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Doug Report Daily Cycling News Archive

Tour of Utah: Hofland doubles up stage 3.

Belkin sprinter repeats. (cyclingnews.com)

Cort wins opening sprint...

Cort strikes first in Denmark...again.

For the second season in a row, Magnus Cort Nielsen has sprinted to the stage win in the first stage of the Tour of Denmark. Last year he did it from a breakaway, this year, he has won from the bunch, beating Topsport’s Jasper De Buyst and Valerio Agnoli of Astana. (cyclingquotes.com)

2014 Tour of Portugal LIVE.

Thurday's Tour of Portugal Stage 7 live streaming video should get underway at around 3:00pm local (10:00am U.S. Eastern). (cyclingquotes.com)

North American wrap: SmartStop's Kocjan leads Tour of Utah.

The Commonwealth Games have wrapped up and the spotlight is back on the North American racing scene at the seven-day Tour of Utah. The UCI 2.1 event kicked off a series of professional men’s races held during the months of August and September, including the USA Pro Challenge in Colorado, Tour of Alberta, the double WorldTour events in Québec City and Montreal, and the Bucks County Classic in Pennsylvania. (cyclingnews.com)

Nibali heads home after post-Tour de France criteriums.

Vincenzo Nibali has finally travelled home to Lugano, Switzerland after completing his post-Tour de France victory criteriums. However the Italian will continue to celebrate on Saturday with a special party in Tuscany organized by his CanNibali fan club. (cyclingnews.com)

UHC's Louder to retire at end of season.

UnitedHealthcare's Jeff Louder announced this week that he will retire at the end of the season. The 14-year pro used the team presentation at the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah, a race he won in 2008, to let the fans in his home state know he had decided to call it quits. (cyclingnews.com)

Tinkoff’s Rogers, Majka headed to USA Pro Challenge.

Tinkoff-Saxo riders Michael Rogers and Rafal Majka will attend the USA Pro Challenge later this month, race officials have confirmed. Between them, Rogers and Majka won three mountain stages at the Tour de France last month, with Majka winning two; Majka also secured the race’s King of the Mountains jersey. (velonews.com)

Cavendish to return to racing at the Tour de l'Ain.

The Omega Pharma-Quick-Step team has announced that Mark Cavendish will return to racing at next week's Tour de l'Ain stage race in France. (cyclingnews.com)

2014 Races & Results.
Volta a Portugal em Bicicleta - July 30-Aug 10 (Stages & Results),
Tour de Pologne - Aug 3-9 (Stages & Results),
Tour of Utah - Aug 4-10 (Stages & Results),
USA Pro Challenge - Aug 18-25 (Stages),
Vuelta a España - Aug 23-Sept 14 (Stages),
Clásica San Sebastián - Aug 2 (Results),
Tour de Wallonie - July 26-30 (Results),
Tour de France - July 5-27 (Results),
La Course Tour de France - July 27 (Results),
Giro d'Italia Femminile - July 4-13 (Results),
Giro d'Italia - May 9 - June 1 (Results),
UCI Road World Championship - Sept 20-27 (Stages).

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Matrix-Vulpine apply to become UCI-ranked women’s team.

Matrix-Vulpine, one of Britain’s leading domestic women’s teams, today announced their intentions to become a UCI-registered outfit for 2015. (cyclingweekly.co.uk)

2014 Tour of Utah LIVE.

Wednesday's Tour of Utah Stage 3 departs Lehi at 10:55am MDT and is expected at the finish at Miller Motorsports Park (MMP) at around 3:45pm MDT.  Tour of Utah live streaming video should get underway at around 10:50am MDT. (cyclingfans.com)

The Seven/RKP Project.

"There’s going to be a special RKP-edition of the Seven Cycles Evergreen. That notion is a bit surreal, but it also feels very right. This project was what occasioned my visit to Seven a couple of weeks ago. While there I went for a ride with Neil Doshi, Seven’s chief bike designer and Karl Borne, Seven’s marketing director." (redkiteprayer.com)

Tour of Utah: Schär steals stage victory from the sprinters.

Slipstream scooping up riders as Cannondale team set to end.

Alison Powers wins Cedar City Grand Prix.

Tour of Poland: Van Genechten claims first WorldTour win.

Jonas Van Genechten won stage 4 of the Tour of Poland with a well-timed sprint in Katowice. The Belgian edged a blanket finish from Jacopo Guarnieri and a fast-closing Luka Mezgec. Petr Vakoc retained the overall lead. (cyclingnews.com)

2014 Tour of Poland LIVE.

Thursday's Tour de Pologne Stage 5 gets underway at 2:00pm CET (8:00am U.S. Eastern) and is expected to finish at around 6:45pm CET (12:45pm U.S. Eastern).  Tour de Pologne live streaming video should get underway at around 5:30pm CET (11:30am U.S. Eastern). (cyclingfans.com)

Report: Gazzetta links Basso to Tinkoff, Roche to Sky, Betancur to OPQS.

