Tag: tour de france

Kittel wins – Alberto 5th in GC

Lille, 8th of July – 2014 There are no easy Tour de France stages and today’s 166 kilometer long fourth stage from Le Touquet-Paris-Plage to Villeneuve d´Ascq Lille Metropole was no exception. Fierce crosswinds dominated the events and the peloton was nervous. As a result, the defending champion, Chris Froome […]

Mark Cavendish Update

05-Jul-2014: Omega Pharma – Quick-Step Cycling Team confirms that Mark Cavendish underwent further examination on his right shoulder after today’s crash. The imaging underlined ligament ruptures with an AC-joint dislocation, which causes him a lot of pain. A final decision on his participation in tomorrow’s stage will be taken tomorrow […]

2014 Tour de France Stage 1

Harrogate, 5th of July – 2014 “A German and two Frenchmen..” sounds like the beginning of a bad joke but record-breaking, Jens Voigt (Trek Factory Racing), Benoit Jarrier (Bretagne) and Nicolas Edet (Cofidis) however had ambitions of writing the 190 kilometer long first stage of Tour de France from Leeds […]