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May 2013
May 5, 2013



Photo: 2013 Giro d'Italia Stage Profile.
CyclingFans: Monday's Giro d'Italia Stage 3 departs Sorrento at 11:40am CET (5:40am U.S. Eastern) and is expected at the finish at Marina di Ascea at around 5:13pm CET (11:13am U.S. Eastern).  Giro d'Italia live streaming video should get underway at around 2:30pm CET (8:30am U.S. Eastern).






Photo: Arnaud Démare (FDJ) comfortably won the 2013 Quatre Jours de Dunkerque.
VeloNation: Arnaud Démare wins overall as La Pomme Marseille bursts clear in the final meters.






Photo: After a couple of quiet seasons in which his top form eluded him,
Philip Deignan is back on top of the podium, taking overall victory at the Tour of the Gila in New Mexico today.
StickyBottle: Unitedhealthcare professional Philip Deignan has shown he is back to his best by climbing his way into the winner’s red jersey on the closing stage of the Tour of the Gila in New Mexico today.





Photo: The French say riding your first grand tour is worth an extra tooth, un dent de plus .
CyclingNews: FDJ’s Laurent Pichon crashed hard yesterday in the opening stage of the Giro and knocked two teeth out of his mouth.





Races & Results.
Giro d'Italia - May 4-26 (Stages),
4 Jours de Dunkerque - May 1-5 (Stages),
Tour of the Gila - May 1-5 (Stages),
Tour of California - May 12-19 (Stages),
Tour de Romandie - Apr 23 -28 (Stages & Results),
Tour of Turkey - Apr 21-28 (Stages & Results),
Tour de France - June 29-July 21 (Stages),
Vuelta a España - Aug 24-Sept 15 (Stages),





Photo: Jamis on the job for race leader Acevedo in Saturday's crit.
VeloNews: There is nothing easy about the Gila Monster, one of the most difficult single days of racing on the calendar in the United States. With 161 kilometers of racing and more than 9,000 feet of climbing on the menu, there is plenty of road for an ambitious rider or team to overturn the general classification.





Photo: Kiel Reijnan (UnitedHealthcare) takes the win with teammate Luke Keough in second.
CyclingNews: Keough makes it 1-2 for UnitedHealthcare.








Photo: The 2013 Giro d'Italia will cover 3,454 kilometers over 21 days .
VeloNews: Everyone agrees: the Giro d’Italia is a special race. The corsa rosa is chaotic, emotional, colorful, and hard, very hard.





Photo: Bicycle helmets continue to prove useful in reducing injury in cyclists (AAP).
SBS: Cyclists without helmets are 5.5 times more likely to suffer a severe head injury than their protected counterparts, say Dr Michael Dinh and his colleagues from the University of Sydney.






Photo: A very technical 17km team time trial on the small island of Ischia.
InnerRing: A very technical 17km team time trial on the small island of Ischia. Sometimes this kind of stage can be a test of raw power and aerodynamics but this one is very different, a true test of a team’s ability to hold together.





Photo: Cav’s email inspires his team PHOTO: Tim De Waele .
BrowneEye: It’s been no secret that Mark Cavendish hasn’t been happy with the level of support he’s received from his Omega Pharma-QuickStep teammates.






















Photo: Bradley Wiggins and his Sky mates scorch the technical 17.4k team time trial .
TwistedSpoke: Lost on the island of Ischia: Vincenzo Nibali, 14 seconds, Ryder Hesjedal, 25 seconds and Cadel Evans, 37 seconds and a significant amount of hope.







Photo: Team Sky team time trials toward a Giro stage win .
CyclingNews: Puccio moves into maglia rosa.





Photo: Bradley Wiggins was looked after by his Sky teammates.
CyclingNews: Briton confirms status as top contender, Nibali closest, Hesjedal and Evans on defensive.





Photo: Nacer Bouhanni (FDJ) .
CyclingNews: Long day the riders face to race on Ischia, the Twitter love between Bernhard Eisel and Nacer Bohanni after the stage one sprint, recall the last time the Giro d'Italia visited Ischia and remember Italian legend Gino Bartali on the anniversary of his death.





