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Jul. 20, 2008Inside the Tour, with John Wilcockson - The Alps are here!
There are seven major mountain climbs to tackle in the next three stages of the 95th Tour de France: the Col Agnel, Prato Nevoso, Col de la Lombarde, Cime de la Bonette, Col du Galibier, Col de la Croix de Fer and L’Alpe d’Huez. Race leader Cadel Evans has ridden them all in ...
- Jul. 19, 2008Barloworld pulling team cycling sponsorship
Kenyan-born Briton Chris Froome hit out at Barloworld teammate Moises Duenas here on Saturday after the Spaniard's positive doping control at the Tour de France.
Duenas's positive test for the banned blood booster EPO (erythrpoietin) on stage 4 has been one of three on the ...
Jul. 19, 2008Mary McConnelou and Adam Craig repeat their victories at Mount Snow.
Last year Adam Craig came to Mount Snow for the USA Cycling national mountain bike championships with a pretty good idea he’d win. And he did, by a whopping three minutes.
That wasn’t the case in 2008.
While Craig did emerge victorous from the race, finishing ahead ...
- Jul. 19, 2008Evans looking for Alpine allies?
Cadel Evans has been poring over cycling's history books as he prepares to put his yellow jersey on the line during three crucial days of climbing at the Tour de France.
But the 31-year-old Aussie has not ruled out trying to forge alliances, if needed, in a bid to counter ...
Jul. 19, 2008A Trans-Alpine experience
Drew Geer and Mark Gouge are racing the Jeantex Bike Transalp 2008 powered by Nissan, an eight-stage epic mountain bike stage race, from Füssen, Germany, to Riva del Garda, Italy, passing through Austria and Switzerland. The two are racing for the Chipotle-Titus-VeloNews ...
Jul. 19, 2008Casey Gibson Photo Gallery, stage 14
- Jul. 19, 2008Freire's green jersey hunt gets a shot in the arm
Spaniard Oscar Freire should now have a better idea of whether he can keep the Tour de France green
jersey, after some in-race consultation with sprint rival Mark Cavendish.
Cavendish, the winner of four sprint stages so far, was conspicuous by his absence on Saturday as ...
- Jul. 19, 2008Stage 14 - By the numbers
Stage 14, Nimes to Digne-Les-Baines, 194.5km
WeatherHot and sunny, strong westerly winds (tailwinds for the peloton) up to 45kph. Air temperature at the start was 86 degrees, while the road temperature during the stage reached 107.
Stage ...
- Jul. 19, 2008Mark Cavendish unlikely to start Sunday's stage 15.
CAV EXIT LIKELY: Mark Cavendish’s dream Tour de France is likely over as it’s expected that the British sprinter won’t take the start for Sunday’s opening salvo into the Alps.
Cavendish won four sprint stages, but struggled to maintain the pace over a ...
- Jul. 19, 2008A conversation with Matt White: ‘Christian Gets Better and Better’
Garmin-Chipotle sport director Matt White has had a front-row seat to the team’s surprisingly good opening two weeks of the Tour de France.
Team captain Christian Vande Velde enters Saturday’s opening shot of the showdown in the Alps poised in third place overall. The ...
- Jul. 19, 2008Will Frischkorn's Tour de France diary, stage 14
A HOT one here in France-land today, and fast from start to finish. A flurry of attacks in the first few minutes eventually created a group of 21. With a slight wind at our backs the first hour rolled 53Ks under the tires.
The group was just a bit too big however and ...
Jul. 19, 2008Wilier delivers new bikes in time for Tour
Last year the bikes Lampre riders showed up to the Tour with were well used, all looked battle worn with chipped paint and rusted bolts from the harsh weather and frequent washing by the mechanics.
This year, however, Lampre stepped up with the help of its sponsors. Wilier ...
