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July  2013
July 8, 2013




Photo: 2013 Tour de France Stage 2 Live Online Coverage Guide .
CyclingFans: Tuesday's Tour de France Stage 10 departs Saint-Gildas-des-Bois at 12:50pm CET (6:50am U.S. Eastern) and is expected at the finish at Saint-Malo at around 5:24pm CET (11:24am U.S. Eastern).  Tour de France live streaming video should get underway at around 2:00pm CET (8:00am U.S. Eastern).






Photo: Andre Greipel. I think the peloton will be incentivized to chase.
PodiumCafe: Time to find out if the Green Jersey is still being contested.






Photo: Mara Abbott found herself and her way back to the sport. On Sunday, she found the top step of the Giro's podium for the second time in her career. Photo: Brad Kaminski.
VeloNews: Mara Abbott’s career trajectory would have appeared perfect to those none the wiser. But things seldom appear as they really are, especially in professional sports.







Photo: Those rare Andy Schleck sightings at the front of the bunch over the last 18 months have become more and more common this Tour with Andy climbing especially well here on Stage 9. .
PEZ: "The rest day. I’ve never heard or read so many riders saying that they needed a rest day as I have at this Tour de France."






Photo: Yesterday’s stage was so fast that there was no time for the riders to stop for a pee..
InnerRing: You’re never short of a story during the Tour de France. The racing gets covered in full but there’s plenty more going on too. It’s the level of coverage that makes July such a rich month for cycling.





Photo: only the fifth Irishman to win a stage of the Tour de France: Dan Martin.
VeloNation: “We were attacking like crazy at the start. I think that maybe we pissed a lot of people off!”





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: Ellen van Dijk winning the Stage 8 ITT .
PodiumCafe: The Giro Rosa was over too soon! With the General Classification all tied up, the final ITT was all about the Very Fast Women - and all eyes were on Specialized-lululemon.





Photo: Mark Cavendish seems to be the fastest of the three sprint stars, but is tied with Greipel and Sagan on one stage win so far.
RCUK: The opening week of the hundredth Tour de France has lived up to the billing.





Photo: Today’s 151-kilometre stage began in the eastern prefecture of Haidong (Qinghai province) .
CyclingIQ: Breaking free from a five-man break that refused to yield to the urgency of a closing peloton, an animated David De La Fuente (Torku Sekerspor) secured his first Tour of Qinghai Lake stage win.






Photo: cyclists and runners to track their performance on specific sections of road or trail in real time.
BicycleRetailer: The new feature is available now for Android device users and is expected to be available Monday afternoon for iOS users.





Photo: Even a 'sissy bar' handle extender comes with it.
BikeRumor: The Specialist Wrenches are shop-quality, oversized chromoly tools with big, grippy handles. The set includes a pedal wrench, outboard bearing bottom bracket tool, cassette freewheel remover and chain whip.





Photo: Oakley release Tour de France special edition glasses.
road.cc: New Catlike Mixino helmet, a Collapsible Helmet, the making of Sagan's TdF bike, Shimano's blue shoes, Teisseire official Tour drinks, Oakley TdF glasses.





Photo: Tejay van Garderen (BMC) had a tough day yesterday. Will he bounce back on the road to Bagnères-de-Bigorre .
CyclingNews: Crashes in the opening first week have been contributing factors but van Garderen is still unsure as to how and why his form as deserted him at the Tour.








Photo: Tour de France 2013: BMC Racing Team's Cadel Evans.
NeilBrowne: We're only a third completed and the grande boucle has already given us a roller coaster ride.







Photo: Sky were put to the test on Sunday's second day in the Pyrenees.
Peloton: Team Sky said they are ready to adapt their strategy for the remainder of the Tour de France after the "war" of stage nine shook up race leader Chris Froome.





Photo: Chris Froome and Dave Brailsford (Team Sky).
CyclingNews: Sky manager on Pyrenees and doping questions.





Photo: Chris Froome found himself without teammates on stage 9 of the 2013 Tour de France. He escaped unscathed ... this time. Photo: Graham Watson.
VeloNews: No one could believe it. Team Sky, seen as the pillar of the peloton, was not only showing cracks, it was crumbling.





Photo: Proud parents: Neil Martin said he and wife Maria were “speechless” at son Dan’s win in the Tour de France yesterday..
StickyBottle: Martin senior watched the extraordinary events unfold with his wife Maria in their home in Girona – where they now live. And though Neil always believed Dan had the talent to win, to see him actually do it in the biggest race of all was a dream come true.






