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June  2013
June 15, 2013



Photo: Be Pink takes morning team time trial.
VeloNation: Be Pink takes morning team time trial.






Photo: Sprint leader Peter Sagan on the podium.
CyclingNews: Frank remains in leader's jersey.






Photo: Giacomo Nizzolo (RadioShack-Leopard).
VeloNation: Jonathan Hivert holds lead after another bunch sprint.






Photo: Jade Wilcoxson can sprint too, taking the victory over Shelley Olds and Carmen Small. Photo: Casey B. Gibson.
VeloNews: The familiar figures of Jade Wilcoxson (Optum-Kelly Benefit Strategies) and J.J. Haedo (Jamis-Hagen Berman) sprinted to victory on Friday at the Nature Valley Grand Prix Minneapolis Uptown Criterium.





Photo: Fabio Felline (Androni-Giocattoli) threw his bike just a bit more.
VeloNation: Androni-Giocattoli rider takes over lead after final climb drops Tuft.





Races & Results.
Tour de Suisse - June 8-16 (Stages & Results),
Nature Valley Grand Prix - June 12-16 (Stages),
Critérium du Dauphiné - Jun 2-9 (Stages & Results),
Giro d'Italia - May 4-26 (Stages & Results),
Tour de France - June 29-July 21 (Stages),
Vuelta a España - Aug 24-Sept 15 (Stages),









Photo: Tour de Suisse Stage Profile.
CyclingFans: Saturday's Tour de Suisse Stage 8 departs Zernez at 2:31pm CET (8:31am U.S. Eastern) and is expected at the finish at Bad Ragaz at around 6:50pm CET (12:50pm U.S. Eastern).  Tour de Suisse live streaming video should get underway at around 5:00pm CET (11:00am U.S. Eastern).







Photo: After a 30km climb and an 8km descent, Rui Costa won stage 7 at the Tour de Suisse in a sprint. Photo: Graham Watson.
VeloNews: It was the hardest day at the nine-day race, with four rated climbs on the map — including a brutal, 30km, hors categorie ascent that peaked with 9.3 kilometers left in the 206km stage.






Photo: Marcel Kittel sprints .
VeloNation: German takes his turn to beat Greipel and Cavendish over hilly Limburg course.





Photo: The race hasn't been quite what we expected.
PodiumCafe: This year's Tour de Suisse was always going to be about the younger riders, but it has been a race of first time winners far more than ever expected.





CyclingNews: The Omega Pharma-Quick Step rider finished third behind winner Theo Bos (Blanco) and Andre Greipel (Lotto Belisol).














Photo: UCI President Pat McQuaid has been denied backing from Cycling Ireland’s clubs.
VeloNation: Fight for re-election becomes tougher for two-time president.





Photo: The family is the biggest dynasty in Irish cycling.
StickyBottle: Like him or loathe him, UCI president Pat McQuaid was one of the best riders Ireland has produced. But despite being the biggest cycling dynasty in Ireland, the McQuaids’ drift from the home scene cost them electorally today.






Photo: Going up in Québec. Photo: Brian Hodes | Tour de Beauce
The day's podium. Photo: Brian Hodes | Tour de Beauce.
VeloNews: De Maar out-kicked Antoine Duchesne (Bontrager) and Oscar Clark (Hincapie Sportswear Development) to win the 126km Ville de Québec circuit race.






Photo: Lars Boom took back the overall lead.
VeloNation: Former cyclocross champion takes back yellow for Blanco Pro Cycling.





Photo: Cho crossed the finish line ahead of Eric Sheppard .
CyclingIQ: Seoul Cycling Team’s Ho Sung Cho garnished his 39th birthday cake with a sprinkle of victory in today’s 7th Tour de Korea stage.





Photo: Fuzzy handcuffs.
TwistedSpoke: Of all the things I’ve seen after two Tours de France, not much has rivaled the nut-balls I met from Bordeaux on the Pyrenean stages of the 2010 Tour.





Photo: The flagship model will be the CNC Digital Drive with an aluminum barrel.
BikeRadar: Accurate to +/- 3 percent, but they also read more consistently than traditional gauges thanks to automatic adjustments for temperature and altitude.





Photo: Keep a steady pace.
BikeRadar: One of the most common places for unwanted fat to reside is at the waist line. Here are a few tips to help you beat that belly back into shape.





Photo: Pat McQuaid appeared on the ‘Prime Time’ television programme last night.
StickyBottle: Pat McQuaid appeared on the ‘Prime Time’ television program last night, Thursday. The show is the flagship current affairs program by the national broadcaster.







Photo: Peloton, Paris-Roubaix 2013.
CyclingWeekly: Top-level professional cycling looks set to change from 2015, after the Union Cycliste International (UCI) Management Committee put forward a number of reforms, scheduled to come into action from the 2015 season.





Photo: Today I give you a new term, the F-Bomb.
PodiumCafe: French riders and teams might not own their home race, but there's a chance they could corral the lion's share of subplots.















Photo: Yes, McQuaid has about five days..
TwistedSpoke: It’s tempting to think that we’ve almost gotten rid of UCI president-hack Patrick McQuaid, the Great Impediment to clean cycling.





Photo: A thoughtful Bradley Wiggins (Team Sky).
CyclingNews: The Times questions the Tour winner's future at Team Sky.





Photo: Spain's Alberto Contador.
Blazin'Saddles: Chris Froome may have told The Times of his intention to target the Tour de France "for the next six or seven years" but he will not hand back-to-back Tour wins to Britain this summer, according to one cycling legend.





Photo: Veilleux has been a professional – initially on the North American scene – since 2007.
PEZ: As well as providing confirmation of Chris Froome’s position as Tour de France favorite, the 2013 Dauphine demonstrated that slowly but surely Europcar’s 25 year-old French Canadian David Veilleux is moving towards the highest levels of the sport.





Photo: Tadej Valjavec (Sava) is marking his return to the professional ranks.
VeloNation: Back from ban, Slovenian targeting mountainous stage three.





Photo: How do 1,319g (actual, with tape) and under $1,000 sound.
BikeRumor: Despite all the recent hubbub (sorry) about carbon-rim’d wheelsets, there are a number of companies who continue to push aluminum wheel technology and weight forward.





Photo: Light, responsive and with fatigue-reducing comfort.
BikeRadar verdict: 4 out of 5 stars. "A great mix of radical aero, responsiveness and fatigue-reducing comfort."





Photo: White Lightning Easy Clean Bike Brushes.
road.cc: Great sprucing brushes that will recoup their megre investment over and over again.





Photo: FSA’s latest super-light hollow carbon crank arms now come in a universal four-arm spider configuration.
BikeRadar verdict: 3.5 out of 5 stars. "Crazy expensive but very light, stiff, smooth running and multi ring-compatible double."













Photo: Stephen Roche.
CyclingWeekly: Irish cycling legend Stephen Roche has leaped to the defence of embattled UCI President Pat McQuaid who is facing perhaps the most crucial 24 hours in his eight-year tenure as the head of cycling's governing body.





Photo: traditional hierarchies are being turned upside down.
Peloton: There have been some strange goings-on in pro cycling recently.





Photo: Sports director Matt White is well liked on the Orica-GreenEdge squad and throughout the peloton. Photo: Graham Watson.
VeloNews: Orica-GreenEdge riders will be quietly welcoming back Matt White to the team following his controversial exit last fall.





Jens Voigt: From blood and a busted bike comes an unlikely triumph.






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