Tour de France

By rss@youtube.com (tmendonsa) Mark Cavendish wins in this very fast sprint. Kelly and I stood in rain for 5 hours waiting 200m from the finish but it was worth it. Afterward we got to see the pros and even the yellow jersey. Author: tmendonsa Keywords: 2008 Tour de France Stage 10 Finish Mark Cavendish RB Cycling Red Bluff

3 min - 2008-09-02 The finish of the fifth stage in the 2008 Tour de France. Mark Cavendish wins the bunch sprint to win the stage and Stefan Schumacher keeps his yellow jersey.

4 min - 2008-09-02 The second stage of the Tour de France, 2008. Thor Hushovd came away with the victory in a sprint for stage 2. Alejandro Valverde maintained his yellow jersey.

By rss@youtube.com (theismagelssen) Kurt Asle Arvesen wins his first stage in Tour de France. Author: theismagelssen Keywords: Kurt Asle Arvesen Tour de France 2008 stage 11 cycling sprint Added: August 28, 2008

By rss@youtube.com (theismagelssen) A video of Hushovd winning stage 4 in Tour de France, and some pictures. Author: theismagelssen Keywords: Thor Hushovd Cycling Tour de France Stage Sprint Added: November 24, 2007

By William Fotheringham Crampton was the revelation of the weekend, fitter mentally and physically, he said, after a summer spent on the keirin circuit in Japan; he made the sprint final against Hoy, and won the invitation keirin on Sunday as well as racing two team sprint rounds. Hoy admitted that if the young rid...

By editor Britain’s Mark Cavendish admits next year’s Tour de France route looks more difficult than this year, but that won’t stop the Isle of Man rider aiming to blitz the sprint field yet again. In keeping with the organizers’ annual bid to innovate, there will be only three mountaintop finishes...

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By editor This guy can’t be beat. The perfect leadout, and then a prefect sprint. This guy can’t be beat. The perfect leadout, and then a prefect sprint.

By William Fotheringham A year ago, the interest for British cycling fans in the launch of the 2009 Tour de France came down to one question: how many sprint stage win opportunities is there for Mark Cavendish? Today, after the emergence this summer of Bradley Wiggins as a contender for the overall title, the bala...

By cpelkey Proving that age is just a number, 40-year-old Estonian Jann Kirsipuu of the Malaysian team LeTua took the opening stage of Australia's Jayco Herald Sun Tour Monday in Ballarat. A four-time Tour de France stage winner, Kirsipuu out-sprinted Garmin-Slipstream’s Chris Sutton to take th...

By editor Farrar had a promising, but win less Tour de France campaign in July but bounced back to win the Hamburg Cyclassics one-day race in August. He continued his good form by winning three stages at the Eneco Tour, and also won a stage at the three-week Tour of Spain which finished last Sunday.

By cpelkey British sprint specialist Mark Cavendish has pulled out of Paris-Tours, the road sprint classic on October 11, his Columbia team announced on Wednesday. Cavendish, who won six stages at this year's Tour de France, had already withdrawn from the world championships in Mendrisio, Switz...

By strbuk Kansas City, MO - Andrew Pinfold of the OUCH Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis took a very close 2nd in the final sprint of the final stage of the Tour of Missouri To Martin Gilbert (Planet Energy). Coming into the final kilometer, Cervelo Test Team took over the front to bring back Rogers a...

By Richard Moore Boasson Hagen's victory, in the bunch sprint that decided the stage, underlined the strength of his current team, who replicated what they did on a daily basis for Mark Cavendish at the Tour de France: massing at the front in the closing kilometres, after the day's escapees had been reele...

Australian Chris Sutton won the opening stage of the Tour of Britain in York on Saturday, taking the line in a bunch sprint thanks to sterling efforts from Garmin team-mate and Tour de France hero Bradley Wiggins.

By strbuk Rolla, MO — In the chaotic sprint that marked the end of Stage 3 of the Tour of Missouri, John Murphy and Andrew Pinfold of the OUCH Pro Cycling Team Presented by Maxxis changed up their tactics a bit and both wound up in the top 10 on the stage. Murphy took 6th behind stage winner Thor Hushovd (Ce...

