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 Mikel
Landa (Astana) celebrates the win. (Bettini Photo).
Mikel Landa won
stage 5 of the Vuelta Ciclista al Pais Vasco from Eibar to Aia with a
well-timed and powerful attack on the final climb.
The Spaniard helped form a 30-rider break in the opening hour of the stage and broke free with Tim Wellens, Tom Danielson and teammate Rein Taaramae on the final of three ascents of the Aia but dropped his companions inside the final kilometer. Wellens held on for second with Danielson in third. April
10, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
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Stage 6 Profile.
Stage 6 start time: Saturday 14:55 CET
(5:55 AM PST).
Earliest live video: 15:00 CET (6:00 AM PST). Approximate finish: 16:44 CET (7:44 AM PST). April
10, 2015 (cyclingfans.com)
 Ryan
Roth (Silber) took over the GC lead on Thursday in the Redlands Bicycle
Classic. Photo courtesy of Silber..
Rhea Shaw and Tom Zirbel won
the Redlands Bicycle Classic stage 2 time trial at Big Bear Lake,
California on Thursday.
Starting about two-thirds of the way through the elite women’s line-up, Shaw set a mark that withstood challenges from the race’s top riders. Optum’s orange and black jerseys were a common sight on the TT podium, as Glaesser’s teammate, Tom Zirbel, won the men’s race. Chris Barton set a best mark very early in the race, but Zirbel quickly eclipsed his time by 9.45 seconds. It was not until over 20 minutes later that another rider would challenge Zirbel. Silber’s Ryan Roth came close, but slotted into second place, 7.74 seconds behind the tall Optum rider. April
10, 2015 (velonews.com)
 Photo:
Tom Zirbel (Optum) comes through with the fastest time (Jonathan Devich
epicimages.us).
When
the Tour of California comes to Big Bear Lake in May for the stage 5
time trial, US domestic riders will be in familiar territory. For the
past three years, half of the 24.2km course for the California stage
has been used in the Redlands Bicycle Classic.
The Tour of California time trial starts in the heart of Big Bear Village – which sits at about 2,050 metres of elevation – on the south shore of the lake, then travels 5km through a winding residential neighbourhood before crossing over to the lake’s north shore and onto the 12.5 km out-and-back Redlands route. April
10, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
2014-15
Races &
Results.
Vuelta Ciclista al Pais Vasco - Apr 6-11 (Stages & Results), 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), Circuit Cycliste Sarthe - Apr 7-10 (Results), Scheldeprijs - Apr 8 (Results), Tour of Flanders - Apr 5 (Results), 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).  Photo:
2015 Paris-Roubaix Profile and Cobblestone Sectors.
Sunday's
Paris Roubaix departs Compiegne at 10:20am CET (4:20am U.S.
Eastern)
and is expected at the finish at Roubaix at around 4:50pm CET (10:50am
U.S. Eastern).
Paris Roubaix live streaming video should get underway at around *12:45pm CET (*6:45am U.S. Eastern, 3:45am Pacific). *Eurosport's coverage is scheduled to begin at this time. April
10, 2015 (cyclingfans.com)
Katusha's
Joaquim Rodriguez
took his second consecutive stage win during stage 4 at the Vuelta
Ciclista al Pais Vasco on Thursday.
The Spaniard was a part of a select group of climbers that formed on the steep slopes of the late-race climb over the Usartza, and following a fast two-kilometer descent into Arrate, he out-sprinted his rivals at the finish line. Bauke Mollema was second in the sprint and Simon Yates was third. April
9, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
Rolland, Hivert topped by
Tinkoff-Saxo Italian.
April
9, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
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Few one-day bike races capture the imagination quite like
Paris-Roubaix. The cobbles, the dirt, the mud, the crashes; it truly is
one of the hardest races on the calendar. (Cor Vos)
The
2015 edition of Paris-Roubaix is 253km long and takes the riders from
Compiègne to Roubaix. Along the way they’ll face 27 cobbled sectors of
varying degrees of brutality, for a total of 52.7 cobbled kilometers.
Alexander Kristoff goes into the race as one of the big favorites, not least because of an incredible run of form in recent times. In nine days, Kristoff managed no fewer than six wins, including Scheldeprijs on Wednesday and last Sunday’s Tour of Flanders. April
9, 2015 (cyclingtips.com.au)
 Photo:
It took more than a year to complete the project.
Originally
designed by Lodovico
Falconi in 1984, this magnificently restored Alan Super
Record CX, found a second life rather serendipitously.
In a moment of luck, the Netherlands-based framebuilder, Junior Hoefsloot, found the Alan in all places – a metal scrap yard. From there, Hoefsloot brought it back to his workplace, and began the process of bringing it back to life. Both a philanthropic foundation and a workshop, Hoesfsloot’s Villa Boerebont MOER, trains underprivileged youth in the life-long skills of woodworking, bike mechanics, farming, and baking. April
9, 2015 (capovelo.com)
|  Photo:
Phil Gaimon (right) and Brad Huff show off their "clean" tattoos while
Scott Zwizanski clowns in the background. (Pat Malach).