Photo: Orica GreenEdge are at it again with a fitting new song that pays tribute to Australian rock band AC/DC..
CyclingNews: Roche proud of cousin Martin, Omega Pharma - QuickStep in the money.





Photo: Polish champion Michal Kwiatkowski (Omega Pharma-QuickStep).
CyclingNews: Omega Pharma-QuickStep's young gun Michal Kwiatkowski earned his second individual stage podium of this year's Tour de France on Sunday, leading home the yellow jersey group to take third place on Stage 9 into Bagnères-de-Bigorre.





Photo: Christian Prudhomme in Marseille.
CyclingNews: Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme was happy to be proven mistaken for his pre-race predictions as stage 9 put an end to the apparent domination of Team Sky.






Photo: All of this asymmetry was refined through finite element analysis (FEA).
Peloton: The Dogma 65.1 Think 2 is more than new material, it is a new layup as well. Since the material offers more strength per gram, Pinarello was able to use less carbon, and therefore you will see fewer grams on the scale, 50 less to be precise.





Photo: Canyon VCLS Post 2.0.
BikeRadar verdict: 4 out of 5 stars. "Incredibly effective cushioning but high cost and limited sizing."





Photo: The Foil 40 is equipped with a full Shimano 105 group.
BikeRadar: One of eight bikes in the Scott Foil range of road bikes, the 40 is the second cheapest (US$2,839) and boasts a pro-level, aerodynamic carbon frame.





Photo: The One is still very light at 205g.
BikeRumor: When a tire is important enough to warrant its own factory that is dedicated to producing only that one tire, you could assume that tire is pretty special.







Photo: Dan Martin (Garmin-Sharp) took his first victory in the Tour de France.
VeloNation: Maillot Jaune weathers the storm as Movistar gets its revenge on Team Sky.





Photo: It was a crazy start to the day and no one helped create the crazy more than Garmin-Sharp .
PodiumCafe: How do you sum up brilliant stages late on a Sunday night.? Well you can't really but you can always look at the pretty pictures.





























Photo: Brian Holm says cycling has earned its position in the crosshairs of doping suspicion. Photo: BrakeThrough Media | VeloNews.com.
VeloNews: Omega Pharma-Quick Step’s Danish sporting director Brian Holm said on Monday that Chris Froome (Sky) and the other present-day stars of the professional cycling must get used to batting away questions about doping because past controversies mean cycling deserves to be treated with suspicion.





Photo: Pat McQuaid has sought to make a direct connection between his re-election in September and the sport retaining its place as one of the IOC’s featured events.
VeloNation: UCI president outlines his manifesto, Cookson states he already had two terms to act.










Photo: Pat McQuaid was at the finish to award 2012 WorldTour champion Joaquim Rodriguez his winner's trophy.
CyclingNews: Pat McQuaid has started his campaign to be re-elected as president of the International Cycling Union, issuing his campaign manifesto “A Bright Future for a Changed Sport.”






Photo: The Astana team has dismissed suggestions today that Fränk Schleck is on the way to the team.
VeloNation: Team says it remains committed to being part of the MPCC organization and to following its rules.





Photo: Belkin teammates Laurens ten Dam and Bauke Mollema.
CyclingNews: Dutch squad counts the venture into the Pyrenees as an unvarnished success.





Photo: Stage 9 runner-up Jakob Fuglsang (Astana).
CyclingNews: Jakob Fuglsang (Astana) was left frustrated and disappointed at finishing second to Dan Martin in the sprint for stage 9 of the Tour de France on Sunday.






Photo: Thibaut Pinot, Tour de Suisse 2013, stage nine ITT.
CyclingWeekly: Thibaut Pinot was the revelation of the 2012 Tour de France. Sadly, this year he cracked in the Pyrenees. And wasn't happy.





Photo: Mikel Nieve (Euskaltel-Euskadi), the 29-year-old plans to add to his quietly impressive résumé in three-week tours.
VeloNation: Basque rider looking to continue impressive run of Grand Tour finishes.





Photo: They’ve been making them longer than just about anyone in the sport.
MBAction: Park is serious about tools. Their PK-63 kit is designed to fill the gap between their do-it-yourself garage kit and their start-up professional shop kit.





Photo: Back in the days when to me good meant fast—and vice versa—I sometimes rode laps around a lake near my house.
Bicycling: The quickest way to start having more fun, eliminate aches and pains, and see more of the world around you: Ease up, back off, and chill out.














Photo: Pascale Schyns is the official Tour de France translator.
CyclingTips: “I resigned from the UCI at the end of 2011 because I was in total disagreement with Pat McQuaid’s politics, lack of transparency and his way of using cycling to make personal money.”






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