Tour de France: Crashes already begin to take their toll on the race
Narrow roads and nervous riders make a dangerous combination The first road stage of this year’s Tour de France played out in typical fashion, with nerves reverberating throughout the peloton on a day where pile-ups marked the journey to Brussels. […]
Versatile Teutenberg time trials to third straight Giro Donne stage
Dominant German proves that she has more than just a sprint in her armoury Ina Teutenberg (HTC-Columbia) proved once again that there is more to her racing than just a near unbeatable sprint by taking victory in the 16.9km stage […]
Tour de France: Petacchi sprints to win stage one as chaos reigns in Brussels
Ale-jet is last man standing again as the peloton is decimated by finishing straight crashes Alessandro Petacchi (Lampre-Farnese Vini) won the first stage of the Tour de France between Rotterdam and Brussels, which ended in chaos as a succession of […]
André Greipel storms to Tour of Austria stage one win
Greipel’s answer to Tour de France elimination André Greipel was expecting to ride in the Tour de France this weekend, after 11 race wins so far. But the HTC Columbia rider made the best of it, storming to victory in […]
Cardoso and Frank add to dwindling Tour de France peloton
Prologue crashes too much for the duo The Tour de France was already incomplete at the start due to the Cervélo TestTeam pulling its rider Xavier Florencio. The prologue cost two more riders a chance of reaching Paris, as the […]
Tom Boonen feels psychological pain of being sidelined during Tour de France
Belgian visits Quick Step team in Rotterdam Tom Boonen had great hopes of winning stages in the Tour de France and even winning them in his own country. Instead, the Quick Step rider has to sit out the race with […]
Tour de France: I’m better than I’ve been since the comeback, says Lance Armstrong
Fourth place in the prologue and time into rivals is less important than positive feelings for seven-time Tour winner Fifth place, just 22 seconds behind winner Fabian Cancellara of Saxo Bank, made RadioShack captain Lance Armstrong the best performer of […]
Tour de France: Contador says he is content with prologue result
Not stressed about time lost to Armstrong Defending champion Alberto Contador conceded five seconds to his big rival Lance Armstrong today, but said afterwards that he isn’t worried about the difference. He finished sixth in the 8.9 kilometre Rotterdam prologue, […]
Tour de France: Cancellara blows away the field in wet Rotterdam prologue
Spartacus ignores the slippery conditions to deny Tony Martin at the last minute World and Olympic time trial champion Fabian Cancellara (Saxo Bank) blasted around the drying prologue course in the Netherlands port city to take victory and the first […]
Wall Street Journal: Landis makes more doping claims against Armstrong and others
Ongoing US Postal Service allegations cast shadow over Tour de France The spectre of past Tours threaten to dominate many of the headlines of the current race, following a substantial exposé featured in the Wall Street Journal today. The piece […]