Phil Gaimon and
Mara Abbott
won stage 3 of the Redlands Bicycle Classic, and with that, each took
over the yellow jersey in their respective races on Friday.
Gaimon won out of a 10-man group that came into the final three kilometers together after the larger field was peeled apart by the last trip up the Oak Glen Road hill, a major feature on the 15-mile Yucaipa circuit. April
10,
2015 (cyclingnews.com)
 Photo:
Tiffany Crowmell and Tayler Wiles (Sean Robinson).
In
the stage 2a, Velocio-SRAM won the TTT of the Energiewacht Tour. The
reigning world champions unsurprisingly won the 14.7 kilometer team
time trial. Boels Dolman was second at 14 seconds, with RaboLiv Women
in third.
In stage 2b, Lucinda Brand used superior positioning and cornering skills to claim the win, topping Kirsten Wild and Christine Majerus in the bunch sprint. These tough corners are Brand’s speciality, and coming into the final corner at the front with the top sprinters scrambling behind her, she sailed through, and won with plenty of distance. April
10, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
 Photo:
The 2015 Energiewacht Tour, an Elite Women's race, is being held April
8-12. There is also a junior edition.
Saturday's
Energiewacht Tour Stage 3 gets underway at 12:00pm CET (6:00am U.S.
Eastern) and is expected to finish at around 2:57pm CET (8:57am U.S.
Eastern).
Energiewacht Tour live video streaming should get underway at 12:00pm CET (6:00am U.S. Eastern, 3:00am Pacific). April
10, 2015 (cyclingfans.com)
 Photo:
The difficulty of the cobbles makes the race a shop window for the
cycle trade where the most extreme race of the year is used to sell
goods for everyday use.
This
Sunday’s Paris-Roubaix has to be the unique race on the calendar. Its
cobbles are enough to make the Oude Kwaremont look new.
The velodrome finish is unusual but the exceptions don’t end there, this is a race where reaching the showers has become part of the ritual. Even the name stands out, Roubaix is celebrated as a strong brand by the cycle-trade when in the reality it’s France’s poorest town and rarely something to celebrate. April
10, 2015 (inrng.com)
 Photo:
To Hell On A Bike
- Riding Paris-Roubaix: The Toughest Race In Cycling.
Bryn Lennon/Getty Images As
well as the story of his own preparation for and participation in the
Paris-Roubaix Challenge, MacGregor
weaves in the history of the race the sportive celebrates and talks to
a few interesting people along the way.
April
10, 2015 (podiumcafe.com)
 Tom
Boonen is likely to make his comeback from injury at the Tour of Turkey
but could then make his first ever appearance at the Giro d'Italia.
(Photo: Watson)
Tom Boonen may race
the Giro d’Italia in May for the first time in hist 14-year career,
according to Etixx-Quick-Step boss Patrick
Lefevere, but Mark
Cavendish will not ride the year’s first Grand Tour.
According to La Gazzetta dello Sport, Lefevere confirmed ahead of Sunday’s Paris-Roubaix that Cavendish will head across the Atlantic to take part in the Amgen Tour of California. The Manxman won two stages in California last season in a race won by Team Sky’s Bradley Wiggins, and claimed the sprinter’s jersey in 2009 when racing for Columbia-High Road. April
10, 2015 (cyclingweekly.co.uk)
 Photo:
Niki Terpstra (Etixx-Quickstep) (Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com).
Call
it the Wiggins
effect, the Kristoff
effect or a combination of the two, but Niki Terpstra has
enjoyed a pleasantly low-key build-up to Paris Roubaix for a
defending champion, particularly given that neither one of the
traditional favorites, Fabian
Cancellara and Tom
Boonen, is on hand this year.
Alexander Kristoff’s recent run of success has shades of Philippe Gilbert’s startling 2011 about it, in that he has seemingly forgotten how to lose, and despite an underwhelming track record at Paris Roubaix, he has been anointed by many as the likely winner on Sunday afternoon. April
10, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
 Photo:
Jolien d'Hoore (Wiggle Honda) wins (Bert
Geerts/dcp-bertgeerts@xs4all.nl).
Jolien D'hoore claimed
the first stage of the Energiewacht Tour in a sprint finish ahead of Barbara Guarischi
and Trixi Worrack.
Anna van der Breggen finished fifth, and retained her overall lead in the race. On a calm, sunny day with the wind that usually characterizes the Energiewacht Tour absent, all the teams were predicting a bunch sprint, though two breakaway riders nearly rewrote the script. Just 14 kilometers into the race, Winanda Spoor attacked, taking Marijn de Vries with her, and with the bunch hesitant to chase, they stayed away through the run-in from Wedde to Ter Apel, and into the first of four 13.9km laps. April
9, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
April
9, 2015 (velonews.com)
| April
10,
2015
 Photo:
Fabio Aru escapes on stage fifteen of the 2014 Giro d'Italia.
