Wants to exchange white for yellow twelve months from now Luxembourg time trial champion Andy Schleck (Saxo Bank) put in his best effort in the Tour de France’s penultimate race against the clock, but it wasn’t enough to unseat soon-to-be […]
Rises above sub-par early season with injury to shine in Grande Boucle Sylvain Chavanel (Quick Step) has been awarded the “super-combatif” prize for being the most aggressive rider in this year’s Tour de France. Chavanel was one of two Frenchman […]
German ProTour team’s woeful Tour continues The Tour that can’t end soon enough continued in Bordeaux for Germany’s only remaining, and soon to be extinct, ProTour team on Friday. The embattled team, which is still desperately searching for a 2011 […]
Admits that Tour de France victory could be a difficult goal Former racer and ex-Telekom/T-Mobile manager, Walter Godefroot, weighed in with his thoughts on this year’s Tour de France in a candid chat with Sporza following the conclusion of the […]
Three-time Tour de France champion: “What I want now is rest.” After finishing a comfortable 31 seconds in front of arch-rival Andy Schleck in Bordeaux, the tears of happiness and relief flowed from the soon to be five-time Grand Tour […]
Saxo Bank manager happy with Schleck’s ride After a thrilling time trial from the two best riders at the this year’s Tour de France, Andy Schleck came up just a little bit short. Schleck lost 31 seconds to an ailing […]
Looks forward to a problem free Vuelta and Worlds Triple World champion Oscar Freire is set to undergo surgery in the Netherlands on Tuesday to remove polyps from his nasal passage and sinus. The Spaniard has had serious problems with […]
World champion destroys the field as a close Tour de France goes to the wire Fabian Cancellara (Saxo Bank) won the stage 19 time trial of the Tour de France between Bordeaux and Pauillac. The World champion blitzed the flat, […]
Canadian believes he can defend eighth place overall One of the most surprising performances on yesterday’s final mountain stage of the Tour was the superb showing by Ryder Hesjedal, who proved to be one of the strongest on the Col […]
HTC-Columbia rider is the class of the field in the sprinter’s city after surviving tough times in the mountains Mark Cavendish (HTC-Columbia) won the eighteenth stage of the Tour de France between Salles-de-Béarn and Bordeaux in a mass bunch sprint. […]
Rabobank team chef cooks special dishes for vegetarian rider France thinks of itself as the centre of the culinary World, each region has it’s own speciality dishes and its restaurant’s are the envy of the World. What all this haute […]
The Manxman poised to write his next chapter HTC-Columbia sprinter Mark Cavendish notched up his fourth stage win of this year’s Tour de France today, bringing his tally to an incredible fourteen stages in the past three editions of the […]
Tour champion expects a hard time against the clock in his stage 19 showdown with Andy Schleck After 3487.4km of racing, Alberto Contador (Astana) and Andy Schleck (Saxo Bank) are separated by just 8 seconds. With Sunday’s stage to the […]
First through third on the Points Classification separated by only 16 points While Thor Hushovd excused himself from the table of contenders for the Green Jersey in Paris after a disappointing sprint and dismissed Mark Cavendish’s chances, the three-way fight […]
Set for highest-ever finish on Sunday Chris Horner may have gone to the Tour de France as primarily a support rider for Lance Armstrong and Levi Leipheimer, but the 38 year old is now poised to finish as the highest-placed […]
French analyst doesn’t see any way for Saxo Bank rider to win this year In his latest expert column, former French pro Jean Francois Bernard has said that he expects Andy Schleck to concede a minute and a half to […]
How come this year’s final mountain stage delivered such drama, when last year’s version couldn’t? Today’s stage between Pau and the Col du Tourmalet gave us the kind of dramatic mano a mano battle rarely seen in the Tour de […]
Spaniard chimes in on cycling’s “unwritten rules” Spaniard Carlos Sastre (Cervélo TestTeam) went out on the attack today in an attempt to seize his final chance at a stage victory in the 2010 Tour de France. The last day in […]
