CyclingFans: The 2012 Halle-Ingooigem (Belgium) will be shown LIVE Wednesday.  The race is scheduled to start at 12:30pm CET and finish at around 5:00pm CET.  There will once again be live video streaming for this event, starting at around 3:00pm CET (9am U.S. Eastern).

BikeRadar: Who are the figures that have written themselves into the record books of this most emblematic of events? Who’s the fastest winner? The oldest winner? The youngest winner? Which country has basked in yellow more than any other? Who’s the climber that stands head and shoulders above all the other?

CyclingNews: Ramirez steps into race lead.

VeloNation: The Dane breaks down the different responsibilities of the riders.

SBS: Schleck had appeared a strong candidate to stand up for RadioShack-Nissan in the Tour de France after finishing second overall at the Tour de Suisse. In May, he was third overall at the Tour de Luxembourg and has been one of the most consistent riders for the team this year.

VeloNews: German sprinter Marcel Kittel said Tuesday he was relishing the prospect of his upcoming battle with Briton Mark Cavendish (Sky) in the Tour de France.

TwistedSpoke: UCI dope testers beware: Mr. Puerto is headed to France. Based on his stellar performance in the final mountain stages of the Tour de Suisse, we now have to worry about Alejandro Valverde winning a stage in le Grand Shindig.

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Tour de Serbie - June 12-17 (Stages & results),
Nature Valley Grand Prix - June13-17 (Stages & results),
Tour de Beauce - June 12-17 (Stages & results),
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2012 Olympic Games - July 28 - August 12 (Races),
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CyclingNews: Alexandre Geniez has announced that he will leave Argos-Shimano at the end of the season after failing to make the nine-man selection for the Tour de France. With the team increasingly focused on the sprinting talent of Marcel Kittel, the French climber feels that he will have to sample pastures new in order to fulfil his considerable potential.

CyclingIQ: Is it fair to call Tour de Jakarta ‘the invisible race’? Relative to other 2012 UCI AsiaTour calendar events with a 2.2 ranking, last weekend’s 165 kilometer circuit race produced mostly weak media ripples that petered out somewhere in the Java Sea. Fortunately, a few details still lapped onto our shores.

The key to sublime shifting, says Mountain Bike pro Andreas Hestler, is finding the sweet spot.

VeloNews: The 2012 Tour de France opens with the June 30 prologue in Liège, Belgium. Among the 198 riders signing into the 99th edition of the Tour will be defending champion Cadel Evans (BMC Racing), Giro d’Italia winner Ryder Hesjedal (Garmin-Barracuda), and American Levi Leipheimer (Omega Pharma-Quick Step).

CyclingNews: Pozzato was called before CONI after Saturday’s edition of La Repubblica published extracts from a telephone conversation intercepted by investigators from Padova in the summer of 2009, in which he allegedly speaks of working with Ferrari.

VeloNation: Hincapie, Gilbert and Cummings part of squad.

Jens Voigt: "I’ll miss Andy, the man who went ballistic on the stage up the Galibier in last year’s Tour. We talked about that attack before the stage, and he agreed to it, knowing full well that if he failed the fans and the media would butcher him for making such a “stupid” move."

Bicycling: Sometimes the hardest part about being an athlete isn’t the training. It’s the not training.

CyclingWeekly: Bradley Wiggins today shrugged off the burden of being the Tour de France favourite, saying that he cannot wait to get going in the world's biggest race.

InnerRing: William “Kim” Flint was a 41-year-old electrical engineer who died in a cycling accident in the summer of 2010. It appears he was descending a road in the Oakland Hills in California, braked hard and lost control and the crash proved fatal. It’s a sad story by itself but the difference here is that Flint’s family are now suing Strava for negligence.

RedKitePrayer: For most of the past century, the Olympic Games weren’t a big deal in the cycling world. Only amateur bike racers could compete and they regarded the Games as a small stepping-stone toward the professional ranks.

Lennard Zinn: "I’m convinced that people that suggest 50-50 weight distribution over the wheels, indeed even 60-40, especially with tall riders, never actually measured the weight distribution of a properly set up rider."

CyclingNews: The standings of USA Cycling's National Racing Calendar shifted after the Nature Valley Grand Prix, with Optum Pro Cycling's Carmen Small forming a commanding lead in the women's individual rankings after her overall victory there.

VeloNews: These robust wheels are designed for the rigors of larger riders, cyclocross, rough roads, even trekking. To handle those conditions, American Classic uses 32 double-butted spokes both front and rear.

VeloNation: American rider successful in push for selection.

Outside: The case against the case against the case against Lance Armstrong.

BikeRumor: Their new SiSL2 cranksets are 100% CNC machined in a clamshell design that’s bonded together. The spindle has been machined down more, too, which also made it stiffer. This model has additional machining to save weight, and the remaining material was move around inside the arms to improve the strength. So, these are both lighter and stiffer.

VeloNation: Danish rider seeking further compensation for 2007 Tour de France dismissal.

VeloNation: Fuglsang unhappy with non-selection for RadioShack’s Tour de France squad.

PodiumCafe: "Yesterday Rabobank announced their Tour de France startlist, and it made my eyeballs pop out of my head."

VeloNation: Former runner-up joins forces with Oscar Freire on solid Katusha selection.

PEZ: With the Tour de France less than two weeks away, what better way to get primed for the Grand Boucle than a look back at the best edition? Richard Moore says that the 1986 Tour de France was the greatest in history, an epic battle between Greg LeMond and Bernard Hinault - and they were both on the same team!

road.cc: Expensive, but a sound investment in versatile eye comfort for years to come.

BicycleRetailer: Lifeboat Events' PressCamp got underway Monday night here. About 30 journalists are meeting with about the same number of brands, checking out new products and testing them on local trails and roads.

BikeRadar: ENVE Composites are swimming upstream – and quickly, as BikeRadar found out when we got a behind-the-scenes look at their Ogden factory.

BikeEurope: BMW is about the last in the line of car makers presenting an electric bike. The reason why it took the Bavarian car maker so long could be in the fact that, contrary to others, BMW is integrating its folding e-bike concept neatly in its e-car concept.