Plateau de Beille, France – Tejay van Garderen maintained his grip on second place overall at the Tour de France Thursday by keeping pace with race leader Chris Froome (Team Sky) during a third straight challenging day in the Pyrenees mountains. Van Garderen placed 13th and in a group of […]

July 16th, 2015 Movistar takes lead in Tour de France teams’ classification thanks to Gorka Izagirre -4th, after a long day into the break-, Alejandro Valverde and Nairo Quintana, the latter two making several attacks in the decisive climb; GC duo remain 3rd, 4th overallDown to eight riders after the […]

The hardest climb in the Pyrénées proved to be the perfect proving ground for Team Katusha’s Joaquim Rodriguez to find his form and solo into his second stage win in the 2015 Tour de France. Part of an original 22-man break that held more than 13-minutes along the route to […]

Tinkoff-Saxo’s Alberto Contador regained momentum on stage 12 to Plateau de Beille, where the team leader notes that he felt better. Under the deluge, which had imposed itself on the riders going into the final climb, Contador finished together with the main GC rivals after an array of attacks in […]