Yellow jersey explains the reason why Team Europcar did so little work on stage tenThe pattern for a transitional stage in the first half of the Tour de France where the day is likely to end in a sprint usually [...]
Popular German has already thousands of followers after day oneJens Voigt has joined the Twitter community (thejensie) and he has quickly accumulated a large number of followers. Voigt finally gave in to the 'pressure' put on him from within the [...]
Rest day helps Rabobank leader recover from injuries sustained early in the raceRabobank’s Robert Gesink is one of the many riders coming out of Monday’s rest day feeling an improvement to the injuries he sustained in crashes earlier in the [...]
Philippe Gilbert’s late attack blows holes into HTC-Highroad leadout trainLess than a week after Omega Pharma-Lotto was having to play down suggestions of divisions in its triple-headed team, André Greipel and Philippe Gilbert are showing a united front. The German [...]
Gorilla outpaces big rival Cavendish to win in his debut in the raceAndré Greipel (Omega Pharma-Lotto) put one over on his former teammate and rival Mark Cavendish (HTC-Highroad) to the finish in Carmaux to take the tenth stage of the [...]
Spaniard vows to fight to Paris, says knee injury is improvingAlberto Contador has denied suggestions in today’s l’Equipe newspaper that he could quit the Tour de France due to a knee problem and low morale, saying that he has no [...]
Regulations tightened to avoid a repeat of Sunday’s Hoogerland/Flecha incidentJean-François Pescheux, the Tour de France director of competition, has reminded everybody in the convoy how they are to conduct themselves in the race. Regulations are being tightened in order to [...]
Belgian team manager is waiting to see if he will come on boardQuick Step team manager Patrick Lefevere has confirmed a strong interest in current Tour de France Maillot Vert Philippe Gilbert, one of the standout riders of the first [...]
Klöden under pressure due to back injuryFamously lucky during the Tour in its previous incarnation as the US Postal Service and Discovery Channel teams, RadioShack is experiencing the opposite during the 2011 Tour de France. Yaroslav Popovych is the latest [...]
Voluntarily leaves Tour while waiting for B sampleAlexandr Kolobnev is under the cloud of a positive A sample for a banned diuretic and already out of the Tour de France, but has insisted today that he doesn’t know how it [...]
If B sample confirms result, Katusha rider will be sacked and faces huge fine The Tour de France will have one less rider tomorrow following the earlier news that Alexandr Kolobnev has tested positive for the banned substance hydrochlorothiazide.The 30 [...]
Liquigas-Cannondale leader has kept himself safe in the Tour de France’s crash-filled first week and is now ready for the race to really startIvan Basso (Liquigas-Cannondale) has staked his season on a strong performance in the Tour de France. The [...]
Russian rider set to be removed from raceTeam Katusha captain Alexandr Kolobnev has provided a positive A sample for the banned substance hydrochlorothiazide, a diuretic, and the UCI has requested that his squad withdraw him from the Tour de France. [...]
France Télévision apologises for crash involving Spaniard and Johnny Hoogerland One day after yesterday’s incident at the Tour de France where a car hit Johnny Hoogerland and Juan Antonio Flecha, the latter’s Sky Procycling team is determining whether it will [...]
Belgian team’s classification rider could be the Tour’s top Belgian this yearOne piece of good news to come out of the somewhat beleaguered Quick Step team at the Tour de France is that Kevin De Weert has signed a contract [...]
Olympic Games to follow cycling in the banning of non-medical injectionsThe International Cycling Union (UCI) has welcomed the decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to ban the possession and use of syringes outside medical areas in the next Olympic [...]
Third overall continues upwards trend heading towards Vuelta Carlos Sastre has had a quiet season today date with his Geox TMC team but his form appears finally to be on the up after a strong display in the Tour of [...]
RadioShack leader plans to continue in race Team RadioShack’s one remaining leader is having a less-than-ideal run-up to the Pyrenees, with Andreas Klöden suffering a back injury during yesterday’s ninth stage of the Tour de France. The German rider was [...]
