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29/10/2014 15:50
The 2011 Tour de France has just rolled into Pinerolo, Italy, with the Norweigian Edvald Boasson Hagen taking his second stage win of that year's Tour de France. Thomas Voeckler of Team Europcar is still clinging on as race leader, although the Galibier awaits him the next day.
Andy Schleck lies...
20/10/2014 17:58
It's been a tough couple of months for Astana since the conclusion of the Tour de France in July. Instead of all the attention being on their Tour champion Vincenzo Nibali, the attention is on their damaging triple-positive drug test results. First Valentin Iglinskiy, then his brother Maxim, and...
31/03/2014 16:33
January 2010
The professional cycling fraternity are in Adelaide, Australia, for the 2010 Tour Down Under. In attendance are a new team, Sky Pro Cycling, a British-based squad that have already stated their principle aim – ‘To win the Tour de France with a British rider in the next five years.’...
06/11/2013 18:31
Eddy Merckx is widely considered as the best cyclist ever to have lived. Best known by his nickname 'The Cannibal', he won a staggering 525 races as a professional, and a total of eleven grand tours. He dominated in his peak, and riders rarely found ways to get past him that didn't involve injury...
17/08/2013 17:00
The 2013 Vuelta is just a week away, and so is as good a time as any to analyse this year's main contenders. The defending champion Alberto Contador will not be at this year's race, but the two men who joined him on the podium, Alejandro Valverde and Joaquim Rodriguez will be. Add to that Sky's...
14/08/2013 16:40
Marcel Kittel, the German sprinting sensation who won four stages at this year's Tour de France, has took a lie detector test for German magazine 'Sport Bild.'
Kittel has always maintained a staunch anti-doping stance, and has always proclaimed himself as a clean rider - well now the...