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May 2013
May 19, 2013




Photo: Giovanni Visconti (Movistar Team) wins stage 15 of the Giro d'Italia.
CyclingNews: Nibali defends maglia rosa.






Photo: Vincenzo Nibali ...
VeloNation: Maglia Rosa marks his rivals on Galibier finish but doesn’t manage to escape.






Photo: Vincenzo Nibali (Astana) marks Cadel Evans (BMC).
CyclingNews: Australian follows Nibali on the Galibier.






Photo: Twenty-three-year-old Colombian Carlos Betancur and Polish rider Rafal Majka are scrapping it out for the maglia bianca...
PodiumCafe: The maglia bianca competition is proving to be the most compelling race-within-the-race at this year's Giro.





Races & Results.
Giro d'Italia - May 4-26 (Stages & Results),
Tour of California - May 12-19 (Stages & Results),
Tour de France - June 29-July 21 (Stages),
Vuelta a España - Aug 24-Sept 15 (Stages),





Photo: Robert Gesink (Blanco)...
CyclingNews: Gesink out of contention after freezing stage.





Vincenzo Nibali and Mauro Santambrogio, Giro d'Italia 2013, stage 14.
CyclingWeekly: Vincenzo Nibali's jersey is becoming more and more rosa in the Giro d'Italia. Yesterday, his two closest rivals - Cadel Evans (BMC Racing) and Rigoberto Urán (Sky) - lost a half-minute in the overall classification.







Photo: 2013 Giro d'Italia Stage Profile.
CyclingFans: Sunday's Giro d'Italia Stage 15 departs Cesana Torinese at 1:00pm CET (7:00am U.S. Eastern) and is expected at the finish at Col du Galibier at around 5:10pm CET (11:10am U.S. Eastern).  Giro d'Italia live streaming video should get underway at around *1:00pm CET (*7:00am U.S. Eastern). 





Photo: The Col du Galibier looks like it will play its part in stage 15.
road.cc: Ex-Garmin Cervelo rider Dan Lloyd recces what could be one of the pivotal stages of this year's race.







Photo: Cadel Evans (BMC) suffers in the rain.
CyclingNews: Riders suffer but finish stage despite the cold and snow.







Photo: Mauro Santambrogio .
CyclingNews: Overall leader Nibalia retains maglia rosa.






Photo: Vincenzo Nibali (Astana) in pink and on the attack.
CyclingNews: Sicilian extends lead over Evans and Uran.






Photo: Vincenzo Nibali had a slim, 41-second lead over Cadel Evans entering Saturday's stage 14 at the Giro.
VeloNews: The pink jersey hangs in the balance this weekend for a pair of decisive climbing stages on both sides of the Alps that could go a long way toward deciding who will win the 2013 Giro d’Italia.






Photo: Alison Powers (NOW and Novartis) and Evelyn Stevens (Specialized-lululemon) neck and neck .
Podium Insight: The Amgen Tour of California Women’s Time Trial was a battle between Evelyn Stevens (Specialized-lululemon) and Alison Powers (NOW and Novartis for MS) who started 30 seconds behind Stevens.












Photo: Tejay van Garderen (BMC) nears the finish of his first big stage race win.
CyclingNews: American believes he can be a contender for the Tour de France.






Photo: Peter Sagan (Cannondale) salutes as he collects the ninth stage victory at the Tour of California of his career.
CyclingNews: Sagan celebrates victory in final stage.





Photo: Moinard congratulates van Garderen at the finish of stage 7...
VeloNews: It had been following along with the peloton, for the most part unheard and unsaid, until the young American in the race leader’s jersey at the Amgen Tour of California felt comfortable enough to bring it up.





Photo: Tejay van Garderen is on the cusp of earning the first major stage race victory of his career.
VeloNews: While BMC Racing ground the rapidly tearing peloton to dust high on Mount Diablo, Tejay van Garderen could have sailed away and tried for a stage win, an exclamation point on his Californian coronation as the United States’ premier stage racer.





Photo: Exhausted...
TwistedSpoke: Gavin Mannion of Bontrager-Trek somehow ended up on left gutter on the climb up Mt. Diablo.





Photo: Mancebo at San Francisco start. photo twisted spoke...
Twisted Spoke: Francisco Mancebo wanted to go home to Spain via Mount Diablo in California. At age 37, it was really his last shot to race closer to hime, his wife and young kids.





Photo: 2013 Tour of Norway Race Map.
CyclingNews: Kristoff takes final stage .