By Associated Press Mark Cavendish, a sprint specialist who took six stages of the Tour de France in July, won the first stage of the Tour of Missouri.

By Nancy Toby(nancytoby@comcast.net) Congratulations to Yauheni Hutarovich, the Lanterne Rouge of the 2009 Tour de France, for his 5th place finish on the Champs d'Elysees today! That boy can sprint!! Well done indeed and a memorable finish to your Tour!

By Gene Bisbee Washington state homeboy Tyler Farrar captured his second sprint-finish win at the Eneco Tour bike race in Belgium on Thursday. Born and raised in Wenatchee, Farrar earlier admitted he had a frustrating Tour de France with several second-place showings against Team Columbia's sprint...

By Gene Bisbee Although the top 8 overall remained in order behind yellow jersey Alberto Contador, Lance Armstrong gained 4 seconds in his overall third position by staying with the lead group as a split developed further back to the others in the peloton.

By Gene Bisbee But the most unusual sight along much of the 106-mile stage from Bourg Saint Maurice to Le Grand Bornand had to be Thor Hushovd, the sprinter, who took a solo breakaway over two mountain climbs to ensure he'd get the intermediate sprint points in his bid for the green jersey ...

By Gene Bisbee The Columbia cycling team proved on Wednesday that they can prevail in the sprint regardless of how many rival teams try to unseat them. While Hoban won his stages over a period of nine years, the 24-year-old from the Isle of Man accomplished it in three years of racing the Tour de France....

By Gene Bisbee Norway's thundering sprinter Thor Hushovd won a tightly contested sprint in Barcelona on Thursday after the peloton took a squeegee to David Millar's hopes of a solo victory on Stage 6 of the Tour de France. The overall leaders finished intact on the slippery streets of Barcelona as Fabia...

By Gene Bisbee Mark Cavendish marked his 5th-ever win at the Tour de France on Sunday with a Stage 2 sprint just ahead of Washington's Tyler Farrar hanging onto his wheel. Meanwhile, Fabio Cancellara finished in the pack, easily holding onto the yellow jersey that he earned in the Stage 1 individual time...

By Gene Bisbee The winner of the breakaway sprint, Milram's Niki Terpstra of the Netherlands, also took over the race lead from Silence-Lotto's Cadel Evans. Evans, one of the favorites to win the Tour de France next month, finished with rival Alberto Contador in the peloton that crossed the line about...

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By Gene Bisbee Garmin-Slipstream's David Millar couldn't hold a 5-second lead over the peloton in the final kilometer of Stage 2 at the Dauphiné Libéré as Angelo Furlan of Lampre won the sprint. Australia's Cadel Evans safely finished further back, retaining his 8-second lead over Spain's Alberto...

By editor It was an incredibly tough result for Hushovd, like Boonen a former winner of the Tour de France green jersey for the race’s points classification. Top sprinter Hushovd’s presence was a big worry for Boonen and without his later crash the race could have been decided in a two-man sprint.

By Tim Jackson- Masi Guy(noreply@blogger.com) Stage 2; Cavendish wins the sprint with Farrar in second and Roma Feillu in 3rd. Feillu? A French rider in 3rd in a sprint... with other non-French riders in the sprint? Has that happened since Jimmy Casper or Jalabert? I was watching the footage wondering who the non-French guy on the French te...

By editor His Astana teammate Lance Armstrong remained fourth overall, 30 seconds off the lead. Armstrong is still riding strong and looks to be in top condition. Tomorrow’s individual time trial will be a good showcase for Armstrong to prove that he is really back and has the legs to win the big Tours...

By editor The newly unveiled, Amgen’s Breakaway from Cancer™ Most Courageous Rider Jersey was awarded to Lance Armstrong (USA) of Astana, with the Herbalife Sprint Jersey went to two-time overall defending champion Leipheimer. The Rabobank Best Young Rider Jersey was claimed by Mark Cavendis...

