Archive for July, 2006
What an amazing race and effort by the American Floyd Landis, this years Tour had more up’s and downs than most of the tours over the past four or five years combined. Landis started strong and rode a sensible race throughout the early mountains and time trials only to loose more than 10 minutes on […]
Lance Armstrong says it’s crucial that Floyd Landis win the Tour de France for the continued development of cycling in the United States.”It’s great for American cycling, and I’d love to see the jersey stay in the States,” said Armstrong, who retired last summer after the last of his record seven Tour wins.
The Texan’s success […]
Floyd Landis In Yellow!
So now it begins, yesterdays stage ended with a handful of GC men battling it out for top contention. Menchov, Landis and Leipheimer were the first men to finish the stage followed by Cadel Evans, Carlos Sastre and Michael Boogerd. Stage 11 was by far the most difficult stage to date in […]
Without the addition of the Team Time Trial the first week of this years Tour de France seamed a bit longer than usual, day after day the tour featured (mostly) flat stages which nearly always resulted in the early morning “knuckle head” breakaway which would be caught in the last 15k’s and a sprint finish.
Yesterday’s […]
Serhiy Honchar who rides with the powerhouse (and highest paid pro team in cycling) T-Mobile squad took control of this years time trial besting all of the GC hopefully by more than one minute. Floyd Landis was the only GC contender who rode impressively and now sits in second place on the general classification (Honchar […]
Stage 5 of this years Tour de France was once again text book “week one” offering a fairly flat stage for the sprinters with several minimal category 4 climbs that had no effect in the day’s out come. Their was the usual “suicide break” that consisted of two men (Samuel Dumoulin and Björn Schröder) who […]
Being a true Tour de France fan now for years I have many books on the Tour, out of all the cycling books I own the Tour de France book below is one of my favorites. With increadible photo’s and epic stories of the Tour since 1903 this book really covers the event in depth. […]
Yesterday’s stage four of the Tour de France was won again by Aussie sprinting ace Robbie McEwen who leads the green jersey sprint competition by 11 points. McEwen has been spot on over these first days in the Tour with near perfect timing and an incredible jump that makes him the best pure sprinter in […]
German rider Matthias Kessler who riders for the T-Mobile squad has sported excellent form over the last several stages and finally got his stage win yesterday as he attacked up the famed Cauberg climb (which is also the finish for the Amstel Gold Race in the spring). The German powerhouse made a gutsy move with […]
Each year at the Tour de France Didi Senft (better known as the Tour de France Devil) cheers for all the cyclists of the Tour. Didi mentioned that he is neutral and cheers for them all the same, each day the Tour de France’s Devil gets an early start to the day to paint his […]
Yesterday’s stage three of the Tour de France saw additional riders dropping out of the Tour due to crashes. Spain’s golden boy Alejandro Valverde hit the deck hard as riders ahead of him swirved in order to avoid a large pot hole (this is what was mentioned on OLN anyway) causing him to crash out […]
Today’s stage three of the Tour de France will be the toughest the riders have faced so far in this years Tour, taking the riders through parts of Germany and finishing in the Netherlands the course pays tribute to two of cyclings biggest one day events held in the spring (Amstel Gold Race and Liege […]
Yesterday’s stage two of the Tour de France was a day for the sprinters (usually the case in the first week of racing) and Thor Hushovd, Tom Boonen and Robbie McEwen battled it out for the win. As the stage got underway Thor Hushovd was quick to take back the yellow jersey with a lesson […]
Last night while watching the extended coverage of the Tour de France I caught a story about SRM and how they have live data on several cyclists including Sebastian Lang, Michael Rogers, Jens Voight and Christian Vandevelde to name a few. The data is streamed to the web live so you can keep up with […]
Norway’s sprinting ace Thor “Thunder God” Hushovd got tangled up with a spectators big green hand embossed with the name of PMU (the French national office of betting) as he made a made dash to the line in stage one’s final sprint in hopes of retaining his yellow jersey.
It was really quite strange and weird to […]
Today’s stage one of the Tour de France will mark a special place for Discovery Channel rider George Hincapie and all of America as he joined an elite club of only four Americans (Lemond, Armstrong, Zabriskie and now Hincapie) to ever wear the coveted yellow jersey or “maillot jaune” as it is called in France.
Just […]
Anthony from the Bay Area of California writes in to share his love of the Tour de France with the world.
Hey, my name is Anthony, and I’m from the Bay Area, California. I’m a 22 year old college student who rides for UC Davis. I first got into the tour because I began working at […]
So that’s it folks…. I have posted twice about the doping scandal and I am sure I will post more as the tour continues. However it is time to focus on the Tour itself, the great riders and the wonderful event that is the Tour de France.
George Hicapie, like a rocket as he stormed his […]
This has been one hell of a tough week for pro cycling, Amanda and I (my wife of 5 years) have really been looking forward to watching this years edition of the Tour de France which was left wide open for a new champ after the retirement of Armstrong. I have programmed our tivo for […]
