CyclingFans: Wednesday's Tour de France Stage 10 departs Mâcon at 12:15pm CET (6:15am U.S. Eastern) and is expected at the finish at Bellegarde-sur-Valserine at around 5:16pm CET (11:16am U.S. Eastern).  Tour de France live streaming video should get underway at around 2:00pm CET (8:00am U.S. Eastern).

road.cc: Will anyone take the fight to Wiggo, and will they succeed?

CyclingFans: Race leader Bradley Wiggins (Sky Procycling) "relaxes" for the media on the 2012 Tour's first rest day.  Like everyone on the Tour, Wiggins reads French sports daily L'Equipe.

CyclingTips: Tomorrow the mighty Col du Grand Colombier will feature in the Tour de France for the very first time. This challenging climb will allow the grimpeurs to flex their sinewy muscles and coming halfway through the race, it has real potential to impact on who will stand on the top of the podium on July 22nd in Paris.

VeloNation: Italian prodigy continues Liquigas-Cannondale domination of WorldTour race.

CyclingIQ: Luka Mezgec bagged his fourth win of this year’s Tour of Qinghai Lake today, cementing his status as the race’s most consistent sprinter. With two stages remaining, the Slovenian has every chance to match, or even better, Australian Alan Davis’ five stage haul in 2007.

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Tour de France - June 30 - July 22 (Stages & Results),
Tour de Pologne - July 10 - 16 (Stages & Results),
Giro d'Italia Femminile June 29 - July 7 (Stages & Results),
Tour of Austria July 1-8 (Stages & Results),
Tour of Qinghai Lake June 29 - July 12 (Stages & Results),
2012 Olympic Games - July 28 - August 12 (Races),
Vuelta a España - August 18 - September 9 (Stages),
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CyclingFans: Tuesday's Tour de Pologne Stage 1 gets underway at 2:16pm CET (8:16am U.S. Eastern) and is expected to finish at around 6:45pm CET (12:45pm U.S. Eastern).  Tour de Pologne live streaming video should get underway at around 5:30pm CET (11:30am U.S. Eastern).

VeloNation: Would rather be in France but could be suited to arduous, rolling week in Poland.

VeloNation: Swiss rider accepts he still has much work to do to be ready for Olympic Games TT title defence.

BikeRumor: Coming in three understated colors (silver, black, and white) and sporting minimal graphics, the middle child in Mavic’s three-model inaugural helmet line doesn’t draw a whole lot of attention to itself.  The flashes of woven silver Alutex reinforcement add a bit of bling, but it’s the massive vents that call more attention to the Plasma than anything else.

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: The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) announced today that Dr. Luis Garcia del Moral (cycling team doctor), Dr. Michele Ferrari (cycling team consulting doctor) and Jose "Pepe" Martí (cycling team trainer) have all received lifetime periods of ineligibility as the result of their anti-doping rule violations in the United States Postal Service (USPS) Cycling Team Doping Conspiracy.

VeloNation: Spaniard to resume racing in 27 days.

TwistedSpoke: At this point in the Tour de France, the sense is that while the Tour is far from over, the main thing that would prevent Bradley Wiggins from winning in Paris is Bradley Wiggins.

InnerRing: The race is still not at the halfway point and all the media like to say anything can happen. There’s an element of desperation, a message of “don’t touch that dial” in case the audience begins to switch off.

VeloNation: World time trial champion decides its time to step aside and to recover from early crash.

TwistedSpoke: Biggest loss so far in the Tour de France: the Man of Orange, the Basque hope for world recognition, Mr. Polka Dot, the Olympic champ Samuel Sanchez.

VeloNation: Van den Broeck puts it in perspective after Besançon time trial.

BikeRadar verdict: 3.5 out of 5 stars. "Unapologetically hard, but great to handle and good value for UDi2."

RedKitePrayer: Of all the technological endeavors within cycling, the research and development being poured into new wheel designs has been run on more CFD software, used more wind tunnel time has attracted more talent than any other. So why are wheels such a hot area of interest?

Tom Ritchey was far ahead of his time, as clamp-on stems did not come to the mainstream until threadless headsets arrived.

BikeRadar: Aero bars transform your barn door upright position into a slippery aero shape. But what features should you look for in the ideal set?

Outside: The embattled cyclist says USADA is out to get him—using powers that it really shouldn’t have. Brian Alexander says he’s right.

VeloNation: French climber joins two other individuals in custody.

PodiumCafe: "This Court is not inclined to indulge Armstrong's desire for publicity, self-aggrandizement, or vilification of Defendants, by sifting through eighty mostly unnecessary pages in search of the few kernels of factual material relevant to his claims."

CyclingNews: It was an easier day for Johnny Hoogerland (Vacansoleil-DCM) during stage nine of this year’s Tour de France - compared to exactly one year ago. It was during the ninth stage of last year’s Tour de France when Hoogerland was taken out by a media vehicle, driven by a Euro Media employee, whilst in the breakaway, more than five minutes ahead of the field and with 36km remaining.

RedKitePrayer: If the Tour de France were raced on ergometers then Brad Wiggins would already have done enough to be declared the winner. His stage victory on Monday in the Besançon time trial over his own Sky teammate Chris Froome, with defending champion Cadel Evans 1:43 adrift, was so dominant that a power expert would tell you it’s mathematically impossible for Wiggins to lose this Tour.

Cyclismas: The Ventoux. Roland Barthes’ God of Evil. Antoine Blondin’s witch’s cauldron. Jacques Goddet’s condemned spot. The penultimate Sunday of the Tour. Eighteen days down, a full week to go. The Pyrénées were behind the peloton, the Alps still to come. Thoughts could soon turn to Paris. But first, la géant de Provence had to be overcome.

VeloNews: The Tour de France is chaos. It is a month in disarray, a 3500-kilometer circus in which hundreds of thousands of people all attempt to occupy the same small spaces at the same time. Factions are in pitched battle for position: press against teams against the organization against police against fans.

BikeRumor: The flagship new bike is the 2013 Roubaix SL4. The Roubaix has always been their top endurance bike, and with the recent interest in this market from folks like Trek and BMC, Specialized needed to keep attention on one of its best sellers.

VeloNews: The system needs to be told if it’s a 10-speed or 11-speed rear derailleur. The shift lever will shift either.

PEZ: Go back 103 years and think about a small company with 4 people, manufacturing in Spain's Basque country and ask what they might be producing if they were still making bikes? Beistegui Hermanos (BH) would be making the 25 ounce Ultralight. You have to go way back, relative to bicycle history, to get to the start of BH...