CyclingNews: Christian Vande Velde put in a stunning time trial performance in the Denver finale of the USA Pro Challenge, taking second to stage winner Taylor Phinney (BMC) and moving into the top spot in the general classification.

VeloNews: Philippe Gilbert (BMC Racing Team) won the ninth stage of the Vuelta a España, outsprinting race leader Joaquim Rodriguez (Katusha), who padded his lead over the other GC contenders.

VeloNation: Westra takes final overall victory.

CyclingNews: Edvald Boasson Hagen (Sky) put in a beautifully timed effort to win the GP Plouay, soloing to the line over Rui Costa (Movistar) with Heinrich Haussler (Garmin-Sharp) winning the bunch sprint just behind.

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).

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VeloNation: Valverde riding strongly but cautious about his chances.

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 Grand Prix Ouest France - Plouay gets underway at 10:40am CET (4:40am U.S. Eastern) and is expected to finish at around 4:45pm CET (10:45am U.S. Eastern).  GP Ouest France - Plouay live streaming video should get underway at around 2:30pm CET (8:30am 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.

CyclingNews: Lance Armstrong’s former teammate Paolo Savoldelli has questioned the US Anti-Doping Agency’s decision to strip the American of his seven Tour de France titles. "Going back 14 years doesn’t make a lot of sense,” Savoldelli said. “What will we do with Coppi, Bartali or Merckx?”

CyclingNews: If Philippe Gilbert (BMC) celebrated Sunday’s Vuelta a España stage win with even more enthusiasm than usual, then it was understandable. After taking 18 wins in the 2011 season, Gilbert’s victory was his first since the GP Wallonie on September 14th, 2011.

VeloNation: Circumstances for both raise uncertainty.

SBS: Australian Jay McCarthy has won the opening stage of the Tour de l’Avenir, an under-23 Nations Cup tour in France.

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.

Bicycling: The veteran racer talks about moving on, growing up in New York City, and how he loved Roubaix while hating cobbles.

VeloNation: Texan second in MTB event yesterday.

BikeRadar: Many cyclists don’t realise what a huge part their diets play in their training and racing. It’s a cliché, but when it comes to sports you are what you eat. And if you’re out there cycling every day, you really can’t afford to get it wrong. We show you how to spot and avoid the top 10 most common diet mistakes.

CyclingNews: RadioShack-Nissan's Jens Voigt capped his stage 4 win at the USA Pro Challenge in Colorado by taking home the king of the mountains jersey on Saturday after stage 6, slipping into another breakaway and earning enough points to come from third place and overtake Tom Danielson (Garmin-Sharp) on the last day that offered mountains classification points.

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.

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