Andrew Hood’s Tour Notebook: Sky, BMC leave others fighting for scraps
Andrew Hood supplies a daily notebook from the 2012 Tour de France
Andrew Hood supplies a daily notebook from the 2012 Tour de France
Freshly minted race leader Bradley Wiggins on being in yellow
Richie Porte and Michael Rogers break down stage 7, which put team leader Bradley Wiggins in yellow
Sky's strategy is a simple one, says director Sean Yates: Keep turning the screw
Andrew Hood and Matthew Beaudin look back at stage 7 of the 2012 Tour de France
Casey B. Gibson's view of the action during stage 7 of the Tour de France
Dutch rider wins five of nine stages en route to defending Giro Donne title
Sky planned a careful campaign to put Bradley Wiggins in yellow
Chris Froome showed amazing strength on Saturday, but says it's all at Bradley Wiggins' disposal
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Graham Watson captures the drama on stage 7 as the Tour heads for the mountains
1. Emma JOHANSSON, Hitec Products - Mistral Home Cycling Team, in 2:44:38 2. Marianne VOS, Stichting Rabo Women Cycling Team, at 0 3. Emma POOLEY, Aa Drink - Leontien.nl Cycling Team, at :2 4. Alena AMIALIUSIK, Be Pink, at 3:37 5. Rossella RATTO, Verinlegno - Fabiani, at 3:37
Team Sky floors the pedal on the race's first mountaintop finish to take control of the Tour
1. Christopher FROOME, Sky, in 4:58:35 2. Cadel EVANS, BMC Racing, at :2 3. Bradley WIGGINS, Sky, at :2 4. Vincenzo NIBALI, Liquigas-Cannondale, at :7 5. Rein TAARAMAE, Cofidis, at :19
Canadian Giro champ unhappy about abandoning, but knows it's the right thing to do
The weight of the race is on Sky and BMC as the Tour heads for the hills
A reduced peloton began riding into the mountains during stage 7 of the 2012 Tour de France
Garmin boss disputes head injury claims for Van Summeren, Danielson, and laments the loss of the Giro champ
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Sean Kelly blames more risk taking for increased crashes, plus a look at the long injured list
With the first mountain finish and a seven-climb stage on-tap for the weekend, it might be Monday before we see the Tour’s first real test
1. Marianne VOS, Stichting Rabo Women Cycling Team, in 2:45:43 2. Judith ARNDT, Greenedge - Ais, at 0 3. Evelyn STEVENS, Team Specialized - Lululemon, at 0 4. Shelley OLDS, Aa Drink - Leontien.nl Cycling Team, at :40 5. Chloe HOSKING, Team Specialized - Lululemon, at :40
Hesjedal, Gesink, Valverde, Schleck among major losers, while 16 combined riders from Garmin and Movistar go down
Much has been made of what five former teammates' testimony means to the USADA case against Armstrong, but what will it mean for them?
Beset by disasters the once-mighty RadioShack-Nissan squad turns its hopes to Andreas Klöden
Winning stages is great, says Peter Sagan, but the goal is the general classification for Vincenzo Nibali
Race leader Marianna Vos has won five of eight Giro Donne stages so far, the same number she won in last year’s edition.
GC race heats up Saturday at the 2012 Tour de France after crashes wreak havoc on the overall standings in stage 6
It was a black Friday indeed for Garmin-Sharp, which saw its entire squad bar one on the deck in a horrific pileup
Double stage winner finishes second in Metz after nearly dropping out of the finale with shoulder pain
Trek team shows off their new Bontrager tire and while teammates Gwin and Leov took top 10 finishes, Neko Mulally took a hit to the head
As in 2011, Luke Keough will be racing the Iron Hill Twilight Criterium despite injury
Tejay van Garderen says it's incredible to be in the white jersey at the Tour de France but getting Cadel Evans in yellow is more important
Veelers calls for calm after Farrar tried to confront him at the Argos bus on Thursday
Dan Lloyd previews stage 7 of the Tour de France, the race's first day in the mountains, with a summit finish at a Planche des Belles Filles
1. Peter SAGAN, Liquigas-Cannondale, in 4:37:00 2. André GREIPEL, Lotto-Belisol, at 0 3. Matthew Harley GOSS, Orica-GreenEdge, at 0 4. Kenny Robert VAN HUMMEL, Vacansoleil-DCM, at 0 5. Juan José HAEDO, Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank, at 0
Points leader scores a treble in Metz with a bunch finish win
Eisel, still on the mend, looks ahead to seeing which GC riders have the legs this weekend
Defending Tour champ is considering racing in the U.S. in August, but visa issue for son worries BMC leader
A run of crashes have a banged up Tour peloton aiming for the mountains this weekend
Blood-doping expert Michael Ashenden details how USADA could build a case against Lance Armstrong
Tech editor Nick Legan answers reader questions on antiquated repair stands and running a TT water bottle
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A Tour rookie, Kiwi veteran ecstatic after pulling Greipel to two stage wins; Sky working at the front for Wiggins
1. Marianne VOS, Stichting Rabo Women Cycling Team, in 3:17:44 2. Emma JOHANSSON, Hitec Products - Mistral Home Cycling Team, at 0 3. Fabiana LUPERINI, Faren Honda Team, at 0 4. Evelyn STEVENS, Team Specialized - Lululemon, at 0 5. Judith ARNDT, Greenedge - Ais, at 0
As iconic Fort Collins rides burned, the local mountain bikers joined forces to give back to the public servants
VeloNews reporters take a look at the stories of stage 5 of the 2012 Tour de France from Farrar to Greipel to Armstrong
Thousands of racers and even more cartons of chocolate milk highlight the Tour of America's Dairyland in Wisconsin
Tour brass, UCI haven't acted on new Armstrong report and plan to leave the four Americans named as Armstrong witnesses in the Tour
After winning two sprints in a row, André Greipel still thinks the green jersey is out of his reach
After a tough stretch the Shack is back, says yellow jersey Fabian Cancellara
An irate Tyler Farrar goes hunting for Argos-Shimano sprinter Tom Veelers after stage 5
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Stage 5: Bernie Eisel says that the thing he most regrets about his crash in stage 4 is that he can't laugh with the team because it hurts
1. André GREIPEL, Lotto-Belisol, in 4:41:30 2. Matthew Harley GOSS, Orica-GreenEdge, at 0 3. Juan José HAEDO, Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank, at 0 4. Samuel DUMOULIN, Cofidis, at 0 5. Mark CAVENDISH, Sky, at 0
German wins second stage in as many days in France after late crash delays the peloton
U.S. Anti-Doping Agency chief says no Armstrong-related cases have been finalized and that information on witnesses can harm them
Jonathan Vaughters and the Slipstream squad deny report of sanctions, point to policy of openness in Armstrong investigation
Peter Sagan is the next Peter Sagan. But who is that?
German sprint ace abandons Tour after five days with stomach, knee ailments
We go inside the stage 4 of the 2012 Tour de France after a mostly calm day that ended with a massive crash in the run-in to the sprint
A belgian Pro-Continental rider dies after appearing on Belgian television during the Tour's fourth stage
According to a story in De Telegraaf, Hincapie, Leipheimer, Vande Velde, Zabriskie and Vaughters testified. Ochowicz and Vaughters deny talk of suspensions
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A new, weeklong Canadian UCI stage race, the Tour of Alberta, is set to debut in 2013
Liquigas-Cannondale team boss Roberto Amadio defends his decision to bring Vincenzo Nibali to this year’s Tour de France
Independence Day isn't a holiday for Chris Horner and Dave Zabriskie — they're on the job at the Tour
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