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Year 2009

 

Rate Video: Cervélo Test Team, Team MeetingVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Wed, Feb 4

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By rss@youtube.com (castellicycling) The Cervélo Test Team, featuring defending Tour de France titlist Carlos Sastre and 2005 Green Jersey winner Thor Hushovd, was created to combine the very best, most technical, and most innovative companies in every market segment. Naturally, that meant clothing from Castelli. Clothi...

Rate Video: Stage 16 - 157km Cuneo, Italy to Jausiers - Highlights - 2008 Tour de FranceVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Google Video external link    Fri, Nov 7

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Cuneo, Italy to Jausiers Frenchman Cyril Dessel takes stage 16 win of the 2008 tour de france. Schleck defends the Yellow jersey as there as little to no changes in the gc. Christopher Froome loses his bike down the valley in a crash after the first ascent. Stage 16 results 1 Cyril Dessel (Fra) A...

Rate Video: Tour de France a PRATOLUNGO!!!Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Sun, Sep 7

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By rss@youtube.com (izoard77) July 22nd 2008 Cuneo-Jausiers 1.35 PM The 5 leaders have just passed, with Schumacher pulling ahead. Then a chase group with green jersey Freire, then the main bunch with the CSC team, Cunego and white jersey Nibali at the end. Dead last is Sandy Casar which will take second place in Jausiers. T...

Rate Video: 2008 Tour De France Stage 6 FinishVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Google Video external link    Mon, Sep 1

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4 min - 2008-09-02 Stage 6 of the 2008 Tour De France. Riccardo Rico wins the first mountain stage of the Tour de France. A crash in the last kilometer for Schumacher cost him the yellow jersey. Kim Kirchen now has the yellow jersey and the green jersey.

Rate Video: Frank Schleck Dramatic Crash - Tour de Suisse 5thVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Wed, Jun 18

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By rss@youtube.com (DetBareGodt) Frank Schleck (Team CSC) was together with Markus Fothen (Gerolsteiner) 25 seconds ahead of the group with leader Igor Anton (Euskatel). He could grab the leaders jersey without any problem. Then suddenly he ran wide at a corner at took a tumble in to the ravine. Luckly he survived. On this mov...

Year 2007

 

Rate Video: Biking on Trainer 2Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Sat, Mar 3

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By rss@youtube.com (atkid99) Moved the seat back another 3/4 inch. Nice new duds from the Toronto Bike Show: Discovery Channel jersey and Pearl Izumi shorts. Music in the background is Tour de France by Kraftwerk. Author: atkid99 Keywords: bike training Added: March 3, 2007

Stories

Year 2009

 

Rate McEwen eyes TDU in January

Original at VeloNews external link    Thu, Nov 26

By cpelkey Multi-stage winning sprinter Robbie McEwen will spearhead the Katusha team in Australia's Tour Down Under in January, organizers said on Thursday. McEwen is a triple winner of the Tour de France's green jersey sprinters classification and has won 12 stages at both the Tour de France and...

Rate Evans ‘Tired Of Finishing Second’ In Le Tour

Original at Bicycle.net external link    Thu, Oct 29

By editor “I am tired of being known as the bloke who finishes second in the Tour de France,” Evans said. Evans said the honor of wearing the coveted world champion’s rainbow jersey in races over the next year would help to ease some of the disappointment of the Tour de France.

Rate Kazakhs claiming Contador

Original at VeloNews external link    Wed, Oct 28    3 related articles

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By sfrothingham Will he stay or will he go? If you ask the Kazakhs, Tour de France winner Alberto Contador is staying in an Astana jersey in 2010. The ongoing saga of the future of Contador took another turn this week when officials said the two-time Tour champion isn’t going anywhere and that he will be held t...

Rate Cavendish Zero’s In On Hushovd’s Green Jersey

Original at Bicycle.net external link    Fri, Oct 16    1 related articles

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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...

Rate 2010 Tour de France route visits Pyrenees in closing stages

Original at Biking Bis external link    Wed, Oct 14

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By Gene Bisbee Announced in Paris on Wednesday, the immediate reaction was a mixed bag. Defending champion Alberto Contador liked it better than the 2009 route, but was worried about the cobblestones in Belgium. Green jersey winner Thor Hushovd .....

