CyclingFans: Friday's Eneco Tour Stage 5 departs Hoogerheide at 12:00pm CET (6:00am U.S. Eastern) and is expected at the finish at Aalter at around 4:21pm CET (10:21am U.S. Eastern). Eneco Tour live streaming video should get underway at around 2:30pm CET (8:30am U.S. Eastern).

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2012 Olympic Games - July 28 - August 12 (Races),
Tour of Elk Grove - August 3- 5 (Stages & Results),
Vuelta a Burgos - August 1- 5 (Stages & Results),
Eneco Tour - August 6- 12 (Stages & Results),
Tour de France - June 30 - July 22 (Stages & Results),
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InnerRing: Will teams spend money on hiring staff in a bid to mimic Team Sky?

VeloNation: Belgian continuing to ride strongly this season.

VeloNation: Bonus seconds see Belgian champion take over after long flat stage.

CyclingFans: Thursday's Eneco Tour Stage 4 departs Heers at 11:10am CET (5:10am U.S. Eastern) and is expected at the finish at Bergen op Zoom at around 4:09pm CET (10:09am U.S. Eastern). Eneco Tour live streaming video should get underway at around 2:30pm CET (8:30am U.S. Eastern).

VeloNews: CBS Sports is set to air a full recap of the 2012 Nature Valley Grand Prix on three upcoming nights, according to a press release from the race organizers.

VeloNews: Runner-up at the Tour de France and the 2011 Vuelta a España, Chris Froome (Sky) is headed back to Spain this month to lead Sky into the final grand tour of the season.

SoCalCycling: The SuperSix Hi-Mod has been Cannondale’s flagship bike for several years. However, the engineers at Cannondale worked on the EVO project for some time and have truly come out with the perfect ride.

InnerRing: Something has gone very wrong at the top of the UCI. When the head of a sports governing body is criticised for misquoting his own rules, things don’t look good.

VeloNews: Michael Matthews (Rabobank) won stage 3 of the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah Thursday. BMC Racing’s Michael Schär and Brent Bookwalter were second and third, respectively.

VeloNews: If Chris Horner can’t attack for overall win in Utah, he’ll defer to his two young lieutenants, both of whom, he says, are ready to take up the charge.

CyclingFans: Thursday's Tour of Utah Stage 3 departs Ogden at 12:10pm MDT and is expected at the finish at University of Utah Research Park at around 3:50pm MDT. Tour of Utah live streaming video should get underway at around 12:05pm MDT.

TwistedSpoke: What was Patrick Lefevere, the experienced team boss of the Omega Pharma Quickstep team, thinking?

AP: The Belgian Olympic Committee says it has told cyclist Gijs van Hoecke to leave the Olympics after photos appeared of him looking drunk and unable to walk while leaving a London nightclub.

CyclingNews: Alberto Contador (Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank) may be riding the Eneco Tour as preparation for the Vuelta a España, but the Spaniard was able to avail of the opportunity to reconnoitre part of the Valkenburg world championships route on stage 3 on Wednesday.

VeloNews: Many track athletes, especially sprinters, prefer the security of toe clips and straps. In a violent effort it’s easy to pull a pedal out of many clipless pedal systems.

BikeRadar verdict: 4 out of 5 stars. "High-performance bike with spec to match the price, but not the best for longer distances."

VeloNation: Leipheimer loses big time with shorthanded team.

CyclingNews: Hearings will be held on doping charges from Tour de France.

TwistedSpoke: Forgive me father for I am a media hungry priest. As God is my witness Don Marco Pozza must be a busy man. His latest venture is setting up disgraced Italian cyclist Filippo Pozzato with volunteer work in Kenya.

NBC: The IOC is set to formally strip American cyclist Tyler Hamilton of his gold from the 2004 Athens Games and reassign the medals after his admission of doping, according to an Olympic official familiar with the case.

VeloNation: Matrix Fitness-Prendas manager discusses the future of the women’s sport and his hopes for developing his team.

RedKitePrayer: "I’ve had more than a passing interest Romania and the Carpathian Mountains since, well, since reading Dracula in undergraduate school."

BikeRumor: First impression: Man, this shoe fits like a glove! Not restrictive in the toe box, not so narrow crushing the toes, snug heal and a comfortable foot-bed coined the “inForm Pro Last”… so far so good.

MountainBike: The simple device captures high-quality video without any hassles.

BikingBis: It was probably never in doubt, but just for the record Levi Leipheimer is returning to defend his title in the second annual USA Cycling Pro Challenge scheduled for Aug. 20-26 in Colorado.

VeloNation: Androni Giocattoli-Venezuela and Bianchi extend current deal.

CyclingNews: Francisco Mancebo (Competitive Cyclist Racing Team) is the current leader in the men’s NRC standing with just one event remaining. The Thompson Bucks County Classic is the final race of the NRC season, and will be held September 15-`6. Second place in the standings, Rory Sutherland (UnitedHealthcare,) trails Mancebo by a significant margin and will be unlikely to topple the Spaniard.