Last year’s Lanterne Rouge gets combativity award on stage sixHe “won” the Lanterne Rouge for last place in the Tour de France last year, but tomorrow morning Lampre-ISD’s Adriano Malori will pin on the red number, having been voted of [...]
Chavanel, Boonen, Ciolek and Steegmans feeling after-effects of fallsFrench road race champion Sylvain Chavanel drew upon the motivation of being in his home race to get through today’s sixth stage of the Tour de France, feeling a lot of pain [...]
No issues coping with mechanical problemsApart from issues with his bike in the closing stages of today’s stage to Lisieux, stage six went well for defending Tour champion Alberto Contador. He reports a good recovery from yesterday’s crash, saying that [...]
Brian Nygaard negotiating with riders’ agents at the Tour de FranceLeopard Trek’s general manager Brian Nygaard is on the lookout for some capable teammates for Fabian Cancellara’s 2012 Classics campaign, according to feltet.dk. The Swiss champion, who did the Ronde [...]
Dutch champion dominates Queen stage of the race over one of the sport’s toughest climbsMarianne Vos (Nederland Bloeit) continued her cannibal-esque domination of the Giro d’Italia Femminile with yet another victory in the Queen stage of the race. The Dutch [...]
Norwegian wins on a wet day across Normandy to take Team Sky's maiden Tour stageAfter fears that his Tour de France would be affected by a case of shingles the week before, Edvald Boasson Hagen (Team Sky) won the sixth [...]
Team has settled its issues around the table after Greipel closed out of stage five sprintOmega Pharma-Lotto’s Belgian champion Philippe Gilbert and sports directory Herman Frison have both downplayed talk of divisions in the team in this year’s Tour de [...]
Movement in the peloton to blame for series of crashes not narrow roads, says race directorThe Tour de France organisers have been criticised by a number of people over the route of stage five, between Carhaix and Cap Fréhel, after [...]
Australian talks about his debut year in the ProTeam ranksSimon Clarke has made a seamless transition to the top ranks of professional cycling this year when he moved from ISD-Neri to the Astana Pro team. He made his debut for [...]
Dark day for Quick Step team Tom Boonen was one of several big names to crash during yesterday’s fifth stage of the Tour de France and, following a spirited battle to reach the finish line within the time limit, will [...]
Australian rider dedicated to helping team captainAfter two years of disappointment with regards to the Tour de France, Simon Gerrans returned to the race this year as part of Sky Procycling’s ambitious selection for the event. The 31 year-old from [...]
Briton wins out of break that dominated the dayTeam Sky's Ian Stannard celebrated the fifth stage of the Tour of Austria with his first professional victory. The Briton squared off against Gatis Smukulis (HTC-Highroad) and Stefan Denifl (Leopard Trek) in [...]
Tour organisers appeal for extra careThe motorbike driver of one of the Tour de France photographers has been excluded from this year’s race due to an accident which happened 77 kilometres from the finish of Wednesday’s stage. Danish rider Nicki [...]
Out of Tour de France and off bike for at least five daysFollowing Jani Brajkovic's severe crash at the intermediate sprint point of today’s stage of the Tour de France, the Team RadioShack rider has been diagnosed with a fracture [...]
Astana leader says he might ride Olympic road raceAlexander Vinokourov has intimated that he might postpone retirement in order to ride the Olympic road race in London next year. However the Astana leader, who is currently riding in his eighth [...]
Ride from the front gives him 11th place in bunch sprintCadel Evans (BMC) finished 11th in stage five of the Tour de France, which ended in a bunch sprint. Evans is not a sprinter but his guideline was to avoid [...]
Good news only hampered by loss of green points jersey to Gilbert after disqualification in intermediate sprintMovistar had a good day at the Tour de France's fifth stage, with Jose Joaquin Rojas sprinting to a third place behind Mark Cavendish [...]
More unhappy about teammate Nicki Sørensen's fall due to a photographerAlberto Contador crashed twice during today's fifth stage of the Tour de France, held between Carhaix and Cap Fréhel. The Spaniard was able to continue without suffering major injuries and [...]
