Bringing Cycling to Life Through Images
The BMC Racing Team did its part to look after Cadel Evans on a wind-swept stage of the Tour de France Thursday. ‘Stay Out Of Trouble’Manuel Quinziato, the BMC Racing Team’s designated road captain for the 176.5-kilometer race, called it a stressful day. “There was a lot of wind from […]
Omega Pharma – Quick-Step Cycling Team rider Mark Cavendish was able to pace back to the peloton after crashing on a hot, windy day, and the team led him into the bunch sprint on the 176.5km Stage 6 on Thursday. All the top sprinters — except Nacer Bouhanni (FDJ), who […]
Leopard SA Statement on Fränk Schleck. With the end of Fränk Schleck’s suspension approaching, Leopard and its partners have assessed the situation in view of a possible renewal of the collaboration with Fränk Schleck. Having finalized this assessment in a broad and objective way, Leopard has decided to not renew […]
The biggest challenge in today’s 176.5 km long sixth stage of the Tour de France between Aix en Provence to Montpellier was not climbs but the mistral wind that blew at 67 meters per second in the last half of the route. So it was not just a simple transport […]
40th Win in Three Disciplines for OPQS03-Jul-2013: Omega Pharma – Quick-Step Cycling Team put all riders on the front for sprinter Mark Cavendish on Wednesday, on a deceptively lumpy course that included Col de Gineste (2.89km, 4.4%) with just 12.5km to go in the 228.5km Stage 5 of the Tour […]
Today’s fourth stage of the Tour de France was a 25 kilometer long and flat team time trial around Nice. Omega-Pharma Quickstep was the fastest team at the finish line. Saxo-Tinkoff rode an excellent team time trial and was the first intermediate second best with under two seconds to Omega-Pharma […]
With 1800 meters to go Jan Bakelants seized the moment to attack his breakaway group and challenge for the win in the 100th Tour de France. Known as a rider who always attacks and willingly takes his chances, Bakelants, 27, took the win by one second and in doing so, […]
Bastia, France Cadel Evans of the BMC Racing Team safely survived a chaotic finish to the opening stage of the Tour de France Saturday while teammates Philippe Gilbert and Tejay van Garderen did not. Finish Moved, Then Moved AgainGilbert and van Garderen were involved in a crash in the final […]
Marcel Kittel (GER) got Team Argos-Shimano off to a perfect start at the 100th edition of the Tour de France by winning stage 1. Kittel and the team successfully negotiated a confusing and technical finale but finished off the job to perfection after keeping cool heads throughout the chaos. As […]
Will be covering the 100th Tour de France live beginning July 10 in Mont St Michel.
