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Last Alpentour Trophy stage cancelled

Due to strong rainfall, mudslides, fallen trees and the Enns river, which is about to overflow, today the fourth and last stage of the 15th Alpentour Trophy onto the Hauser Kaibling mountain had to be cancelled for safety reasons. The overall winner of the Elite Male category is therefore again […]

Wiggins to Miss Tour de France

Last year’s Tour de France winner Bradley Wiggins will miss the upcoming 2013 Tour.  It was announced on the Sky Team’s website. He’s been suffering a pulmonary infection which was discovered when he had to quit the Giro as well as a knee injury.  He’s not up to speed on […]

Sylvain Georges

Georges B Sample Also Positive

Sylvain Georges, who won the Big Bear stage of the Tour of California in 2012 tested postive for a stimulat heptaminol at the Giro d’Italia.  The B sample also was positive. Georges says he bought a medicine that was supposed to improve leg circulation and that he didn’t read the […]

Rory Sutherland at the Giro

Rory Sutherland in Today’s Giro

Team Saxo-Tinkoff’s Rory Sutherland made ​​sure to represent the Danish squad in today’s big break on stage 16 of the Giro d’Italia that started in French Valloire and ended 238 hilly kilometers later in Ivrea in Italy. But Katusha and RadioShack were not happy with the situation and pushed the […]

Marcel Kittel wins stage 1 of Tour of Turkey

German sprinter Marcel Kittel claimed the first stage of the 2013 Tour of Turkey. With his speed, he forced André Greipel (Lotto Belisol) into second place and Yuriy Metlushenko (Torku Sekerspor) into third. The win gives Kittel the first leader’s jersey of the race. The only hill of the day […]