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 Defending
champion Tom Danielson
soloed to the stage victory and a definitive race lead on the race's
first major summit finish atop Powder Mountain. (cyclingnews.com)
August 7, 2014  Cort retains overall
lead. (cyclingnews.com)
August 7, 2014  Rui Sousa made up
for a disappointing start to the Volta a Portugal when he won today’s
queen stage in impressive solo fashion, riding away from everyone else
on the iconic Torre mountain. Behind the lone leader, Gustavo Veloso
fought hard to defend his overall lead and by finishing fourth he
retained his position at the top of the leaderboard, even gaining
important time on Luis
Leon Sanchez who dropped out of GC contention.
(cyclingquotes.com)
August 7, 2014  The
Tour of Utah is about to explode. The mountains, for which the
seven-day race is so famous, are looming large. One mountain, in
particular: Powder Mountain. Stage 4 will finish atop the climb that’s
never been used before at the Utah race, but which has been described
as a beast. (velonews.com)
August 7, 2014  Jempy Drucker has
became the latest signing for BMC with the 27-year-old Luxembourger
joining the team on a multi-year contract from 2015. Drucker has spent
the last three seasons racing at Pro-Continental level and is riding
for the Wanty - Groupe Gobert team in 2014. (cyclingnews.com)
August 7, 2014  Even
after two second-place finishes and a day in the yellow jersey, the
upstart SmartStop US Continental team is still fighting for respect at
the Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah. A bit of argy-bargy directed at race
leader Jure Kocjan
in the final sprint Wednesday during stage 3 raised the hackles of Kocjan, along with
directors Michael Creed
and Gord Fraser.
(cyclingnews.com)
August 7, 2014
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), 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). August 7, 2014  After
his track campaign at the Commonwealth Games, Bradley Wiggins will
return to the road on Sunday when he lines up at the Ride London
Classic. One day later Geraint
Thomas and Edvald
Boasson Hagen leads Team Sky in the Eneco Tour.
(cyclingquotes.com)
August 7, 2014  With
Trek World US all wrapped up, we have a pretty good idea of what’s in
store for 2015. Like many manufacturers, well will see bigger tires,
more disc brakes, thru axles on a few road bikes, and renewed growth in
the touring category which seems to blur the line between gravel and
touring at this point. (bikerumor.com)
August 7, 2014  Expanded,
better value road and cyclocross range from Cannondale in
2015. (bikeradar.com)
August 7, 2014  Xentis-USA
is now offering the complete line of Xentis carbon wheels in the U.S.
The wheels are hand-made in Austria. (bicycleretailer.com)
August 7, 2014  Irish
artist finds a new lease of life for dead
tires. (bikeradar.com)
August 7, 2014  Friday's Tour of
Portugal Stage 8 live
streaming video should get underway at around 4:00pm local
(11:00am U.S. Eastern). (cyclingquotes.com)
August 7, 2014  Thursday's Tour of
Utah Stage 4 departs Ogden at 11:10am MDT and is expected at the finish
at Powder Mountain at around 3:45pm MDT. Tour of Utah live streaming video
should get underway at around 11:05am MDT.. (cyclingfans.com)
August 7, 2014 August 6, 2014 |  After
his impressive double stage wins in the Tour de France, and the
mountains classification jersey, Rafal
Majka carried the weight of his home nation in the Tour of
Poland, but despite the enormous pressure the Tinkoff-Saxo rider came
good on the first day in the mountains, to win stage 5 from Movistar
duo Beñat Intxausti
and Ion Izagirre.
(cyclingnews.com)
August 7, 2014 WADA
says that provisional suspension handed to Kreuziger doesn’t contravene
its anti-doping code...
 Tinkoff-Saxo
team owner critical of the Biological Passport after Kreuziger case.
(cyclingnews.com)
August 7, 2014  Two
years ago, he was the next big thing, a young climbing ace. He signed a
deal with Sky and there was a feeling of good things waiting for Joe Dombrowksi, a
gifted ascender and a nice guy. It was just a matter of time.
(velonews.com)
August 7, 2014  Saxo
Bank has announced that it will remain as a sponsor of the Tinkoff-Saxo
team in 2015. After serving as title sponsor since 2009, the Danish
bank agreed to stay on as a sponsor following Oleg Tinkov’s
purchase of the squad last December, and on Thursday it confirmed that
its involvement will continue for another season. (cyclingnews.com)
August 7, 2014  Davide Rebellin, who
will turn 42 on Friday, is confident that the door of cycling's top
division can re-open after his doping suspension in 2009. “I want to
show it's possible to win big races aged 43." (cyclingnews.com)
August 7, 2014  The
34-year-old becomes the first Tour de France champion to race in
Britain's Olympic cycling legacy event.. (cyclingweekly.co.uk)
August 7, 2014  Team
NetApp-Endura will have a new name with new sponsors in the coming
season, with some new riders coming in as well, but it hopes to carry
over one thing from this year – a wildcard invitation to the Tour de
France. (cyclingnews.com)
August 7, 2014  Mercurial.
