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July  2013
July 6, 2013




Photo: 2013 Tour de France Stage 2 Live Online Coverage Guide .
CyclingFans: Sunday's Tour de France Stage 9 departs Saint-Girons at 11:20am CET (5:20am U.S. Eastern) and is expected at the finish at Bagnères-de-Bigorre at around 4:36pm CET (10:36am U.S. Eastern).  Tour de France live streaming video should get underway at around *11:15am CET (*5:15am U.S. Eastern).






Chris Froome (Sky) soloed to victory at Ax 3 Domaines and took over the Tour de France lead on the first day in the Pyrenees.
CyclingNews: It's looking like the race could be over, says Irishman.








Photo: Chris Froome (Team Sky) on the final climb.
CyclingNews: Sky rider takes over the race lead in Pyrenees.










Photo: Fabian Cancellara (RadioShack Leopard) powers to victory in the stage 7 time trial at the Tour of Austria.
CyclingNews: Zoidl takes over race lead from Seeldraeyers






Photo: Mara Abbott (USA National Team) finished in the bunch to comfortably hold on to her pink jersey heading into the final stage individual time trial.
CyclingTips: Marianne Vos (Rabobank) sprinted to victory in Corbetta to take her 3rd stage win of the 2013 Giro Rosa in the final road stage of the race.





Races & Results.
Tour de France - June 29-July 21 (Stages & Results),
Giro Rosa - June 30-July 7 (Stages & Results),
Tour of Austria - June 30-July 7 (Stages & Results),
USA Pro Challenge - Aug 19-25 (Stages),
Vuelta a España - Aug 24-Sept 15 (Stages),
UCI Road World Championships - Sept 22-29 (Races),
Giro d'Italia - May 4-26 (Results)






Photo: Nairo Quintana rides solo during Stage 8 of the Tour de France (Getty Images).
SBS: Colombian Nairo Quintana displayed exactly why he has been tipped to become the next great climber to come out of the South American country with a remarkable performance during Saturday's eighth stage of the Tour de France in the Pyrenees.





Photo: Frenchman Blel Kadri will savour his time in the polka dots.
VeloNation: Young Frenchman nabs jersey in breakaway, but pledges support for team leader Peraud.





Photo: Cadel Evans at the front of the BMC train.
CyclingNews: Team time trial only downside, says team manager.






Photo: It's time for a weekend in the Pyrenées and for the peloton it's the nervous.
PodiumCafe: This year has an added evil twist in that the first real mountain pass is also the highest in the race.






Photo: Peter Sagan (Cannondale).
CyclingNews: Impey finishes of first day in maillot jaune.






CyclingTips: Mara Abbott (USA National Team) is well on her way to winning her second Giro Rosa.





CyclingNews: American Mara Abbott celebrated her country’s Independence Day with a victory during stage 5 of the Giro Rosa, where she took over the race lead from Marianne Vos

















Photo: Sunday should be packed with action.
PodiumCafe: It's a quinella of Cat-1 peaks in Sunday's final Pyrenean stage, leading to a long descent.






Photo: Andrew Talansky (Garmin Sharp).
CyclingNews: Andrew Talansky came through the first mountain stage of the Tour de France relatively unscathed, finishing in a group containing Michael Rogers, Jakob Fuglsang and Garmin-Sharp teammate Daniel Martin.







Photo: Chris Froome says his victories will stand the test of time. CyclingNews.
VeloNews: Tour de France leader Chris Froome fired a broadside at a cycling generation tainted by doping scandals as he insisted he is racing “100 percent” clean at the world’s biggest and most notorious bike race.





Photo: An impressive display by Peter Sagan and his Cannondale team.
VeloNation: Slovakian has biggest points advantage at this point of the race in over a decade





Photo: Andy and Frank Schleck celebrate after the 2011 Tour de France.
CyclingNews: Fränk deserves to be back in peloton, says RadioShack Leopard rider.







Photo: Mara Abbott (Giro Rosa/CJfoto.com).
SBS: Mara Abbott claimed her second consecutive stage win at the Giro Rosa to cement her grip on the race lead.





Photo: Jurgen Van den Broeck collects himself after the crash.
CyclingNews: Knee surgery expected next week.





Photo: First Star: Nairo Quintana.
PodiumCafe: It was a first day in he mountains that provided more fireworks and upsets than anyone had anticipated. To explain today, stars only won't suffice. 





Photo: Why do Dudes have nipples? So that they can show them off when they win Tour de France stages. (James Startt).
Bicycling: "If the first week of racing is any indication of the sort of action this year's Tour de France is going to bring us, I can say three things for certain: It's going to be hot, it's going to be fast, and it's going to be sloppy."





Photo: The Scott Scale 710 is a slightly de-militarised version of their ultra successful, 650b cross-country race weapon.
BikeRadar verdict: 5 out of 5 stars. "Scott’s race and carbon expertise delivers a game-changing blend of responsiveness and control."






Photo: Andrew Talansky (Garmin Sharp).
CyclingNews: Garmin-Sharp American well-positioned as mountains loom.





Peloton: With a week of racing already in the rearview mirror, nothing much has been decided at the 100th Tour de France. That won’t be the case on Sunday night.





SBS: Team Sky locked up the mountain stages last year to help Bradley Wiggins win his maiden Tour de France title yet all the signs point to a different strategy this year with Chris Froome in charge.





VeloNews: A week before the start of the Tour de France, pre-race favorite Chris Froome (Sky) was caught up in a brouhaha because he refused to release his power numbers to a website.























Photo: Former race winner.
VeloNation: Former race winner continues to build form with respectable climbing performance.







Photo: Tejay van Garderen had a bad day on stage 8. Photo: Graham Watson.
VeloNews: Tejay van Garderen (BMC) won’t be returning to the winner’s podium in this year’s Tour de France.





Photo: The RadioShack team presented in Corsica.
CyclingNews: French police pulled over the RadioShack-Leopard camper Saturday morning and searched it before the eighth stage of the Tour de France, but apparently nothing was found.






Photo: Fränk Schleck’s recent criticism of the RadioShack Leopard.
VeloNation: Leopard SA states Luxembourg rider was fully aware he would need to look elsewhere.






Photo: Stage 7 and the world’s longest leadout, provided for Peter ‘The Musketeer’ Sagan.
PEZ: If there are any young sprint prodigies out there they could do far worse than study this first week in the Tour de France, for we’ve seen some exceptional team and solo efforts in the final kilometers.





Photo: Cadel Evans' first chance to punch back at Chris Froome comes Saturday in the Pyrénées. Photo: Graham Watson.
VeloNews: For the leading contenders in this year’s Tour de France, the principal objective in a nervy first week has been to stay out of trouble before the arrival in the Pyrénées.





Photo: Edvald Boasson Hagen gets a boost from Norwegian cycling fans in the Pyrenees during the 2012 Tour de France. (James Startt).
Bicycling: When the Tour de France enters the Pyrenees, the race heats up—literally. Frankie Andreu shares what it’s like to tackle these storied mountains. 





Photo: As a small company it’s incredibly difficult to enforce patents.
BikeRadar: If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery then suspension designer Dave Weagle has a number of admirers, some of whom he’s been locked in costly legal battles with.





















Photo: Vayer will collect data from the 2013 Tour de France to use in his study (Getty Images).
CyclingTips: Controversy is in the air at the 100th Tour de France amid claims by a prominent former coach that riders who dope can be detected simply by calculating the power generated while on their bikes.



















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