Tour de France: Leopard Trek's Schleck brothers fail to gain significant time on Plateau de Beille
Asphalt day for Jens Voigt slightly changes team’s plan Andy Schleck of the Leopard Trek team put in a strong move inside the final kilometer in the 14th stage of the Tour de France, finishing atop the Plateau de Beille. […]
Tour de France: Contador says he will be fully recuperated in the Alps
Psychological games amongst race favorites continue Alberto Contador came in with the group of the race favorites in today’s stage of the Tour de France to Plateau de Beille, conceding only two seconds to Andy Schleck. Battered by crashes in […]
Péraud and Riblon put in strong ride for AG2R La Mondiale
Péraud leaps to 12th place overall in final Pyrenees day Jean-Christophe Péraud finished in the group with the race favorites in today’s Tour de France stage to Plateau de Beille and moved up from 19th to 12th overall. His teammates […]
Tour de France: Schlecks flex their muscles in Luz Ardiden
Luxembourg brothers put rivals in the defensive high up in the Pyrenees Fränk and Andy Schleck have prepared specifically for this year’s Tour de France and the first day in the high mountains showed that they are right on target. […]
Tour de France: Astana's Andriy Grivko joins break of the day on stage 11
Everybody rides for Vinokourov on Kazakh team Andriy Grivko formed part of the break of the day in today’s stage 11 of the Tour de France. The six-man move came very close to prevailing, being caught only three kilometers from […]
Tour de France: Samuel Sánchez and Euskaltel-Euskadi looking forward to home game in the Pyrenees
Team enjoys stage without incident ahead of first high mountain outing Samuel Sánchez of the Euskaltel-Euskadi team is getting ready for the first day in the high mountains. The Basque team is always motivated in the Pyrenees, as it is […]
Voeckler expects to lose yellow jersey in Tour de France's first real mountain stage
Frenchman vows to keep his fighting spirit up regardless Thomas Voeckler is a fighter, which is why he says he will go all out in tomorrow’s stage of the Tour de France in the Pyrenees. He is also a realistic […]
Jens Voigt joins the twitter community
Popular German has already thousands of followers after day one Jens 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 […]
Contador experiences difficult Tour de France, suffers from knee pain
Defending champion hopes to recover over the rest day Alberto Contador crashed in today’s stage nine of the Tour de France to Saint Flour, his third fall in this year’s race. The Spaniard is starting to feel the effects of […]
Tour of Austria: Bennati fastest in Vienna, Kessiakoff celebrates overall win
Kessiakoff’s biggest success in his career Daniele Bennati (Leopard Trek) sprinted to victory in front of the famous Vienna Burgtheater on the eighth and final stage of the Tour of Austria. The Italian was a clear winner over Martin Velits […]
