Tour de France

By Richard Moore Sutton, a 25-year old who won the opening stage of the Tour of Britain, told Cyclingnews: "I've had a lot of second placings this year, and they've looked at that fact. But with the stage win at the Tour of Britain, the second on general classification there, and then what I did at the Herald Su...

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By Richard Moore We have to see what happens with Astana first," said Contador, who is likely to start next year's Tour as the favourite, whichever team he is riding for. The 26-year-old offered a glowing appraisal of Wiggins's emergence, as a general classification contender saying: "Towards the end of...

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By Nancy Toby(nancytoby@comcast.net) Re-taking the spot as Lanterne Rouge of the Tour de France today is Yauheni Hutarovich (FdJ). He is firmly in last place in general classification by a 12 minute gap. He seems well able to finish the mountains, so barring bad luck or someone else incurring some major time losses, he seems like...

By Gene Bisbee There is no drafting, team tactics or breaking away at the Tour de France individual time trial. The bicycle racers win or lose on their own. Lance Armstrong -- Finished 16th on the stage but moved up to 3rd overall in the General Classification. He finished 1:30 behind Contador, but ahead...

By Gene Bisbee Italy's Rinaldo Nocentini jumped 32 places on Stage 7 to take over the yellow jersey at the Tour de France on Friday. Throw in Levi Leipheimer in 4th place, at 39 seconds out of first, and you have an Astana bottleneck high in the General Classification ....

By Nancy Toby(nancytoby@comcast.net) No change in the Lanterne Rouge of the Tour de France. At the end of today's stage there were still officially 178 riders in the race, and the last-ranked in the general classification was Alan Perez Lezaun of Eskaltel-Euskadi at 22:10 behind the wearer of the maillot jaune.

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 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 Andrew In the overall classification, Russian Vladimir Gusev retains the yellow jersey and is 1 second ahead of Linus Gerdemann (T-Mobile) and Sebastian Lang (Gerolsteiner). Stage 2 of the Deutschland Tour goes 209 kilometres from Minden to Goslar and is likely to be important in the overall r...

By Andrew The rest of the breakaway trickled home in dribs and drabs, while the peloton arrived 8 minutes after Tosatto. After all the drama and upheavals of previous days, there was absolutely no change to the upper general classification, with Oscar Pereiro (Caisse d’Epargne) keeping his tenuo...

By Andrew General Classification after Stage 8 Serhiy Honchar (Ukr) T-Mobile Team - 34h38m53sFloyd Landis (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems - at 1m00sMichael Rogers (Aus) T-Mobile Team - at 1m08sPatrik Sinkewitz (Ger) T-Mobile Team - at 1m45sMarcus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner - at 1m50sAndreas Kl...