Tour de France

Valverde sticks to podium in Pyrenees

July 23, 2014 | Saint-Lary / Pla d’Adet Movistar Team leader gets through suffering in Saint-Lary after sensational work from telephone squad, keeps Tour’s 2nd place overall; second spot for Giovanni Visconti after great breakaway Constance by Alejandro Valverde and excellent management and performance by the whole Movistar Team made […]

Rafal Majka takes second stage win

Saint-Lary, 23rd of July – 2014 Today’s 124 kilometer rather short 17th stage of Tour de France was packed with climbs. No less than four category 1 climbs and an uphill finish to the HC climb to Saint-Lary Pla d’Adet offered several opportunities to attack and to gain points for […]

VanGarderen slips to Sixth

Bagnères-de-Luchon, FranceTour de France, Stage 16: Van Avermaet SixthBMC Racing Team’s Greg Van Avermaet finished sixth Tuesday after being part of a large breakaway at the Tour de France while teammate Tejay van Garderen lost contact on the day’s biggest climb and slipped from fifth to sixth overall. ‘Felt A […]

Lotto on Stage 16

After the second rest day the Tour headed into the Pyrenees. The riders left in Carcassonne for the longest stage. After 237.5 kilometers they arrived in Bagnères-de-Luchon. Michael Rogers rode solo towards the victory. Tony Gallopin, who was part of the long breakaway, became tenth.   Breakaway makes it to […]

Rogers Wins Stage 16

Bagnéres de Luchon, 22nd of July – 2014 Tinkoff-Saxo’s Michael Rogers took part in the crucial breakaway during today’s 237.5 kilometer long 16th stage of this year’s Tour de France counting no less than five categorized climbs counting Col de Portet d’Aspet where Fabio Casartelli so sadly crashed on the descent and […]