Nestle’s Quick is one of the corporate sponsors of the race.  They have some vehicles in the publicity caravan.  In between talking about the race action, the announcers make some plugs for the sponsors.  One of the announcers apparently doesn’t understand any English.  While speaking about the product, he said […]

It’s official. Lance Armstrong made the “official” announcement during the Astana team training camp in Tenarife, Canary Islands.  He’ll be making his Tour de France comeback in Monaco on July 4, 2009 at age 37. He said that almost no one believed in him when he made his comeback from […]

2009 Tour de France Mountain Profiles: Stage 7: Barcelona – Andorra Arcalis  Stage 8: Andorra – Saint Girons  Stage 9: St Girons – Tarbes Stage 13: Vittel – Colmar Stage 15: Pontarlier – Verbiers Stage 16: Martigny – Bourg Saint Maurice Stage 17: Bourg Saint Maurice – Grand Bornand Stage […]

Can Lance Do It? Lance Armstrong is going to try and make history yet again by coming out of retirement and going for his eighth Tour de France title next July.  He’s been retired for three years.  After racing the Leadville 100 in Colorado in August, he got the itch […]

Stage 1: Brest – Plumelec   Stage 1 from Brest to Plumelec was a typical Breton scene – non-stop hills and wind. After a day of small breaks, the stage was won by Spaniard Alejandro Valverde in  a sprint.  Many of the favorites were near the front in the sprint.  […]

Stage 4: Cholet – Cholet TT 2008 Tour de France George Hincapie and Christian Vandevelde had a great race and finished in 6th and 7th place.  The stage was won by Schumacher of the Gerolsteiner team who also now has the yellow jersey.

Stage 3: St Malo – Nantes Today was a really flat day from St Malo to Nantes.  Four guys broke away early in the race and managed to hang on until the end.  Dumoulin won the sprint and Feilleu is now in yellow.   Thomas Frischkorn from Boulder, CO was in the break […]

 The race from Auray to Saint Brieuc was over 200k today on a cloudy day.   Norwegian Thor Hushovd  of the Credit Agricole team won the sprint at the finish line.  Valverde is still in yellow.  Soler Hernandez is suffering badly from the crash yesterday and may have to drop […]

Stage 21: Etamps – Paris Carlos Sastre racing in yellow on the Champs Elysee