VeloNation: Kloeden caught in final kilometre, Engoulvent retains yellow jersey.

CyclingNews: Stephen Roche, in London this week to promote his autobiography Born to Ride, believes that there are riders in the modern peloton capable of accomplishing his magical triple from 25 years ago. In 1987, Roche became just the second man in cycling to win the Giro d’Italia, Tour de France and Worlds in a single season. Eddy Merckx had set the precedent 13 years beforehand.

Cheryl Sornson: "Hump day is over, and I am excited about the last few days of this race. It has been a tough one."

Critérium du Dauphiné - June 3-10 (Races & results),
Skoda-Tour de Luxembourg - May 30-June3 (Races & results),
USA Road Championships - May 26-28 (Races & results),
Giro d'Italia - May 5-27 (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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PodiumCafe: This year brings the 28th edition of the TD Bank Philadelphia International Cycling Championship, a long and storied race.

VeloNews: For five years Eric Heiden has been sacrificed to the media, often without the satisfaction of standing on the victory blocks.

BikeRadar verdict: 3 out of 5 stars. "A great frame-mounted aero drink solution, but a bit pricey considering the."

CyclingNews: Andre Greipel (Lotto Belisol) had a few nervous moments before coming out on top in the bunch sprint to conclude stage 1 of the Tour of Luxembourg. The German's victory was his 11th of the season so far – the most of any rider in the UCI ProTour.

CyclingWeekly: Node4-Giordana's fast-finishing Kiwi Rico Rogers tells Cycling Weekly about city life, rooming with Dave Clarke and what he gets up to off the bike.

TwistedSpoke: At Liquigas-Cannondale the temptation could be to support Nibali and let the versatile and aggressive Sagan freelance and pick his moments. However, factor in the high probability that Nibali is leaving Liquigas and the scenario becomes more complicated and company loyalties open up for re-evaluation.

VeloNews: There is no question that the Screw is designed for cyclists. The sunglasses are lightweight, only 27 grams to be exact, making them two grams lighter than the Oakley Radar. Although a two-gram difference can be chalked up to a manufacturing blip and when on our faces the Screw doesn’t feel any lighter than the Radar.

VeloNews: Samuel Sánchez says he wants to decide his future employer by the Tour de France: Whether he stays with Euskaltel-Euskadi remains to be seen.

InnerRing: The race starts this Sunday with a prologue but we’ll need to wait for the high mountains the following weekend to decide the winnner.

CyclingNews: Andy Schleck (RadioShack-Nissan) returns to competition at the Critérium du Dauphiné on Sunday as he begins his final build-up to the Tour de France. The Luxembourger has not raced since Liège-Bastogne-Liège in late April and insisted that his main priority in the coming week would be to get back into racing rhythm.

road.cc: Scot had earlier said he was worried about being treated as a "black sheep" due to doping past.

road.cc: Delightful to use and beautifully designed.

Saddle Americana: “Sanctification of life. Purification. Woo! Woo!”

CyclingNews: "Although we rarely see him face to face, one of the most vital team members of Procycling magazine is Tim De Waele, cycle sport’s most talented photographer. He’s never in the office because he’s at races almost all the time – his calendar regularly ticks off around 250 days on the road."

CyclingNews: Katie Compton is no longer a member of the Rabobank-Giant Off-Road Team. The American, who has been juggling racing both the international cyclo-cross and mountain bike seasons, has decided to stop doing international mountain bike races and will focus her efforts on the 2012-2013 cyclo-cross season.

CyclingNews: From Tour de France winner to team manager, Bjarne Riis has attracted his fair share of controversy, success and criticism over the years. and now his autobiography "Stages of Light and Dark" has been translated from Danish to English, roughly 18 months after it was first published.

CyclingNews: Euskaltel-Euskadi team bosses Miguel Madariaga and Gorka Gerrikagoitia have moved to calm fears among their riders that the team will not continue beyond the end of this season. However, Madariaga has admitted he is not sure whether the team will be “WorldTour, Professional or Continental”.

John Howard and Gina Poertner: "Stretching is a bit like religion. Some of us are fervent believers, starting or ending each day with our favorite stretching regimens."

CyclingNews: Farnese Vini-Selle Italia manager Luca Scinto has backed Filippo Pozzato to lead the Italian team at the London 2012 Olympics and even tipped him as a possible winner of the Tour of Lombardy.

VeloNation: Future on team uncertain for Androni Giocattoli-Venezuela rider.

BikeRadar: "We found Rocky Mountain’s Element RSL to be one of the lightest, stiffest, full-suspension cross-country racing bikes on the market. The 26in Element was developed in the crucible of World Cup racing, and now Rocky Mountain have taken lessons learned building the 26in model and applied them to a new 29in variant."

CyclingNews: Cofidis will continue to sponsor a team until the end of 2016 after the telephone loan company announced a three-year extension to its current deal, which had been due to expire at the end of next season.

Off The Beaten Path: "Unfortunately, I don’t read Japanese, but from what I can tell, they did a very nice job with the 6-page article. My article provides an overview of randonneuring and the many events associated with the sport, like Paris-Brest-Paris and the Polymultipliée de Chanteloup hillclimb race."