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Video: Cervélo Test Team, Team MeetingOriginal at YouTube
• Wed, Feb 4
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...
Video: Stage 16 - 157km Cuneo, Italy to Jausiers - Highlights - 2008 Tour de FranceOriginal at Google Video
• Fri, Nov 7
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...
Video: Tour de France a PRATOLUNGO!!!Original at YouTube
• Sun, Sep 7
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...
Video: 2008 Tour De France Stage 6 FinishOriginal at Google Video
• Mon, Sep 1
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.
Video: Frank Schleck Dramatic Crash - Tour de Suisse 5thOriginal at YouTube
• Wed, Jun 18
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...
Video: Biking on Trainer 2Original at YouTube
• Sat, Mar 3
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
McEwen eyes TDU in January
Original at VeloNews
• 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...
Evans ‘Tired Of Finishing Second’ In Le Tour
Original at Bicycle.net
• 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.
Kazakhs claiming Contador
Original at VeloNews
• Wed, Oct 28
• 3 related articles
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...
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Cavendish Zero’s In On Hushovd’s Green Jersey
Original at Bicycle.net
• Fri, Oct 16
• 1 related articles
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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2010 Tour de France route visits Pyrenees in closing stages
Original at Biking Bis
• Wed, Oct 14
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 .....
Barloworld Calls It Quits
Original at Bicycle.net
• 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...
Hushovd wants to defend green jersey in 2010
Original at VeloNews
• 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...
Thor Hushovd Will Defend Green Jersey in 2010 Tour de France
Original at Roadcycling.com
• 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.
Evans Drops The ‘Nearly Man’ And Reaches For The Rainbow
Original at Bicycle.net
• 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,...
UCI Decides No ProTour License For Bouygues and Cofidis
Original at Bicycle.net
• 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...
Evans Wins A Historic Rainbow Jersey For Australia
Original at Bicycle.net
• Sun, Sep 27
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...
Valverde Facing Tough Road To Rainbow Jersey Win
Original at Bicycle.net
• 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.
Valverde Puts Aside Doping Row To Win Tour Of Spain
Original at Bicycle.net
• Sun, Sep 20
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.
Valverde, Cunego Lead Rainbow Jersey Charge
Original at Bicycle.net
• 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...
Schleck brothers ambush peloton again at Tour de France
Original at Biking Bis
• Wed, Jul 22
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 ...
Sanchez wins Stage 8; Nocentini, Contador, Armstrong are 1, 2, 3 at Tour de France
Original at Biking Bis
• Sat, Jul 11
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...
Cadel Evans scorches time trial; back in yellow at Dauphine
Original at Biking Bis
• 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...
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Menchov brushes off boos and doping questions after Blockhaus
Original at Cycling Weekly
• Thu, May 28
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 ...
The British riders to have led one of the grand tours
Original at Cycling Weekly
• Mon, May 11
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 ...
Amgen Tour of California Prologue Re-Cap
Original at Bicycle.net
• 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...
Stage Twelve: Lavelanet to Narbonne
Original at tdflr (Blogspot)
• 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...
Tour de France- Stage 2
Original at Masiguy
• 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...
Boonen California bound
Original at beta.velonews.com
• 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.
Get the Inside Story on the 2007 Tour de France with John ... - PPOLNews (press release)
Original at PPOLNews
• Mon, Dec 3
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I've been quiet the past few days as the Tour de F...
Original at Masiguy
• 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...
Tour de France- Stage 14
Original at Masiguy
• 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...
Robbie McEwen joins Tour
Original at Daily Telegraph
• 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.
Hectic sprint sees Freire grab second win
Original at Cycloblog.com
• 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...