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December 2012
December 27, 2012


Photo: Ellen van Dijk.
Bicycling: Time-trial-specialist Ellen van Dijk of Specialized-lululemon is one of a formidable crop of lightning-fast women from the Netherlands who are setting the pro peloton on fire.





Photo: Denis Menchov in 2012 Vuelta (copyright Graham Watson:Unipublic).
road.cc: L'Equipe says Russian star named in Leipheimer's USADA testimony and also implicated in Padua investigation.





Photo: Bpost Bank Trophy Cyclocross Loenhout.
CyclingFans: The 2012 GVA Bpost Bank Trophy Cyclocross at Loenhout (Azencross Loenhout) is Friday, December 28. Live streaming video: 2:45pm CET (8:45am U.S. Eastern).





Photo: Jeremy Powers says the requirements and potential effect on U.S. ’cross have him based in the States and not Belgium.
VeloNews: As if two of the most spectacular World Cup races in recent memory and perhaps the most exciting finish of any race this season, in Essen on Saturday, weren’t enough, in the next few days we’re going to go again, and again, and again.





Races & Results.
Giro d'Italia - May 4-26 (Stages),
Tour of California - May 12-19 (Stages),
Tour de France - June 29-July 21 (Stages),






Photo: Bradley Wiggins' pre-Giro race schedule.
CyclingWeekly: He will begin in the Tour of Algarve, February 13 to 17, and race Tirreno-Adriatico, Tour of Catalonia and the Giro del Trentino or Tour of Romandy. The Giro starts May 4 in Naples.





Photo: Damiano Cunego.
VeloNation: Piccolo Principe preparing for his ninth season in the blue-fuchsia colors of Lampre.





SBS: Giro d’Italia winner Ryder Hesjedal has become the first cyclist to win the Canadian Press male athlete of the year honor.





VeloNews: No one questions that Mark Cavendish is the fastest sprinter in the world. Cavendish will tell you as much, but so will his rivals.





VeloNation: Dutch sprinter becomes the latest rider to be rescued from Spidertech collapse.





VeloNation: Belgian and World champions fight it out all the way to the final clim; Nys takes the World Cup lead.










CXMagazine: American Champion Logan Owen today took second place behind World Champion Mathieu van der Poel in the junior race at World Cup Zolder. 













Photo: Lance Armstrong.
VeloNation: “The Armstrong brand will forever be that of a fighter, a survivor and a cunning, steely-eyed liar.”





Photo: Canadian entrepreneur Serge Arsenault says there's plenty of potential in cycling if only it would be run professionally, with team owners, riders and promoters working together and the UCI restricted to umpire status.
VeloNews: Serge Arsenault understands professional sports. But he can’t understand why cycling won’t act like one.





Photo: Phil Gaimon battling to catch Mancebo on the final laps of Redlands 2012.
VeloNews: "This has been a roller-coaster year for cycling. I feel like Lance burned down the house, and the rest of us are all huddling together in the charred rubble. But we live, readers! We live! And we’re still having a blast, actually."





Photo: Marco Pinotti congratulates his BMC teammate Alessandro Ballan for his victory..
CyclingNews: Alessandro Ballan celebrated his wedding anniversary with his wife Daniela in the intensive care unit of Denia hospital in Spain but is expected to return to Italy in the next few days after recovering well from surgery.





Photo: David de la Fuente (Caja Rural) rides in the breakaway with Simon Geschke (Argos-Shimano).
CyclingNews: David de la Fuente finds himself in almost the identical position as this time last year – the Spaniard is once again without a team for the coming season.





Photo: Welcome to U Bikes! A staffer is always posted at the door to greet you as you enter University Bikes.
BikeRadar: The expression "killing them with kindness" is usually just that, an expression. But University Bicycles in downtown Boulder, Colorado, arguably has killed some of its competitors over the years — and the shop's over-the-top customer service may well have played a role.





Photo: Roubaix cobbles as basically the nastiest, hardest riding I’d done on a road bike.
PEZ: The Arenberg Forest is a defining point of the race – at about 80km to go, the sprints to be first in are legendary, as are the perils that await rides once they hit the treacherous stones.










TwistedSpoke: Artificial insemination. That’s what Twisted Spoke thinks every time we think about the Gifted Group proposal for some kind of World Series of Cycling.



















Photo: Peter Sagan will focus on select classics in 2013, but some think he may have grand-tour potential.
VeloNews: Peter Sagan will race a select set of classics this year, from Milan-San Remo to Amstel Gold, with the aim of winning at least one.





Photo: U.S. champion Timmy Duggan awaiting a reporter earlier this month in Boulder.
VeloNews: Even from behind, it’s obvious that it’s Timmy Duggan, waiting there on a busy Boulder sidewalk. He’s in a well-worn perch over the top tube and there is no doubt that the man waiting there is a professional, but it’s his shorts.





Photo: The Cycling Professor.
InnerRing: Written by Pinotti himself, there’s no florid prose nor hyperbole. Marco Pinotti is not just a professional cyclist but a northern Italian and a graduate engineer and be brings a concise analytical take to the sport.





Photo: On the side of a highway, next to windswept sugar cane fields.
BikeHugger: As we accelerated into the first rise of a 4-mile climb up Waihee Valley, Axel Merckx said to the group, “now how social you going to be?”





Photo: Cycling Weekly Reader Poll 2012: The results.
CyclingWeekly: If ever there was a cycling year that could correctly be termed ‘rollercoaster', it was 2012. The highs were soaring, and the lows plumbed the deepest crevasses of an abyss filled with used syringes and lies.












SBS: Tyler Hamilton who blew the whistle on Lance Armstrong thinks the loss of his seven Tour de France titles will tear him apart but he expects the disgraced former champion to fight back.





VeloNation: WorldTour beckons after SpiderTech stint.





PEZ: Alastair Hamilton was at the RadioShack hotel in December to get the low-down from Andy on his less than successful season.





CyclingNews: American believes Schlecks can return to the top.





VeloNation: At 35 years of age, South African champion has no thoughts of retirement .












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