CET (10:47am
U.S.Eastern, 7:47am Pacific).
Tour of Flanders live streaming video should get underway at around *12:00pm CET (*6:00am U.S. Eastern, 3:00am Pacific). *Sporza will be LIVE in Brugge from 9:30am CET through the race start. Other feeds, notably Eurosport, are expected to go live at around 12:30pm CET (6:30am U.S. Eastern, 3:30am Pacific), and still others a bit later. April
4, 2015
(cyclingfans.com)
 Photo:
Angel Vicioso (Katusha) lights it up on the climb
(Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com).
Velonews: Angel Vicioso won
the GP Miguel Indurain on Saturday in Estella, Spain.
The victory in the 192.7km race was the third for the 37-year-old Vicioso, who won back-to-back titles in 2001 and 2002. Vicioso took the flowers ahead of Movistar teammates Ion Izagirre and Beñat Intxausti. Movistar also slipped Alejandro Valverde into the top five, behind Janier Acevedo. April
4, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
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Stefan Kung (BMC Racing). (cyclingupdates.com)
BMC's
Stefan Küng
parlayed his time trialing prowess to his first professional victory in
the Volta Limburg Classic.
The Swiss rider shrugged off suggestions that he could be "the next Fabian Cancellara", but was undeniably impressive after soloing away with 16km to go from a three-man breakaway. The win comes days after taking second to Bradley Wiggins in the time trial at Driedaagse De Panne, and bodes well for the 21-year-old's future. April
4, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
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"It is a race I grew up watching as a kid, just dreaming to be a part
of it, let alone going into it on the team as the strongest guy and one
of the favorites."
Victorious
in the recent E3 Harekbeke race and third in Gent-Wevelgem, Geraint Thomas is
regarded by some as perhaps the biggest favorite for Sunday’s Tour of
Flanders.
The 28 year old Welshman is aware of that status, but appeared quite relaxed at the Team Sky pre-race press meeting held at the team hotel in Kortrijk, Belgium, on Friday. Indeed, rather than coming across as a rider with a lot of weight on his shoulders, Thomas gave the impression that he found things slightly surreal. April
4, 2015 (cyclingtips.com.au)
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...
Far
from the cobblestones of the northern classics, the GC riders and
mountain climbers converge in Spain next week for what many consider
the most difficult weeklong stage race on the European calendar, the
Vuelta a País Vasco (Tour of the Basque Country).
Topping the favorites list is none other than Nairo Quintana. Hot off his impressive victory at Tirreno-Adriatico, the defending Giro d’Italia champion will line up for Monday’s start with every intention of winning his second title in three years. “I have good memories of the Basque Country tour. With the team I have around me, I should have no problem,” Quintana told the Spanish daily MARCA. “I have good condition. There are some challenging rivals, so it will not be easy.” April
4, 2015 (velonews.com)
2014-15
Races &
Results.
Tour of Flanders - Apr 5 (Start List), Vuelta Ciclista al Pais Vasco - Apr 6-11 (Start List), Scheldeprijs - Apr 8 (History), Paris-Roubaix - Apr 12 (History), Giro d'Italia 2015 - May 9-31 (Stages), Tour de France 2015 - July 4-26 (Stages), Vuelta a España 2015 - Aug 22-Sept 13 (Stages), UCI Road World Championship 2015 - Sept 20-27 (Stages), GP Miguel Indurain - Apr 4 (Results), Driedaagse De Panne-Koksijde - Mar 31-Apr 2 (Results), Gent - Wevelgem - Mar 29 (Results), Volta Ciclista a Catalunya - Mar 23-29 (Results), E3 Harelbeke - Mar 27 (Results), Milan San Remo - Mar 22 (Results), Tirreno-Adriatico - Mar 11-17 (Results), UCI Track World Championships - Feb 18-22 (Results), UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships - Jan 31-Feb 1 (Results). Speaking
about a misuse of cortisone which was highlighted in the Cycling
Independent Reform Commission (CIRC) report, Brian Cookson has
said that the UCI is concerned by the use of this and other grey area
products and will try to eliminate any abuses.
