Tour de France 2012

Radio Shack 2012 Best Tour Team

RADIOSHACK NISSAN TREK successfully secured victory in the prestigious team classification in the 2012 Tour de France, leading Bradley Wiggins’ Team Sky by almost 6 minutes. “Winning the Team Classification (the total of times for the first three riders on each stage) is always special, especially with only six riders […]

Gretsch Proves Himself on Stage 18

During Friday’s eighteenth stage of the Tour de France Patrick Gretsch was part of a very strong breakaway. Unfortunately, the select group, including seven riders who’d in the past won a Tour stage, didn’t get permission from the peloton to stay away. On the rolling roads between Blagnac and Brive-la-Gaillarde […]

Guiberteau Proud of Sprick

It might not have been the terrain where you normally would expect Matthieu Sprick, but yet the Frenchman was to be seen at the front in the Pyrenees during Wednesday’s 16th stage of the Tour de France. As part of a large breakaway, Sprick was out of reach of the […]

Van Garderen Moves Up, Evans Slips

Tour de France, Stage 16: Van Garderen Moves Up; Evans Slips Back BMC Racing Team’s Tejay van Garderen climbed one spot to sixth in the overall standings Wednesday while teammate Cadel Evans lost time and slid from fourth to seventh overall on the penultimate day in the mountains at the […]

Frank Schleck Statement

Our team attaches great value to transparency. Because of this, we can announce the following as a response to the adverse analytical finding of xipamide in Fränk Schleck’s urine sample of July 14 during the Tour de France. After being informed by the UCI about the presence of xipamide in […]

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Chavannel Stopping Tour

Sylvain Chavannel has decided to stop racing the Tour de France so he can rest up for the Olympics.  He’s hoping to do well in the Olympic time trials.  It’s the first time in 12 Tours that he’s not finishing the race.  He’s suffering from bronchitis and the antibiotics are […]

Fedrigo Wins Stage 15 in Pau

Fedrigo won the stage today in Pau.  He won here in 2010 as well. Wiggins is still in yellow and tomorrow is a rest day. Vandevelde was the last man in the break who made it to the line with him. David Millar controlled the head of the peloton for […]

DeKort on the Tour

Tour de France stages wherein attackers can go for the win are rare. And as a result almost half of all the riders wants to be in the breakaway during these kind of rides. Monday’s fifteenth stage from Samantan to Foix was such a moment. The riders of Team Argos-Shimano […]