Injuries prove too much for Garmin-Sharp team leaderHaving promised to try to continue in the Tour de France after a very bad crash yesterday, Giro d’Italia champion Ryder Hesjedal has the disappointment of being forced out of the race due [...]
Gesink, Mollema, Kruijswijk all lose time, Wynants outAfter getting off to a fairly good, if uneventful start to the Tour de France, it has all gone wrong for Rabobank after a difficult stage six. The Dutch team had its whole [...]
Participation uncertain for Giro d’Italia winner and VansummerenHe went into the race hoping to be the first to achieve the Giro-Tour double since Marco Pantani in 1998 but instead Ryder Hesjedal is now simply hoping to make it to Paris. [...]
Dutch team rues more bad luck; Poels, Txurruka show their mettleAfter a particularly tough Tour de France stage into Metz, with a high-speed crash inside the final 30 kilometres affecting a large portion of the peloton, teams are growing increasingly [...]
Omega Pharma-Quick Step still has its general classification cards to play as many favourites lose big timeOmega Pharma-Quick Step was one of the teams to get off lightest in the carnage of stage six, with only Belgian rider Dries Devenyns [...]
Bumps and bruises for Movistar captain as he loses two minutes to his biggest rivalsMovistar’s Alejandro Valverde was one of the victims of both crashes on the sixth stage of the Tour de France, between Épernay and Metz, as he [...]
Fifth stage win for the World number one with second overall victory in sightIn a cannibal-esque performance that now matches her 2011 race, Marianne Vos (Rabobank) took her fifth stage win of the 2012 Giro d’Italia Femminile, between Mornago and [...]
Scarponi regrets losing time, vows to fight back tomorrowTriple world champion Oscar Freire has been forced to withdraw from what could be the final Tour de France of his career as a result of a crash which took place early [...]
Van Garderen remains fourth overall and in white jerseyGaining time over many of his rivals today due to the massive crash which afflicted the peloton 24 kilometres from the finish, Cadel Evans’ chances of taking a second Tour win have [...]
Slovak prodigy wins again but time losses to overall threats the big storyPeter Sagan (Liquigas-Cannondale) more than made up for missing out on the sprint yesterday, having been caught up in a crash, with a flat and fast sprint win [...]
Former Garmin-Sharp rider gives his thoughts on CAS ruling and being sidelined until April Once again, the rug has been pulled from under Alex Rasmussen’s feet. Last season the 28 year-old Danish former multiple world track champion’s equilibrium was turned [...]
Preview of tomorrow’s first summit finish of the 2012 Tour de France The riders still have to negotiate todays’ flat stage to Metz, but the Tour de France will take a very different tone tomorrow when the riders hit the [...]
Slovakian rues crash in finale of stage fiveHe’s still holding the green jersey as points classification leader in the Tour de France, but Peter Sagan lost out on some of his advantage over the riders behind him when he crashed [...]
American still dealing with missing Tour selectionFour days into his Tour de France debut and Peter Sagan (Liquigas-Cannondale) had won two stages. The explosive 22 year old rider has been dominant all season with fifteen wins thus far. Liquigas-Cannondale teammate [...]
Swiss rider has had more time in yellow than any other non-winner; concedes again that final victory is beyond himAs a four-time World time trial champion, and five-time winner on the opening day of the Tour de France, Fabian Cancellara [...]
Second Olympics for French rider who will compete in both road race and time trialSylvain Chavanel (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) has declared himself happy to have made the five-man French team for the London Olympic Games, which will begin less than [...]
World number one strengthens grip on Maglia Rosa with fourth stage victoryBouncing back from a rare sprint defeat the day before, Maglia Rosa Marianne Vos (Rabobank) jumped away from the rest of a very select group on the uphill finish [...]
Cavendish runs out of gas a bit short, Sagan caught up in late crashAndré Greipel (Lotto-Belisol) punched his way to a second win in a row in the Tour de France, this time on stage five into Saint-Quentin. It was [...]
