Welp, turns out the pre-race Olympics cycling buzz about Spain was spot-on, ‘cept for the predicted winner.
The Spanish team boasted favourite Alejandro Valverde, the past two Tour de France winners in Alberto Contador and Carlos Sastre and recent TdF…
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Loading ...Most of the pre-Olympics buzz has focued on the Spanish team — Alejandro Valverde and the past two Tour de France winners in Alberto Contador and Carlos Sastre — as well as the Italians, with world champion Paolo Bettini, and…
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Carlos Sastre of CSC-Saxo Bank knows the maillot jaune will be his in Paris as he crosses the finishing line Saturday in Stage 20 of the Tour de France — a 53 kilometers (33 miles) individual time trial between Cerilly…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...In past Tours de France, the stages after the Alps have been pretty much flat as a pancake.
But Thursday in Stage 18, the Tour organizers have plopped a Category 2 climb and a Category 4 climb in the final…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...CSC-Saxo Bank did it again Wednesday at the Tour de France.
Stuart O’Grady, Fabian Cancellara and Vladimir Gustov rode a wicked pace at the front of the peloton on the Col du Galibier and the Col de la Croix de…
(1 votes, average: 3 out of 5) Loading ...Columbia’s Kim Kirchen remained in the maillot jaune Friday at the Tour de France, finishing in the group six seconds behind Stage 7 winner Luis -Leon Sanchez, a lieutenant Caisse d’Epargne’s Alejandro Valverde.
Most of the top contenders — Silence-Lotto’s…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...In the midst of the Tour de France comes word that the Court of Arbitration for Sports will suspend an appeal by the World Anti-Doping Agency and the Union Cycliste Internationale of the Spanish cycling federation’s decision to not open…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...American team Columbia’s big opening week in the Tour de France has led to the maillot jaune.
Kim Kirchen grabbed the yellow leader’s jersey Thursday as he climbed with the other contenders to the mountaintop finish of Stage 6 at…
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...It’s been a pretty good race thus far for the two American teams at the Tour de France.
– Columbia’s Kim Kirchen had a chance to win in each of the first two stages and is in the green sprinter’s jersey…
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