Tour de France: “No surprises” for Jean-René Bernadeau in Europcar’s damage limitation
Entire French team outside prologue’s top-100 but waiting for more favourable terrain The Europcar team failed to post a single rider inside the top-100 in today’s Tour de France prologue in Liège, Belgium. The French Professional Continental team’s best performance […]
Tour de France: Tough day for Tony Martin as a puncture denies him possible prologue victory
Omega Pharma-Quick Step teammate Sylvain Chavanel flies the flag for France on his birthday with unexpected podium finish World time trial champion Tony Martin (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) was cruelly denied a chance to take the first yellow jersey of the […]
Tour de France: History repeats itself in Liège with Fabian Cancellara prologue victory
Swiss champion matches 2004 result over near-identical course; Wiggins second ahead of the other favourites History repeated itself in the 2012 Tour de France prologue around the Belgian city of Liège, as Fabian Cancellara (RadioShack-Nissan) repeated his 2004 victory over […]
Video: Nicolas Roche hoping for strong Tour de France despite time trial kilometres
Irishman talks about expectations and also his Irish championship silver medal Although the race features over 100 kilometres of time trials, Ireland’s Nicolas Roche begins his fourth Tour de France today believing that his good form could see him log […]
Specialized and McLaren partnership continues with time trial helmet
New helmet to be debut’d by Specialized sponsored riders in Tour de France prologue Following on from its highly successful version of the Venge frameset, the partnership between US bike maker Specialized and British Formula 1 team McLaren continues with […]
Sagan makes Tour de France debut with stage wins in mind
Will 2012 winning streak continue in cycling’s biggest event? Winner of the prologue and of three other stages in the Tour de Suisse, a performance that came on the heels of five stage victories in the Tour of California, Peter […]
Tony Martin non-committal about chances of winning Tour de France prologue
Longer time trials and a stint in yellow are top priorities for world champion World time trial champion Tony Martin is regarded as one of the top favourite’s for today’s 6.4 kilometre time trial in Liège, but the German refuses […]
Giro Donne: Two out of two for Marianne Vos in Rome time trial
World number one increases overall lead over short, flat test Marianne Vos (Rabobank) continued her domination of the 2012 Giro d’Italia Femminile, with victory in the 6.6km stage two time trial in the Italian capital, Rome. On a steaming hot […]
British panel weighs in on Wiggins’ chances for yellow at the Tour de France
Dave Brailsford, Graham Jones, and Chris Boardman on the big British hope In Bradley Wiggins (Sky Procycling), Great Britain has likely its biggest hope ever at taking the yellow jersey in the Tour de France all the way to Paris. […]
USADA confirms unanimous decision to press doping charges against Armstrong, Bruyneel and others
Case likely to be heard before November Sixteen days after it became known that the US Anti Doping Agency was considering pressing serious doping charges against Lance Armstrong, Johan Bruyneel and four others involved with the US Postal Service and […]
