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- Glory in sight as Danish cyclist Rasmussen extends lead
- GOURETTE, France AFP — Denmark's Michael Rasmussen took a significant step towards winning the Tour de France's yellow jersey here Wednesday by dominating Spanish rival Alberto Contador on the 16th stage. Contador, who beat the Rabobank climber on their 15th stage duel to the Plateau de Beille on Monday,...
- Research articles 2007-07-25
- Rasmussen at the double as Vino suffers on Tour de France
- TIGNES, France AFP — Denmark's Michael Rasmussen strode towards a third consecutive King of the Mountains title after claiming victory on the Tour de France's eighth stage to pull on the leader's yellow jersey. The Rabobank rider finished the 165km run from Le Grand-Bornand to the first summit finish...
- Research articles 2007-07-15
- Landis like Lazarus, and back in yellow jersey mix
- MORZINE, France AFP — American Floyd Landis of Phonak has relaunched his bid for the Tour de France yellow jersey in spectacular style when he won the 17th stage after a daring raid of 130km. On the third and final day of racing in the Alps Landis has now...
- Research articles 2006-07-20
- Schleck beats demons to tame the Alps
- ALPE D'HUEZ, France AFP — Three years ago Frank Schleck was close to becoming a cycling destitute when he couldn't find a professional team. On Tuesday, the first of three days of climbing in the Alps, the Luxemburger put his potential on display by claiming victory on one of...
- Research articles 2006-07-18
- Armstrong watches as Landis rides back in yellow
- ALPE D'HUEZ, France AFP — American Floyd Landis picked the best day on the Tour de France to show the now retired Lance Armstrong he was wrong to let him leave his old team. CSC rider Frank Schleck of Luxembourg won the coveted 15th stage held over 187km between...
- Research articles 2006-07-18
- Evans can finish on podium says Rogers
- GAP, France AFP — T-Mobile's Michael Rogers said it's only a matter of time before an Australian wins the Tour de France. But ahead of three tough days of climbing in the Alps, the 26-year-old from Canberra admitted that countryman Cadel Evans could beat him to it. Rogers...
- Research articles 2006-07-17
- Lombardi abandons Tour
- PLA DE BERET, Spain AFP — Italian Giovanni Lombardi has pulled out of the Tour de France during the 11th stage. Lombardi, who rides for the Danish CSC team, began suffering early on the second of two days in the Pyrenees mountains. The Italian veteran was left trailing...
- Research articles 2006-07-13
- Landis hangs on to Paris-Nice lead
- DIGNE-LES-BAINS, France AFP — American Floyd Landis took a tentative step towards winning his first Paris-Nice race Friday after surviving the tricky fifth stage won by Spanish climber Joaquim Rodriguez. Rodriguez, who thus picks up his second career victory in the race, attacked on the final climb of the...
- Research articles 2006-03-10
- Armstrong defends yellow as Pereiro wins Tour's 16th stage
- PAU, France AFP — Spaniard Oscar Pereiro of the Phonak team won the 16th stage of the Tour de France here held over 180.5km between Mourenx and Pau. American Lance Armstrong retained the yellow jersey after the final day of climbing in the high mountains despite coming under a...
- Research articles 2005-07-19
- Vintage Vino savours Tour revenge with stunning Alpine win
- BRIANCON, France AFP — Alexandre Vinokourov of the T-Mobile team made amends for his collapse on the Tour de France's first day in the Alps by winning the even tougher 11th stage with panache. Kazakhstan champion Vinokourov, who tumbled down the race's general classification after Tuesday's first day in...
- Research articles 2005-07-13
- Armstrong controls Vino attack as Weening wins
- GERARDMER, France AFP — Lance Armstrong calmly soaked up the first challenge to his yellow jersey on this year's Tour de France after an exciting eighth stage won by enterprising Dutchman Pieter Weening of the Rabobank team. Weening, who has come close to claiming a first big win all...
- Research articles 2005-07-09
- Armstrong ready for Alpine challenge
- GRENOBLE, France AFP — Six-time winner Lance Armstrong, who lost the Tour de France yellow jersey on Sunday, has called on his team to prepare for three tough days in the Alps. The riders have a rest day on Monday before the Tour's first big climbs begin in Tuesday's...
- Research articles 2005-07-11
- Drama in store as Tour set to tackle first climbs
- KARLSRUHE, Germany AFP — Lance Armstrong and his Discovery Channel team will be keeping a close eye on their main rivals for the Tour de France yellow jersey when the race heads over some potentially tricky terrain this weekend. The race's eighth stage over 231.5 km - the longest...
- Research articles 2005-07-08
- Lastras wins eighth stage, Rogers holds race lead
- VERBIER, Switzerland AFP — Spanish rider Pablo Lastras won the eighth stage of the Tour of Swizerland, with Australian Michael Rogers holding the overall race lead going into the final day's racing. Under the blazing sun 25-year-old Lastras broke away in the final climb to the ski station of...
- Research articles 2005-06-18
- Ullrich slips as Rogers takes Tour of Switzerland lead
- AROSA, Switzerland AFP — Germany's Jan Ullrich lost the race lead at the Tour of Switzerland as US veteran Chris Horner surprised the climbers in the peloton to win the sixth stage held over 158.8km. Australia's Michael Rogers, the Quick Step team's two-time reigning world time trial champion, took...
- Research articles 2005-06-16
- Spain's Landaluze wins Dauphine Libere
- SALLANCHES, France AFP — Spaniard Inigo Landaluze of the Euskaltel team won the Dauphine Libere stage race after the seventh and final stage won here by George Hincapie of the Discovery Channel team. Overnight race leader Landaluze held a 49-second lead on Colombia's Santiago Botero before the start of...
- Research articles 2005-06-12
- Armstrong has work to do but is ready for Ullrich
- SALLANCHES, France AFP — Lance Armstrong's bid for a seventh consecutive yellow jersey appears on schedule - although the Tour de France's most successful rider admits there's work to do ahead of what will be his final race on July 2-24. Armstrong finished fourth overall in the Dauphine Libere...
- Research articles 2005-06-12
- Technical slip-up for Armstrong as Hincapie wins
- AIX-LES-BAINS, France AFP — An apparently on-form Lance Armstrong finished just off the podium of the opening prologue of the Dauphine Libere stage race won by his Discovery Channel teammate George Hincapie. New Yorker Hincapie stunned the specialists with a winning time of 9min 55sec for the 7.9km time...
- Research articles 2005-06-05
- Gil claims Giro's seventh stage, Di Luca back in pink
- PISTOIA, Italy AFP — Spaniard Koldo Gil won the seventh stage of the Tour of Italy here after a courageous breakaway which ultimately left Pro Tour series leader Danilo Di Luca back in the pink jersey. Gil, of the Liberty team, came over the finish line of the 211km...
- Research articles 2005-05-14
- Di Luca outfoxes the orange train to win Amstel Gold
- VALKENBURG, The Netherlands AFP — Italy's Danilo Di Luca of the Liquigas team held off the orange-clad riders of Rabobank to win the Amstel Gold Race, the only Dutch one-day classic in the 27-leg Pro Tour series. Fresh from victory at the Tour of the Basque country last week,...
- Research articles 2005-04-17
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