VeloNation: Nightime finish in Paris, double ascent of Alpe d'Huez on stage 18, Ventoux returns.

VeloNews: Bradley Wiggins says recent revelations in the Lance Armstrong doping scandal have soured him after winning the race with which the Texan became synonymous each July.

Pave': Lost somewhere in the shuffle between the continued fallout from the USADA report on Lance Armstrong and the presentation of the 2013 Tour de France route was the release of the UCI Cyclocross Classification (aka UCI Rankings).

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VeloNation: Katusha sprinter speaks about career, goals, Armstrong and more.

CyclingNews: Two new faces topped the men's and women's podiums at the Crocodile Trophy on Wednesday. Wolfgang Krenn from Austria won among the men ahead of Ivan Rybarik and Ondrej Fojtik in a thrilling finish sprint into the Mt Mulligan. Belgian mountain bike marathon racer Alice Pirard finished as the fastest woman of the day.

Alex Grant: Exciting times for mountain biking.

BikeRadar verdict: 4 out of 5 stars. "Fast and sharp, this great value package will deal well with muddy ’cross races."

SteepHill: The 2013 Tour de France route presentation is on Wed, October 24th. Live video at 11:30 CET / 2:30:00 AM PDT.

BikeRadar verdict: 3.5 out of 5 stars. "Not waterproof, and the batteries aren't replaceable, but hard to beat when it comes to cycling-suitable smartphones."

InnerRing: It should be one of the best jobs in cycling but Tour director Christian Prudhomme keeps finding his efforts to promote the world’s biggest race thwarted by its past. As much as he wants to promote next summer’s route he’ll also have to look back to the Armstrong years. These days no preview seems complete without a moment of retrospective regret.

CyclingNews: Report says 450,000 euros incurred in appeal.

CyclingNews: Disgraced cyclist threatened Democrats with Livestrong army.

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VeloNews: Paul Kimmage can forget about spending time with his three children or writing a rugby player’s autobiography, because the UCI is still breathing down his neck. Despite expressing a desire to head down a new path in the wake of the Lance Armstrong doping case, UCI president Pat McQuaid said Monday that Kimmage was still in the federation’s sights.

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VeloNation: The 2011 champion feels course is more suited to him than this year.

VeloNews: The 100th edition of the Tour de France will finish in Paris at nightfall for the first time, organizers said on Wednesday, as they unveiled next year’s route in the shadow of the Lance Armstrong doping scandal.

CyclingNews: Third category Col de Sarenne to allow double up.

CyclingWeekly: Dr Michele Ferrari fired back at the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) and his accusers following the Lance Armstrong doping case. The Italian doctor is serving a life-time ban and faces possible criminal charges in Italy for smuggling, selling and administering drugs, tax evasion and money laundering.

CyclingNews: While the International Olympic Committee will await the full decision of the UCI before stripping Lance Armstrong of his 2000 Olympic Games bronze medal, one thing it is not intending to pursue is investigations into those in charge of the UCI during the time of cycling's deepest doping problems.

CyclingWeekly: Bradley Wiggins has confirmed that he will focus on the Giro d'Italia in 2013, but that he will be on the start line of the Tour de France in a supporting role, probably for Chris Froome.

PodiumCafe: The release of the USADA report into the USPS conspiracy triggered a landslide of revelations and controversies that shook the world of cycling.

VeloNews: Lance Armstrong made the front page of L’Equipe on Tuesday, probably for the last time, and for all the wrong reasons.

BikeRadar verdict: 4 out of 5 stars. "The best twisters yet but they're very pricy and take up too much space."

road.cc: Brand new top-level road bike that Bianchi say is their best ever.

CyclingNews: Former US Postal rider says UCI is accountable for Armstrong case.

CyclingNews: The World Anti-Doping Agency president John Fahey has stated that "testing and analysis alone" is not enough in the fight against doping in sport.

Cyclismas: "Pat McQuaid, you know damn well what has been going on in cycling, and if you want to deny it, then even more reasons why those who love cycling need to demand that you resign."

Cyclismas: Contribute to Paul Kimmage Defense Fund.

Cyclismas: "This opinion piece was started before USADA released its Reasoned Decision regarding Lance Armstrong. Much of it still holds true, and the Reasoned Decision did nothing to change my opinion of Lance or lesson my disgust at his actions. If anything, the Reasoned Decision enforced my opinion and provided greater insight into exactly the type of person he is."

VeloNews: Jonathan Vaughters says cycling needs to embrace the Lance Armstrong scandal as an opportunity to put the sport on a new footing toward a cleaner, more credible future.

CyclingNews: Patrice Clerc, the former president of ASO, has called on the Tour de France organisers to assume greater responsibility in the management of cycling in the wake of the Lance Armstrong affair. In an interview with Le Monde, Clerc said that cycling's system must change if it is to avoid a repeat of the past decade.

VeloNation: Australian says cycling is far cleaner than before.

CyclingNews: The Mayor of l'Alpe d'Huez in Isère, Jean-Yves Noyrey, is calling for Lance Armstrong's name to be removed from the signs that pay tribute to the winners at the famous climb. Armstrong has been stripped of his seven Tour de France titles following USADA's investigation into doping at the US Postal team, with the UCI confirming a lifetime ban and removal of the Tour wins earlier this week.

PEZ: A cycling legend in Canada, Alex Stieda won a Commonwealth Games medal on the track in the pursuit and was a professional in Europe and North America for eight years from the mid-80s to early-90s, and wore the yellow jersey at the Tour (the first North American to do so, as everyone knows). Still deeply involved with cycling, PEZ proposed a quick tour of his cycling history, past to present.

CyclingNews: South African switches from road to mountain bike racing.

CyclingNews: UCI president critical of Kimmage and Hamilton's confessional book.

CyclingNews: On announcing that the UCI would accept USADA’s decision to ban Lance Armstrong for life and strip him of his seven Tour de France titles, Pat McQuaid told the assembled media that it was “the biggest crisis cycling has ever faced.”

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