Tour de France: Fabian Cancellara falls on his sword as crash takes down Schleck brothers
Spartacus loses yellow as he sacrifices his own race to wait for team leaders After Saxo Bank’s Fabian Cancellara blew away the field on Saturday’s 8.9km prologue course the thing he most wanted to do was to wear his yellow […]
Four in a row in Giro Donne for unstoppable Teutenberg
Queen-Tut continues perfect Giro and takes four successive wins for the first time in her career Ina Teutenberg (HTC-Columbia) continued her seemingly unstoppable Giro d’Italia Femminile by taking her fourth stage out of four between Ficarolo and Lendinara. The German […]
Tour de France: Chavanel rides into yellow as Cancellara brings the peloton out on strike
Frenchman takes his second career stage and first career yellow as peloton hit by crashes on wet roads Sylvain Chavanel (Quick Step) won the second stage of the Tour de France between Brussels and Spa, Belgium, as the last remaining […]
Tour de France: Alexandre Vinokourov wants Ardennes victory for Kazakh president
Astana figurehead seeks birthday present for national leader Astana team captain Alexandre Vinokourov wants to win today’s second stage of the Tour de France, which passes through the hilly Ardennes, for more than purely personal glory. A victory in Spa […]
Tour de France: Petacchi sprints to win stage one as chaos reigns in Brussels
Ale-jet is last man standing again as the peloton is decimated by finishing straight crashes Alessandro Petacchi (Lampre-Farnese Vini) won the first stage of the Tour de France between Rotterdam and Brussels, which ended in chaos as a succession of […]
Versatile Teutenberg time trials to third straight Giro Donne stage
Dominant German proves that she has more than just a sprint in her armoury Ina Teutenberg (HTC-Columbia) proved once again that there is more to her racing than just a near unbeatable sprint by taking victory in the 16.9km stage […]
Tour de France: I’m better than I’ve been since the comeback, says Lance Armstrong
Fourth place in the prologue and time into rivals is less important than positive feelings for seven-time Tour winner Fifth place, just 22 seconds behind winner Fabian Cancellara of Saxo Bank, made RadioShack captain Lance Armstrong the best performer of […]
Tour de France: Cancellara blows away the field in wet Rotterdam prologue
Spartacus ignores the slippery conditions to deny Tony Martin at the last minute World and Olympic time trial champion Fabian Cancellara (Saxo Bank) blasted around the drying prologue course in the Netherlands port city to take victory and the first […]
Tour de France: Slick prologue roads put Manuel Cardoso and Mathias Frank on the casualty list
Just two riders crashed on the wet Rotterdam streets but both may have to abandon Despite the wet and slippery city streets experienced by the vast majority of riders in today’s Tour de France prologue, only two riders actually came […]
Teutenberg goes two from two in the Giro Donne as crash hits final kilometre
German über-sprinter continues perfect start to Italian Tour Ina Teutenberg (HTC-Columbia) once again outclassed the rest of the field to take her second successive stage and a 100 percent record in this year’s Giro Donne. Once again the German beat […]