The CIRC report looked into historic and current doping practices and while it concluded that there was evidence that the widespread use of hard substances were reduced nowadays due to elements such as the biological passport, it highlighted various concerns. April
3, 2015 (cyclingtips.com.au)
Romain Feillu
confirmed that he still has the speed to win big bunch sprints when he
emerged as the strongest in the uphill sprint in the Route Adelie
Vitré. The Frenchman denied Nacer
Bouhanni his first win for his new team by
beating him into second while Timothy
Dupont completed the podium.
April
3, 2015 (cyclingquotes.com)
|  Photo:
Brian Cookson at the site in Paris where the UCI was founded (source
Brian Cookson Images, Flickr).
UCI
president Brian Cookson
says he is looking to tighten regulations to prevent the misuse of a
number of substances within the peloton. Referring to cortisone and
tramadol in particular, Cookson
said he was keen to ‘de-medicalize’ the practices of professional
cycling.
The Cycling Independent Reform Commission (CIRC) report made reference to a number of grey area products which are not currently banned but which may be being misused by cyclists to gain improvements in performance. Cookson told CyclingTips that the way some substances are used raises ethical questions. April
4, 2015 (road.cc)
 Photo:
Saxo Bank CEO Lars Seier Christensen with Alberto Contador and Bjarne Riis in 2013
(Getty Images Sport).
Lars Seier Christensen
has reiterated that Saxo Bank will honor their current deal with
Tinkoff as a co-sponsor of Oleg
Tinkov’s team but the Danish bank’s CEO has insisted that
no negotiations over a contract extension will take place at this time.
Seier Christensen was set to visit the riders and staff Sunday morning, ahead of the Tour of Flanders but he will find a very different squad to the one he first helped build eight years ago, with former boss Bjarne Riis dismissed from his duties and a new management structure in place courtesy of Tinkov’s recent restructure. April
4, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
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Thomas gets ready to attack Sagan and Stybar.
(Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com).
Peter Sagan can never quite fly under the radar, but his
build-up to the Tour of Flanders has been decidedly quieter than it was
twelve months ago, when he was widely tipped as the man most likely to
break up the longstanding
Fabian Cancellara - Tom
Boonen duopoly.
On that occasion, Sagan’s pre-race press conference on the Friday evening before the race was a heavily-attended but decidedly terse affair, as he looked to downplay those lofty expectations. “It’s a race like another one, no?" he said, jadedly. April
4, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
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The only former winner in the field will be Belgian Stijn Devolder, who
earnt back-to-back wins in 2008 and 2009.
Welshman
Geraint Thomas
will line up as an unlikely favorite when the usually Belgian-dominated
Tour de Flanders begins on Sunday. Of the 98 editions of the second of
five ‘Monument’ races, 68 have been won by Belgians.
The first ever winner was Belgian Paul Deman in 1913 and four of the six riders to have won it a record three times are also from the host country. Yet this year, a plucky Welshman, a Slovak, a Czech, a German and a Norwegian will be among the front-runners trying to succeed Switzerland’s Fabian Cancellara as champion. And one of the reasons they will be feeling confident is that Cancellara – one of the riders on three wins — is injured, along with Tom Boonen, another of the most successful Flanders competitors. Between them, that pair have won this race in six of the last 10 years but with Cancellara nursing two broken vertebrae in his back and Boonen recovering from a dislocated shoulder, the race is wide open. April
4, 2015 (pelotonmagazine.com)
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Value-minded alloy chassis with Invisible Weld Technology.
Trek
recently previewed to some of its dealers the new Emonda ALR road bike
family – the expected alloy framed analogue to its popular Emonda
carbon platform that will supposedly be "the lightest line of
production [aluminum] road bikes ever offered."
Details are scant at the moment but one thing is essentially certain: the Emonda ALR will likely pack plenty of performance into what we expect will be a reasonably priced package. April
4, 2015 (bikeradar.com)
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Power-to-weight ratio matters because it’s a great predictor of
performance.
(Russ Ellis). Power-to-weight
ratio is something that many Grand Tour contenders will concern
themselves with, but it’s not just the pros who can benefit from being
lean when the road goes upwards. Andrew
Hamilton explains just why power-to-weight is important
and how you can improve yours.
