CyclingFans: The 2012 GVA Bpost Bank Trophy Cyclocross Koppenbergcross at Oudenaarde is Thursday, November 1.  Live streaming video: 2:45pm CET (9:45am U.S. Eastern).

CyclingNews: Italy’s Supreme Court of Cassation has upheld the offences of doping, money laundering and tax evasion listed by the Padua-based investigation into the activities of Dr. Michele Ferrari and the agent Raimondo Scimone.

PodiumCafe: Otherwise known as all those little stories that haven't got a mention yet.

VeloNation: World champion wants victory on the Koppenberg but not aiming at overall classifications yet.

CyclingIQ: Where is pro cycling and cycling culture in China going? For most of the year, this question circles in a small fishbowl of new media (like this blog). However, the recent Tour of Beijing has helped the discussion spill over into much larger ponds, including that of China’s state-owned Xinhua News Agency.

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CyclingNews: Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) has admitted that he wasn’t expecting to perform as well as he did this past season following his return from a two-year ban from racing. The Spaniard said the final part of his season had been “excellent. I couldn’t have asked for more. It’s been a good year for me and for Movistar.”

VeloNews: Dallas insurance company SCA Promotions confirmed on Wednesday that it has sent Lance Armstrong a letter demanding the return of $12 million in bonuses, and warned that it might take legal action against the Texan.

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InnerRing: It’s Halloween so what better day to cover the story of self-administered blood transfusions in the pro peloton? It’s more sinister than the tale of Britons burning a giant effigy of Lance Armstrong.

CyclingWeekly: Stripped of his cycling medals over a doping scandal, disgraced US icon Lance Armstrong will suffer a fresh humiliation this weekend at the hands of an English town that will burn him in effigy.

VeloNews: Over the course of two weeks, Specialized rider Todd Wells has gone from pushing his bike through deep jungle mud in Malaysia to running stairs at the Boulder Cup. On Thursday, he’ll set off through the Costa Rican jungle to defend his title at the notorious La Ruta de los Conquistadores.

VeloNation: Olympic road race rematch to take center stage at December 1st track meet.

BikeRadar: Oakley recently unveiled a pair of ski/snowboard goggles with technology that could easily be applied to mountain bike goggles, and perhaps, to sunglasses in the near future.

CyclingNews: Despite an announcement in September that Lampre-ISD would rider Merida bikes in 2013, the team's current bike suppliers, Wilier Triestina, have declared that the partnership has ended at their request after Lampre broke their terms and conditions of the current deal.

Peloton: Make no mistake, the Domane is an important bike and more important for what it is not, than what it is.

road.cc: Frame-mountable pump that's capable of getting full pressure into your tyres out on the road.

CyclingNews: Brian Cookson, the president of British Cycling, has warned the International Cycling Union (UCI) that the independent commission it has pledged to set up to examine anti-doping efforts must be truly independent for the agency to prove it is credible in the wake of the USADA case against Lance Armstrong, Johan Bruyneel and four others.

road.cc: Cartman and co queue to have their yellow wristbands removed as nation realises it's been duped.

CyclingNews: Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela manager Gianni Savio believes that team hierarchies should also be punished when riders are sanctioned for anti-doping violations.

road.cc: Bourne star had earlier been linked to portray cyclist in happier ending (for Armstrong) film based on It's Not About The Bike.

road.cc: New site searches for cycling products as cheaply as possible.

CyclingNews: As for the wisdom of leaving the Tour winnerless from 1999 to 2005, Contador said, “it’s complicated to give an answer, but given cycling’s current predicament, and it’s obvious that we are going through a bad moment, then perhaps there was no other solution.”

VeloNation: Final roll of the dice for Italian’s cycling career.

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