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Stage 9 Results...

BikeRadar: Bradley Wiggins (Sky) consolidated his position as race leader of the Tour de France by winning the stage 9 time trial between Arc-et-Senans - Besançon. The Brit covered the testing 41.5km course in 51.24, beating teammate Chris Froome by 35 seconds.

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PodiumInsight: Easily the most aggressive rider at the 2012 San Rafael Twilight Criterium was Alison Tetrick of Exergy TWENTY12. She was either off in a solo break attempt or chasing down the numerous break attempts by Vanderkitten-Focus riders.

PodiumCafe: "There was some chatter in the Twitter-sphere about the comparison between Sky and US Postal." The, the biting question - "I'm wondering your reaction. And, what do you say to the cynics who say you have to be doped up to win the Tour de France?"

CyclingNews: Healing process of hip fracture slower than expected.

InnerRing: He might ride for the French lottery, he might have a four-leafed clover on his jersey but yesterday Thibaut Pinot didn’t get lucky. Instead his stage win was clever tactics coupled with strong riding rather than a breakaway finally beating the odds. I’ve tipped him on here and it seems even Team Sky are watching him closely.

BikeRadar: Swedish design firm Hövding has created a new form of head protection that makes use of motion sensors and microcontrollers from Swiss-based STMicroelectronics.

CyclingFans: Monday's Tour de France Stage 9, a 41.5km Individual Time Trial from Arc-et-Senans to Besançon, gets underway with the departure of the first rider at 9:45am CET (3:45am U.S. Eastern).  Full Start Order and Times here.  Tour de France live streaming video should get underway at around 2:00pm CET (8:00am U.S. Eastern).

Coverage News...

InnerRing: Each stage is analyzed, each jersey is explained and once more information is available there will be full list of riders and other content that’ll be updated every day so you can dip in and out during the next few weeks.

CyclingNews: 23-year-old BMC rider regains white jersey at the Tour.

VeloNation: Van Garderen produces outstanding time trial to retake young rider’s jersey.

RoadCycling: Finally the peloton had reached the mountains in the Tour de France. Okay, not exactly the mountains like we'll see them in the third week, but stage 7 was finally going to shake up the general classification?

road.cc: Team Sky 1-2 sees Wiggins extend lead over Evans to nearly 2 minutes, Froome moves up to 3rd overall.

VeloNation: Dutchman recovering from massive pileup on Friday’s stage to Metz.

CyclingIQ: He’s back! Clearly benefiting from the drop in altitude, Farnese Vini – Selle Italia’s Andrea Guardini burst from the peloton to win stage nine by a clear margin in the final bunch sprint. Better yet, the pocket-sized Italian still has several opportunities to repeat today’s success in the days ahead.

road.cc: Slovakian newcomer glides over Planche des Belles Filles on one wheel.

Bicycling: All it takes to develop blow-their-legs-off power is one hour—one brutal, agonizing, endless hour of astounding misery and pain. Just one.

Off The Beaten Path: Since its inception, the Confrérie has focused on 32 mm-wide tires, because most French 650B bikes of the 1960s-80s used this size.

VeloNation: Martin, Roche and McCann set to represent Ireland in London Games.

BikeRadar: Pro-Lite dropped by the BikeRadar office this week to show us what they have in the pipeline heading into 2013. Next year marks the halfway point of their two-year product cycles, so all-new designs were thin on the ground.

VeloNation: Texan applies to federal court in his home state to block agency’s action.

CyclingNews: Guido Trenti recorded phone conversation from 2009.

CyclingNews: Fulgsang a definite non-starter in remaining WorldTour races.

Heidi Swift: "We will wake up at 5:15am tomorrow to begin the second stage of this endeavor and at kilometer 164 we'll start a long march up the storied grade of the Col du Grand Columbier: 17.4 kilometers with an average gradient of 7.1% (5 kilometers of it will average more than 9% with frequent punches to 12% and above)."

CyclingWeekly: Forget winning a Grand Tour. Simply finishing one used to be Ryder Hesjedal's big challenge. At his first Giro d'Italia in 2005, he made it two weeks. On the day that then-teammate Paolo Savoldelli took the leader's jersey, the Canadian abandoned.

road.cc: Aero machines belonging to Wiggins, Cancellara, Menchov, Sagan and more.

Cyclismas: Thursday July 9th was the first real showdown of the race, an 87.5 kilometre individual time trial taking the riders to Futuroscope, that funpark folly that would one day sink Philippe Amuary’s right-hand man, Jean-Pierre Courcol. At 87.5 kilometres this was the longest individual time trial in the Tour since 1951. For the class of 1987 this was the first real race of truth, the moment when the pretenders would be separated from the contenders.

Bicycling: Find out how to heal faster and ride better with kinesiology tape.

road.cc: Time trial bike gets a serious makeover. We were in Utah for the world unveiling.