Second Tour going to plan for German rider, Kristoff rues missed opportunity Sick during last year’s Tour and abandoning on the fifth stage with 25th place in the opening time trial as his best result, Marcel Kittel has quickly surpassed [...]
Team bus had come in after finish gantry had been lowered to stage finish positionThe finish to stage one of the Tour de France was as hectic and unconventional as any in recent memory, due to a large crash inside [...]
Irishman embraces new role on Team Saxo Tinkoff, tips compatriot Dan Martin for successHe’s finished twelfth and fourteenth in the past and taken second and third on stages but, as the first stage of the Tour de France plays out [...]
Garmin-Sharp rider believes race success will have a lasting effect on his career Winner yesterday of the WorldTour Volta a Catalunya ahead of riders such as Joaquim Rodriguez and Bradley Wiggins, Dan Martin has underlined how important the success is [...]
Sky principal feeling confident ahead of team’s bid for a second straight Tour victorySky Procycling principal Dave Brailsford declares himself, and his team, relaxed ahead of tomorrow’s Tour de France, which will see the British squad start as defending champions. [...]
Texan says that McQuaid, Verbruggen and the UCI have much to fear from a Truth and Reconcilliation processStill portraying himself as a victim of the system, Lance Armstrong has claimed that the actions of USADA have done nothing to clean [...]
Video: Spaniard fired up in bid for third titleDouble race winner Alberto Contador has said that he believes his team is up to the task of helping him win the 2013 Tour de France, and that he personally is fired [...]
Australian anticipates ‘some interesting action’ in opening Tour stagesPlaying down any concerns that he might be below par in the Tour as a result of riding the Giro d’Italia, Cadel Evans has said that he feels competing in that event [...]
UCI President says he has nothing to hide, and that an independent examination of the sport will happenResponding to today’s article in Le Monde, where Lance Armstrong said that Pat McQuaid, Hein Verbruggen and the UCI itself had much to [...]
Movistar captain aiming at the final podium; Spanish team wary of Corsican opening stagesMovistar starts the Tour de France tomorrow with the one clear goal of putting Alejandro Valverde on the final podium for the first time in his career. [...]
Garmin-Sharp rider chasing first Irish stage win in 21 years Things have changed hugely for Dan Martin in the past twelve months, and that transformation from talented outsider to one of the big guns in the sport mean he starts [...]
Opportunity for British champion on first day one sprint stage in half a centuryMark Cavendish (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) has had his red, white and blue banded British champion’s jersey for less than a week, but is already looking to exchange [...]
Argos-Shimano’s German sprinters anxious to put new techniques into action on stage oneArgos-Shimano’s German sprinters, Marcel Kittel and John Degenkolb, have declared themselves “100 percent ready” and “really excited” respectively, ahead of Saturday’s Tour de France start. The two German [...]
Rider takes national under 23 time trial and road race after signing dealFollowing a strong ride in the Tour of Slovakia plus a very successful national championship campaign, the Androni Venezuela team has given the young rider Yonder Godoy a [...]
ASO confirms Texan has not been asked to attend Although he finished the 1995 Tour de France and therefore is eligible for inclusion in the final day ceremony honouring those who have competed the Tour, Lance Armstrong has not been [...]
Agency contradicts McQuaid’s assertion that Cookson’s proposal is impossibleThe World Anti Doping Agency has countered a claim made yesterday by Pat McQuaid, in which he said that Brian Cookson was incorrect in promising a fully independent anti-doping agency to police [...]
Focus on GC and hilly stages sees Farrar and Zabriskie miss out on selection Featuring several riders capable of targeting stage wins plus high overall finishes, the Garmin Sharp team for the Tour de France will be based around the [...]
Spaniard believes he’s in a position to fight Chris Froome and others for Tour de France victoryAlthough he acknowledges that Chris Froome is the rider to beat in this year’s Tour de France, Alberto Contador has spoken optimistically about his [...]
