Bradley Wiggins shifts focus to the Vuelta and World Championships
Successful operation for the Team Sky leader Bradley Wiggins (Sky Procycling) has confirmed that he will start the Vuelta a España following his unexpected exit from the Tour de France. Wiggins, who according to his team was in great form […]
Alexandre Vinokourov to be sidelined for three months
Long recovery period for Astana rider Alexandre Vinokourov’s 2011 season looks almost certainly over as a result of his crash on Sunday’s stage of the Tour de France. The Team Astana leader has spoken from his hotel and faces a […]
Contador says knee is improving, legs felt strong in finale of stage ten
Spaniard reiterates he’s no intention of pulling out of Tour After earlier denying media reports which said that he might quit the Tour de France, Alberto Contador has reiterated his intention to stay in the race and said that his […]
Thomas Voeckler: “That was an Escape Royale for us.”
Yellow jersey explains the reason why Team Europcar did so little work on stage ten The pattern for a transitional stage in the first half of the Tour de France where the day is likely to end in a sprint […]
Jens Voigt joins the twitter community
Popular German has already thousands of followers after day one Jens Voigt has joined the Twitter community (thejensie) and he has quickly accumulated a large number of followers. Voigt finally gave in to the ‘pressure’ put on him from within […]
Tour de France: A day off helps Robert Gesink put crashes behind him
Rest day helps Rabobank leader recover from injuries sustained early in the race Rabobank’s Robert Gesink is one of the many riders coming out of Monday’s rest day feeling an improvement to the injuries he sustained in crashes earlier in […]
Omega Pharma-Lotto teamwork delivers André Greipel his first Tour win
Philippe Gilbert’s late attack blows holes into HTC-Highroad leadout train Less than a week after Omega Pharma-Lotto was having to play down suggestions of divisions in its triple-headed team, André Greipel and Philippe Gilbert are showing a united front. The […]
Tour de France: André Greipel takes maiden Tour de France victory
Gorilla outpaces big rival Cavendish to win in his debut in the race André Greipel (Omega Pharma-Lotto) put one over on his former teammate and rival Mark Cavendish (HTC-Highroad) to the finish in Carmaux to take the tenth stage of […]
Contador denies suggestion that he might quit Tour de France
Spaniard vows to fight to Paris, says knee injury is improving Alberto Contador has denied suggestions in today’s l’Equipe newspaper that he could quit the Tour de France due to a knee problem and low morale, saying that he has […]
Tour de France: Jean-François Pescheux lays down the law to in-race cars
Regulations tightened to avoid a repeat of Sunday’s Hoogerland/Flecha incident Jean-François Pescheux, the Tour de France director of competition, has reminded everybody in the convoy how they are to conduct themselves in the race. Regulations are being tightened in order […]
