Suffers ruptured spleen...

Alessandro Ballan suffers fractured femur in training crash.

VeloNation: Three ribs also fractured by former World champion on final day of Spanish camp.

VeloNews: Katusha’s Denis Galimzyanov, who won Paris-Brussels in 2011, has been suspended for two years for doping, Russia’s anti-doping agency said in a statement on Thursday.

CyclingNews: Astana Manager talks Nibali and winning the Giro.

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Giro d'Italia - May 4-26 (Stages),
Tour of California - May 12-19 (Stages),
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CyclingNews: Acquarone in talks with Katusha at team presentation.

CXMagazine: With yesterday’s GP De Ster, a C2 race in Sint Niklaas, Belgium’s Christmas Week has begun. With eight races – including two World Cups, three GVAs and one Superprestige – a host of American Elite, U23 and Juniors landing in lion country, and the forecast calling for a whole lot of rain, the next thirteen days are so stacked with epic racing that we can barely contain ourselves.

Pavé: Much like the Elite Men, the Elite Women should start the maximum number of riders at Worlds. For the Elite Women, the teams are made up of eight riders, with five starting. Also like the men, one rider (Katie Compton) has dominated this season and occupies a lot of the automatic qualifying spots.

VeloNews: The moment ‘cross fans have been waiting for has finally arrived: Kerstperiode is here.

RBAction: "On a recent trip to Scottsdale, Arizona to visit the Faster bike shop and participate in the first-ever run Faster Gran Fondo, we also took some time to visit the new home of BH and Pivot bikes."

BikeRadar: Most good bike shops these days offer some type of advanced fit service. However, one shop in San Francisco, California does nothing but, and the staff has even developed its own software and protocols to help you feel right at home in the saddle.

BikeRadar verdict: 4 out of 5 stars. "The ‘jigsaw’ cleat is the answer to replacement positioning woes."

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road.cc: Man who brought Lance Armstrong down fears Sky's approach could be "counter productive". 

VeloNation: Charismatic Frenchman to be honored in year of 100th edition of the Tour de France.

CyclingNews: Spaniard awaits CAS verdict before any decision on changing teams .

InnerRing: Cycling borrows many French words and for many maillot jaune, peloton and other terms have been absorbed into English, just like blonde or savoir-faire. But panache is an elusive word that’s harder to define.

CyclingNews: Rough week for rider involved in hit-and-run.

VeloNews: SRAM appears to be testing a cyclocross-oriented single chainring that does not require a chain watcher or tensioner — and the move could be indicative of big things to come for the Chicago-based manufacturer.

PEZ: With less than a week to go until the big day any last minute shoppers out there are cutting things a bit fine. It's never too late to get some new gear though.

Off The Beaten Path: "I enjoy the annual rhythm of the seasons. It encourages me to change my cycling and exercise, like a farmer rotating crops and leaving some fields fallow for a while."

BikeRadar verdict: 4.5 out of 5 stars. "Good value, tidy handling trail tamer sacrifices some climbing prowess for downhill grins and giggles."

BicycleRetailer: Italian sunglass maker Rudy Project is introducing a new model line that it says merges performance features from some of its previous models.

CyclingNews: No comment from Luxembourg Anti-Doping Agency.

VeloNation: Luxembourg newspaper states car manufacturer wants to end backing of the team.

VeloNation: Europe Tour winner beats Tony Martin and André Greipel; Kristina Vogel and Miriam Welte share women’s award.

CyclingWeekly: The Italian Cycling Federation (FCI) has promised that the biggest race in women's racing, the Giro Donne, will "definitely" go ahead next year, despite its organizer deciding to drop the race from its portfolio.

VeloNews: Two promising American talents have landed rides at one of Europe’s most storied development teams for 2013.

CyclingNews: 2,060 of the 8,339 riders to have finished the Tour are still living, and L’Équipe reports that it is hoped that at least a quarter of them will be able to make the journey to Paris next July, where they will be feted in a ceremony as the “Giants of the Tour.”

CyclingWeekly: We've seen riders presented with enormous models of wooden boats at the Tour of Qatar, and of course there's the traditional Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne cuddley donkey.

road.cc: Excellent way of keeping bikes shiny for longer.

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