Alberto Contador knocked 20 seconds off his 4 minute deficit today on a category 2 climb en route to Gap. Tomorrow will be a category 1 climb which should allow him more opportunity to make up time followed by two days of hors category climbs Thursday and Friday. Contador attacked […]
Tour de France
Can Contador Catch Up?
Alberto Contador is 4 minutes behind Thomas Voeckler heading into the Alps. Voeckler doesn’t have any illusions about holding onto the yellow jersey until Paris. But who will take it? Contador has had some bad luck and a knee injury that have plagued him. He got caught behind a crash […]
Cavendish wins Fourth Tour Stage
Mark Cavendish powered to the fourth stage win of this year’s Tour de France on Sunday, a victory that strengthened his overall lead in the Tour’s points competition. Cavendish blasted past the rest of the pack at the end of stage fifteen’s 192.5 kilometer run from Limoux to Montpellier, with […]
Andreas Kloden Abandons
Due to multiple contusions, Team RadioShack’s Andreas Klöden was forced to abandon in Friday’s 13th stage of the Tour de France. Klöden was involved in the terrible crash in the descent of the Col du Pas de Peyrol in Sunday’s stage 9, after which a muscle contracture and hematomas in […]
Popovych Out of the Tour
Yaroslav Popovych will not take the start of stage 10 in the Tour de France. Since Sunday Popovych has a fever. As the rest day didn’t bring any relief, the team decided not to let him start in Aurillac. The former Tour de France stage winner will undergo some extra […]
Johnny Hoogerland Won’t Forgive
Johnny Hoogerland hoped to wear the polka dot jersey on the podium in Paris. He was in a break when he was hit by a passing France Television car who obviously didn’t know how to drive the course. Hoogerland said he’s sure the driver didn’t intend to hit him, but […]
2011 Tour de France Stage 8
HTC-Highroad’s Tejay Van Garderen is the Tour de France’s new leader of the King of the Mountains competition after taking part in a daylong break on stage eight. Van Garderen claimed maximum points on the toughest single climb of the day, the Col de la Croix Saint-Robert. He now leads […]
2011 Tour de France Stage 7
TC-HIGHROAD’S MARK CAVENDISH BLASTS TO SECOND TOUR DE FRANCE SUCCESS OF 2011 Britain’s Mark Cavendish has claimed his seventeenth Tour de France stage today in a bunch sprint at Chateauroux. Cavendish clinched the win on the same finish that he took his first ever Tour de France stage in 2008. […]
2011 Tour de France Stage 6
Team Sky’s Boassen Hagen won the wet stage today in Lisieux. Thor Hushovd is still in yellow.
2011 Tour de France Stage 5 Brajkovic
6 July 2011 –Team RadioShack’s Jani Brajkovic (27) suffered a race-ending injury in a day filled with more than ten crashes in Wednesday’s stage 5 of the Tour de France. Brajkovic touched wheels with another cyclist on the narrow roads of northern France and came down hard on the pavement, […]
