VeloNation: Past Amstel Gold Race winner to guide riders.

VeloNation: Italian triumphs after five-man break is hauled back.

VeloNews: Strong northerly winds blew out choking clouds of smog just in time for Tuesday’s start of the five-day Tour of Beijing.

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Tour of Beijing - Oct 9-13 (Stages & Results),
Giro d'Italia - May 4-26 (Stages),
Tour of Tasmania - Oct 2-7 (Stages & Results),
Paris - Tours - Oct 7 (Results),
Giro di Lombardia -  Sept 29 (Results),
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USA Cycling on Monday announced its 2013 USA Cycling National Racing Calendar (NRC) and 2013 USA Cycling National Criterium Calendar (NCC). The premier domestic road cycling calendars sanctioned by USA Cycling begin in the spring and continue into the fall staging races throughout the United States.

RedKitePrayer: "Hamilton has done more to expose cycling’s flaws than all the anti-doping crusaders combined. From the way the book closes, it sounds like he wants little to do with cycling other than his coaching business and something in that makes my heart ache for him. He is our Prodigal Son."

BicycleRetailer: The feature uses patent-pending eddy current technology completely enclosed in the rear drum, so there's no external devices, and no noise.

BikeRadar: "Is it possible to evolve from the established bicycle design while adhering to the basic principles of simplicity, functionality, style and excitement?"

InnerRing: If the government says healthy people should avoid outdoor activity should a bike race go ahead?

CyclingWeekly: The final WorldTour race of the 2012 season, the Tour of Beijing, China, commenced on Monday with a team presentation.

CyclingNews: Riding in what is surely his final appearance as a rider, Alexandre Vinokourov took a solo win in the jubilee criterium held along the streets of Monaco. Vinokourov wasn’t sure of his plans post-retirement however, according to Eurosport the 39-year-old will take up a management role with the Astana team he has ridden for since 2006.

VeloNews: Katusha’s management shake-up on Monday shocked those within the team, given the success the squad has seen this season with general manager Hans-Michael Holczer. The Russian team announced yesterday that Viatcheslav Ekimov would replace Holczer, effective immediately.

CyclingNews: De Jongh compares situation to unhappy marriage.

Team Sky will not renew Dr. Geert Leinders' contract with the team. The former Rabobank doctor was signed to the team in the winter of 2010 but found himself at the centre of a media storm during this year's Tour de France due to his links to alleged doping practices during his time with Rabobank.

VeloNation: Double junior World champion joined by Kirsten Wild and Charlotte Becker at ambitious Dutch team.

CyclingNews: The Colombian government has confirmed that it would continue to support Colombia Coldeportes as a Professional Continental team in 2013. The team was not listed by the UCI as having applied for a renewal of its licence but the team's future seems assured.

BikeRadar: Call them what you will, but 650b (27.5in) wheels are poised to shake up the mountain bike world in 2013. If you haven’t been following the resurgence of interest in the middling wheel size, we’ve already detailed the advantages, drawbacks and history of the 650b mountain bike.

Pave': The weekend started out good on both sides of the pond, but Sunday sent things way off course.

VeloNation: Anti-doping scientists both feel blood profile indicates likely blood doping.

CyclingNews: The Tour of Beijing may be akin to the last week of school for many in the peloton, but while the majority of his colleagues are winding down their seasons in China, Andy Schleck (RadioShack-Nissan) says he is determined to remain immune to the prevailing atmosphere and begin his build-up to 2013.

RedKitePrayer: "Last week, in different cities hundreds of miles apart, I saw, quite by chance, two cyclists who personify the quandary posed to cycling by celebrity racers who some see as heroes, others as cheats."

VeloNation: AG2R La Mondiale’s Steve Houanard has been provisionally suspended after returning an adverse analytical finding (AAF) for EPO, the International Cycling Union (UCI) has announced. The 27-year-old Frenchman was part of his team’s roster at the Tour of Beijing, and has been immediately withdrawn from the race.

VeloNation: Bio passport scientist expressed concerns to UCI in 2009, unsure if issue went further.

InnerRing: Pro cycling’s off season is arriving but if the racing stops, the planning doesn’t. Whether you’re plotting a victorious classics campaign or a trip to Europe you need to know when the pro races are.

PEZ: One of the animators of the recent Valkenburg World Elite Road Race Championship was Garmin’s neo-pro 24 year-old Alex Howes. The young man who hails from Golden, Colorado was also one of the surprises of the second half of the Classics season.

BikeRadar verdict 3 out of 5 stars. "Riis is a man with a story to tell, yet 'Stages…' often feels like the abridged version."

Heidi Swift: I was trying to clean out the basement. That's my story, anyway.

CyclingWeekly: Three-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond has suggested changes in drug testing and in the sport's governing body, the Union Cycliste Internationale, especially in the wake of the Lance Armstrong doping case.

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