Photo: Tejay van Garderen (BMC) pulled on the yellow jersey after his attentive ride in the final 50km of Stage 5 .
CyclingNews: BMC rider on the cusp of Tour of California win.







Photo: Safe in yellow...Tejay van Garderen has a 1min 47sec lead ahead of the final stage (Getty Images).
SBS: Leopold Koenig won the battle on Mt Diablo to claim the seventh stage of the Tour of California while an arm-chair ride ensured Tejay van Garderen retained the overall lead.






Photo: Rebecca Henderson draws first blood (Rob Jones).
SBS: Australian Rebecca Henderson claimed the opening round of the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup winning the under 23 women's race in Albstadt, Germany.





Photo: Tejay van Garderen brings a sizeable lead into Saturday's penultimate stage at the Amgen Tour of California.
VeloNews: For the podium contenders, or those daring to fly the coup solo today, there is but one true mountain remaining in the 2013 Amgen Tour of California.






Photo: Edvald Boasson Hagen (Sky) wins stage 4.
CyclingNews: Paulinho takes second place in Lillehammer.





Photo: Former teammates and adversaries Jonathan Vaughters and Lance Armstrong, pictured before the 1999 Tour de France, have rekindled their relationship over discussions of the doping culture in cycling.
VeloNews: Stripped Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong and Garmin-Sharp team manager Jonathan Vaughters, former teammates who have spent the past decade at odds over the issue of doping in pro cycling, have renewed their long-strained relationship..





Photo: Amber Neben (Specialized_lululemon) completed the team podium sweep.
CyclingNews: No championship defense after dramatic crash.

























Photo: Peter Sagan (Cannondale) in the green jersey for another day.
CyclingNews: Stage win nets fourth green jersey for Cannondale rider.





Photo: Tyler Farrar comes around Ken Hanson for the win in stage 4 of the Amgen Tour of California, with Gianni Meersman third.
VeloNews: If Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Sharp) is fitted for a stars-and-stripes jersey after the USA Cycling professional road championship in Tennessee, he may have California to thank for it.





Photo: The 2013 Giro’s official song Mezza Estate (“midsummer”) is feeling like a cruel joke.
Bad weather – How Froome’s Knigh-mare scenario in July – McQuaid’s Swiss role – UCI deny Verbruggen’s “never, never, never” quote – Tour du Farce – Chamorro, another Colombian to remember – California Coverage.





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: Jim Burns, Irish teacher in South Africa, circa 1976 (left) and today (right)...
Cyclismas: With the current UCI presidency in disarray a coup is in progress: an unknown by the name of Jim Burns has thrown his hat in the ring to become UCI President.






Photo: Giovanni Visconti goes it alone, toward victory on the Col du Galibier.
VeloNews: Giovanni Visconti (Movistar) conquered the Giro d’Italia’s stage to Galibier on Sunday and left behind a black period.





Vincenzo Last year’s winner, Fortunato Baliani (Team Nippo – De Rosa), registered a solid, but not spectacular, performance.
CyclingIQ: Winner of the final stage of last year’s Tour of Japan, Aisan Racing Team’s Taiji Nishitani picked up where he left off, putting his long-range sprinting ability to good use with a strong ITT performance in today’s opening stage of the 2013 Tour of Japan in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture.





Photo: USADA chief Travis Tygart (R) shakes hands with Senator Arlen Specter at a 2009 hearing in Washington, DC about screening dietary supplements for illegal steroids..
CyclingNews: All those involved in the sport “deserve more”, USADA head says.





Photo: Pat McQuaid at the Tour Down Under (photo credit credit Santos Tour Down Under : John Veage).jpg.
road.cc: Pat McQuaid is up for a third term as UCI president.





Photo: Bradley Wiggins at the TDF 2013 launch .
road.cc: Team Sky's decision to withdraw Wiggins from the Giro d'Italia ahead of yesterday's 13th stage was taken with a view to ensuring the defending Tour champion was at peak fitness for the start of this year's Tour de France in Corsica at the end of June.






Photo: David Zabriskie (Garmin Sharp) back to business at the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya.
CyclingNews: No US Pro Time Trial Championship defense for Garmin-Sharp rider.





Photo: Mesh panels across the entire back and the back of the thighs to boost breathability.
BikeRadar: It's rather unusual looking but, according to VP of sales and marketing Charlie Issendorf, its unconventional construction is also the key to its claimed aero advantage.





Photo: there will now be a bolt-in injection molded plastic insert that yields both a smoother and lighter feel.
BikeRadar: AceCo debuted a flurry of new K-Edge computer mounts just before the start of the time trial at the Tour of California.






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