CyclingFans: Saturday's Vuelta a Espana Stage 8 departs Lleida at 12:30pm CET (6:30am U.S. Eastern) and is expected at the finish at Andorra. Collada de la Gallina at around 5:40pm CET (11:40am U.S. Eastern). Vuelta live streaming video should get underway at around 4:00pm CET (10:00am U.S. Eastern).

CyclingFans: Saturday's Tour of Portugal Stage 9, a 32.4km Individual Time Trial from Pedrogao to Leiria, gets underway at around 2:20pm local (9:20am U.S. Eastern) with the departure of the first rider. Tour of Portugal live streaming video should get underway at around 4:00pm local (11:00am U.S. Eastern).

CyclingNews: Garmin-Sharp's Tyler Farrar sprinted to his second stage win of the 2012 USA Pro Challenge on Friday in Colorado Springs after the field brought back the remnants of a seven-rider breakaway on the closing circuits in town.

VeloNews: Andrew Talansky stepped off the Garmin-Sharp bus Friday afternoon to apply thick layers of sunscreen to his thin arms before the start of the seventh stage.

CyclingNews: John Degenkolb (Argos-Shimano) turned on the speed on the Motorland Aragon, winning the mass sprint of the seventh stage of the Vuelta a Espana. Elia Viviani (Liquigas-Cannondale) and Allan Davis (Orica-GreenEdge) were second and third on the race track.

CyclingNews: After an mixed first seven days of the Vuelta, Alberto Contador (Saxo Bank) says that he is still banking on the third week to show his top condition. The Spaniard performed well on Arrate and Ezcaray, attacking no less than seven times on the Basque climb, but lost out on the Fuerte del Rapitan on Thursday.

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VeloNation: Belgian claims Armstrong faced an ‘unjust process.’

PodiumCafe: On August 11, the New York Times published an Op-Ed piece penned by Jonathan Vaughters in which he admitted to doping during his career as a professional cyclist.

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CyclingNews: Van Garderen reclaims race leadership.

SBS: Australian Luke Durbridge continued the Orica-GreenEDGE domination at the Tour de Poitou Charentres winning the stage four time trial in La Roche Posay.

VeloNation: Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank rider manages to limit his losses despite struggling on final climb.

SBS: American anti-doping chiefs may be confident of their power to strip Lance Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles, but they could find themselves trapped in a legal minefield over jurisdiction.

VeloNation: USADA CEO speaks after Texan indicates he won’t contest doping charges.

CyclingNews: Floyd Landis will be arraigned in a U.S. District Court in San Diego on Friday morning where a deferred prosecution agreement will be put in place following a federal investigation into his Floyd Fairness Fund.

CyclingNews: BMC Racing Team's Tejay Van Garderen Thursday addressed a controversial comment made by assistant team director Mike Sayers after the stage 3 finish in Aspen on Wednesday.

CXMagazine: Check out the Source Endurance Cyclocross Clinic with U23 National Champ Zach McDonald and legendary racer Steve Tilford on September 7 through September 9 in Shawnee.

PodiumInsight: Keeping under the radar, Lucas Euser of the Spidertech p/b C10 squad has been having a great ride so far at the USA Pro Challenge. He’s been keeping up with the pre-race favorites and sits in 11th place overall at only 17 seconds down from yellow jersey Tejay van Garderen (BMC).

SBS: Luke Durbridge successfully defended his lead to win the Tour de Poitou Charentres, capping off a top week for Orica-GreenEDGE.

BikeRumor: Set to debut with all the details at Eurobike next week, the new Kestrel Legend is their lightest ever road bike at just 780g (claimed).

TwistedSpoke: Bob Stapleton was at the stage 4 start in Aspen for the US Pro Cycling Challenge. The former head of the HTC-Highroad squad, the number one ranked team before its demise two years ago, was just there as a fan.

VeloNews: Will the 2012 Vuelta a España be another case of close but no cigar for Katusha’s Joaquim Rodríguez?

InnerRing: Away from the Vuelta and USA Pro Cycling Challenge there’s an event in France called La Haute Route, literally “the High Road”. It’s not a pro race, it’s part holiday tour, part cyclosport and goes across the French Alps.

Peloton: “How do you feel about Lance Armstrong’s brand?” There were three possible answers: It’s tarnished; the good outweighs the bad; or I’m conflicted. I would have checked all three boxes.

SBS: "Today I am disappointed for Lance and for cycling in general, that things have reached such a point that Lance has had enough and no longer wants to challenge the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) campaign against him," said Bruyneel.

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VeloNews: Lance Armstrong announced Wednesday night that he would give up his fight against the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency and what he called a corrupt system that unfairly prosecutes athletes without honoring due process.

VeloNews: It sure was frosty in Colorado this morning. The peloton awakened to a cloud-stuffed valley in Breckenridge and the news that one of its greatest champions would no longer fight doping charges against him.

SBS: German cyclist Jan Ullrich is refusing to speculate about whether he will be handed three of the seven Tour de France titles won by US rider Lance Armstrong that may now be withdrawn over doping claims.

CyclingFans: Friday's USA Pro Challenge Stage 5 departs Breckenridge at 10:50am MDT and is expected at the finish at Colorado Springs at around 3:40pm MDT.  USA Pro Challenge live streaming video should get underway at around 10:50am MDT.

Bicycling: One of the most unswerving and longtime accusers of Lance Armstrong talks about justice, the yellow jerseys, and if vindication is possible.

Bicycling: The long pursuit of Lance Armstrong is almost finished. The impossible questions will never end.