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August 2013
August 19, 2013




Photo: Peter Sagan (Cannondale) wins the opening stage at the USA Pro Challenge.
Slovakian earns first leader's jersey. (cyclingnews.com)







Photo: Stage 1 Profile.
Monday's USA Pro Challenge Stage 1 (Aspen/Snowmass Circuit) departs Aspen at 1:05pm MDT aneaming video should get underway at around 2d is expected at the finish at Aspen at around 3:50pm MDT. USA Pro Challenge live str:00pm MDT. (cyclingfans.com)






Photo: Tom Danielson sounded as though Garmin would employ the same aggressive, scattershot style that delivered the team the 2012 USA Pro Challenge title. Photo: Casey B. Gibson .
As Colorado’s USA Pro Challenge kicks off in Aspen today, a picture of the seven-day race’s likely GC contenders has begun to take shape.  (velonews.com)





Photo: powerful Garmin-Sharp lineup for USA Pro Challenge.
Vande Velde the returning champ, Danielson coming off Tour of Utah win. (velonation.com)





Photo: Team Euskaltel wating for the start.
Russian billionaire to create a "completely different team." (cyclingnews.com)





Photo: Samuel Sanchez is back as the feature rider for the Basque squad.
Sanchez backed by Nieve, Anton, Martinez and Landa in possibly its last grand tour. (velonation.com)






Photo: Danny Pate (Team Sky)...
American stays with British team. (cyclingnews.com)





Races & Results.
Eneco Tour - Aug 12-18 (Stages & Results),
USA Pro Challenge - Aug 19-25 (Stages),
Vuelta a España - Aug 24-Sept 15 (Stages),
UCI Road World Championships - Sept 22-29 (Races),
Tour de l'Ain - Aug 9-13 (Stages & Results),
Tour of Utah - Aug 6-11 (Stages & Results),
Tour de France - June 29-July 21 (Results),
Giro d'Italia - May 4-26 (Results)





Photo: Philip Deignan Interview: Irishman ready to rumble at the USA Pro Challenge .
“I feel really good at the moment…I am confident that I am in good shape.” (velonation.com)





Photo: The 700c Kansi folded, with the front wheel mounted onto the rear seatstay.
Aside from making some of the best small-wheeled folders available, Kansi has now branched out into big-wheeled folding bikes. (bikerader.com)





Photo: Marianne Vos (Rabobank-Liv/Giant) sprinted to her second victory in the Open de Suéde Vårgårda World Cup road race.
World champion secures fifth overall title with one race to go. (velonation.com)





Photo: Tom Dumoulin (Argos-Shimano) began the final stage of the Eneco Tour with a lead of less than ten seconds on Zdenek Stybar.
22-year-old comes up five kilometres short, unable to corral Stybar. (velonation.com)





Photo: Jim Ochowicz says BMC has plenty of opportunities left to seize. Photo: Casey B. Gibson.
 Although BMC has certainly enjoyed some successes of late, the heavyweight team — with four current or former world road champions and a Tour de France winner — has some homework to do after the grand tours of 2012, notably the Tour de France letdown. (velonews.com)





Photo: Taylor Phinney (BMC)...
Aiming for stage victory on Sunday. (cyclingnews.com)







Photo: With last year's winner Alberto Contador sitting it out, and the other two podium finishers - Alejandro Valverde and Joaquim Rodriguez - knackered.
With the third and final Grand Tour of the season just a week away, here is a list of reasons as to why the Vuelta a Espana - as was the case last year - could be the most exciting race of the season. (uk.eurosport.yahoo.com)






Photo: Andrew Talansky made it up to Richie Porte and Alberto Contador on the final climb of stage 20.
American excited about opportunity to race Stateside. (cyclingnews.com)





Photo: Is this Bradley Wiggins or Pat McQuaid?
Confronted with a challenger who was once a colleague, he’s looking for ways to stay in the job and keep his lucrative salary. Is this Bradley Wiggins or Pat McQuaid? (inrng.com)





