CyclingFans: Sunday's Vuelta a Espana Stage 9 departs Andorra at 12:25pm CET (6:25am U.S. Eastern) and is expected at the finish at Barcelona 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: Sunday's Tour of Portugal Stage 10 departs Sintra at 1:10pm local (8:10am U.S. Eastern) and is expected at the finish at Lisboa (Lisbon) at around 5:20pm local (12:20pm U.S. Eastern). Tour of Portugal live streaming video should get underway at around 4:00pm local (11:00am U.S. Eastern).

CyclingNews: Rory Sutherland gave UnitedHealthcare its first stage win of the USA Pro Cycling Challenge, going away solo from the day's breakaway on the final climb to Flagstaff Mountain to get the win.

PodiumInsight: It’s here, the day that has been on the minds of many riders and fans, The Queen Stage of the USA Pro Challenge that not only finishes in Boulder, Colorado but on the Flagstaff climb.

CyclingNews: Late attacks jettison Froome.

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VeloNation: Lars Petter Nordhaug holds overall lead ahead of short afternoon time trial.

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.

RedKitePrayer: The current racing in Colorado is so great. Forgetting for a moment that the event has the misfortune to have been given the generically anonymous USA Pro Cycling Challenge (they really couldn’t do better than that?), it is the perfect antidote to what ails cycling.

The Vuelta a Espana has boiled down to a four-man race.

VeloNews: The Arrate summit in stage 3 provided the first glimpse of who was on form; Saturday’s thrilling uphill battle in the Pyrenees, with Alejandro Valverde pipping Joaquim Rodríguez to snag the win, only reconfirmed it.

Bicycling: If a USADA guilty verdict is taken to its ultimate logical conclusion and Lance Armstrong is stripped of his seven Tour de France titles, here’s who ends up in yellow.

CyclingNews: Although many of the team directors, managers and riders at the USA Pro Challenge in Colorado chose not to comment to the media about Lance Armstrong's decision not to fight the USADA allegations of performance enhancing drug use, those who did displayed a definite divide among their opinions.

SBS: Lance Armstrong faces the loss of his seven Tour de France titles and a lifetime ban from cycling, but backers of his advocacy work for cancer patients showed undimmed admiration Friday.

VeloNews: Timmy Duggan wants a stage win badly in his hometown of Boulder, Colorado, today. He wants it badly enough to tank his overall time by sitting up late in Friday’s stage. The Nederland resident is coming out for a gunfight on Saturday.

CyclingFans: Saturday's USA Pro Challenge Stage 6 departs Golden at 11:10am MDT and is expected at the finish at Boulder at around 3:30pm MDT. USA Pro Challenge live streaming video should get underway at around 11:10am MDT.

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.

SoCalCycling: SPY-Swamis is looking to expand and augment its Development Team program for 2013 and is currently recruiting development (U25) riders who aspire to elevate their racing with an eye toward racing at the professional level.

VeloNation: "In terms of the future of the sport, it cannot finish with him.”

Boulder Report: Every rider likes to win in his hometown. But what happens when there’s 20 of you?

PodiumCafe:  Plouay hosts a full four days of events. There's a BMX race (happened yesterday), a journalists' race (earlier today, surely you caught that one live, right?), and the women's World Cup event tomorrow followed by the men Sunday. Quite the cycling celebration, in a place that loves cycling more than most.

BikeRadar: We teamed up with British Cycling to bring you some words of wisdom from riders and experts on the GB Cycling Team as they were putting the final touches to their Olympic preparations.

road.cc: Competent lightweight maintenance spray but not thick enough for chains.

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.