DailyMail:  "I was called to a meeting with Jim Ochowicz, who played a big part in Lance’s career and at the time was Motorola team manager. Jim told me I would not be getting a new contract for the following season. I was out."

CyclingNews: Bob Stapleton, the man behind Team Highroad and HTC-Highroad, has told Cyclingnews that he is open to a return to cycling. Stapleton took over control of the T-Mobile team in 2006, restructuring the squad before launching the highly successful Highroad team.

CyclingNews: David Millar has called for the UCI’s honorary President Hein Verbruggen to step down in light of the damning evidence collected by USADA in the investigation into Lance Armstrong and the US Postal and Discovery cycling teams.

road.cc: French newspaper L'Equipe has advanced the hypothesis that a possible explanation for Fränk Schleck's positive test for a banned diuretic in this year's Tour de France  is that he was deliberately poisoned by Bruyneel to ensure he couldn't move elsewhere.

CyclingNews: Marco Haller (Katusha Team) took his first professional victory with an assured sprint in Changping at the end of stage four of the Tour of Beijing. The Austrian youngster out-paced Alessandro Petacchi (Lampre-ISD) and Elia Viviani (Liquigas-Cannondale) in a bunch finish, while Tony Martin (Omega Pharma-QuickStep) retained his leader’s jersey with one day to go.

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Giro d'Italia - May 4-26 (Stages),
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VeloNews: The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency sketched a chilling portrait of a vindictive and ruthless Lance Armstrong in its files Wednesday, painting the seven-time Tour de France winner as a peloton bully, capable of intimidating rivals both on the bike and at the bar.

CyclingNews: While WADA and the UCI closely study the USADA's extensive report into Lance Armstrong and doping at the US Postal and Discovery teams, the question has arisen as to whether such a systematic doping regime could function in the current climate.

VeloNation: Sky’s Alex Dowsett says Armstrong is a 'legend of the sport.'

VeloNews: Omega Pharma-Quick Step boss Patrick Lefevere says Levi Leipheimer’s future with the Belgian team is anything but certain.

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CyclingNews: Against the stirring backdrop of the Great Wall at Badaling, Francesco Gavazzi (Astana) charged to victory in a close finish to stage three of the Tour of Beijing, while Tony Martin (Omega Pharma-QuickStep) retained his overall lead, 40 seconds ahead of the Italian.

CyclingNews: Current Cycling Australia professional men's road coordinator Matt White, also Orica-GreenEdge sports director, is believed to have been identified as Rider 9 in Floyd Landis' evidence in USADA's Reasoned Decision documentation to the UCI.

CyclingNews: Canada's top professional cycling team, Spidertech, announced today that it will "postpone" racing for the 2013 season, choosing to focus on gathering enough corporate sponsorship for a WorldTour bid in 2014 with an aim at racing in the Tour de France.

PodiumCafe: Translation of Leonardo Bertagnolli's statement as found in the appendices to the Lance Files.

VeloNews: UCI president Pat McQuaid got a rough welcome Friday upon arrival for the final days of the Tour of Beijing.

Peloton:  Goebbels - “One should not as a rule reveal one’s secrets…. The English follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of looking ridiculous.”

Pave': Four the fourth consecutive week, riders in the US have to opportunity to pick up a ton of UCI points with another C1/C2 weekend.

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VeloNews: The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency published its case file against the Lance Armstrong Wednesday morning, including sworn statements from more than two dozen witnesses, including 11 former teammates, many whom never tested positive, as well as banking records from a Swiss company controlled by Dr. Michele Ferrari reflecting more than $1 million in payments from Armstrong.

Phil Gaimon: "I’ve been writing the “Ask a Pro” column for Velo for a couple of years now. Normally, I have a semi-obnoxious response for the questions posed to me, but the events of the past few months have had me thinking a little more seriously. There’s a huge group of cyclists that never broke the rules during the sport’s doping era, and they’re largely unrecognized. I wasn’t around then, but I’ve come across a few who have had a huge personal impact on me as I’ve come up."

CyclingNews: Dave Brailsford, team principal of Team Sky, claims he was stunned by the revelations contained in the USADA's Reasoned Decision in the Lance Armstrong case, saying cycling had “lost its moral compass.” He also said that he was disappointed that Michael Barry had lied to him about his doping background.

CyclingNews: According to Luxemburg media RTL, the future of current RadioShack-Nissan team manager Johan Bruyneel could be decided as soon as today. The news outlet reported that "it is possible that the former boss of Lance Armstrong will be sacked."

VeloNews: "In December 2009, I interviewed Dave Zabriskie for a magazine profile that was published in Australia. Then at the end of his second year with Jonathan Vaughters’ new Slipstream project, Zabriskie was his usual tangential self, responding to a question about training in Los Angeles not with a predictable rant about bad drivers, but rather a thesis on the lawn care industry."

VeloNation: No reassignment of Lance Armstrong’s stripped victories, says Christian Prudhomme.

Peloton: The International Olympic Committee on Friday said that they would be looking at the US Anti-Doping Agency's report into cyclist Lance Armstrong before deciding whether to strip him of his Olympic bronze medal.

VeloNation: Company paid a total of $12 million to US Postal Service rider in relation to Tour victories.

SoCalCycling: This past year, you may have noticed more and more riders wearing SPY Optics  at cycling events. SPY has entered the cycling market with some new, aggressive and stylish eyewear.

VeloNews: On February 3, 2012, the U.S. Department of Justice called off its probe into Lance Armstrong and an alleged doping ring at the U.S. Postal Service team. No reasons were given for the dropped case, only the statement from U.S. Attorney André Birotte, Jr., which landed two days before the Super Bowl and quickly washed away.

CyclingNews: Former UCI president Hein Verbruggen who, it has now become clear from USADA's comprehensive documentation of the Lance Armstrong case, presided over the darkest era of sophisticated doping in the history of sport, has reacted to the file by claiming the UCI "could have done nothing, and did not hide anything" about the systematic, highly orchestrated doping program taking place in the US Postal Service and Discovery Channel teams.

CyclingNews: The Belgian Cycling Federation has forwarded the USADA reasoned decision to federation prosecutors, for further investigation of Johan Bruyneel involevment. The Prosecutor says RadioShack manager may face lifetime ban.

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