“It was a great battle against opponents with great talent” Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas-Cannondale) took to the podium in Paris on Sunday to collect his trophy for finishing third overall in the Tour de France, in what was a very emotional […]
hopes to be better in Tour’s 100th edition, pays tribute to Hincapie If there was any question, Cadel Evans (BMC Racing) provided the answer to whether or not he would be back in a featured role within his team in […]
Accepts that sprinter will have limited opportunities alongside Wiggins and Froome In the wake of a suggestion by his former directeur sportif and current friend Brian Holm that Mark Cavendish has been frustrated by a lack of opportunity at Sky, […]
White jersey secured by BMC Racing Team rider with strong final time trial Highlighting his potential as a Grand Tour rider, Tejay van Garderen today set himself up to be only the third US winner of the white jersey in […]
Team Sky goes one-two again with Froome in second place; Luis León Sánchez denied by British team again Bradley Wiggins (Team Sky) stamped his authority over the 2012 Tour de France, and proved that he has been the strongest rider […]
World champion’s former manager feels move to British team a mistake Team Sky’s Mark Cavendish took his 22nd career victory in the Tour de France yesterday, equalling the record for a sprinter set by Frenchman André Darrigade in the 1960s, […]
Big guns scrap it out one more time in race against the clock The penultimate stage of the Tour will see the big general classification riders and the time trial specialists battle for a stage victory, with race leader Bradley […]
Vacansoleil rider almost certainly out for remainder of season Still recovering in hospital in Venlo some fifteen days after being injured in the massive pileup on stage six of the Tour, Vacansoleil DCM rider Wout Poels remains unsure about the […]
BMC Racing team-mate Van Garderen also ambitious With his ambition of defending his Tour de France title being dashed in the mountains, Cadel Evans has said that he will give everything today to try to ace the time trial and […]
“We are currently studying in minute detail what I have eaten and drank prior to the inspection on July 14.” Frank Schleck is facing a battle on his hands after the B sample of a urine sample on July 14th […]
World champion takes his 22nd career Tour stage as the break is caught in the finishing straight Mark Cavendish (Team Sky) matched the career total of the great André Darrigade as he took his 22nd stage victory in the Tour […]
Australian feeling better as race finish approaches His Tour de France hasn’t worked out as he had hoped and his GreenEdge team is still looking for its first stage win, but Matt Goss hasn’t given up hope that he can […]
Frenchman’s GC hopes have faltered since picking up a cough Jérôme Coppel, the general classification hope for French wildcard team Saur-Sojasun, has spent the better part of a week fighting off illness, making for a difficult Pyrenean stretch for the […]
Spaniard almost swipes stage 18 out of late break before Cav swoops past Having already saved the Tour de France for his Rabobank team, Luis Leon Sanchez almost grabbed a second stage win of the 2012 Tour de France out […]
Astana leader pledges to keep trying in final Tour It was probably his final chance to take a stage win in what is his last Tour de France, but instead Alexandre Vinokourov had to be satisfied with the most aggressive […]
Double stage winner wears full polka-dot outfit, meets his President, and looks ahead to Paris podium Europcar’s Thomas Voeckler is certainly no shrinking violet, and not one to hide out in the peloton at the best of times. The 33-year-old […]
No title defence for Beijing champion as fractured metacarpal prevents proper braking Euskaltel-Euskadi’s Samuel Sánchez will not defend his Olympic road race title on July 28th, the Spanish rider has confirmed. The 34-year-old, who won the gold medal in Beijing, […]
“All the way up the last climb I almost had tears in my eyes” There are still three stages to go, including Saturday’s 53.5 kilometre time trial, but Bradley Wiggins has said that the end of the mountains means that […]
