THE STAGES 2013 TdF STAGE DATE START FINISH DISTANCE 1 Saturday, June 29th Porto-Vecchio Bastia 212 km 2 Sunday, June 30th Bastia Ajaccio 154 km 3 Monday, July 1st Ajaccio Calvi 145 km 4 Tuesday, July 2nd Nice Nice 25 km Team Time Trial 5 Wednesday, July […]
Tour de France
2013 Tour Highlights
The route Running from Saturday June 29th to Sunday July 21th 2013, the 100th Tour de France will be made up of 21 stages and will cover a total distance of 3,479 kilometres (before ratification). First up Corsica… then nothing but the French mainland. Corse-du-Sud and Haute-Corse were the only two departments in […]
Tour de France Map 2013
Here’s the just announced map for the 2013 Tour de France
Alberto Contador Respects Armstrong
At the presentation for the 2013 Tour de France, Alberto Contador commented on the Armstrong debacle. “From my point of view, he was humiliated and lynched. They are destroying him. If cycling is popular in the United States, it is thanks to him. It’s also thanks to him that Americans […]
Tour de France Announces Decision on Armstrong
Christian Prudhomme has announced the official position of the Tour de France for the years that Lance Armstrong won the race. They will list the years that he won as without a winner. Lance will have to return the $3 million prize money that he won. His statement included the […]
BMC: VanGarderen Best Young Rider, Hincapie Makes History
Tejay van Garderen of the BMC Racing Team became only the third American to win the best young rider classification at the Tour de France Sunday while teammate George Hincapie made history by reaching Paris and finishing a record 16th edition of the world’s greatest bicycle race. With van Garderen […]
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 […]
Tour de France, Stage 17: Van Garderen, Evans Move Up In The Standings
BMC Racing Team’s Tejay van Garderen continued his climb up the overall standings at the Tour de France Thursday, moving into fifth place while holding onto his lead in the best young rider classification. Teammate Cadel Evans also improved one spot, to sixth overall, on the race’s final day in […]
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 […]
