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Dan Wuori is one of the funniest Twitter bards in the cycling world (follow him at @dwuori. This month, he will be expanding a bit beyond 140 characters to share periodic journals during the Tour de France. Today's is the second.
Philippe Gilbert (Omega Pharma-Lotto) won a crash-filled kickoff to the 2011 Tour de France on Saturday, while defending champion Alberto Contador (Saxo Bank-Sungard) found himself nearly a minute and a half in the hole after getting caught behind a massive pileup with 8km to race.
Davis Phinney is perhaps America's winningest road racer ever.
Quick Step's Tom Boonen says he'll treat the Tour stages like one-day races.
Dan Wuori is one of the funniest Twitter bards in the cycling world (follow him at @dwuori. This month, he will be expanding a bit beyond 140 characters to share periodic journals during the Tour de France. Today's is the first.
From winning stages at Tirreno-Adriatico and the Ster ZLM Tour to burying his best friend following a fatal accident at the Giro d’Italia, it would be a terrible understatement to call the first half of 2011 a rollercoaster for Garmin-Cervélo’s Tyler Farrar.
LES HERBIERS, France (VN) — Two sprinters in one team might mean trouble, but Garmin-Cervélo promises that there will be no discord between world champion Thor Hushovd and Tyler Farrar when it comes to mass gallops over the next three weeks.
World champion Thor Hushovd, in his rainbow stripes, may have stolen the show at Thursday’s Tour de France team presentation by donning a wig and brandishing a hammer as the Norse god of thunder; but also sharing the spotlight were the riders in distinctively colored national championship jerseys who won their respective title races last weekend.
LES HERBIERS, France — Jonathan Vaughters couldn't hold back his smile Thursday as he discussed the Garmin-Cervélo lineup for the 2011 Tour de France.
Tour of Utah organizers on Tuesday will announce a new look route for the sixth edition of the race they deem “America’s toughest,” and that slogan has never been more appropriate.
Last year’s Tour de France was headlined by a mountaintop finish on the Col du the Tourmalet (won by Luxembourg’s Andy Schleck over Spain’s Alberto Contador) to mark the centennial of the Tour’s first crossing of the Pyrénées. This year’s race, starting on Saturday, celebrates 100 years of racing through the High Alps, culminating with a stage to the top of the Col du Galibier — which, at 8,678 feet (2,645 meters) elevation, will be the highest stage finish in Tour history.
“I won two races, one on the road and another in the hotel,” Contador said.
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Robin Farina (NOW-Novartis) beat Andrea Dvorak (Colavita-Forno d'Asolo) by a wheel to win the USA Cycling elite women's road race on Sunday at Fort Gordon, Georgia.
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This year’s Tour field boasts a deep wealth of Yankee talent, including a top sprinter, a quartet of potential top-5 finishers, one of the sport’s most promising young riders, and a star-crossed veteran who will be starting his record-tying 16th Grand Boucle.
Tom Boonen (Quick-Step) says returning to the winner's circle will be his top priority when he lines up for his first Tour de France following a few tumultuous seasons marked by injury and controversy.
Ryder Hesjedal will start his fourth career Tour de France under very different circumstances than the previous three editions following his break-out seventh place in 2010.
The first week of this year's Tour features something for everyone
I’d say the main difference between Quebec and France is that when you’re driving along the Riviera, you don’t have to watch out for moose. That said, I didn’t get to see any moose this week. I was pretty sure I saw a bear win stage 6, but it turned out to be Svein Tuft.
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John Eustice was looking for a track racing spectacle in Harlem when he changed the format of the 38th Harlem Skyscraper Classic. He got it Sunday when German Leif Lapater (Transporation Alternatives-Rockstar) topped U.S. Olympian Bobby Lea (Pure Energy) and Anibal Borrajo (Jamis-Sutter Home) in the two event omnium at Marcus Garvey Park in New York City.
Levi Leipheimer didn't start the 2011 Tour de Suisse expecting to win what many call Europe's "fourth grand tour."
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Rory Sutherland stamped his name on Chilkoot Hill for the second year in a row, winning the final stage of the Nature Valley Grand Prix Sunday. Yellow jersey Jesse Anthony (Kelly Benefit Strategies-OptumHealth) closed on a solo Sutherland (UnitedHealthcare) on the 20-percent finish climb to roll in for second and secure the final overall classification.
Philippe Gilbert wins the Ster ZLM Toer as Leigh Howard takes the finale.
World road champion Giorgia Bronzini won her third stage at the Nature Valley Grand Prix Sunday, coming around Evelyn Stevens at the top of Chilkoot Hill for top prize in the Stillwater Criterium.
American Levi Leipheimer snatched overall victory from Damiano Cunego in the Tour of Switzerland Sunday to leave the Italian in second place by only four seconds.
Leah Kirchmann and Amber Neben led the women’s peloton on moving day at the Nature Valley Grand Prix.
Bernard Van Ulden broke the UnitedHealthcare lock on the Nature Valley Grand Prix Saturday when he won the Menomonie Road Race from a long breakaway.
HTC-Highroad's Judith Arndt has followed teammate Ina-Yoko Teutenberg's win in the opening stage of the Giro di Trentino in Italy with her own victory 24 hours later.
Robert Förster won his second stage in a row at the Nature Valley Grand Prix Friday night, padding to his overall lead in the six-stage race. Förster (UnitedHealthcare) came out of the final corner on the front of the race and kicked along the left barriers for the win in the Uptown Minneapolis Criterium.
Race officials neutralized and canceled the fourth stage of the women’s Nature Valley Grand Prix on the final lap after a large crash at the start/finish line took down a number of riders. Overall leader Kristin Armstrong (Peanut Butter & Co.-Twenty12) and defending champion Shelley Olds (Diadora-Pasta Zara) were among the crashed riders heading into the bell lap in the Uptown Minneapolis Criterium.