Photo: Doping is not going away. It's everywhere in sport and has been around for longer than most realize.
:I find the dismissive wave of "everyone's doing it," both overly simplistic and entirely missing the point." (jralong.blogspot.com)





Photo: Andreas Kloden (RadioShack-Leopard) stocks up.
Vandewalle and Ligthart also said to be on the move. (cyclingnews.com)







Photo: Bradley Wiggins has indicated that he has one more season as a Team Sky rider and a road race competitor.
Briton rules out ever targeting a Grand Tour again. (velonation.com)





Photo: Vincenzo Nibali (Astana) was in a good mood after his Giro d'Italia win.
Giro d'Italia winner aiming for second Grand Tour title this year. (cyclingnews.com)





Photo: Alejandro Valverde, last year’s runner-up.
“We don't have any reasons why we shouldn't think about fighting for the overall win with Alejandro.” (velonation.com)





Photo: The Canyon Roadlite AL frame has been tweaked and will be fitted with Shimano Ultegra 11-speed for 2014.
Canyon’s top-specced aluminium Roadlite AL will be fitted with a high pedigree 11-speed Shimano Ultegra groupset and Mavic Aksium wheels. (bikerader.com)






Photo: Zdenek Stybar (Omega Pharma-QuickStep).
Czech confirms promise on cobbled climb. (cyclingnews.com)






Photo: Third overall in 2011, second overall in 2012, Tejay van Garderen is planning to continue his upward curve.
American BMC Racing Team rider believes he’s in much better form than in Tour de France.





Photo: Jens Voigt will join the new Trek WorldTour team in 2014, riding one final year in the peloton.
Retirement beckons for the oldest rider in the WorldTour…but not quite yet. (velonation.com)





Froome not considering GC after post-Tour break. (cyclingnews.com)























Photo: Marianne Vos...
Victories for world champions Specialized lululemon and Marianne Vos. (velonation.com)





Photo: Talansky at TDF. photo TS.
Peter Hymas at cyclingnews had a great interview with Garmin-Sharp’s Andrew Talansky. What came out of that talk was further proof that Talansky is a leader both on and off the bike. (atwistedspoke.com)





Photo: Along with Kanstantsin Siutsou, Joe Dombrowski will have the backing of his Sky team in Colorado this week. Photo: Graham Watson.
Joe, do you want the good or the bad news? (velonews.com)





Photo: Milan Sanremo winner Gerald Ciolek...
Former Tour de France stage winner returns to WorldTour competition with African squad. (velonation.com)





Photo: Lars Boom ultimately had to be satisfied with eleventh overall.
Belkin team played important role in animating WorldTour race. (velonation.com)





Photo: Zdenek Stybar has now set a new target for himself: win the first Grand Tour stage of his career.
Czech rider has greater self-belief after pulling off ‘unexpected’ win in WorldTour race. (velonation.com)





Photo: Chris Froome.
Team Sky’s South African wunderkind has triumphed in some of the world’s hardest stage races. (cyclingillustrated.com)





Photo: Laura Trott...
"If I were Queen for a day, I'd make dogs in restaurants allowed." (cyclingweekly.co.uk)





Photo: Zero tolerance: Chris Froome does not believe in second chances for drug cheats Photo: AFP.
Tour de France champion Chris Froome would be happy to see drug cheats kicked out of cycling on a permanent basis. (telegraph.co.uk)





Photo: im Duggan found that healing a broken leg takes more time than a broken collarbone. Photo: Andrew Hood..
 Things never got rolling this season for Boulder’s Timmy Duggan. (velonews.com)





Photo: American talent Taylor Phinney has expressed relief not to be more badly hurt.
World champion Gilbert also out but no lasting damage expected for either rider. (velonation.com)






Photo: Alessandro Ballan going back to the team cars.
Abdominal surgery necessary for BMC rider. (cyclingnews.com)





Photo: Full internal cable routing helps the clean aesthetic, and the frame is an interesting blend of large diameter down tube and smaller, more delicate top tube mated to thin, though not anorexic, seatstays.
BikeRadar verdict: 3 out of 5 stars. "Smooth ride with good power delivery, although the graphics won’t be to all tastes."







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