Tour de France: Mark Cavendish takes number five in Paris as Alberto Contador confirms number three

Manx Missile fires again on Champs-Elysées ahead of Astana rider's overall victoryMark Cavendish (HTC-Columbia) won the twentieth, and final, stage of the Tour de France between Longjumeau and Paris Champs-Elysées to take his fifth stage of the race this year. [...]

2010-07-25T00:00:00+00:00July 25th, 2010|

Tour de France: Astana takes home nearly half a million euros

Alberto Contador's team are top earners, Footon-Servetto lowestUnsurprisingly, the team of Tour de France winner Alberto Contador, Astana, finished the Tour de France as the highest earning team in the 2010 Grand Boucle. The largest chunk of the money was [...]

2010-07-25T00:00:00+00:00July 25th, 2010|

Alberto Contador admits that it is unlikely he will race the Vuelta

Three-time Tour de France champion: "What I want now is rest."After finishing a comfortable 31 seconds in front of arch-rival Andy Schleck in Bordeaux, the tears of happiness and relief flowed from the soon to be five-time Grand Tour winner, [...]

2010-07-24T00:00:00+00:00July 24th, 2010|

Sarah Düster gets Thüringen stage 5 as Adrie Visser disqualified

German rouleur awarded stage win after Dutch rider ruled to have sprinted irregularlySarah Düster (Cervélo TestTeam) won the fifth stage of the Thüringen Rundfahrt, the Rund um Schmölln, from a breakaway group of three. The German was awarded the victory [...]

2010-07-24T00:00:00+00:00July 24th, 2010|

Floyd Landis on ABC’s Nightline: details of what the programme contained

Former USPS team-mate and others detail accusations of doping, Landis apologises to publicThe latest big development in the US Postal Service team inquiry occurred last night when Floyd Landis, who sparked off the investigation earlier this year, appeared on ABC’s [...]

2010-07-24T00:00:00+00:00July 24th, 2010|

Milram's Gerald Ciolek's temper flares after another disappointing finish

German ProTour team's woeful Tour continuesThe Tour that can't end soon enough continued in Bordeaux for Germany's only remaining, and soon to be extinct, ProTour team on Friday. The embattled team, which is still desperately searching for a 2011 season, [...]

2010-07-24T00:00:00+00:00July 24th, 2010|

Tour de France: Fabian Cancellara reigns as time trial king, while Alberto Contador and Andy Schleck fight it out

World champion destroys the field as a close Tour de France goes to the wireFabian Cancellara (Saxo Bank) won the stage 19 time trial of the Tour de France between Bordeaux and Pauillac. The World champion blitzed the flat, exposed [...]

2010-07-24T00:00:00+00:00July 24th, 2010|

Walter Godefroot: "Van den Broeck has the capacities to win the Giro or Vuelta."

Admits that Tour de France victory could be a difficult goalFormer racer and ex-Telekom/T-Mobile manager, Walter Godefroot, weighed in with his thoughts on this year's Tour de France in a candid chat with Sporza following the conclusion of the 50 [...]

2010-07-24T00:00:00+00:00July 24th, 2010|

Tour de France: Andy Schleck says "I will return next year to win"

Wants to exchange white for yellow twelve months from nowLuxembourg time trial champion Andy Schleck (Saxo Bank) put in his best effort in the Tour de France's penultimate race against the clock, but it wasn't enough to unseat soon-to-be three [...]

2010-07-24T00:00:00+00:00July 24th, 2010|

Tour de France: Sylvain Chavanel takes most aggressive rider prize

Rises above sub-par early season with injury to shine in Grande Boucle Sylvain Chavanel (Quick Step) has been awarded the "super-combatif" prize for being the most aggressive rider in this year's Tour de France.  Chavanel was one of two Frenchman [...]

2010-07-24T00:00:00+00:00July 24th, 2010|

Tour de France: Oscar Freire will have nasal surgery immediately after the finish

Looks forward to a problem free Vuelta and WorldsTriple World champion Oscar Freire is set to undergo surgery in the Netherlands on Tuesday to remove polyps from his nasal passage and sinus.  The Spaniard has had serious problems with his [...]

2010-07-24T00:00:00+00:00July 24th, 2010|

UnitedHealthcare's Marc De Maar to return to Europe with QuickStep?

Dutch rider has a verbal agreement with Lefevere's team for 2011 according to De TelegraafMarc de Maar's move from Dutch ProTour squad, Rabobank, to the American Continental outfit, UnitedHealthcare/Maxxis, for the 2010 season was a rather surprising one, as was [...]

2010-07-24T00:00:00+00:00July 24th, 2010|

Bernard: Schleck to lose considerable time to Contador in Tour de France time trial

French analyst doesn’t see any way for Saxo Bank rider to win this yearIn his latest expert column, former French pro Jean Francois Bernard has said that he expects Andy Schleck to concede a minute and a half to Alberto [...]

2010-07-23T00:00:00+00:00July 23rd, 2010|

Tour de France: Manx Missile fires again as Mark Cavendish takes number four in Bordeaux

HTC-Columbia rider is the class of the field in the sprinter's city after surviving tough times in the mountainsMark Cavendish (HTC-Columbia) won the eighteenth stage of the Tour de France between Salles-de-Béarn and Bordeaux in a mass bunch sprint. The [...]

2010-07-23T00:00:00+00:00July 23rd, 2010|
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