In the News Alexandre Vinokorouv won the men’s road race in England for the Olympic road race, becoming the first Gold Medal winner in the cycling portion of the London Olympics. The Kazakhstan rider from the Astana Team beat out favorite Mark Cavendish, the world champion. Cavendish didn’t have a chance when he stayed...
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Spaniard Luis Leon Sanchez clinched the 14th stage of Tour today alone, after riding away from four other riders. It was a triumph for the Euskaltel-Euskadi rider who suffered in this Tour after injuring his wrist in a crash in the first week. “From the start of the Tour, I have never given up...
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  By Jen Benepe, July 4, 2012 Posted on his Twitter account, check out the injury that Phillipe Gilbert, BMC Team sustained in stage 3 of the TDF 2012. Nasty. Don’t forget how well Gilbert did in last year’s Tour and that this year his goal is to assist Cadel Evans bring home another...
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By Jen Benepe, July 3, 2012 A tumultous race today over flats followed by multiple crashes and a 4-hill punch in the final 16 km, delivered once again Peter Sagan, first to the finish line. It was the second win in three days for the 22-year-old boy wonder. “This is the new Eddy Merykx...
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Stage three is guaranteed to have a breakaway from the start, with a question mark for the winning rider. One reason, though the first half of the 197 km stage that passes onto French soil is mostly flat, at 95 km from the start, the climbing begins. Then there are a series of category...
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This 167.5 km stage from Blaye les Mines to Lavaur was mostly flat with some short, steep hills in the last hour, followed by a mostly flat final 15 km,  suitable for a mass sprint at the finish. Would the rivalry we saw between Greipel and Cavendish in stage 10 play out again on...
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With the Tour switching to the mountains today–even little ones–the outcome  was predicted to change the winners. But the massive shake up that Tour de France watchers were looking for never materialized: even with the first major climbs of the tour, Yellow jersey winner Thor Hushovd–more a sprinter than a climber,  managed to stay...
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In the last 36 km of stage 7 of the Tour de France today, Bradley Wiggins of Team Sky crashed. His injuries which include a possibly broken collarbone, were great enough that he did not get back on his bike, and is now out of the Tour. Many other riders were caught in the...
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Today’s mostly flat 164.5 km from Carhaix to Cap Frehel offered a wide open opportunity for the major sprinters to go head to head. And so they did, with the Manx Missile Mark Cavendish winning handily at the finish in Cap Frehel. But the action did not come without lots of pain, crashes, an...
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Dumping rain and cold winds on the roads threatened to create crashes and bad conditions on the fourth stage today from Lorient to Mur de Bretagne that from the outset didn’t have the profile to favor either the General Classification contenders or the sprinters. At the beginning of the stage we predicted that GC contenders...
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As competitors enter the fourth stage of the Tour today from Lorient to Mur de Bretagne, they’ll also be riding on slick, wet roads and and in the cold. It’s on days like these that riders cross their fingers and kiss the crosses hanging around their necks, because crashes are more the norm than...
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Photos: ASO It was the kind of stage results that you could expect from a course that starts on a road that is submerged under water two times a day, the Passage du Gois, and then finishes in a steep mountain pass. The stage also followed along a beachfront that does not allow cars,...
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