Italian Giro winner plans on Giro-Tour win in 2011 Italian Ivan Basso races again today at the GP Carnago following a disappointing Tour de France. It is not the GP Carnago that he is thinking about, but to return next […]
Former Gerolsteiner manager considered suspending lead GC rider Former Gerolsteiner manager Hans-Michael Holczer has revealed that he went close to suspending his team’s top rider Levi Leipheimer during the 2005 Tour de France, due to suspicions of doping. The German […]
Grand Slam is ‘impossible’ says Tour winner’s agent Contradicting the goal attributed to Alberto Contador yesterday by Bjarne Riis, the rider’s brother and agent Fran Contador has said that there are no plans to try to win three Grand Tours […]
Spaniard sets unprecedented Grand Slam as a career objective Alberto Contador has said in the past that he’s not obsessing about winning the most Tours de France, stating instead that he’ll take his career season by season and look at […]
Spanish Tour winner to take a break, bids farewell to Astana Celebrating a new two-year contract with the Saxo Bank-Sungard team, Alberto Contador grabbed victory in the Castillon-la-Bataille criterium in France this evening, and has now put an end to […]
Poor performance in Rotterdam was far more costly than “chaingate”, says race runner-up Of all the incidents, both controversial and otherwise, in this year’s Tour de France, runner-up Andy Schleck (Saxo Bank) sees one specific place where his Tour was […]
Successful Tour for broadcaster despite wavering US challenge While this year’s Tour de France didn’t see a US rider fighting for the yellow jersey as had been expected, figures released for the Versus network nevertheless showed a strong level of […]
Italian DS explains that Contador worked on win and new team at Tour Spain’s Alberto Contador will ride for a new team next year, a plan he had in place even before winning the Tour de France, according to Astana […]
Still ready to tackle the Clásica de San Sebastián Saturday Euskaltel-Euskadi’s Samuel Sánchez raced the final days of the Tour de France with a fissure in his right hand. The injury is unlikely to change his race schedule, to resume […]
Will explore all options carefully before making a decision Three-time Tour de France winner Alberto Contador has rejected an ultimatum from the Astana team and will leave it at the end of the season. The Kazakh squad had demanded an […]
Pressure on German team to land results after quiet Tour campaign Following a quiet Tour de France, the Milram team is hoping for better fortunes in this Sunday’s Clasica San Sebastian in northern Spain. The eight-man squad will feature five […]
Says he understands the decision made by race officials RadioShack manager Johan Bruyneel has issued a public apology for the way he handled the “Jerseygate” incident that occurred on the final day of the Tour de France. The team had […]
Belgian team boss looks back on a successful Tour After losing star rider Tom Boonen to a persistent knee injury just day’s before the race started could have spelled the end of Quick Step’s Tour de France. With the first […]
The second instalment of the “true” story behind the events of this year’s race 197 riders, 3642km, hills, cobbles, mountains and time trials. VeloNation takes a sideways, stage-by-stage look at what really happened in this year’s Tour de France. Haven’t […]
Italian team to rebuild with new riders, staff and methods to turn potential into results Two stage wins and the green points jersey would represent a very good return from the Tour de France for most teams. For a team […]
Says team would have beaten Contador otherwise, won’t talk about 2011 plans Team Saxo Bank rider Frank Schleck missed out on his plan of racing to Paris, but he turned up nonetheless in the French capital to congratulate his brother […]
The France 2 television channel has expressed its satisfaction with the audience figures from this year’s Tour de France, reporting that on average 3.6 million people watched the race on its channel each afternoon. Almost 15 million people watched at […]
Race winner takes his yellow jersey home to Spain Hundreds of fans greeted Tour de France winner Alberto Contador as he arrived at Madrid airport this afternoon. The 27-year-old then travelled into the capital to meet with Esperanza Aguirre, the […]
