Tuesday's Clasica San Sebastian departs San Sebastian at 11:10am CET (5:10am U.S. Eastern) and is expected at the finish at San Sebastian at around 5:11pm CET (11:11am U.S. Eastern).  Clasica San Sebastian live streaming video should get underway at around 3:15pm CET (9:15am U.S. Eastern).

PodiumCafe: Whoever conquers that will be a hot favorite for the Vuelta.

CyclingNews: Races & Results.
2012 Olympic Games - July 28 - August 12 (Races),
Eneco Tour - August 6- 12 (Stages & Results),
Tour of Utah - August 7- 12 (Stages & Results),
Tour de l'Ain - August 7- 11 (Stages & Results),
Vuelta a España - August 18 - September 9 (Stages),
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Porte puts Olympics snub to the side ahead of Vuelta debut...

VeloNews: Defending champion Juan José Cobo will lead a Movistar team that includes Alejandro Valverde into the 67th Vuelta a España on Saturday.

CyclingNews: Van Avermaet leads BMC in Spanish WorldTour race.

CyclingTips: Sometimes riders are warmly welcomed back after their bans while others are despised.

VeloNews: Evelyn Stevens was recovering from a hard effort at the Olympics, illness and a long few months of racing in general when she and her Specialized-lululemon teammates hit the start line at the Route de France on August 4. Though she didn’t have high hopes of winning the GC at first, Stevens rode through her fatigue in the first few stages and surprised herself by taking the win — giving her two of the three biggest women’s stage races in the world in 2012.

SBS: Defending champion Levi Leipheimer (Omega Pharma-QuickStep) utilized his time trial skills to solo to stage victory in the final stage of the Tour of Utah.

SingleTrack: Waking up this morning I was less than thrilled about starting the 6-day Breck Epic. This feeling had nothing to do with the race itself, as Mike McCormick does a phenomenal job at organizing and emphasizing the fun factor of mountain biking. It was more fear of the unknown and the sense that I was completely unprepared.

CycleTechReview:  It’s different because it has a ‘radial’ carcass. The carcass – that part of a pneumatic tire, composed of close-packed fibre cords laid in plies held together by rubber, that gives the tire its shape and resists the pressure exerted by the air inside – of a conventional cycle tire is of cross-ply layout.

TwistedSpoke: And now cycling fans, 0n the the second half of the show. The Tour of Utah is done and dusted and after a short week-long intermission, the US Pro Cycling Challenge in Colorado fires up.

CyclingNews: The future of Mark Cavendish at Team Sky is still in doubt after Omega Pharma-Quickstep general manager Patrick Lefevere told Cyclingnews that the rider and his current team may rip up his current contract.

VeloNation: Current teams could penalize riders, cut racing schedules, and deny them valuable ranking points.

VeloNation: Rider faulted for not helping Roelandts in Olympics and worlds.

CyclingNews: Lars Boom (Rabobank) added to his already diverse and impressive palmares when he won the overall classification at the seven-day Eneco Tour on Sunday. It is the Dutchman’s second road victory of the season and demonstrates he’s on track for a strong opening week at the Vuelta a España which begins on August 18.

MBAction:  Regardless of what type of rider you consider yourself to be, bike-handling skills are crucial. Even as a cross-country racer, you can spend all the time you want getting fit climbing, but if you can’t hang when the trail points down, it’s going to be a long race.

VeloNation: Australian building up for USA Pro Cycling Challenge.

BikeRadar: As coach and sports scientist Garth Fox explains, if you’re a time triallist, your number one enemy is aerodynamic drag. It is always present and will always be working against your attempts to go quicker.

MBAction: Trail riders have been reluctant to purchase carbon fiber rims for two reasons. First, they are expensive (like the Reynolds MTN AM carbon fiber wheelset that’ll set you back $1800). And second, most carbon-rimmed wheels are intended for cross-country racers (not like the MTN AM wheelset). Reynolds didn’t break a price barrier, but they have broken the “for-racers-only” stigma with this wheelset.

BikeRadar: The firm, who specialize in brake pads and cables, call the cleats 2Face. They are compatible with Look Keo pedals and because they can be rotated, are said to last twice as long as traditional designs. All you do is unscrew the mounting bolts, rotate the connecting plate and reassemble.

FatCyclist: Liveblogging my Bit Part in Leverage.

Boulder Report: The dispute between the UCI and USADA over jurisdiction in the Lance Armstrong doping investigation may just be a sideshow to the investigation itself, but as sideshows go it’s been illuminating.

RedKitePrayer: Most of the cycling world has been abuzz since yesterday when the first links appeared to Jonathan Vaughters’ op-ed piece for the New York Times. It’s rare that we direct readers to another site, but if you haven’t already read the piece by Garmin-Sharp’s director and you follow pro cycling, then this piece is required reading.

Jonathan Vaughters: Why does an athlete dope? I know why, because I faced that choice.

CyclingNews: "This story is bigger than any one individual in the sport."

VeloNews: Marketing firm Cycling Soul and Acura will host an all-star fundraising event for the Davis Phinney Foundation following the final stage of this month’s USA Pro Challenge in Denver.

Ben King: "It’s odd that Brent Pye and I have never crossed paths cycling in my hometown, Charlottesville, Virginia. I was skeptical yet honored when I received a request from this stranger to write a prologue for his new book, 'Your Brain on a Bike.'"

CyclingNews: Michael Rogers will receive a belated bronze medal after Tyler Hamilton was officially stripped of his gold medal from the 2004 Olympic Games time trial in Athens. "The medal is more kind of a substitute," he says.

VeloNation: Belarusian champion adds sprint power to French team as chances become limited at FDJ-BigMat.

VeloNews: Team co-founder Jim Ochowicz recalls the team as being “hot and cold. We were either really good or really bad. And we were really bad at the Coors in ’81.”

BikeRadar verdict: 3 out of 5 stars. "Offers comfort on long rides but lacks the finesse of a true race bike thanks to lower-end spec."