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2012 Tour de France Stage 10

BMC Racing Team’s Cadel Evans maintained his second place overall Wednesday at the Tour de France while teammate Tejay van Garderen held onto his lead in the best young rider competition but slipped to 10th in the general classification. Bradley Wiggins wasn’t fazed by the attacks from Nibali.  The attitude […]

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Rodriguez Wins Stage 5 at Vuelta Venezuela

Bianchi team Androni Giocattoli took the 13th seasonal victory together at Vuelta Venezuela, on Tuesday, July 10th. Jackson Rodriguez on Oltre bike won the fifth stage, 168.1 km from Puerto Piritu to Altagracia de Orituco. Androni Giocattoli’s rider was the fastest rider in a three-man sprint with Richard Ochoa e […]

Armstrong Euro Docs Banned for Life

LA Times reports: The USADA handed out a lifetime ban to people associated with Armstrong’s 7 Tour victories.  All are Europeans so it’s not clear what effect this will have. Dr. Ferrari of Italy, Dr. Garcia del Moral of Spain and trainer Pepi Martin also of Spain were termed by […]

Wiggins Wins TT

Wiggins averaged 41.5k per hour and showed his stuff today at the Besancon Time Trial. He’s a 1’53” ahead of Cadel Evans and 2’07” ahead of Froome. He got his first Tour bouquet at age 32 today. TeJay VanGarderen is in fourth place, 1’06” behind Wiggins and reclaimed the Best […]

Fuglsang wins Tour of Austria

Jakob Fuglsang has sealed the overall victory at the Österreich Rundfahrt (UCI 2.HC) after Daniele Colli (Team Type 1) won the bunch sprint in front of the Burgtheater in Vienna. RADIOSHACK NISSAN TREK also won the Team classification. In addition, Austrian teammate Thomas Rohregger took the honors of the white […]

Frohlinger Out of Tour

Johannes Fröhlinger will not start in Sunday’s eighth stage of the Tour de France. The German climber of Team Argos-Shimano is experiencing too much discomfort from his broken little finger.  In concert with the team management and the medical staff Fröhlinger has decided to go home for surgery. “This is […]

Froome Wins Stage 7, Wiggins in Yellow

Froome won the stage while Evans tried to maneuver himself around Froome and Wiggins. Nibali lost just 7 seconds.  Estonian Rein Taaramae of Cofidis is now in the white best young rider jersey. Pierre Rolland is in 7th.  Vandenbroeke and Valverde suffered mechanical problems at the start of the climb and […]

Hesjedal Abandons Tour

Following yesterday’s massive pileup, Garmin-Sharp rider Hesjedal didn’t start today’s stage 7 at Tomblaine.  He finished yesterday 13 minutes behind.  He had hoped to finish well on the Champs Elysee but it would be impossible to make up that much time. “He has a large bruise on the upper leg. […]

Wurf Slips to Fourth in China

Cameron Wurf of the Champion System Pro Cycling Team dropped a spot in the general classification, from third to fourth, after Saturday’s eighth stage of the Tour of Qinghai Lake. Team General Manager Ed Beamon said the 201 kilometer race was a deceptively difficult stage with an early category three climb, a […]