Young Belgian denied the chance to sprint into green on home soil in debut TourAnother voice of dissention could be heard today, that of OmegaPharma-Lotto’s Jürgen Roelandts, showing that yesterday’s race neutralisation was by no means unanimously supported within the [...]
Ricco's successful return continuesRiccardo Ricco's successful return to the top rung of the sport following his 20-month suspension for his use of CERA-EPO in the 2008 Tour de France continued on Monday in Austria with victory on one of the [...]
Stage win, yellow, green and polka dot jerseys add up to Belgian team's finest hour in the Tour For Belgian team Quick Step a good performance as the Tour de France crossed its home roads was important. Until his last [...]
Spartacus loses yellow as he sacrifices his own race to wait for team leaders After Saxo Bank’s Fabian Cancellara blew away the field on Saturday’s 8.9km prologue course the thing he most wanted to do was to wear his yellow [...]
Norwegian champion loses valuable points in green jersey competitionToday's chaotic stage two of the Tour de France ended horribly for defending green jersey champion Thor Hushovd, with the race jury making the decision to nullify the competition following a major [...]
Bruyneel and Sanquer both back their riders’ chancesThe Tour de France is just three days old, but already the men who are guiding two of the big race favourites are looking to claim advantage for their rider. Lance Armstrong finished [...]
Irishman fell twice yesterday, but is relatively unscathedNicolas Roche has remained upbeat about his start to the Tour de France, despite crashing twice on yesterday’s stage to Brussels. The Ag2r La Mondiale team leader twice hit the deck on the [...]
Bernard feels yesterday’s loss of points may prove crucial Mark Cavendish has suffered a knock to his chances of taking the green jersey in this year’s Tour, losing out on the chance to take points on the opening stage when [...]
Classics route in a Grand Tour stage claims more victimsToday's second stage of the Tour de France was reminiscent of the Giro d'Italia just two months ago, where the combination of narrow roads and a nervous peloton wreaked havoc during [...]
Queen-Tut continues perfect Giro and takes four successive wins for the first time in her careerIna Teutenberg (HTC-Columbia) continued her seemingly unstoppable Giro d’Italia Femminile by taking her fourth stage out of four between Ficarolo and Lendinara. The German outsprinted [...]
Frenchman takes his second career stage and first career yellow as peloton hit by crashes on wet roads Sylvain Chavanel (Quick Step) won the second stage of the Tour de France between Brussels and Spa, Belgium, as the last remaining [...]
Astana figurehead seeks birthday present for national leaderAstana team captain Alexandre Vinokourov wants to win today’s second stage of the Tour de France, which passes through the hilly Ardennes, for more than purely personal glory. A victory in Spa would [...]
Lars Boom did the honors of representing his country and team through the NetherlandsLars Boom spent about 190 km of Stage 1 leading the Tour de France with his two breakmates, Maarten Wynants (QuickStep) and Alan Perez (Euskaltel). Boom is [...]
Narrow roads and nervous riders make a dangerous combinationThe first road stage of this year's Tour de France played out in typical fashion, with nerves reverberating throughout the peloton on a day where pile-ups marked the journey to Brussels. The [...]
Dominant German proves that she has more than just a sprint in her armouryIna Teutenberg (HTC-Columbia) proved once again that there is more to her racing than just a near unbeatable sprint by taking victory in the 16.9km stage 3 [...]
Ale-jet is last man standing again as the peloton is decimated by finishing straight crashesAlessandro Petacchi (Lampre-Farnese Vini) won the first stage of the Tour de France between Rotterdam and Brussels, which ended in chaos as a succession of crashes [...]
Greipel's answer to Tour de France eliminationAndré Greipel was expecting to ride in the Tour de France this weekend, after 11 race wins so far. But the HTC Columbia rider made the best of it, storming to victory in stage [...]
Prologue crashes too much for the duoThe Tour de France was already incomplete at the start due to the Cervélo TestTeam pulling its rider Xavier Florencio. The prologue cost two more riders a chance of reaching Paris, as the peloton [...]