Photo: Kaitlin Antonneau topped the Division I women's road race podium on her way to winning her third omnium national title.
USACycling: Marian University earned its fourth team omnium of the 2012-13 season after earning the maximum 94 points in five of the six races in Ogden to win the Division I team omnium by 136 points over the University of Colorado-Boulder.






Photo: The Division I men's field snakes through downtown Ogden .
USACycling: The 2013 USA Cycling Collegiate Road National Championships continued Saturday with four criterium races in downtown Ogden.





Photo: A cyclist on New York's Brooklyn Bridge.
Business Insider: The 2013 Copenhagenize Index of the world's most bike-friendly cities is out, and not a single American metropolis made the top 20.





Photo: The incredible images are shot by Stefan Bogner.
Elcyclista: Described as a book for “Pass-Lovers“, this is a collection of some of the most stunning mountain shots you will ever see.








Photo: Mark Cavendish free-lances his way to victory in the first stage of the 2013 Giro d'Italia .
VeloNews: Mark Cavendish (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) overcame a fractured lead-out on Saturday to win stage 1 of the 2013 Giro d’Italia, a 130km jaunt around Naples.





Photo: With a flash, Bradley Wiggins arrives in Naples for the 2013 Giro d'Italia.
VeloNews: Bradley Wiggins (Sky) began his attempt to win the Giro d’Italia from chaotic Naples on Saturday. Making his way from Sky’s hotel, passing in the shadow of Vesuvius and dodging traffic, Wiggo signed his name to the start sheet to embark on his journey.


















Photo: Hey! I am now at almost 24% raised and a month away from deadline .
GoFundMe: "Hello, my name is Patrick Sluyter; I am honored to be selected as one of five to be on the United States Deaf cycling team for Deaflympics, and I need help to fund raise and complete my lifelong dream of competing in Sofia, Bulgaria from July 26 to August 4, 2013."






Photo: Matt White Orica-GreenEdge YouTube still .
road.cc: Australian former cyclist's ban expired before he was informed of it.





Photo: Kelly video assessment of Wiggins vs Froome.
VeloNation: ‘It is going to be difficult to control Froome if he sees again that he is in a position where he could win the Tour’.





Photo: Success...Arnaud Demare led from start to finish (Getty Images) .
SBS: Young sprinter Arnaud Demare claimed his first stage race victory at the 4 Jours de Dunkerque.







Photo: The BMC team presented in Naples .
CyclingNews: Playing to tune of weakest link crucial, says Peiper.





Photo: the 1945 Omnium des Cyclotouristes, which included a climb up the steep cobblestone hill at Neauphle-le-Château near Paris.
Off The Beaten Path: Paulette Porthault, remembered: “Oh it was awful, all those rough cobblestones which dated from the time of Louis XIV.”





Photo: Seems Team Sky are sticking to the Graal.
road.cc: Pinarello may have launched their new Bolide TT bike on Friday, but Team Sky and Sir Bradley Wiggins are sticking with what they know for the Giro TTT.





Photo: The CXR60's rim shape is similar to that of its deeper sibling, the CXR80,
which debuted last year. It does not appear to incorporate the same CX01 Blade system as the CXR80, though.
VeloNews: Mavic’s deep CXR80 wheelset now has a smaller sibling, a 60mm-rim version using similar technology designed to target the mid-depth carbon tubular market.





Photo: Sram Quick View Computer Mount.
road.cc: Simple, light and sturdy mount that frees up space on your bar/stem and offers easier viewing of the computer screen.












Photo: Kimmage defence fund .
VeloNation: Those involved in current dispute speak at length, but what happens next?





Photo: Matt White shares his past with Cycling Central (CC).
SBS: In his first and only TV interview since being formally charged by ASADA for the use of performance enhancing drugs, former professional cyclist and team manager Matt White reveals he doped for the majority of his professional cycling career.






VeloNews: Given the countless crashes, which left several riders requiring medical attention after Saturday’s opening stage of the Giro d’Italia, it’s fair to question whether the sinuous circuit through Naples was unnecessarily dangerous.





Cyclismas: While time trialling will shape the outcome of this Giro, it is the climbs where the riders will battle shoulder to shoulder for the right to don pink in Brescia.





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