CyclingFans: Sunday's Tour de Suisse Stage 9 departs Näfels-Lintharena at 11:19am CET (5:19am U.S. Eastern) and is expected at the finish at Sörenberg at around 5:15pm CET (11:15am U.S. Eastern).  Tour de Suisse live streaming video should get underway at around 2:50pm CET (8:50am U.S. Eastern).

For Taylor Phinney, it doesn’t get any bigger than this. USA Cycling selected the 21-year-old to ride the time trial and the road race at this summer’s London Olympics, at once confirming Phinney’s place in American cycling and representing the largest opportunity to date in his blooming career.

VeloNation: Race leader loses time but narrowly holds on to race lead.

VeloNation: American to battle to take the Maglia Rosa back.

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CyclingNews: Jelly Belly's Brad Huff got redemption for coming just short of the stage 2 win in St. Paul by out-sprinting the field at the stage 4 Uptown Minneapolis criterium of the Nature Valley Grand Prix Friday. Theresa Cliff-Ryan (ExergyTWENTY12) notched her second stage win of the tour with another sprint victory, while Both Carmen Small (Optum Pro Cycling-Kelly Benefit Strategies) and John Murphy (Kenda/5-Hour Energy) held onto their leaders' jerseys for Saturday's Menomonie Road Race.

VeloNation: Bruyneel’s future with the team appears to be under question.

VeloNews: Fredrik Kessiakoff (Astana) won the stage 7 individual time trial at the Tour de Suisse on Friday. Fabian Cancellara (RadioShack-Nissan) was second, at two seconds, while his teammate Maxime Monfort was third, 20 seconds adrift.

VeloNation: USADA had said anonymity was used due to previous coercion and intimidation.

PodiumInsight: Many expressed surprise in the USA Cycling men’s team selection for the road events for the Olympic Games, with a few names missing. Today, they issued a statement.

CyclingNews: Luis Garcia del Moral, one of the doctors named in the USADA doping investigation, has denied all the charges, saying he has never been involved with performance-enhancing drugs.

TwistedSpoke: When Garmin-Barracuda’s Ryder Hesjedal won the Giro d’Italia, one of the first reactions here at Twisted Spoke was “Those bozos at Big Mat sure blew it.”

CyclingNews: "Dear @usantidoping - we have now sent you THREE letters requesting all the relevant info in order for me to respond to your 'review board'," the seven-time Tour de France winner wrote on his twitter feed.

VeloNation: British Sky rider retains overall lead.

BikeRadar: Tuscany gets a lot of press and attention as a cycling paradise, and rightly so. It has a special something that makes people go back year after year. But it's hardly off the beaten track. There's another cycling haven that you should know about – one that the masses haven't found yet. It's the Croatian province of Istria.

SBS: The Tour de France roll of honour risks being turned on its head should seven-time winner Lance Armstrong be proved guilty of cheating.

Bicycling: On Friday about noon Horner told Bicycling in an email that, after talking to his team boss, Johan Bruyneel, there was a chance that he still might ride the Tour. That comes after team leader Andy Schleck announced on Tuesday that he would not be able to race because of broken bones suffered in last week’s Critérium du Dauphiné.

CyclingNews: Gazzetta dello Sport reports that investigators in Italy have uncovered a payment of $465,000 made by Lance Armstrong to Dr. Michele Ferrari in 2006. The news comes after the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) formally charged Lance Armstrong, Johan Bruyneel, Michele Ferrari and three other trainers with links to the US Postal Team with doping on Wednesday.

road.cc: Johan Bruyneel's position under threat as team owner issues statement.

VeloNation: Italian breaks away with Brajkovic and nips him on the line.

VeloNews: Taylor Phinney walks in with coffees. Nearby, his father, Davis, puts air in Evelyn Stevens’ tires. Christian Vande Velde is changing (“Don’t mind me,” he says) and Dave Zabriskie mills about.

VeloNation: South African back to winning with Australian WorldTour team.

PodiumCafe: There were no riders who met the automatic qualifying standard. The committee selected sprinter Tyler Farrar, Chris Horner, U.S. national road race champion Timothy Duggan, Tejay van Garderen, and Taylor Phinney. Phinney will ride the time trial for the United States.