Temperamental. Fast. Above all, fast. Sprinters. They’re the men who
ride for the chaotic and desperate finishes, with speeding leadout
trains, 90-degree turns near the finish, jostling and head butting.
Pandemonium, in another word. (velonews.com)
August 7, 2014  By
the numbers, Eric’s
normalized power was 372W. (cyclingillustrated.com)
August 7, 2014  Nothing
gives power to the people like a power meter that’ll fit any crankset
and costs a fraction of competing units. That’s just what Watteam has
done, surging to market with their new PowerBeat power meters.
(bikerumor.com)
August 7, 2014  BikeRadar
verdict:4 out of 5
stars. "Braking niggles aside, the Aircode seems hugely impressive and
left us hungry for more ride time." (bikeradar.com)
August 7, 2014  Friday's Tour de
Pologne Stage 6 gets underway at 1:55pm CET (7:55am 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)
August 7, 2014  Anna
Weltman: "I
am looking for participants to be in a Research Study that I am
conducting for my Master's thesis in Sport Psychology. My thesis is on
cyclists who crash
and what it takes to get them back on the bike after they have
recovered. Please email me to volunteer" (dougreport.com)
August 7, 2014 August 6, 2014 | August 7, 2014  Suggestions
rider was seen training on climbs at end of July. (cyclingtips.com.au)
August 7, 2014  The
organizers of the USA Pro Challenge have released a provisional roster
for the 2014 event, which begins in Aspen on August 18, and ends in
Denver August 24. Defending champion Tejay van Garderen
is keen to repeat his victory, but will be up against a strong field
that includes double Tour de France stage winner Michael Rogers and
mountains classification winner Rafal
Majka, as well as former Tour de France podium finisher Fränk Schleck and
double Giro d'Italia winner Ivan
Basso. (cyclingnews.com)
August 7, 2014  The
much anticipated second of three announcements from Tinkoff-Saxo came
on Thursday, with the team confirming the new signing of Russian Pavel Brutt from
Katusha, and the renewal of his compatriot Nikolai Trusov.
(cyclingnews.com)
August 7, 2014  Vuelta
a España general director Javier
Guillén is happy to announce that a
bevy of the world's best cyclists has chosen to participate in the
season's third and final Grand Tour, set to kick off on August 23 in
Jerez de la Frontera in the south of Spain. (sbs.com.au)
August 7, 2014  Having
reportedly reached an agreement with his Ag2r-La Mondiale team for an
early release from his contract, La Gazzetta dello Sport is reporting
that Carlos Betancur
will join Omega Pharma-Quick Step for 2015. Giuseppe Acquadro, Betancurs agent,
said that the Colombian will line up at the Vuelta a Burgos and Vuelta
a España for Ag2r-La Mondiale in the coming weeks, but will not
continue with the squad next season. (cyclingnews.com)
August 7, 2014  Months
after many had all but written off the high-profile project backed by
Formula One champion Fernando
Alonso, things are quickly clicking into gear.
(velonews.com)
August 7, 2014  Famous
as one of the fastest men in sports Fernando
Alonso is proving to be a pedestrian cycling manager. His
team is struggling to get going. (inrng.com)
August 7, 2014  After
taking third place at the Tour de France and claiming the white jersey
of best young rider, Thibaut
Pinot now turns his sights to the Vuelta a
España, where he finished 7th overall last season. (cyclingnews.com)
August 7, 2014  Cadel Evans showed
that he is ready to work for his younger teammates when he took on the
unusual role of a lead-out man for Rick
Zabel in stage 3 of the Tour of Utah. In the end, the
German made a mistake and had to settle for 7th. (cyclingquotes.com)
August 7, 2014  "The
2nd World Congress
of Cycling
Science took place on the 2nd & 3rd July
(2014) in Leeds. Over the next few weeks I wanted to touch on some of
the keynote presentations from the event and possibly expand on the
provided abstracts." (shutup-legs.com)
August 7, 2014  For
a house brand, Bontrager has a staggering variety of products, from
clothing to helmets to wheels, tires, cockpit and accessories like
computers, tape, pumps, tools and more. (bikerumor.com)
August 7, 2014  This
spring Zipp introduced a revamped line of Service Course SL bars.
Service Course is Zipp’s line of bars they introduced to serve the
needs of the pro teams they were sponsoring. (redkiteprayer.com)
August 7, 2014  Meet
Birzman’s Zacoo Tiny Tanker, a tiny floor pump that acts like it’s full
sized. As the smallest member of Birzman’s Zacoo floor pump range, the
Tiny Tanker promises impressive performance in a compact package that
will still fit in your bag, car, or luggage. (bikerumor.com)
August 7, 2014 BikeSnobNYC:
To paraphrase a popular song from 1990, "Today is hump day, pronounced
with a ump day."
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