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Forty minutes of highlights from the Czech Republic

After losing most of its sponsors, the last hope the Giro Bio had for continuation was through soliciting money from the participating teams. They collectively refused.

This year's Rotterdam 6 was the last time the legendary figure of Joop Zijlaard will be seen putt putting around the velodrome on his derny. And just to make it final, said derny was auctioned for charity and raised 12,500 Euro.

The third man of the classic age of Italian cycling, winner of the Giro d'Italia in 1948. 1951 and 1955, died today at the age of 91.

The story gets even better. Gazzetta have got hold of some more of the Italian police case files on Ferrari. Teams said to be involved with Schumi between 2008 and 2011 are Liquigas, Lampre, Colnago, Geox, Androni, Katusha, Quick Step, Cnf-Inox, Farnese Vini, Acqua & Sapone, Astana, RadioShack, Vacansoleil, Isd, Csf, Lpr, Diquigiovanni, Tinkoff, Rabobank, Gerolsteiner, Milram. Payments were concealed via a system of dual contracts for image rights via a Monaco agency, T&F Sport Management. Other athletes named are Scarponi, Menchov, Kolobnev, Gusev, Karpets, Ignatiev, Petrov and Ongarato. Do I get to bring out the old "It's curtains for Karpets" line again?

OK, it's a juniors race, but Sara won this race last Saturday for the second successive year, and as the Italian interviewer says in the attached video, the last person to do that was Rossella Ratto. So if you want a head start on planning your 2015 FSA-DS team ....

Here's the latest programme in what looks to be e regular series on Norwegian TV (aka I don't understand Norwegian). At 4:00 there's a short English interview with ELB, followed by one in Norwegian with Worlds Junior Silver Medal Winner Elsie Brusted. The Junior women's race begins at 16:00, followed at 17:45 by the seniors, and the cameras are there for Elisa's winning move when she drops back 20 metres or so before flying past the small group she was previously riding with. (Thanks to Karl Lima)

You never see any of the men being this open nowadays, but Rachel Neylan has published her full power file from her ride in the Worlds.That 8.1 watts figure is how hard it was just to follow Vos on the final climb of the Cauberg.

BiciBG.it have more videos both on their website and on Vimeo, mostly covering cycle races in the Bergamo region of Italy. Each video on Vimeo has a short written summary on its page, but unfortunately that isn't carried up to the page listing all videos. Lots of gems if you are patient, and coverage from many smaller races.

A look at building a bike from a no-name chinese carbon-fibre frame

"Vous serez le leader de l'equipe de la France. Quel honneur." France 3 have put together a nice single page summary of PFP's 2012 season. Show your appreciation by watching it.

OK it's pretty concentrated on the Dutch riders, but there are a couple of minutes from the Juniors race including a shot of Elinor Barker crossing the line.