The second Grand Tour of the season will take place between 2-24 July 21-Jun-2016: Bookended by flat stages, the 103rd edition of the Tour de France will kick off at the foot of the superb Mont-Saint-Michel, an island located in Normandy and included on the UNESCO list of World Heritage […]
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Movistar12-man shorlist for Tour de France Unveiled
3 June 2016 Nairo Quintana leads Movistar Team’s pre-selection for ‘Grande Boucle’; official, nine-man group to be decided after the National Championships in Europe, in three weeks’ timeMovistar Team unveils on Friday a twelve-man shortlist Eusebio Unzué has made official just a month before the 103rd Tour de France starts […]
Giant Alpecin 2016 Tour de France Long List Announced
The second Grand Tour of the season is fast approaching and Team Giant-Alpecin will head to this year’s Tour de France with the overall objective of winning a stage. The team will also focus on the development of the whole squad through the experience gained by the riders during this […]
2016 Tour de France Route
The 2016 Tour de France will look like this: Stages:
2016 Tour de France
The new 2016 Tour de France will look like this: Stages:
Alberto Contador and Steven de Jongh react to Tour de France 2016 route
The full 2016 Tour de France parcours was unveiled at the official presentation in Paris on Tuesday and displays a Tour consisting of several new summit finishes making their first appearance, a tough revisit to the top of Mont Ventoux and two challenging individual time trials likely to be some […]
An open, attractive 2016 Tour
Quintana, Valverde, Unzué react to 103th edition route presented on Tuesday, with plenty of different mountain stages and more TT terrain The 2016 Tour de France features more TT terrain than in the previous year -54km, divided into a hilly, 37-kilometer parcours on stage thirteen and a mountain-like, 17km effort […]
Sagan claims green jersey in Paris – Contador 5th overall
Tinkoff-Saxo’s Peter Sagan took his 4th green jersey in a row, as he crossed the final finish line of Tour de France on the iconic Champs Élysées. Meanwhile, Alberto Contador concluded his Tour finishing 5th in the overall classification. Peter Sagan didn’t get the stage win that he had been […]
Movistar Team takes two men onto the podium in Paris
Nairo Quintana (2nd, best young rider) and Alejandro Valverde (3rd)- for the first time in its history, wins Tour de France teams’ classification -its 3rd after 1991, ’99- The Champs-Élysées in Paris received the survivors in the 102nd Tour de France on Sunday as Chris Froome (SKY) took his second […]
Three Stage Wins Highlight BMC Tour de France Performance
Paris, France – Samuel Sánchez’s 12th-place finish overall capped a Tour de France that saw the BMC Racing Team win three stages and lead the race for one day. Rohan Dennis, winner of the Stage 1 individual time trial at record speed on July 4, was part of a breakaway […]