The
Giro d’Italia organizer, RCS Sport has said it is prepared to ask the
UCI for damages should the ongoing Astana license case have an adverse
effect on its 2015 race.
The Kazakh team, with 2014 Tour de France winner Vincenzo Nibali, could lose its WorldTour license over doping offences, but currently remains free to participate in races including the Giro, which begins on May 9. Race Director Mauro Vegni wants to avoid a repeat of 2011, when Spaniard Alberto Contador won the overall title only to have it stripped due to an ongoing doping case stemming from the 2010 Tour de France. That case, with its appeals process, took 18 months to resolve. April
10, 2015 (cyclingweekly.co.uk)
 Photo:
Ramunas Navardauskas (Cannondale-Garmin) (Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com).
Nacer Bouhanni of
Cofidis won the last stage of Circuit de la Sarthe-Pays de la Loire in
Le Lude as well as he opened his record book of the 2015 season with
stage 1 in Varades.
A change of leader occurred on the last day as Ramunas Navardauskas of Cannondale-Garmin repeated his overall victory and became the fourth rider to win the race back to back since the event became a professional affair, following the path of Bernard Hinault (1975-76), Jean-François Bernard (1992-93) and Melchior Mauri (1997-98). April
10, 2015 (cyclingnews.com)
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Peter Stetina's surgery performed in Bilbao, Spain.
Peter Stetina and
teammate Darwin Atapuma
were two of more than half a dozen riders who were hurt in the pile-up
that happened Monday in the last 400 meters of the opening stage of the
Spanish race.
Stetina broke his right leg in two places and broke four ribs. Atapuma cut his left knee but was able to start the next day. The crash happened when several riders struck meter-high metal poles near the curb lane. The incident - and concerns over rider safety - led the peloton to stage a five-minute protest before Stage 2. Dr. Testa said Stetina is recovering well after undergoing surgery to repair his broken tibia and patella. April
10, 2015 (cyclingquotes.com)
 Alexander
Kristoff and his teammates previewed the Paris-Roubaix course Thursday.
Photo: Tim De Waele.
Will
the Alexander Kristoff
express keep on rolling?
After a tremendous run that includes victories at the Ronde van Vlaanderen (Tour of Flanders), Scheldeprijs, and three stages and the overall at the Three Days of De Panne, the 27-year-old Kristoff enters Sunday’s Paris-Roubaix as a five-star favorite. Despite his obvious strength, Kristoff is downplaying his chances in Sunday’s “Hell of the North.” “I’ve always gone better in Flanders. I’ve never gone that good in Roubaix. I think I was ninth two years ago, but I hope to improve it. I should be fine for Sunday,” Kristoff said. “Of course, I dream of winning, who doesn’t? If I get podium, I would be very happy. We will try, of course, but the whole team is in good form. We will give it a try, of course.” April
10, 2015 (velonews.com)
 Niki
Terpstra will set out to defend his Paris-Roubaix title on Sunday after
finishing second at the Tour of Flanders last weekend (Pic: Sirotti).
Niki Terpstra will
return to Paris-Roubaix on Sunday as defending champion, after soloing
to victory off the front of a star-studded group 12 months ago.
Now, on the back of second place at the Tour of Flanders, Terpstra will bid to replicate legendary team-mate Tom Boonen – the last man to secure back-to-back wins, in 2008 and 2009. The Dutchman heads an Etixx-QuickStep line-up not short on options, but with Alexander Kristoff in the form of his life and Bradley Wiggins bidding to leave Team Sky with victory, there is plenty of competition in a race which is often a lottery. April
10, 2015 (roadcyclinguk.com)
 "Last
year I made a step forward but this year I think I made a bigger step
forward." Photo: Cor Vos
There
were many impressive performances in last Sunday’s Tour of Flanders but
perhaps the most eye-opening was the performance of the Lotto Soudal
rider Tiesj Benoot.
A first year professional who just turned 21 years of age last month and who is a student in university, the Belgian rider stunned many when he finished a superb fifth in Oudenaarde. He rubbed shoulders with far more seasoned riders, each of whom who had the advantage of several years on him, and crossed the line in fifth place, just 36 seconds behind the winner Alexander Kristoff. April
10, 2015 (cyclingtips.com.au)
 Much
is at stake for the U.S.
government in the case against Lance Armstrong. The ferocious legal
wrangling behind the scenes indicates as much. Photo: Tim De Waele.
The
U.S. government has successfully blocked Floyd Landis’
proposed settlement with associates of feuding former teammate Lance Armstrong; a
federal judge nixed the $600,000 deal on Thursday.
U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper acknowledged that it “might seem unfair” for the government to force Landis to continue litigation against William Stapleton, Armstrong’s former agent and president of Capital Sports and Entertainment Holdings, Inc., and CSE vice president Barton Knaggs, since the government was not part of the court action against them. April
9, 2015 (velonews.com)
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9,
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