News Keeping cool at the Tour: This is Bert Grabsch, with just a small ice pack on the back of his neck. Published Jul 11, 2009
News Keeping cool at the Tour: Columbia-HTC riders warm up for the team time trial. Published Jul 11, 2009
News Keeping cool at the Tour: You can see a plastic baggie of ice peeking out of the top shoulder. Published Jul 11, 2009
News Keeping cool at the Tour: Allen Lim had these custom-sewn with stretchy but tight material, and room for lots of ice. Published Jul 11, 2009
News Keeping cool at the Tour: Team Garmin Slipstream has custom ice vests to help them stay cool while warming up. Published Jul 11, 2009
News Keeping cool at the Tour: Four of these electric fans were positioned to blow on the Liquigas team. Published Jul 11, 2009
News Keeping cool at the Tour: The Liquigas team stays cool the old fashioned way, with electric fans. Published Jul 11, 2009
News Keeping cool at the Tour: Warming up for the team time trial, but keeping cool with ice water circulating through jerseys. Published Jul 11, 2009
News Keeping cool at the Tour: The white jerseys that they are wearing over the skinsuits are plumbed to circulate cold water. Published Jul 11, 2009
News Keeping cool at the Tour: Rabobank riders warm up for the team time trial, hooked up to pumps that circulate cold water. Published Jul 11, 2009
News 2009 TdF, stage 8: Nocentini got dropped briefly, but rejoined in time to maintain his overall lead. Published Jul 11, 2009
News Casey Gibson 2009 TdF, stage 7: Schleck, Wiggins, and Vande Velde in the leaders’ group. Published Jul 10, 2009
News Casey Gibson 2009 TdF, stage 7: While the media fights over Armstrong, Voigt and Voeckler relax with bite to eat. Published Jul 10, 2009
News Casey Gibson 2009 TdF, stage 7: Must be the day for new shoes. Sastre gets some new Lakes. Published Jul 10, 2009
News Casey Gibson 2009 TdF, stage 7: The riders’ refreshment stand at the start. Published Jul 10, 2009
News Casey Gibson 2009 TdF, stage 7: Uhhhh… uhhh… you’ll have to make your own caption for this one. Published Jul 10, 2009
News Casey Gibson 2009 TdF, stage 7: Fans will do anything to get a photo of their idols. Published Jul 10, 2009
News Casey Gibson 2009 TdF, stage 7: Contador has to dodge some crazies on the way up. Published Jul 10, 2009
News Casey Gibson 2009 TdF, stage 7: One of the many Contador fans decorates the road before the race. Published Jul 10, 2009
News Casey Gibson 2009 TdF, stage 7: Contador flies around a switchback at the 2 k mark on the climb to the finish. Published Jul 10, 2009
News Casey Gibson 2009 TdF, stage 7: The brain trust at Columbia shows off some nice new green shoes for Mark Cavendish. Published Jul 10, 2009
News Casey Gibson 2009 TdF, stage 7: Mr. Cavendish, new shoes in hand, heads to work. Published Jul 10, 2009
News Casey Gibson 2009 TdF, stage 7: Some stragglers pass through a sea of caravans. Published Jul 10, 2009
News Casey Gibson 2009 TdF, stage 7: These fans show off their haul from the publicity caravan. Published Jul 10, 2009
News Casey Gibson 2009 TdF, stage 7: Cancellara waves to the crowd, and good bye to the yellow jersey. Published Jul 10, 2009
News Casey Gibson 2009 TdF, stage 7: Cancellara does his best to hang on to the jersey. Published Jul 10, 2009
News Casey Gibson 2009 TdF, stage 7: The Aussies play a little rugby while waiting for the race. Published Jul 10, 2009
News 2009 TdF, stage 7: Zubeldia powers on the lower slopes of the day’s final climb. Published Jul 10, 2009
News 2009 TdF, stage 7: Andy Schleck chats with Nicholas Roche, son of the ’87 Tour winner. Published Jul 10, 2009
News 2009 TdF, stage 7: The lead group began to come apart on the final climb. Published Jul 10, 2009
News 2009 TdF, stage 7: Euskaltel’s Martinez is a former Armstrong lieutenant. Published Jul 10, 2009
News 2009 TdF, stage 7: Feillu and the other eight had more than 13 minutes on the field at one point. Published Jul 10, 2009
News 2009 TdF, stage 7: Contador narrowed the gap, but still missed taking over the jersey. Published Jul 10, 2009
News 2009 TdF, stage 7: Seemed like old times, as the Astana crew takes over at the front of the peloton for much of the day. Published Jul 10, 2009
News Who’da thunk it? No one would have predicted that Nocentini would take yellow when the Tour hit the mountains. Published Jul 10, 2009
News 2009 TdF, stage 7: The day’s 9-man break formed early … and all but one of them held off the peloton. Published Jul 10, 2009
News 2009 TdF, stage 7: Feillu got the stage win, Nocentini got the jersey, but Contador was the most impressive. Published Jul 10, 2009
News 2009 Breck Epic, day 5: The hike-a-bike was probably the most painful part of the whole race. Published Jul 9, 2009
News 2009 Breck Epic, day 5: At over 12,000 feet elevation, the racers had little to say to reporters during the hike-a-bike. Published Jul 9, 2009
News 2009 Breck Epic, day 5: The course brought riders up to tree-line, and then up some more. Published Jul 9, 2009