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 […]
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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 […]
Pinot Wins Stage 8, Evans Second
Thibaut Pinot won Stage 8 of the Tour at Porrentruy. He finished solo ahead of the group with Wiggins and is the first French win of the race. Wiggins held onto the yellow jersey and Cadel Evans is in second place. On the last of 7 climbs of the day, […]
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 […]
Frohlinger of Argos Shimano Trying to Survive in Mountains
After the first week of the Tour de France, where Team Argos-Shimano almost daily tried to achieve a mass sprint, the first mountain stage was about making it into a breakaway and survive. Because the riders were not able to get into a group of attackers, the focus was mainly on […]
Evans in Second Overall on Stage 8
BMC Racing Team’s Cadel Evans finished second Saturday on the first day in the mountains at the Tour de France to climb into second overall, 10 seconds behind new race leader Bradley Wiggins (Sky Procycling). Concedes No Time To Wiggins Evans made a bid for the stage win in the […]