SERFAUS, Austria (AFP) - HTC-Highroad is looking for Mark Cavendish to step up and contend the final sprint stage of the Tour of Switzerland after two no-shows in the race so far.
A day after UnitedHealthcare ran away with the first two stages, Robert Förster left no doubt when he won the Cannon Falls Road Race at the Nature Valley Grand Prix Thursday night.
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The young American Tejay Van Garderen will get his first taste of the Tour de France next month. The HTC-Highroad rider will be at the Grand Départ on the Vendée July 2, sources tell VeloNews.
World road champion Giorgia Bronzini rode her Colavita-Forno D'Asolo train to the stage 2 win at the Nature Valley Grand Prix Wednesday night. After her team wrestled control from the Tibco-To the Top squad in the final lap, Bronzini came out of the final corner in second wheel behind teammate Teresa Cliff-Ryan. She couldn't be matched when she kicked in downtown Saint Paul and Bronzini rode away with the second stage of the five-day, six-stage race.
Martijn Verschoor turned the tide of Team Type 1 podium places Wednesday with the stage 2 win at the Tour de Beauce at Thetford Mines, Québec. Verschoor hung tight in an aggressive, three-lap finale on the short finish circuit and took the team’s first single-day win of 2011 out of a bunch sprint.
TOBEL-TAGERSCHEN, Switzerland (AFP) — Slovenian Borut Bozic, of the Vacansoleil team, won the fifth stage of the Tour de Suisse, a 204.2 km ride between Huttwil and Tobel-Tagerschen on Wednesday.
Rory Sutherland will open the defense of his three straight Nature Valley Grand Prix wins Wednesday morning in the Saint Paul Time Trial. If Sutherland (UnitedHealthcare Children’s Foundation) is to continue his lock on the National Racing Calendar stage race, he’ll have to contend with a number of strong rivals – and some of the most dynamic criteriums and road stages of the year – near Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota.
HUTTWIL, Switzerland (AFP) - Norwegian Thor Hushovd admitted his focus will now be firmly on the Tour de France after ending his long wait to claim a first victory in the world champion's rainbow jersey.
HUTTWIL, Switzerland (AFP) - Norway's world champion Thor Hushovd claimed his first victory of the season when the Garmin-Cervelo rider won the fourth stage of the Tour of Switzerland on Tuesday, a 198.4km ride from Grindelwald.
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John Eustice is ready to experiment on cycling in the United States. The former 16-year pro, promoter of the 38-year-old Skyscraper Harlem Classic and Univest Grand Prix and USPRO board member will introduce high speed urban track racing to New York City this Sunday and hopes the model will expand across the country.
Cycling doesn’t need to become an extreme sport to be intriguing, exciting and dramatic enough to captivate a television audience. A few simple changes could make them even more intriguing while minimizing the risk to the riders’ health and, indeed, their lives.
GRINDELWALD, Switzerland (AFP) - Garmin-Cervelo is rallying behind teammate Thor Hushovd as the Norwegian seeks to honro his status as world champion by ending his victory famine at the Tour of Switzerland Tuesday.
GRINDELWALD, Switzerland (AFP) - Australian Allan Davis's hopes for a place on Astana's Tour de France squad suffered a setback when he pulled out of the Tour of Switzerland prior to the race's third stage Monday.
Hilton Clarke laps the field and takes sprint to win the Clarendon Cup.
Joelle Numainville wins the Clarendon Cup at the U.S. Air Force Cycling Classic in Arlington, Virginia.
Tiffany Pezzulo timed a long sprint perfectly to win the Blue Dome Criterium on the first night of the Tulsa Tough on Friday. Pezzulo (Primal-Mapmyride.com) came around Christina Smith (Now MS) in the final meters to top a four-up group sprint and take command of the three-day National Racing Calendar omnium.
It’s a double weekend for the National Racing Calendar with the U.S. Air Force Classic and Tulsa Tough and the top American sprinter in Philadelphia last weekend is headed west. Ken Hanson and Jelly Belly-Kenda appear to be coming around after a rough May; they’ll be hunting prize money and NRC points in Oklahoma starting Friday night and you can watch it live at VeloNews.com/live.
Andy Schleck's final preparations for what he hopes will be a more rewarding Tour de France campaign in July begin in earnest at the nine-day Tour of Switzerland starting Saturday.
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LYON (AFP) - German sprinter John Degenkolb of HTC-Highroad grabbed a prestigious win after a hectic finish to the Criterium du Dauphine second stage in Lyon Tuesday.
July 9 Stage 8: Aigurande to Super-Besse, 189km (117.5 miles)
SAINT PIERRE DE CHARTREUSE, France (AFP) - Veteran Kazkah rider Alexander Vinokourov (Astana) took the overall leader's jersey in the Criterium du Dauphine race here on Monday after Belgian Jurgen Van den Broeck (Omega Pharma-Lotto) won the first stage, a 144km ride from Albertville.
Alex Rasmussen and world champion Giorgia Bronzini win the 2011 Philadelphia championships.
The old American classic in Philadelphia is back this weekend for the 27th year (18th for women). The young and incredibly versatile Peter Sagan will take on his second Philadelphia International Cycling Championship as favorite, while Ina Yoko Teutenberg will chase the record books in the women’s Liberty Classic.
PHILADELPHIA (VN) —It may not be the national championship anymore, but Sunday’s TD Bank Philadelphia International Championship is still America’s biggest — and most prestigious — single-day race. And at 27 years old this year, it is now older than many of the men favored to add its title to their palmares. With a field lacking past winners and a number of young riders showing promising results in recent weeks, Philadelphia could be ripe for a youth movement in the men’s race.