Spaniard Alberto Contador has secured his second Tour de France overall victory after finishing the 21st and final stage on Sunday. Today’s stage, that finished on the Champs Elysees, was won by Britain’s Mark Cavendish of the Columbia-HTC team bringing […]
A dramatic racing incident that has put seven-time champion Lance Armstrong within sight of the race’s yellow jersey has been blamed, ironically, on Alberto Contador. Contador, the 2007 champion who is Armstrong’s teammate at Astana, was among a handful of […]
Make it two days in a row for Columbia-HTC’s star sprinter Mark Cavendish winning the stage over Thor Hushovd and Cyril Lemoine in the 196.5 kilometer wind swept ride from Marseille to La Grande-Motte. With a gesture of appreciation to […]
Lance Armstrong endured his first testing day of racing on his return to the Tour de France before avoiding a potentially dangerous finish among the safety of the main peloton. The 37-year-old was given the same finishing time of 4hr […]
Columbia-HTC’s Mark Cavendish has taken his fifth stage victory in the Tour de France today with no challenge from second placed Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Slipstream) who was several bike lengths back followed by a charging Romain Feillu of Agritubel who closed […]
Belgium’s Tom Boonen said Sunday he was more concerned about staying on his bike than sprinting for victory after a crash just before the finish of the second stage of the Tour de France. A right hand bend just under […]
As bunch sprints go, it could have gone much better for Australian Brett Lancaster and his Cervelo team on the Tour de France on Sunday. While yellow jersey contender Cadel Evans expressed his relief at avoiding one of several crashes […]
Just like he did in 2004 and 2007 Swiss rider and Olympic time-trial champion Fabian Cancellara of team Saxo Bank took the first yellow jersey of the Tour de France during the opening test against the clock in Monaco, besting […]
Belgian sprinter Tom Boonen, who was only given the green light to ride in Saturday’s opening stage of the Tour de France the day before, has been beset by diarrhoea and abdominal pains. The 2009 Tour begins with a 15.5km […]
Japanese rider Fumiyuki Beppu is aiming to become the first cyclist from the land of the rising sun to reach Paris and finish the race which starts here on Saturday. The 26-year-old former national road race champion, who turned professional […]
The Cervelo Test team declared their intention to help defending champion Carlos Sastre win the Tour de France for the second consecutive year here on Friday. But the Tour debutants, who have also built their team around Thor Hushovd’s bid […]
British sprinter Mark Cavendish said Friday his Tour de France objective is solely to reach Paris with any thoughts of winning the green jersey far from his mind when the race begins here on Saturday. The 24-year-old exploded onto the […]
Tom Boonen, Belgium’s top cyclist, has won his first battle of this year’s Tour de France – of the legal sort – allowing him to start the race in Monaco on Saturday. Last year began the cyclist’s troubles with the […]
Tom Boonen will find out on Friday whether he has been granted a last minute reprieve to compete in the Tour de France which starts in Monaco on Saturday. The former world road race champion from Belgium was barred from […]
Former Tour of Italy winner Ivan Basso on Thursday tipped his great rival Lance Armstrong to challenge for an eighth Tour de France title. Armstrong won the last of his seven yellow jerseys in a row in 2005 but this […]
L’Equipe, known for their inside track on positive doping results, has said that there could be four to seven more doping cases from samples taken at the Tour of Romandie and the Tour de Suisse. They said they are not […]
Former Tour de France winner Bjarne Riis has thrown the gauntlet down to his team’s rivals for the race’s yellow jersey, declaring that his Saxo Bank outfit will be hard to beat. Riis, the 1996 Tour winner who two years […]
Yellow jersey contender Cadel Evans remains upbeat despite the unwelcome news that Silence teammate Thomas Dekker has been ruled out of the Tour de France due to a positive doping control. Dekker, a two-time Dutch champion, was set to help […]