Rate Barloworld Calls It Quits

Original at Bicycle.net external link    Tue, Oct 13

By editor Barloworld first came to the sponsorship in 2003 with only one real goal in mind. A Tour de France podium finish within 5 years. They certainly achieved this and more. With two stage wins, and the polka dot jersey in the 2007 Tour. Barloworld put together a strong team that had great success the g...

Rate Hushovd wants to defend green jersey in 2010

Original at VeloNews external link    Fri, Oct 2

By cpelkey Thor Hushovd wants to make it loud and clear: he’s intending on racing the 2010 Tour de France and defending his green jersey. There were some conflicting reports that the Norwegian winner of the 2009 sprinter’s jersey might skip the Tour, but the Cervélo TestTeam rider confirmed that nex...

Rate Thor Hushovd Will Defend Green Jersey in 2010 Tour de France

Original at Roadcycling.com external link    Thu, Oct 1

Cervelo TestTeam rider Thor Hushovd (Norway) is planning to return to the Tour de France next year to defend the green jersey he won in this year’s Tour.

Rate Evans Drops The ‘Nearly Man’ And Reaches For The Rainbow

Original at Bicycle.net external link    Wed, Sep 30

By editor Evans, a two-time Tour de France runner-up, has become almost as famous for his unpredictable nature on and off the bike as he has for coming agonizingly close to twice winning the race’s famous yellow jersey. It wasn’t the yellow jersey. But for many aficionados the famous rainbow jersey,...

Rate UCI Decides No ProTour License For Bouygues and Cofidis

Original at Bicycle.net external link    Tue, Sep 29

By editor Cofidis includes French rider David Moncoutie, winner of the climber’s jersey in the Tour of Spain, Remi Pauriol and up-and-coming Estonian Rein Taaramae in its ranks. Bougyues Telecom has Pierrick Fedrigo and Thomas Voeckler, both stage winners on the last Tour de France, as well as Fr...

Rate Evans Wins A Historic Rainbow Jersey For Australia

Original at Bicycle.net external link    Sun, Sep 27

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By editor And the Australian, who made up for a disastrous Tour de France campaign by finishing third on the Tour of Spain last week, took everyone by surprise with his well-timed burst. Known widely in the sport as a ‘clean’ rider, Evans experienced his worst ever Tour de France in July, a race in whic...

Rate Valverde Facing Tough Road To Rainbow Jersey Win

Original at Bicycle.net external link    Sat, Sep 26    1 related articles

By editor Others, like two-time Tour de France runner-up Cadel Evans, who finished third overall in Spain, hinted that Valverde’s efforts to hold on to the Vuelta’s gold jersey may cost him in the end. One rider all of the above cannot fail to ignore is Spaniard Samuel Sanchez.

Rate Valverde Puts Aside Doping Row To Win Tour Of Spain

Original at Bicycle.net external link    Sun, Sep 20

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By Cynthia Lou Third overall was Australia’s two-time Tour de France runner-up Cadel Evans, who had been an outside favorite until Valverde took the golden jersey from him at the end of the 9th stage and who then lost a lot of time due to a puncture in the 13th stage.

Rate Valverde, Cunego Lead Rainbow Jersey Charge

Original at Bicycle.net external link    Sat, Sep 19

By editor If Valverde fails to live up to expectations in Mendrisio, Spain will be looking for Oscar Freire, a less formidable climber but still a former three-time world champion, or Olympic road race champion Samuel Sanchez. The odds on Valverde becoming the first Spaniard since Freire in 2004 t...

Rate Schleck brothers ambush peloton again at Tour de France

Original at Biking Bis external link    Wed, Jul 22

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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 ...

Rate Sanchez wins Stage 8; Nocentini, Contador, Armstrong are 1, 2, 3 at Tour de France

Original at Biking Bis external link    Sat, Jul 11

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By Gene Bisbee Tour de France first-timer Rinaldo Nocentini held onto the overall leader's yellow jersey, and remained 6 seconds ahead of Alberto Contador and 8 seconds ahead of Lance Armstrong. Columbia sprinter Mark Cavendish, however, lost his green points jersey to Norway's Thor Hushovd, who ga...

