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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 […]
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 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 […]
The Amazing Jeannie Longo won her 59th national cycling title on the velodrome at Saint Denis on Saturday. She’s now 52 years old and will compete in August for the pre-Olympics in London. She has participated in every Olympic games since women’s cycling in 1984. She’s planning on preparing for […]
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 […]
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. […]
Team Sky’s Boassen Hagen won the wet stage today in Lisieux. Thor Hushovd is still in yellow.
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, […]
HTC-HIGHROAD’S MARK CAVENDISH CLAIMS FIRST TOUR DE FRANCE SUCCESS OF 2011 Britain’s Mark Cavendish has claimed his first stage win of the 2011 Tour, the 16th of his career in cycling’s biggest bike race. Cavendish’s victory, his fifth of 2011, came in a hotly disputed bunch sprint at the end […]
Colombian cyclist Mauricio Soler Hernandez is in a hospital in an induced coma. During the 6th stage of the Tour of Switzerland he crashed into a spectator. He lost consciousness, broke his ankle, fractured his skull and has a hematoma of the brain. He’s been put on a breathing machine […]
