Team Sky’s Boassen Hagen won the wet stage today in Lisieux. Thor Hushovd is still in yellow.
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2011 Tour de France Stage 5 Brajkovic
6 July 2011 –Team RadioShack’s Jani Brajkovic (27) suffered a race-ending injury in a day filled with more than ten crashes in Wednesday’s stage 5 of the Tour de France. Brajkovic touched wheels with another cyclist on the narrow roads of northern France and came down hard on the pavement, […]
2011 Tour de France Stage 5
HTC-HIGHROAD’S MARK CAVENDISH CLAIMS FIRST TOUR DE FRANCE SUCCESS OF 2011 Britain’s Mark Cavendish has claimed his first stage win of the 2011 Tour, the 16th of his career in cycling’s biggest bike race. Cavendish’s victory, his fifth of 2011, came in a hotly disputed bunch sprint at the end […]
Colombian Maurico Soler Hernandez in a coma
Colombian cyclist Mauricio Soler Hernandez is in a hospital in an induced coma. During the 6th stage of the Tour of Switzerland he crashed into a spectator. He lost consciousness, broke his ankle, fractured his skull and has a hematoma of the brain. He’s been put on a breathing machine […]
Saxo Bank Team coming to Tour of Colorado
DENVER – The USA Pro Cycling Challenge today announced the participation of the world’s No. 2-ranked team, Saxo Bank-SunGard of Denmark. This is also the team of three-time Tour de France winner and recent Giro d’Italia champion Alberto Contador. “Saxo Bank-SunGard is one of the world’s top teams and having […]
Armstrong & Hamilton Run-In
It’s been reported that Lance Armstrong and Tyler Hamilton unexpectedly ran into each other in the trendy Cache Cache restaurant in Aspen on Saturday. Some people said there was an altercation that included Lance telling Tyler he’d make his life a living hell. And wanting to know how much Tyler […]
Mario Aerts to Retire
Belgian cyclist Mario Aerts of the Omega Pharma-Lotto team will be retiring. He will not fulfill the last year of his contract. He’s 36 years old and has been suffering from cardiac arrythmia.He’s hoping to celebrate the end of his career with a glass of champagne following the Belgian championships. […]
2011 Tour of Colorado & The Queen’s Stage
Colorado’s altitude is expected to be a big factor in the USA Pro Cycling Challenge in August. Stage 2, the “Queen’s Stage”, goes from Gunnison to Aspen. Cottonwood Pass at 12,126′ is a dirt road for 12 miles followed by Independence Pass at 12,095′. These are the two highest known […]
2011 Teva Games Mountain Bike Race
This year’s Pro Cross Country Mountain Bike race saw the men do 4 laps. The winter in the Colorado high country had above average snowfall, so there was quite a bit of runoff crossing the trail. That made for some muddy conditions in some spots and dusty and dry in […]
Can Tyler’s Testimony be Substantiated
Here are some excerpts from an article appearing in the Denver Post today by journalist John Henderson. Lance’s critics will need more than Tyler’s 60 Minutes interview to strip him of his 7 Tour titles. Some prosecuting attorneys that deal with grand juries have said that Lance’s case “wasn’t terribly […]
