Wiggins averaged 41.5k per hour and showed his stuff today at the Besancon Time Trial. He’s a 1’53” ahead of Cadel Evans and 2’07” ahead of Froome. He got his first Tour bouquet at age 32 today. TeJay VanGarderen is in fourth place, 1’06” behind Wiggins and reclaimed the Best […]

Thibaut Pinot won Stage 8 of the Tour at Porrentruy. He finished solo ahead of the group with Wiggins and is the first French win of the race. Wiggins held onto the yellow jersey and Cadel Evans is in second place.  On the last of 7 climbs of the day, […]

Johannes Fröhlinger will not start in Sunday’s eighth stage of the Tour de France. The German climber of Team Argos-Shimano is experiencing too much discomfort from his broken little finger.  In concert with the team management and the medical staff Fröhlinger has decided to go home for surgery. “This is […]

Froome won the stage while Evans tried to maneuver himself around Froome and Wiggins. Nibali lost just 7 seconds.  Estonian Rein Taaramae of Cofidis is now in the white best young rider jersey. Pierre Rolland is in 7th.  Vandenbroeke and Valverde suffered mechanical problems at the start of the climb and […]

Following yesterday’s massive pileup, Garmin-Sharp rider Hesjedal didn’t start today’s stage 7 at Tomblaine.  He finished yesterday 13 minutes behind.  He had hoped to finish well on the Champs Elysee but it would be impossible to make up that much time. “He has a large bruise on the upper leg. […]

After the first week of the Tour de France, where Team Argos-Shimano almost daily tried to achieve a mass sprint, the first mountain stage was about making it into a breakaway and survive. Because the riders were not able to get into a group of attackers, the focus was mainly on […]

BMC Racing Team’s Cadel Evans finished second Saturday on the first day in the mountains at the Tour de France to climb into second overall, 10 seconds behind new race leader Bradley Wiggins (Sky Procycling). Concedes No Time To Wiggins Evans made a bid for the stage win in the […]

Peter Sagan managed to escape the massive crash today and ended up winning his third stage in a week.  Today he outsprinted Greipel and Goss at the line in Metz.

The provisional final flat ride of the Tour was one that didn’t go without a struggle. At about twenty kilometers from the finish half the peloton was involved in a massive crash. Many fell, others were held up, including most of Team Argos-Shimano. Roy Curvers was the only one who […]

BMC Racing Team Avoids Crashes Again The BMC Racing Team continued to keep its two riders in the top 10 out of trouble Friday at the Tour de France and the result helped defending champion Cadel Evans move up one spot, from seventh to sixth, in the overall standings. Stayed In […]