Spaniard Alberto Contador has secured his second Tour de France overall victory after finishing the 21st and final stage on Sunday. Today's stage, that finished on the Champs Elysees, was won by Britain's Mark Cavendish of the Columbia-HTC team bringing [...]
Dutchman Steven De Jongh, who rides for the Quick-Step team, has decided to end his cycling career. A couple of weeks before the Tour de France he took the tough decision to quit cycling at the end of the season. [...]
If Danish cyclist Michael Rasmussen intends to return to cycling when his two-year suspension ends on July 25th, the International Cycling Union (UCI) expect the former wearer of the Malliot Juane to pay 700,000 euros in order to fulfill his [...]
Rumors about seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong's new team are at an all-time high this week. With details from anonymous sources flying all over the place, it looks like we won't have to wait for his press conference [...]
Germany's retired former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich is to be the subject of a disciplinary procedure by the Swiss anti-doping commission Tuesday's edition of German daily Suddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) reveals.Gerhard Walter, president of the Swiss Olympic Committee's disciplinary [...]
A dramatic racing incident that has put seven-time champion Lance Armstrong within sight of the race's yellow jersey has been blamed, ironically, on Alberto Contador.Contador, the 2007 champion who is Armstrong's teammate at Astana, was among a handful of big [...]
Make it two days in a row for Columbia-HTC's star sprinter Mark Cavendish winning the stage over Thor Hushovd and Cyril Lemoine in the 196.5 kilometer wind swept ride from Marseille to La Grande-Motte. With a gesture of appreciation to [...]
Belgium's Tom Boonen said Sunday he was more concerned about staying on his bike than sprinting for victory after a crash just before the finish of the second stage of the Tour de France.A right hand bend just under two [...]
As bunch sprints go, it could have gone much better for Australian Brett Lancaster and his Cervelo team on the Tour de France on Sunday. While yellow jersey contender Cadel Evans expressed his relief at avoiding one of several crashes [...]
Lance Armstrong endured his first testing day of racing on his return to the Tour de France before avoiding a potentially dangerous finish among the safety of the main peloton. The 37-year-old was given the same finishing time of 4hr [...]
Columbia-HTC's Mark Cavendish has taken his fifth stage victory in the Tour de France today with no challenge from second placed Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Slipstream) who was several bike lengths back followed by a charging Romain Feillu of Agritubel who closed [...]
Rabobank team boss Erik Breukink confirmed at the Tour de France on Sunday that star rider Denis Menchov recently gave evidence to Austrian police investigating a suspected blood doping. During last month's Tour of Italy Menchov was handed a summons [...]
Just like he did in 2004 and 2007 Swiss rider and Olympic time-trial champion Fabian Cancellara of team Saxo Bank took the first yellow jersey of the Tour de France during the opening test against the clock in Monaco, besting [...]
Belgian sprinter Tom Boonen, who was only given the green light to ride in Saturday's opening stage of the Tour de France the day before, has been beset by diarrhoea and abdominal pains.The 2009 Tour begins with a 15.5km time-trial [...]
Cycling legend Lance Armstrong could return to Australia for the 2010 Tour Down Under, the race's director said Friday, after his appearance this year drew the biggest crowds in its history.The seven-time Tour de France winner made his much-anticipated professional [...]
Tom Boonen, Belgium's top cyclist, has won his first battle of this year's Tour de France - of the legal sort - allowing him to start the race in Monaco on Saturday. Last year began the cyclist's troubles with the [...]
British sprinter Mark Cavendish said Friday his Tour de France objective is solely to reach Paris with any thoughts of winning the green jersey far from his mind when the race begins here on Saturday. The 24-year-old exploded onto the [...]
The Cervelo Test team declared their intention to help defending champion Carlos Sastre win the Tour de France for the second consecutive year here on Friday. But the Tour debutants, who have also built their team around Thor Hushovd's bid [...]