By Richard Moore As Armstrong admitted, he didn't have the "firepower" to sustain the effort, and in the finale he and his breakaway companions were swamped by the peloton, with the Italian Francesco Chicchi winning the bunch sprint to take the stage. Allan Davis finished safely behind him to keep the lea...

By bikehiker(noreply@blogger.com) AMERICAN HELPS HIMSELF. David Zabriskie was part of the big breakaway group and claiming intermediate sprint points and mountain climbing points gave him enough bonus seconds to move him from tenth to ninth place in the General Classification (battle for the Yellow Jersey). As Lance Arm...

By bikehiker(noreply@blogger.com) AUSTRALIAN THREEPEAT. Right now, no sprinter and no sprint team is able to keep Australian Robbie McEwen at bay. Even with American lead-out man Fred Rodriguez having crashed out, McEwen is getting great drafts from Geert Steegemans. That, and he's simply the fastest to the finish line out...

By bikehiker(noreply@blogger.com) LOOKING TOWARD SATURDAY. Stage 6 will be another flat stage with a bunch sprint finish likely. Stage 7 on Saturday, however, will be an Individual Time Trial. Stage 7 will begin the initial separation of contenders from the rest. American Floyd Landis, for instance, has vowed to try to win thi...

By bikehiker(noreply@blogger.com) A KANGAROO LEAPS AHEAD. Australian Robbie McEwen got his second Tour de France stage victory of the year, winning the stage-ending bunch sprint three bike lengths ahead of his rivals. This is the second time McEwen, dubbed "pocket rocket Robbie," has beaten world sprint champ and current...

By bikehiker(noreply@blogger.com) AUSSIE EDGES BOONEN & HUSHOVD. Monday's Stage 2 marathon--over 228 km of racing--ended as most flat stages end: with a bunch sprint featuring the best of the best sprinters forcing their way at the line. This round goes to Australian Robbie McEwen. He nosed out reigning world sprint cha...

By Tim Jackson- Masi Guy(noreply@blogger.com) The sprint was a great finish and the top 5 riders was a blend of the best of two generations of sprinters with Cavenidsh winning in front of Oscar Freire and Erik Zabel, with Hushovd in 4th and a resurgent Baden Cooke (Barloworld) in 5th. Oddly, Robbie McEwen was a surprising 8th and has not sh...

BOURG-EN-BRESSE, France -- Tom Boonen of Belgium won Friday's sixth stage of the Tour de France in a sprint finish, and Swiss rider Fabian Cancellara retained the leader's yellow jersey for a seventh straight day.

Cycling:  Belgium's Tom Boonen won stage six of the Tour de France after Bradley Wiggins marked the 40th anniversary of the death of the great Tom Simpson with a lengthy solo break.

Tom Boonen of Belgium won Fridays sixth stage of the Tour de France in a sprint finish, and Swiss rider Fabian Cancellara retained the leaders yellow jersey for a seventh straight day.

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By Andrew In today’s final stage, a 136 kilometre ride into Belley, Dessel was content to sit in the peloton as a non-dangerous group of breakaway riders went up the road to contest the sprint, with Patrice Halgand beating his Crédit Agricole team-mate Christophe Le Mevel on the line.

By Andrew Tour de France, Stage 13 — Béziers - Montélimar, 231 kilometres German rider Jens Voigt (CSC) went on one of his trademark long breakaways today and ended up winning stage 13 of the Tour de France. In a two-up sprint, Voigt beat Oscar Pereiro (Caisse d’Epargne), who ended up taking the yello...

By Andrew Tour de France, Stage 9 — Bordeaux - Dax, 170 kilometres Spaniard Oscar Freire (Rabobank) today won his second stage of the 2006 Tour de France, narrowly beating green jersey holder Robbie McEwen (Davitamon-Lotto) in a bunch sprint in the spa town of Dax. T-Mobile’s Serhiy Honchar comfor...

By Andrew Tour de France, Stage 5 — Beauvais - Caen, 225 kilometres Triple World Champion Oscar Freire (Rabobank) today beat Tom Boonen (Quick Step) in a straight drag-race to the finish line to win stage 5 of the Tour de France. Freire was fastest in a bunch sprint that came after 225 kilometres of rac...