Thor Hushovd

Tuesday's biggest surprise was Thor Hushovd, whose tenacity and strength kept him in the yellow jersey by one second to Cadel Evans (BMC).

Cadel Evans (BMC) won Tuesday's stage 4 of the 2011 Tour de France, a 172.5-kilometer race from Lorient to Mûr-de-Bretagne with a tough uphill finish.

Norwegian continues to set records at the Tour de France

REDON, France, July 4, 2011 (AFP) - Tour de France organizers punished Mark Cavendish and Thor Hushovd for a mid-stage tussle by stripping the pair of the points they won at the intermediate sprint on the race's third stage Monday.

Garmin-Cervélo finally won its first stage in a Tour de France on Sunday, claiming victory in the stage-2 team time trial and putting world champion Thor Hushovd into the race leader's yellow jersey.

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.

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.

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.

PASO ROBLES, California (VN) — World champion Thor Hushovd (Garmin-Cervelo) and race aggressor Ben Jacques-Maynes (Bissell) were among the riders who left the Amgen Tour of California Thursday.

Thor Hushovd won stage 3 of the Amgen Tour of California in Modesto, California. That was in 2009.

PARIS (AFP) - Garmin-Cervelo's Thor Hushovd said he is ready to step up and do justice to the world champion's rainbow jersey when he bids for a maiden victory in the Paris-Roubaix one-day classic on Sunday.

MUSCAT, Oman (AFP) - Reigning world road race champion Thor Hushovd has admitted his days of pushing to the front in a bid to win every bunch sprint that is within his grasp are now practically over.

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Recently crowned world champion Thor Hushovd says he hopes to win Paris-Roubaix next year wearing the rainbow jersey.

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Thor Hushovd describes his successful quest for the rainbow jersey.

The 32-year-old classics specialist, outmanned by the bigger Euro teams, uses his experience to win the day.

Thor Hushovd claimed Norway's first-ever men's elite title at the world road championships in Australia on Sunday.

From Gilbert to Cavendish, a look at the favorites for the elite men's road race.

Roger Hammond is entering perhaps his final year of racing on a beefed up Garmin-Cervelo squad

Cervélo TestTeam is down to five riders in its final grand tour following the departure of both of the team’s sprinters.

UPDATED: Thor Hushovd won the sixth stage of the Vuelta a España, easily taking a sprint into Murcia on Thursday.

They’re rivals now, but next season, Tyler Farrar and Thor Hushovd will ride side-by-side on the new-look Garmin-Cervélo team.

Six more riders, including Heinrich Haussler, Roger Hammond and Brett Lancaster, will join Thor Hushovd on the new Garmin-Cervelo team for 2011.

Jonathan Vaughters says the Norwegian strong man will complement the team's current top sprinter, Tyler Farrar.

The Cervelo TestTeam exodus begins as Xavier Tondo signs with the Spanish squad now known as Caisse d'Epargne. Thor Hushovd says he's talking to several teams.

Cervélo TestTeam will not ride into the 2011 season, but team officials confirmed that Cervélo will become the new bike sponsor for Garmin-Transitions. The women’s team will continue next season

The polka-dot jersey was decided Friday and the yellow jersey on Saturday, but the green jersey should come down to the final sprint into Paris.

The Cervélo rider has a four-point lead, but thinks the battle will go all the way to Paris.

Angry with himself after botching the stage-11 sprint, the Norwegian infiltrates a break and grabs enough points to regain the green jersey.

Chasing points or stage wins, the sprinter teams are gearing up for battle in Thursday's stage 11

Edvald Boasson Hagen is surging into the game after two third-place finishes.

Thor Hushovd couldn't out-kick Alessandro Petacchi on Wednesday, but he added 17 points to his lead in the green-jersey contest.

Tour de France sprint legend Erik Zabel fears Mark Cavendish may have already lost the green jersey for good to Thor Hushovd.

The God of Thunder gets a chest-pounding stage win. GC advantage to Evans and Andy Schleck.

Graham Watson's photos from Tuesday's cobbles as the 2010 Tour enters France for the first time.

Thor Hushovd was in position to take points and possible stage win.

Thor optimistic for Tour green

Many national jerseys changed hands Sunday as many European countries held their championship road and time trial events.

Although they’ve been racked by bad luck and injuries, all three of Cervélo TestTeam’s top stars — Carlos Sastre, Thor Hushovd and Heinrich Haussler — will line up for the 2010 Tour de France.

Cervélo TestTeam's Thor Hushovd will return to racing Saturday, at the Tour de Suisse, his team announced Monday.

Cervélo TestTeam was one of the revelations of last year’s Tour de France, but the team is patiently waiting word whether top stars Carlos Sastre and Thor Hushovd will be lining up July 3 in Rotterdam.

Thor Hushovd — the defending Tour de France green jersey champion who broke his collarbone during a training ride in Italy on Sunday — underwent a successful operation Monday.

Cervélo TestTeam's Thor Hushovd fractured his collarbone out on a training ride in Italy on Sunday after colliding with a child.

Cervélo's Thor Hushovd finishes second and Brit Roger Hammond beats out two-time winner Tom Boonen for fourth — a good Paris-Roubaix, the team says.

There’s no question Thor Hushovd would like to be in with a chance to win Paris-Roubaix on Sunday. By all accounts his Cervélo TestTeam has done everything possible to make his ride as successful as it can be, starting with his bike.

Dominique Rollin enjoyed his first taste of the cobbled classics and is eager for more.

Cervélo TestTeam promises more of the same as it prepares for the 2010 season.