In addition to star rider Peter Sagan heading to Tinkoff-Saxo for the 2015 season, La Gazzetta reports that Sagan’s brother Juraj, Polish rider Maciej Bodnar, and Italian Ivan Basso are all headed to Tinkoff-Saxo. (velonews.com)

Tour de France 2014: Analysis of climbing data, and what does it mean?

Three analysts examine the key performances in this year’s race. (cyclingtips.com.au)

Voigt: My body doesn't respond in the way I want it toi.

Jens Voigt again made it into the right breakaway in yesterday's stage of the Tour of Utah but unlike stage winner Michael Schär, he failed to stay clear to the finish. Feeling his age, the German admits that he no longer has the power he once had. (cyclingquotes.com)

Cunego rides on through pain at Tour of Poland.

Damiano Cunego continues in the Tour of Poland in spite of the deep cut to the knee that he sustained when he was among the fallers on the crash-marred opening stage to Bydgoszcz. (cyclingnews.com)

Quintana returns to Europe with eyes on winning Vuelta.

The 24-year-old has been cooling his jets high in the Andes, after receiving a hero’s welcome following his dramatic Giro victory, a first for a Colombian rider. Instead of fretting over missing the Tour on team orders, Quintana has instead put everything into his preparation to the win the Vuelta, which is barely two weeks away. (velonews.com)

LOOK 795 Aerolight.

LOOK has a long history of innovation and their latest bike, the 795 Aerolight which was launched this past week is surely the most innovative bike yet from the French team. (pezcyclingnews.com)

Gaerne G.Speed Composite shoes.

The G.Speed Composite is pitched by Gaerne as one for riders seeking “a functional and high specced shoe for racing and training” and it has a composite sole, which combines a carbon fibre ‘metatarsus and arch support’ with a nylon casing. (roadcyclinguk.com)

7 of the best summer cycling shoes.

Summer is the season cycling was made for. When the mercury rises, we shed layers of clothing and switch to our lightest, most eye-catching clothes. (cyclingweekly.co.uk)

GT Grade 2015 builds and pricing.

Aggressive pricing confirmed for GT’s disc-equipped adventure road ride. (bikeradar.com)

Steve Tilford: Colorado to Minnesota.

BMC's Lodewyck sidelined with cardiac arrhythmia.

The BMC Racing Team today announced that it has removed its Belgian rider Klaas Lodewyck from competition after he experienced irregular heart rhythms during racing and training. (cyclingnews.com)

WADA turns to Tasmania in anti-doping efforts.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has commissioned research by an Australian doctor into the detection of the performance-enhancing salbutamol in cyclists and other professional athletes. Peter Maniaty speaks to Dr Glenn Jacobson about his research and the effect on cyclists. (sbs.com.au)

What’s the fastest downhill tuck position?

Go inside the wind tunnel to find out. (roadbikereview.com)

Because You Asked -- Nay, Demanded! It's the Viewers' Guide to the ENECO Tour!

There are seasons within the cycling season, and then there are Seasons. Now, of course, is Dear God I Have to Keep Racing? Season, one marked by giddiness and exhaustion that comes with completing the Tour de France, or ... well, the opposite of those feelings, which comes from not completing the Tour de France while many of your teammates, countrymen, rivals and sworn enemies have. (podiumcafe.com)

Mollema explains his move to Trek Factory Racing.

New Trek Factory Racing signing Bauke Mollema has explained that he had already decided to leave Belkin before the Dutch squad’s title sponsor announced that it was pulling out of the sport at the end of the season. (cyclingnews.com)

A tale of two breakaway riders, as Schar and Rosskopf go their separate ways.

First he was going to do it; it was a sure thing. A well-deserved win was virtually in the bag for BMC Racing’s Michael Schär as he crested Boulder Mountain with nearly a five-minute lead after dropping his break mate, Hincapie rider Joey Rosskopf. (velonews.com)

Bike weight and the myth of ‘fast’ bikes.

"Let’s clear something up. There is no such thing as a “fast bike.” Bikes are neither fast nor slow. Bikes are shiny or expensive. Bikes have a lot of mass or a little. Without a rider, they are stationary." (velonews.com)

Christophe Riblon content to be a road captain.

Christophe Riblon could have claimed leadership or at least a wild card after he took victory at the top of the Alpe d'Huez, at the Tour de France 2013. But the French climber from Ag2r-La Mondiale instead became a domestique for Jean-Christophe Péraud and Romain Bardet this year, giving up some of his personal ambitions and, instead, contributing to the best team prize on the Champs-Elysées. (cyclingnews.com)

Revisiting ‘The Rider’.

Retracing the route of Tim Krabbé’s seminal novel. (cyclingtips.com.au)

Nutrition: How to fuel for a 100-mile ride.

Staying fueled – and avoiding ‘the bonk’ – is the key to the success of any long ride, so we caught up with Emma Barraclough, a sports nutritionist at Science in Sport, to find out her advice on how to survive a 100-mile ride.

Wahoo RFLKT+ and PROTKT.

"I’ve been using two different computer substitutes from Wahoo, the RFLKT+ and the PROTKT. The latter is a case for your iPhone that mounts to your handlebar. The former is a computer display that links to your smartphone via Bluetooth." (redkiteprayer.com)

Toolbox: A Rider’s Best Friend.