Pellizotti in the wilderness; Italian still hopes to defend his polka-dots in the Tour de France
Withdrawn just before the Giro due to apparent biological passport irregularities, the curly-locked Italian still hopes to ride the Tour Last July Franco Pellizotti stood on the podium on the Champs-Elysées in Paris with the polka-dot mountains jersey on his […]
Katusha's Kim Kirchen emerges from coma following cardiac arrest, recognizes family
Brain shows positive signs after removing artificial respirator Team Katusha’s Kim Kirchen has emerged from a medically induced coma today, on what what would have been the fourth day doctors had stabilized him following cardic arrest late Friday evening. The […]
Lance Armstrong: “None of us is the favourite”
Tour de Suisse performance doesn’t necessarily mean a RadioShack rider will win the Tour, says Armstrong After a spring disrupted by illness, followed by a crash that forced him to abandon the Tour of California, Lance Armstrong (RadioShack) bounced back […]
Armstrong, Leipheimer head strong RadioShack team for Tour de France
Horner, Brajkovic also named today in team selection announcement Seven time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong and team manager Johan Bruyneel have finalised the selection for the RadioShack team for this year’s Tour, with Jani Brajkovic and Chris Horner […]
Saxo Bank completes Tour de France lineup, Larsson will miss race
Team expects to be seen at the front of the race Team Saxo Bank has made the difficult decision of leaving world time trial championship runner-up Gustav Larsson off their Tour de France team. The Danish squad revealed its Tour […]
Euskaltel-Euskadi's Sammy Sanchez aiming for stages at Tour de France
Stage glory could result in overall success Euskaltel-Euskadi’s reigning Olympic road race champion, Sammy Sanchez, feels, like Alberto Contador, that July’s Tour de France will be decided in the final week when the race passes through the Pyrenees. Sanchez believes […]
Saxo Bank's Fabian Cancellara looks back at the Tour de Suisse
Says second place in final time trial was a better performance than first day victory Fabian Cancellara took a look back at the recently completed tour of his home country of Switzerland on his website on Sunday. The World Time […]
Andy Schleck: “I’m better than last year”
Last year’s Tour de France second place feels he’s ready to go one better this time Second place in last year’s Tour de France, Andy Schleck (Saxo Bank) believes he has done all that he can to go one better […]
Weening angry about Tour de France non-selection
Most recent Dutch stage victory to miss this year’s race 2005 Tour de France stage winner Pieter Weening has shown solid form this season with 24th in the Giro d’Italia and fifth in the Ster Electrotoer Tour but he’s set […]
Bjarne Riis brooding over Saxo Bank Tour de France roster
Admits that the decision is driving him crazy While Jakob Fuglsang and the rest of the Saxo Bank team wonder about their future with Bjarne Riis’s squad, the former Tour de France winner has an extra woe to go along […]