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Irishman fell twice yesterday, but is relatively unscathed Nicolas Roche has remained upbeat about his start to the Tour de France, despite crashing twice on yesterday’s stage to Brussels. The Ag2r La Mondiale team leader twice hit the deck on […]

Bernard feels yesterday’s loss of points may prove crucial Mark Cavendish has suffered a knock to his chances of taking the green jersey in this year’s Tour, losing out on the chance to take points on the opening stage when […]

Classics route in a Grand Tour stage claims more victims Today’s second stage of the Tour de France was reminiscent of the Giro d’Italia just two months ago, where the combination of narrow roads and a nervous peloton wreaked havoc […]

Queen-Tut continues perfect Giro and takes four successive wins for the first time in her career Ina Teutenberg (HTC-Columbia) continued her seemingly unstoppable Giro d’Italia Femminile by taking her fourth stage out of four between Ficarolo and Lendinara. The German […]

Frenchman takes his second career stage and first career yellow as peloton hit by crashes on wet roads Sylvain Chavanel (Quick Step) won the second stage of the Tour de France between Brussels and Spa, Belgium, as the last remaining […]

Astana figurehead seeks birthday present for national leader Astana team captain Alexandre Vinokourov wants to win today’s second stage of the Tour de France, which passes through the hilly Ardennes, for more than purely personal glory. A victory in Spa […]

Lampre sprinter feels he could have beaten anyone today 36-year-old Alessandro Petacchi, took his first stage win at the Tour de France in seven years in Brussels today. The rider from La Spezia on the Ligurian Coast was the world’s […]

Australian finishes stage despite breaking collarbone early on The news wasn’t all that great for the HTC-Columbia team on the first road stage of the Tour de France. They had a bright moment in the 2nd place finish of Mark […]

Defending Tour de France champ “very, very pleased” with first stage Alberto Contador was caught up in the mess of the finale of Stage 1 in Brussels. Contador emerged from the chaos relatively unscathed with a bit of a wound […]

Lars Boom did the honors of representing his country and team through the Netherlands Lars Boom spent about 190 km of Stage 1 leading the Tour de France with his two breakmates, Maarten Wynants (QuickStep) and Alan Perez (Euskaltel). Boom […]