"One of my friends is an avid motor-head who builds and races cars for a living. He often jokes: “Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you more horsepower — and that’s the same kind of thing.” As cyclists, we can’t buy more power, of course — we have to train our muscles and bodies to produce it, and that’s not easy." April
4, 2015 (cyclingweekly.co.uk)
The inclusion of Lance
Armstrong in a pre-Tour de France charity cycle ride in
July has cost the event its sole female participant.
Nicki Aitken, the 36-year-old long distance athlete from Reading, felt she had no option but to withdraw after the organizer, ex footballer and cancer survivor Geoff Thomas, revealed that Armstrong would be riding beside her in France. “I realized I didn’t want to be in something that’s associated with the most tainted man in sport,” she said. April
3, 2015 (sport.bt.com)
April
3, 2015 (velonews.com)
| April
4,
2015
 Maxim
Iglinskiy of Astana, who tested positive for EPO. Photoraph: Michel
Krakowski/AFP/Getty Images.
There
often comes a moment in any wordy or indeed worthy interview when the
subject suddenly shifts uneasily in his seat and points towards the
small recording device in front of him. “And this is off the record,”
he says.
There were several such moments in the interview Pat McQuaid gave this newspaper this week – and not all of them had to do with the Cycling Independent Reform Commission (CIRC), which looked into allegations of corruption and anti-doping cover-ups during McQuaid’s term as president of Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the governing body of world cycling. April
4, 2015 (irishtimes.com)
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Marcel Kittel of Germany receives the leaders yellow jersey after
winning stage one of the Tour of Britain in Liverpool City Centre.
(Getty Images Sport).
With
just one victory under his belt so far this season, Marcel Kittel has
decided to take a break to fully recover from a virus rather than try
for a fourth consecutive victory in the Scheldeprijs on Wednesday or
race Paris-Roubaix next week.
Kittel and the team's trainers decided he needs more time to get back to top speed before jumping into races. "Getting back to his normal performance level is the first priority. For now, Kittel will work closely with the team’s medical and performance staff to ensure a gradual build in the intensity of his training." April
4, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
 Bradley
Wiggins is prouder than ever to sport the British flag on his sleeve.
Photo: Tim De Waele.
Bradley Wiggins has
never appeared so proud of his nation as he does in the lead-up to the
Tour of Flanders on Sunday in Belgium, where Great Britain could
produce its second winner in the form of Sky teammate Geraint Thomas.
The only other time he showed such pride on the road was in July 2012, months before Queen Elizabeth knighted him. On the way to capturing his Tour de France, he led out then-world champion Mark Cavendish to a sprint win on the famous Champs-Élysées in Paris. April
4, 2015 (velonews.com)
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Specialized Trigger 38c tire, with an actual width below 35c. ©
Cyclocross Magazine.
Last
year we had a first look at the Specialized Trigger Pro 700x38c 2Bliss
Tire during the Lost and Found gravel ride. The tire offers riders a
higher volume option for long days on gravel roads, and early
prototypes of the Trigger 38c tires helped former Masters Cyclocross
National Champion James
Alan Coats power through the 100-mile event.
After the race, although Coats, like most participants, looked fatigued, the tires still looked ready to go again—which made sense because they were originally developed for Rebecca Rusch’s Dirty Kanza 200 Gravel Race. Much like the smooth tread Specialized’s All Condition Armadillo Elite that Cody Kaiser was using in his race at Barry-Roubaix last weekend, the Specialized Trigger Pro 38c tire is produced with the company’s GRIPTON tire compound for traction in both dry and wet conditions. April
4, 2015 (cxmagazine.com)
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Alex Wetmore’s “Travel Gifford”, a road bike that is designed for wide
tires.
"Last
year’s Oregon Outback was a great test for the ultimate gravel bike.
The course consisted of 1/3 rough and soft gravel, 1/3 smooth gravel
and 1/3 pavement. The situation is similar to our favorite local rides:
We leave from our backdoor on pavement and ride up to the mountains,
where we explore gravel passes far off the beaten path.
What is the ideal bike for this type of riding? We approached the subject by evaluating the real-world performance of different bikes, without regard to tradition and established practice." April
4, 2015 (janheine.wordpress.com)
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