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December 2012
December 28, 2012


Photo: Superprestige Cyclocross Diegem.
CyclingFans: The 2012 Superprestige Cyclocross - Diegem (Belgium) is Sunday, December 30. Live streaming video: 5:00pm CET (11:00am U.S. Eastern).











Photo: Sven Nys.
VeloNation: Belgian champion crashes twice in Loenhout but abandons after storming into the crowd.






Photo: Niels Albert wins a duel with Zdeněk Štybar.
VeloNation: Nightmare day for Sven Nys sees Albert take control in overall Trofee standings.







Photo: Owen, shown winning here at Namur, took second today .
VeloNews: Sanne Cant (Enertherm-BKCP) won the Azencross at Loenhout on Friday, taking a two-up sprint with Nikki Harris (Telenet-Fidea). Katerina Nash (Luna) rounded out the podium in third.





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: Joaquim Rodríguez powered away with his first classics win on the Mur de Huy at Flèche Wallonne in April.
VeloNews: Attacking – it’s the juice that moves cycling. It’s the raison d’être for the sport.






Photo: Alessandro Ballan (BMC Racing).
VeloNation: “I am very happy because I have a lot of supporters,” says former World champion.





Photo: My new René Herse had been completed just before Paris-Brest-Paris last year.
Off The Beaten Path: Some people wonder whether special bikes can be too precious to ride. They ask me about my bikes: “Aren’t you afraid that it will get scratched?” or “What if you crash it?” or “What if it gets stolen while you lock it up on the street?”





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.





road.cc: L'Equipe says Russian star named in Leipheimer's USADA testimony and also implicated in Padua investigation.










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.






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: Lance Armstrong (Getty).
SBS: Lance Armstrong missed the deadline to lodge an appeal over being stripped of his seven Tour de France titles for systematic doping, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) announced.








Photo: Garmin-Sharp team.
VeloNation: Nuyens, Morton, Von Hoff, Fairly and Dennis come on board.





Photo: Lance Armstrong’s failed legal battle with Travis Tygart.
TwistedSpoke: Armstrong successfully headed off muckracking journalists for over a decade by labeling them “trolls.” However the lack of a disparaging and memorable label for the anti-doping CEO made efforts to discredit him a difficult task.





Photo: Vincenzo Nibali (pictured) moves to Astana.
InnerRing: As the 2013 season approaches here is a selection of riders to watch for. I’ve picked six established riders who face different challenges in the new year and six young riders who could impress but first have to hop the chasm from amateur and pro.





Photo: Peter Sagan wins Stage 12 of the 2011 Vuelta (copyright: Tour of Spain/Graham Watson).
road.cc: 22-year-old Slovak says he's the strongest rider in the peloton and is aiming for victory in Milan-Sanremo.





Photo: Marc Madiot is a proponent of radio-free racing.
CyclingNews: FDJ manager on Change Cycling Now and MPCC.





Photo: A Tour de France fan states his case for cessation of doping in the professional peloton.
CyclingNews: French Anti-Doping Agency (AFLD) president Bruno Genevois is hopeful that his agency can work alongside the UCI and carry out testing at the 2013 Tour de France, although he noted that no firm decisions on anti-doping protocol for next year can be taken until after the UCI Independent Commission completes its review of the governing body’s activities.





Photo: Don't expect to see dual sanctioning during cyclocross races in Oregon come 2013.
VeloNews: In early June 2012, Tom Danielson, Georgia Gould and Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski were among thousands of competitors at Vail’s Teva Mountain Games, a multi-sport event that includes bike racing, kayaking, rock climbing and trail running.





Photo: Cadel Evans always wears a cap when he goes outside, his soigneur told me once.
Marijn de Vries: It’s all Cadel Evans’ fault. He is responsible for the fact that I suffer from a not dangerous yet very pesky disease. The thing is: I don’t dare to go outside bareheaded. Every time I go outside, even for a stroll to the drugstore around the corner, I want to wear something on my head. And that has everything to do with Cadel.





Photo: Bradley Wiggins on the podium at London 2012 (copyright www.britishcycling.org.uk).
road.cc: Knighthoods for Wiggo and DB, Sarah Storey made a Dame; honors too for other London 2012 gold medallists.
























Photo: Kazakhstan rider Andrey Kashechkin.
VeloNation: Previously-banned rider cannot race until signature is received.





Photo: Connie Carpenter.
Peloton: "I think it’s pretty hard for this generation of women to appreciate what it was like in the 1980s. On the one hand you can look at pictures of us and our equipment, like friction shifting, and say, “Well, that was the ’80s.” On the other hand, you can look at the crowds who watched us at the Coors Classic and say, 'Wow, we don’t get that.'"






Photo: Julian Dean.
VeloNation: Kiwi will become assistant directeur sportif with Orica GreenEdge.





Photo: 2004 winner Erik Dekker (Rabobank).
CyclingNews: Erik Dekker and Marc Wauters have both denied having used doping while riding for Rabobank. Both are now sports directors with WorldTour teams, and made the denials in light of allegations made by an anonymous former Rabobank rider and details which have emerged from the USADA reasoned decision in the Lance Armstong case.





Photo: Multi-platform broadcaster Sportsnet has upped its commitment to covering the sport in Canada.
VeloNation: Ryder Hesjedal scoops prestigious Canadian of the Year award.





Photo: BONTRAGER AEOLUS 5 D3, ENVE SES 3.4, MAD FIBER .
RBAction: Welcome to the new age of carbon clinchers. It’s an age in which wheel manufacturers are investing as much—or even more—time and money into producing aerodynamic shapes for their clinchers than their tubulars.





Photo: Broken bike (pic by garryknight, www.flickr.com).
road.cc: 31-year-old who was second youngest man to climb Seven Summits killed in Russia's Kola Peninsula.











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.





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.





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.





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?”







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