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Where does it come from, this legendary fear of Mont Ventoux? It’s a mountainthat has been climbed only 12 times in the Tour — two time trials, fourfinishes at the summit and six times mid-stage — yet it is more dreadedthan, say, the Tourmalet, which has featured in the Tour 67 times.While L’Alpe d’Huez, a cycling crucible, provides a spectacle, the Ventouxdelivers tragedy. It brought the great Eddy Merckx to his knees for thefirst time in his exceptional career in 1970 when he was forced to takeoxygen after winning a stage at the summit. In 1955, it forced Rick VanGenechten and others to

When you watch him slicing his way through the field on another solo attackto a mountaintop finish, it’s easy to forget that there’s much more toLance Armstrong’s stunning Tour victories than a lone rider battling arugged climb. Granted, if he didn’t have his genes or genius, he wouldn’thave the potential to pull off those remarkable feats. But behind the manis a whole team of consultants, colleagues and friends who help Armstrongexcel in every sphere of matters Tour de France. In some ways, he has put together a high-profile company that has asingle mission: to win the Tour de France. That

Flying Start 1:02 p.m. on D335, Bagnoles-de-l'Orne exit

Flying Start: 12:20 p.m. on D.30, intersection of D.30 - La Motte

First Starter at: 10:30 a.m. then 2-minute intervals.

Flying Start: 2:05 p.m. on D.932

Flying Start: 12:18 p.m. - Mazerès-Lezons, D. 37, av. du Général-de-Gaulle

Flying Start: 10:56 a.m. on D.939, Lannemezan exit

Flying Start: 11:21 a.m. on N.9, entry to Soumont.

Flying Start: 1:15 p.m., Les Chaubets exit.

Flying Start: 10:25 a.m. on D.938 (Gabriellini)

Flying Start: 11:45 a.m. on N.91

Flying Start: 1:02 p.m. on N.90

Flying Start 12:27 p.m. on D.19 exit to Cluses

First rider: 10:45 a.m., then 2-minute intervals for the first until the final 20 riders, who start at 3-minute intervals.

Flying Start: 1:30 p.m. on D.35

Steve Peat (Troy Lee-Orange) and Anne Caroline Chausson (Volvo-Cannondale) won the third round of the downhill World Cup at Mont Ste Anne, Quebec in decisive fashion on Saturday. In the overall standings, Chausson has taken the leader’s jersey from Sabrina Jonnier, while Chris Kovarik’s lead over Peat has shrunk to 23 points. After some truly exciting racing, third seeded Steve Peat was the victor in the men’s race with an outstanding time of 5:09.67, almost 4 seconds faster than Cedric Gracia (Volvo-Cannondale). He was extremely happy with his win. As Gracia approached the finish and it

The blueprint of Lance Armstrong’s preparation for the Tour de France hasn’tchanged much for the last four years. The day-to-day training scheduleand the racing calendar get slightly modified to accommodate course changesand the demands on Lance’s time. But for the last three years, his preparatorywork has been on-target and Lance has arrived at the Tour in peak condition.All indications are that his preparation work will again deliver him tothe 2002 prologue on top form. The absence of Jan Ullrich caused a bit of shift in the way we are thinkingabout the Tour this year. Ullrich is an

On Saturday, Chris Horner and his Prime Alliance team took the race over at the Fitchburg-Longsjo Classic, while in the women’s race, Lyne Bessette (Quebec Selection Team) put in a dominant solo performance to all but lock up her fourth straight Fitchburg title. Bessette entered the 69-mile road race with a 12-second lead over Saturn’s Kim Bruckner. By the end, her advantage would be counted in minutes, not seconds. Bessette got to work on the second of six laps on the 11-mile main circuit, on wooded, up-and-down roads around Princeton, Massachusetts and the Wachusett Mountain ski area. On

Anne-Caroline Chausson took her second World Cup victory of the day,and Eric Carter was the surprise men's winner at the Mont Sainte-Anne WorldCup four-Cross, held Saturday evening.  Chausson and Brian Lopes bothextended their leads in the overall standings.From the start, the course drops from the ramp into a large left handberm. The strategy for the majority of the winners was to be the firstinto this turn. It also meant several crashes as riders jockeyed to bethat first person. From here there was the first of several double jumps,more berms and then a huge double jump where the better

Luxembourg - Luxembourg

Luxembourg - Luxembourg

Luxembourg - Saarbrücken

Luxembourg - Saarbrücken

Metz - Reims

Metz - Reims

Soissons - Rouen

Soissons - Rouen

Forges-les-Eaux - Alençon

Forges-les-Eaux - Alençon

Weisel (left) is an old friend and supporter.

