Sunday' s Stage 15 start time: 12:30 CET (3:30 AM PDT);
Earliest live video: 14:00 CET (5:00 AM PDT);
Approximate finish: 17:19 CET (8:19 AM PDT).

Giro d'Italia - May 5-27 (Stages & results),
Amgen Tour of California - May 13-20 (Stages),
Tour de Picardie - May 11-13 (Stages & results),
Tour of Chongming Island - May 9-11 (Stages & results),
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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road.cc: Another day in the high mountains and one for the big guns to fire says Geraint Thomas, while IG Sigma Sport's Dan Lloyd offers insights in to how they'll do it.

VeloNews: You couldn’t tell Ryder Hesjedal was wearing a pink jersey under layers of jackets and a Garmin team-issue hat and scarf after staging a perfectly-timed coup to recapture the maglia rosa in Saturday’s soggy summit finish high in the Italian Alps.

CyclingNews: Ivan Basso may be over a minute off the overall lead of the Giro d'Italia, but he and his Liquigas-Cannondale team continued to ride as though they were in possession of the maglia rosa on the first bona fide mountain stage to Cervinia on Saturday.

Pedal: Clara Hughes (Can) led a Specialized-lululemon sweep in the 18.4km GP Gatineau Chrono ITT on Saturday as she topped the field in 23:56.76 with Evelyn Stevens in second and Amber Neben 3rd.

BikeRadar: Victoria Pendleton, one of the UK's leading cyclists, will be going for multiple gold medals at this year's Olympic Games in London. A top favourite for the women's track sprinting events, Pendleton wants to crown her career with success in front of her home crowd.

CXMagazine: Georgia Gould may not have had the best cyclocross season last year, but she’s been more than making up for it in the 2012 mountain bike season as she works to make it onto the Olympic team.

road.cc: A slighty left-field one here: a company that makes covert security earpieces for the FBI, Secret Service, CIA and U.S. Military have developed what they say are the safest headphones available for sportspeople.

CyclingNews: Rabobank's Robert Gesink is back: after breaking his femur last September in training, the Dutch rider has regained his top form and showed it by claiming the stage win on Mt. Baldy and claiming the race lead of the Tour of California. Gesink out-sprinted John Atapuma (Colombia Coldeportes), while Colombian's teammate Fabio Duarte claimed third.

Saturday's Tour of California Stage 7 departs Ontario at 12:00pm PDT (9:00pm CET) and is expected at the finish at Mt. Baldy at around 3:35pm PDT (00:35am CET). Tour of California live streaming video should get underway at around 2:00pm PDT (11:00pm CET).

PodiumInsight: The Queen Stage. This is it, this is the stage where the overall winner of the Amgen Tour of California will be decided with three tough KOMs.

VeloNews: Defending champion Chris Horner (RadioShack-Nissan), three-time winner Levi Leipheimer (Omega Pharma-Quick Step), promising young rider Tejay van Garderen (BMC Racing) and Garmin-Barracuda teammates Tom Danielson and Andrew Talansky were the riders most widely predicted to stand atop the final overall podium.

TwistedSpoke: Last year at this time minus one day teammates Chris Horner and Levi Leipheimer rode away from everybody and crossed the line together hand in hand like best buds in a beer commercial.

PodiumInsight: Like most of the previous stages at the Amgen Tour of California, the break went off early in stage 6, when Jeremy Vennell (Bissell) attacked – again – less than two kilometers into the 186.3 km stage. Soon seven riders were up the road. What was different this time is that the break stuck when one rider survived to take the win. That rider was Sylvain Georges, a 28-year old Frenchman on the AG2R La Mondiale team.

RBAction: "We hired Mike Montgomery who knows all about going over backwards on a bike. We scoured the Internet until we found some clip of a guy on a road bike doing a small back-flip and once we saw that we knew it could be done."

Marijn de Vvries: "I have been on the road since 6.30 am when the start gun sounds for Gooik-Geraardsbergen-Gooik at 2.30 pm. The long journey via train stations, airports and hotels proved to be a real threat to my well-being in general and my legs in particular. Exhausted, I stand at the start line hoping that this feeling will disappear once I hit the pedals and the road."

Bicycling: Who is the rider hidden beneath the Captain America helmet?

VeloNation: Rivals emphasise importance of recovery prior to Tour, but Cavendish will keep going.

Bicycling: Garmin-Barracuda manager talks tactics, lack of rider radios, and Mount Baldy finale.

CyclingNews: In an exclusive chat with Cyclingnews at the start of this morning's fourteenth stage at the 2012 Giro d'Italia, Orica-GreenEdge rider Fumiyuki Beppu revealed that the Giro d'Italia is one of his favourite races of the season because of the fans.

InnerRing: A double win yesterday for French squad Ag2r La Mondiale. First they won in the Circuit de Lorraine Professionel, a 2.1 stage race on France’s eastern borders thanks to Sébastien Hinault. Then Sylvain Georges doubled-up with a fine solo stage win in the Tour of California.

BikeRadar: As technology advances, the cost of many mountain bikes has gone through the roof. Is it even possible to get a good mountain bike for $1,000 or less? Yes!

Pedal: Following the GP Gatineau team presentations on Friday Specialized-lululemon and Tommy & Lefebvre hosted a great wine and cheese gathering in T&F’s newly renovated store on Bank St.

Enrico Battaglin: "Hello from the start line of stage 13. We’re in Savona on the sea side. The atmosphere is very relaxed but we know that we have harder days to come in terms of racing and weather conditions."

InnerRing: There are names that stand out. Zoncolan. Angliru. Perhaps after the summer the Grand Colombier could join the club after the Tour de France climbs it for the first time. These are all steep climbs that are considered so hard that they are used sparingly in the big races, appearing only once every few years.