Tour de France race leader puts the brakes on the peloton after tacks on the road threaten his rivals Stage 14 of the 2012 Tour de France saw controversy of a kind not seen since the early days of the […]
Belgian champion has injury confirmed on return home from Tour of Poland Tom Boonen (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) sustained a fractured rib in his crash in the first stage of the Tour of Poland on Tuesday. The Belgian champion came down […]
Time bonuses see Italian snatch back race lead from Michal Kwiatkowski Moreno Moser (Liquigas-Cannondale) took his second stage of the 2012 Tour of Poland as he won the uphill sprint at the end of the sixth stage in Bukowina Tatrzanska. […]
Kazakh rider wants to achieve a victory in final Tour de France, will ride Olympics Already holding the mountains jersey with Fredrik Kessiakoff and eighth place overall with Janez Brajkovic, the Astana team has made no secret of the fact […]
Danish rider chases difficult solo stage victory on the anniversary of his father’s death Danish rider Michael Mørkøv (Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank) was in his fifth breakaway of the 2012 Tour de France, in the thirteenth stage between Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux and Le […]
Belgian champion taking no chances ahead of Olympic Games road race Tom Boonen (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) was forced to pull out of today’s hilly fifth stage of the Tour of Poland, between Rabka Zdroj and Zakopane, still feeing the aftereffects […]
Michal Kwiatkowski holds onto overall lead by a single second After being disappointed for missing out on stage four, Ben Swift (Team Sky) bounced back to take victory in the hilly fifth stage of the Tour of Poland between Rabka […]
German Gorilla holds off Peter Sagan to match Slovakian champion’s win tally in a less than conventional stage finish André Greipel (Lotto-Belisol) took his third victory in the 2012 Tour de France, as he won a less than conventional sprint […]
Norwegian still trying to get into shape A frustrating season for 2010 world champion Thor Hushovd is continuing, with the Norwegian not starting today’s stage of the Tour of Poland and admitting that his Olympic Games are far from certain. […]
Everybody wants to win on the host country’s national day but the stage looks like going abroad as usual Quatorze Juillet, the 14th of July, is the biggest day of the year in France. The anniversary of the Prise de […]
Former US Postal Service doctor Garcia del Moral linked to football teams Former US Postal Service manager Johan Bruyneel has confirmed that he has chosen to undergo an arbitration hearing in relation to the doping charges made against him by […]
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 […]
“I want to start building bridges to prove that I am doing this off of bread and water” Five days after blasting doubters on Twitter, Bradley Wiggins yesterday said that he has accepted that he needs to be more open […]
Green jersey wearer not discouraged by close defeat With three wins apiece after Andre Greipel nabbed victory into Le Cap d’Agde today, the German and Peter Sagan are the most successful stage hunters thus far on this Tour de France. […]
Reports of payment complaints by Cancellara and Schleck brothers to the UCI Following reports that the team’s top riders had faced a delay in their payments and had complained to the UCI as a result, as well as speculation that […]
Former presidential candidate says USADA’s process is ‘proper forum’ for case Yesterday US congressman Jim Sensenbrenner demanded answers from the Office of Drug Control Policy, saying that he wanted justification for USADA’s investigation into Lance Armstrong. Today, USADA got some […]
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. […]
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 […]
