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 [...]
Belgian visits Quick Step team in RotterdamTom Boonen had great hopes of winning stages in the Tour de France and even winning them in his own country. Instead, the Quick Step rider has to sit out the race with a [...]
Fourth place in the prologue and time into rivals is less important than positive feelings for seven-time Tour winnerFifth place, just 22 seconds behind winner Fabian Cancellara of Saxo Bank, made RadioShack captain Lance Armstrong the best performer of all [...]
Not stressed about time lost to ArmstrongDefending champion Alberto Contador conceded five seconds to his big rival Lance Armstrong today, but said afterwards that he isn’t worried about the difference. He finished sixth in the 8.9 kilometre Rotterdam prologue, dropping [...]
Spartacus ignores the slippery conditions to deny Tony Martin at the last minuteWorld and Olympic time trial champion Fabian Cancellara (Saxo Bank) blasted around the drying prologue course in the Netherlands port city to take victory and the first yellow [...]
Ongoing US Postal Service allegations cast shadow over Tour de FranceThe spectre of past Tours threaten to dominate many of the headlines of the current race, following a substantial exposé featured in the Wall Street Journal today. The piece is [...]
American is deluxe helper for Evans in Tour de FranceThe goal for BMC is clear, with the whole team centered around its captain Cadel Evans for the Tour de France victory. One of the team's key players is George Hincapie, [...]
Australian knows that chasing dreams can take a long timeCadel Evans will start the 2010 Tour de France as one of the main favorites, having finished second of the three-week tour through France twice in his career. He joined team [...]
Predicts an overall finish for Lance Armstrong between 3rd and 6th placeJens Voigt spoke with RadsportNews on the eve of the Grand Depart in Rotterdam and looks as ready as ever to do battle on the roads of France. The [...]
The Tour de France through the eyes of an emerging artistLast year artist Gaby Zwaan packed up his creativity and took a trip to the mountains of the Tour de France to share his inspiration along the route of the [...]
German sets early best time, but has to settle for secondTony Martin was the 11th of 197 riders to leave the Tour de France prologue start ramp in Rotterdam, Netherlands, today. As an early starter, it is not hard to [...]
Just two riders crashed on the wet Rotterdam streets but both may have to abandonDespite the wet and slippery city streets experienced by the vast majority of riders in today’s Tour de France prologue, only two riders actually came down: [...]
German über-sprinter continues perfect start to Italian TourIna Teutenberg (HTC-Columbia) once again outclassed the rest of the field to take her second successive stage and a 100 percent record in this year’s Giro Donne. Once again the German beat Italian [...]
Raboank rider is first Dutch rider to start in his first ever TourThe first Dutchman to roll down the start ramp in the Netherlands port of Rotterdam was Rabobank rider Maarten Tjallingii. Having spent most of his earlier career at [...]
Loyal workers sign on for further years with Dutch squadRabobank domestiques Bram Tankink and Grischa Niermann have both signed contract extensions with the Dutch team for two years and one year respectively. 31-year-old Dutch rider Tankink has been with Rabobank [...]
German sprinter continues winning season as Italian Tour startsIna Teutenberg (HTC-Columbia) won the first stage of this year’s Giro d’Italia Femminile between Muggia and Trieste. The German über-sprinter beat Italian Giorgia Bronzini (Gauss-RDZ-Ormu) and Dutchwoman Kirsten Wild (Cervélo TestTeam) at [...]
