Tour de France: Stage 12 penalty ends Matt Goss’ green jersey quest
Australian sprinter only loses one place but 30-point fine means advantage Peter Sagan The 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 […]
Jean-Christophe Péraud rues missed opportunity at stage twelve finish
Frenchman finishes a close second on the race’s longest stage after day long breakaway Jean-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 […]
Tour de France: David Millar takes stage 12 breakaway to salvage the Argyle Tour
British rider outsprints Jean-Christophe Péraud on the 45th anniversary of the death of Tom Simpson David 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 […]
Crash on descent forces David Moncoutié out of his final Tour de France
Serious abrasions for Cofidis veteran but no fractures reported as he prepares for Vuelta a España David Moncoutié (Cofidis) was forced to abandon what is his final Tour de France after a crash after just 38km of today’s twelfth stage. […]
Robert Kiserlovski misses out again from breakaway in debut Tour de France
Team Astana continues to dominate mountains classification as Croatian picks up the day’s big points Astana’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 […]
Tour de France: Thomas Voeckler escapes the break to take stage ten
Bradley Wiggins under pressure from Vincenzo Nibali on Grand Colombier descent Thomas Voeckler (Europcar) bounced back from the knee problem that has dogged the first week of his Tour de France to take victory on the tenth stage between Mâcon […]
Vincenzo Nibali: “We need to separate Wiggins and Froome from their teammates”
The Shark refuses to panic over deficit to Team Sky riders after Tour de France’s first week Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas-Cannondale) has emerged from the first week of the 2012 Tour de France as one of very few genuine rivals to […]
Tour of Poland: Moreno Moser jumps clear to take opening stage
Italian prodigy continues Liquigas-Cannondale domination of WorldTour race Moreno Moser (Liquigas-Cannondale) continued the domination of the Tour of Poland by the green and blue team as he jumped away from a much-reduced peloton to take the opening stage between Karpacz […]
Tour de France: Bradley Wiggins crushes the field in stage nine time trial
Maillot Jaune increases his lead over Cadel Evans as Team Sky goes one-two Bradley Wiggins (Team Sky) put his rivals to the sword again as he took a dominant victory in the first individual time trial of the 2012 Tour […]
Jurgen Van Den Broeck: “I was thinking of time gains not the stage victory”
Lotto-Belisol riders blow the peloton apart; concedes that the podium is now probably out of reach After a disaster on the previous stage, where a mechanical incident at the foot of the final climb to la Planche des Belles Filles […]