Rate Cadel Evans scorches time trial; back in yellow at Dauphine

Original at Biking Bis external link    Wed, Jun 10    5 related articles

By Gene Bisbee Cadel Evans will be wearing the leader's jersey at the Dauphiné Libéré on Thursday when the peloton sets out on the 95-mile bicycle race to Mont Ventoux. The Australian regained the yellow jersey by finishing second in the individual time trial on Wednesday, trailing Bert Grabsch of C...

Rate Menchov brushes off boos and doping questions after Blockhaus

Original at Cycling Weekly external link    Thu, May 28

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 UK Disgraced 2008 Tour de France polka-dot jersey winner Bernhard Kohl has reportedly confessed to prosecutors that he received blood transplants at Humanplasma and other riders are suspected of sharing the cost of a blood centrifuge as part of a blood ...

Rate The British riders to have led one of the grand tours

Original at Cycling Weekly external link    Mon, May 11

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 UK As debut days in the Tour de France go, it couldn't have been better. The boy from Hoylake blasted round the 7.2-kilometre prologue course in Lille, beating Miguel Indurain by a whopping 15 seconds. Boardman successfully defended the jersey for two ...

Rate Amgen Tour of California Prologue Re-Cap

Original at Bicycle.net external link    Sat, Feb 14

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...

Rate Stage Twelve: Lavelanet to Narbonne

Original at tdflr (Blogspot) external link    Wed, Oct 29

By Nancy Toby(nancytoby@comcast.net) Ack! The whole Saunier Duval-Prodir team gone, <strong>Ricco</strong> positive for EPO from Stage 4, announced while he was wearing the polka-dot jersey and the young rider jersey! Two riders in the top ten!!<br /><br /&g...

Rate Tour de France- Stage 2

Original at Masiguy external link    Sun, Jul 6

By Tim Jackson- Masi Guy(noreply@blogger.com) Tomorrow looks to be a real stage for the sprinters. The green jersey is currently worn by Kirchen after his 2nd and 4th place finishes so far, but I expect Hushovd to make a real run on the jersey tomorrow. The stage is almost flat- for that region of France- and lends itself to the sprinters. Exp...

Rate Boonen California bound

Original at beta.velonews.com external link    Tue, Feb 5

By cpelkey After the classics, he’ll target the Tour de France and another run at the green jersey, skip the Beijing Summer Olympic Games (despite alluding to a run at the team pursuit on the track) and reload for the 2008 road world championships, with a likely detour through the Vuelta a España.

Year 2007

 

Rate Get the Inside Story on the 2007 Tour de France with John ... - PPOLNews (press release)

Original at PPOLNews external link    Mon, Dec 3

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press release) Get the Inside Story on the 2007 Tour de France with John ... press release), NY - Dec 3, 2007 Follow the four jersey winners through the Tour and read race diaries from pro riders Christian Vande Velde and Simon Gerrans. The book is now available in ...

Rate I've been quiet the past few days as the Tour de F...

Original at Masiguy external link    Thu, Jul 26

By Tim Jackson- Masi Guy The Tour; the race will go on, as it likely should, though I am not sure how I feel about it. Yes, I looked at the results today and saw that Contador started the day in his white jersey for best young rider before finishing the stage and receiving his first yellow jersey. I was glad that Bennati wo...

Rate Tour de France- Stage 14

Original at Masiguy external link    Sun, Jul 22

By Tim Jackson- Masi Guy The GC picture should be much clearer now that we're in the Pyrenees, but even with El Pollo Loco in the lead and looking good, it is anything but clear. Can he actually hold the lead to Paris? Can Rabobank really defend the jersey that long? Will Disco, including Levi, be able to support Conta...

Year 2006

 

Rate Robbie McEwen joins Tour

Original at Daily Telegraph external link    Tue, Oct 3

McEwen, 34, has been in career-best form this season, capturing three stages of the Tour de France in July, on the way to collecting his third green jersey as the leading sprinter. ROBBIE McEwen is a surprise late starter in Sunday's Jayco Herald Sun Tour.

Rate Hectic sprint sees Freire grab second win

Original at Cycloblog.com external link    Tue, Jul 11

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...

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