Tour de France, Stage 16: Van Garderen Moves Up; Evans Slips Back BMC Racing Team’s Tejay van Garderen climbed one spot to sixth in the overall standings Wednesday while teammate Cadel Evans lost time and slid from fourth to seventh overall on the penultimate day in the mountains at the […]
Tour de France
Frank Schleck Statement
Our team attaches great value to transparency. Because of this, we can announce the following as a response to the adverse analytical finding of xipamide in Fränk Schleck’s urine sample of July 14 during the Tour de France. After being informed by the UCI about the presence of xipamide in […]
Chavannel Stopping Tour
Sylvain Chavannel has decided to stop racing the Tour de France so he can rest up for the Olympics. He’s hoping to do well in the Olympic time trials. It’s the first time in 12 Tours that he’s not finishing the race. He’s suffering from bronchitis and the antibiotics are […]
Fedrigo Wins Stage 15 in Pau
Fedrigo won the stage today in Pau. He won here in 2010 as well. Wiggins is still in yellow and tomorrow is a rest day. Vandevelde was the last man in the break who made it to the line with him. David Millar controlled the head of the peloton for […]
DeKort on the Tour
Tour de France stages wherein attackers can go for the win are rare. And as a result almost half of all the riders wants to be in the breakaway during these kind of rides. Monday’s fifteenth stage from Samantan to Foix was such a moment. The riders of Team Argos-Shimano […]
BMC Stage 15
Cadel Evans and the BMC Racing Team enjoyed a smoother ride to the finish Monday, one day after an attack by tacks thrown onto the road created chaos for the peloton. Rest Day Is Tuesday On a day when the peloton finished nearly 12 minutes after a five-man breakaway, […]
DeKort Gets Another Chance Tomorrow
Sunday should’ve been the day of Koen de Kort. The Dutch rider of Team Argos- Shimano was really looking forward to the fourteenth stage from Limoux to Foix, but unfortunately didn’t manage to get into a breakaway. On Monday he will get another chance. De Kort undertook several attempts to […]
Evans Survives Stage 14 Tour Sabotage
Cadel Evans endured three wheel changes in a 10-minute span of Sunday’s stage of the Tour de France as the result of tacks being thrown onto the road. But the race’s defending champion was brought back after a furious chase by the BMC Racing Team and a gesture of sportsmanship […]
Greipel wins at Cap d’Agde
Andre Greipel took the win today at Cap d’Agde after easily climbing Mont Saint Clair along the Mediterranean. Some French journalists described him as the most complete sprinter in the peloton. Cavendish and Goss had faded so his main rival today was Peter Sagan. He worked hard to stay with […]
Argos Shimano Stays Agressive Without Veelers
After the withdrawal of sprinter Tom Veelers on Friday the riders of Team Argos-Shimano promised to attack whenever they could in the remainder of the Tour de France. During Saturday’s thirteenth stage to Le Cap d’Agde they already delivered. While Roy Curvers got himself in an early breakaway, Matthieu Sprick […]
