In my myopic American view, I think Danny Pate finishing second in the Criterium International is a bigger deal than Big Jens Voight winning the race for the fifth straight time.

OK, maybe not, but Pate’s podium IS a big deal,…

Thanks to Mrs. 10 Speed for reminding me that Criterium International stage 1 winner Jimmy Caspar was one of the two featured athletes in the IMAX movie, Wired to Win, that was out a few years back.

Then with Française des Jeux,…

Alberto Contador put in a game effort Sunday in the final stage of Paris-Nice, but it wasn’t enough to affect the overall race result.

Contador finished second in the stage behind former teammate Antonio Colom of Katusha, and he took back but 17…

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 green…

CSC-Saxo Bank’s Frank Schleck in the yellow jersey rides safely in the slipstream behind teammates Andy Schleck and Carlos Sastre on Cime de la Bonette-Restefond on Tuesday in Stage 16. (AP Photo/Bas Czerwinski)

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For the second successive mountain stage, CSC-Saxo Bank…

Halfway through the Tour de France, ol’ 10 Speed is gonna take a look back with some highlights and observations of the first 10 stages, in no particular order, just as they pop into my brain.

– Big Jens Voight and…

Credit Agricole’s Thor Hushovd outsprinted the field to the tricky finish in Saint Brieuc and won Stage 2 of the three-week bicycle race in France on Sunday.

On the wheel of leadout man Mark Renshaw, Hushovd powered past world time trial…

The only certainty with this year’s three-week bicycle race in France is that last year’s winner won’t win this year.

That would be Alberto Contador of the banned Astana team.

Beyond that, I’d say the two big favourites are last year’s runner-up…

Ol’ 10 Speed has had a few days of R&R from cycle blogging, but my Big Magnus Backstedt is back on its Selle San Marco and I’m dreaming of Foot-Hi Pies at Trailnet’s ride this weekend.

But until then, a little about the…

Big Jens Voight of American-sponsored CSC won Stage 18 of the Giro d’Italia, the first Giro stage win in the long and George Hincapie-ish career for the 36-year-old German veteran.

Big Jens rode away from the original 12-man breakway (which included…