Admits it’s yet uncertain when rider will be back to full strength Following yesterday’s abandonment of the Tour of Poland by Thor Hushovd, plus his statement that he is uncertain if he will be able to compete in the Olympics [...]
Sky number two admits sacrificing himself is difficultThe perception that Chris Froome feels hampered in this Tour de France, much as Greg LeMond was with Bernard Hinault in the 1985 edition, will be furthered by an interview he has given [...]
Green jersey wearer not discouraged by close defeatWith three wins apiece after Andre Greipel nabbed victory into Le Cap d’Agde today, the German and Peter Sagan are the most successful stage hunters thus far on this Tour de France. Sagan’s [...]
Reports of payment complaints by Cancellara and Schleck brothers to the UCIFollowing reports that the team’s top riders had faced a delay in their payments and had complained to the UCI as a result, as well as speculation that financial [...]
Kazakh rider wants to achieve a victory in final Tour de France, will ride OlympicsAlready holding the mountains jersey with Fredrik Kessiakoff and eighth place overall with Janez Brajkovic, the Astana team has made no secret of the fact that [...]
Danish rider chases difficult solo stage victory on the anniversary of his father’s deathDanish rider Michael Mørkøv (Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank) was in his fifth breakaway of the 2012 Tour de France, in the thirteenth stage between Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux and Le Cap [...]
Belgian champion taking no chances ahead of Olympic Games road raceTom Boonen (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) was forced to pull out of today’s hilly fifth stage of the Tour of Poland, between Rabka Zdroj and Zakopane, still feeing the aftereffects of [...]
Michal Kwiatkowski holds onto overall lead by a single secondAfter being disappointed for missing out on stage four, Ben Swift (Team Sky) bounced back to take victory in the hilly fifth stage of the Tour of Poland between Rabka Zdroj [...]
German Gorilla holds off Peter Sagan to match Slovakian champion's win tally in a less than conventional stage finishAndré Greipel (Lotto-Belisol) took his third victory in the 2012 Tour de France, as he won a less than conventional sprint stage [...]
Norwegian still trying to get into shape A frustrating season for 2010 world champion Thor Hushovd is continuing, with the Norwegian not starting today’s stage of the Tour of Poland and admitting that his Olympic Games are far from certain. [...]
Everybody wants to win on the host country’s national day but the stage looks like going abroad as usualQuatorze Juillet, the 14th of July, is the biggest day of the year in France. The anniversary of the Prise de la [...]
Former US Postal Service doctor Garcia del Moral linked to football teamsFormer US Postal Service manager Johan Bruyneel has confirmed that he has chosen to undergo an arbitration hearing in relation to the doping charges made against him by the [...]
Australian sprinter only loses one place but 30-point fine means advantage Peter SaganThe disqualification of Matt Goss (Orica-GreenEdge) from the stage 12 sprint did not appear at first to have particularly disastrous consequences, but the point penalty handed to the [...]
“I want to start building bridges to prove that I am doing this off of bread and water”Five days after blasting doubters on Twitter, Bradley Wiggins yesterday said that he has accepted that he needs to be more open with [...]
Team Astana continues to dominate mountains classification as Croatian picks up the day’s big pointsAstana’s Robert Kiserlovski came close to a breakaway stage victory for the second straight day in the twelfth stage between Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne and Annonay-Davézieux. The only Croatian [...]
Frenchman finishes a close second on the race’s longest stage after day long breakawayJean-Christophe Péraud started the 2012 Tour de France with the high expectations of a top ten finisher from last year. 2011 was the then 34-year-old’s debut in [...]
Bos and Bennati third and fourth, Kwiatkowski takes over race leadAidis Kruopis (Orica-GreenEdge) got his first WorldTour win in his first season with the Australian team, grabbing stage four of the Tour of Poland ahead of stage two winner Ben [...]
British rider outsprints Jean-Christophe Péraud on the 45th anniversary of the death of Tom SimpsonDavid Millar (Garmin-Sharp) salvaged his team’s Tour de France, with victory in a two-man breakaway sprint at the end of the twelfth stage, between Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne and [...]
