Belgian Champion talks of late attack on stage 13 Philippe Gilbert has made his intentions clear for the remainder of the Tour de France, and that’s to win the green points jersey. The Belgian champion is currently ninth overall in […]
Psychological games amongst race favorites continue Alberto Contador came in with the group of the race favorites in today’s stage of the Tour de France to Plateau de Beille, conceding only two seconds to Andy Schleck. Battered by crashes in […]
Péraud leaps to 12th place overall in final Pyrenees day Jean-Christophe Péraud finished in the group with the race favorites in today’s Tour de France stage to Plateau de Beille and moved up from 19th to 12th overall. His teammates […]
Asphalt day for Jens Voigt slightly changes team’s plan Andy Schleck of the Leopard Trek team put in a strong move inside the final kilometer in the 14th stage of the Tour de France, finishing atop the Plateau de Beille. […]
Can it be possible that we’re about to see the first French Tour winner in 26 years? Having predicted his own demise on each of the two Pyrénéen mountaintop finishes, Thomas Voeckler (Europcar) now seems more entrenched in the yellow […]
BMC Racing Team leader content to bide his time In terms of Grand Tour general classification, few considered Thomas Voeckler as anything other than a gallant fighter until today’s stage of the Tour de France. Things changed on the slopes […]
Believes Samuez Sanchez and Ivan Basso are both improving as Tour goes on Third overall in the second half of the Tour de France and to the fore of the GC contenders, Cadel Evans knows that he could take the […]
FDJ’s breakaway star reflects on being denied a stage victory inside the final three kilometres Three kilometres from the finish of stage thirteen of the Tour de France in Lourdes, Jérémy Roy (FDJ) was heading for a glorious stage win. […]
Spaniard triumphed on Plateau de Beille in 2007 Alberto Contador has said that his rivals Frank and Andy Schleck must ride aggressively in tomorrow’s Plateau de Beille mountain stage of the Tour de France, stating that the onus is on […]
World champion catches Jérémy Roy after the descent of the Col d’Aubisque as the peloton takes the day off Thor Hushovd (Garmin-Cervélo) took the ninth, and probably biggest, Tour de France stage victory of his career, across the Col d’Aubisque […]
Bruyneel speaks of team’s bad luck Having already lost Janez Brajkovic and Chris Horner due to crashes in the opening week of the race, and seen Levi Leipheimer lose time to another fall, the RadioShack team was hit by a […]
Omega Pharma-Lotto domestique re-evaluates his own expectations but knows his job for the rest of the race Jelle Vanendert (Omega Pharma-Lotto) was as surprised as anybody to be battling for the stage win on Luz-Ardiden with Samuel Sanchez (Euskaltel-Euskadi) yesterday. […]
Quick Step rider’s broken wrist from stage five confirmed after x-rays in Pau Quick Step’s Gert Steegmans has been forced to abandon the Tour de France, on the morning before the thirteenth stage, due to a broken scaphoid bone in […]
Irishman philosophical about losing time on first mountain stage Having targeted a top ten overall finish in Paris, Irish pro Nicolas Roche continued his move up the general classification yesterday when he went from thirteenth to tenth overall in the […]
Welsh rider awarded combativity prize for his break over the Tourmalet Team Sky’s Geraint Thomas was awarded the prix de la combativité at the end of the twelfth stage of the Tour de France, thanks to the part he played […]
Garmin-Cervélo rider in top ten after first mountain stage As suggested before the race by Garmin-Cervélo chief Jonathan Vaughters, Tom Danielson is proving to be one of the big dark horses of this year’s Tour de France. A talented rider […]
Quick Step’s French champion attacks on the race’s first big mountain on his country’s national day Having passed a miserable few days, nursing the injuries he sustained in a crash on stage five, Quick Step’s Sylvain Chavanel is beginning to […]
Spaniard takes silver lining from Luz Ardiden’s grey cloud Despite losing time to his main rivals on today’s first big mountain stage of the Tour de France, defending champion Alberto Contador is insisting that all is not lost and that […]