There are a lot of folks involved in getting Armstrong set up right on this bike.

Bagnoles-de-l'Orne - Avranches

Bagnoles-de-l'Orne - Avranches

St. Martin-de-Landelles - Plouay

St. Martin-de-Landelles - Plouay

St. Martin-de-Landelles - Plouay

St. Martin-de-Landelles - Plouay

Lanester - Lorient (TT)

Lanester - Lorient (TT)

Bazas - Pau

Bazas - Pau

Pau - La Mongie

Pau - La Mongie

Lannemezan - Plateau de Beille

Lannemezan - Plateau de Beille

Lodève - Mont Ventoux

Lodève - Mont Ventoux

Lavelanet - Béziers

Lavelanet - Béziers

Vaison-la-Romaine - Les Deux-Alpes

Vaison-la-Romaine - Les Deux-Alpes

Les Deux-Alpes - La Plagne

Les Deux-Alpes - La Plagne

Aime - Cluses

Aime - Cluses

Cluses - Bourg-en-Bresse

Cluses - Bourg-en-Bresse

Régnié-Durette - Mâcon (TT)

Régnié-Durette - Mâcon (TT)

Melun - Paris Champs-Elysées

Melun - Paris Champs-Elysées

Chausson

Peat

Kovarik

Aiming for another yellow jersey in Paris.

Horner

Navigators patrolled most of the race

Épernay - Château-Thierry (TTT)

Épernay - Château-Thierry (TTT)

Chris Carmichael has been synonymous with Lance Armstrong’s success at the Tour de France. Carmichael’s been Armstrong’s trainer and coach since the early 1990s, helping guide him to three consecutive Tour de France victories. A former 7-Eleven pro and U.S. national cycling team head coach, Carmichael works closely with Armstrong and another dozen or so top athletes in cycling, triathlon, athletics and more recently in such mainstream sports such as NHL hockey. VeloNews’s Andrew Hood caught up with Carmichael for an interview a week before the start of the 2002 Tour de France. Here are

Reigning world downhill champion Nicolas Vouilloz will be forced to skip the upcoming World Cup events in Mont Ste Anne, Quebec, and Telluride, Colorado after undergoing surgery for hand injuries sustained earlier this month. Vouilloz injured himself during a practice run in Maribor, Slovenia, during the World Cup event in that former Yugoslav republic on the weekend of June 8. Vouilloz Racing team manager Stéphane Gerard confirmed that the 26-year-old French downhiller had undergone surgery for torn ligaments and tendons on the small finger on his hand last week. “This happened during a

“How about something positive to say — about anything? You wear me down.” — a critical e-mail from VeloNews.com reader Cary Smith I love a good, long road ride, especially one of those midweek flights of fancy that gobbles up the better part of a perfectly good workday while the proletariat slouches in its cubicles, staring forlornly into space, like trailer-park mutts on short chains. When I lived in Colorado Springs, and had teammates who were either entrepreneurs or slackers and thus could set their own schedules, I could count on two or three of these rides a week, generally on

On day two of the Fitchburg-Longsjo classic, three-time defending champion Lyne Bessette (Quebec Selection Team) moved a little closer to her fourth consecutive win, beating out Kimberly Bruckner (Saturn) in a head-to-head battle in the 40-mile women’s circuit race. In the men’s race, Prime Alliance’s Chris Horner edged out former teammate Mike Sayers (Mercury) for the stage win while Navigators Chris Baldwin grabbed the orange race leader’s jersey. After Thursday’s time trial, Bessette led Bruckner by one second in the general classification, so she was content to keep an eye on Bruckner

'Mr. Baughman, execute The Marksheffel Plan.'

Baldwin