The world’s best-known cycling event, the Tour de France, got underway on Saturday 2 July as 20 teams with nine riders each set off from Passage de Gois in the eastern ...
Saturday’s 19th stage of the Tour de France was an individual time trial between Bordeaux and Pauillac through the vineyards of the Bordeaux wine-growing region.
Cycling-mad French President Nicolas Sarkozy has invited French stars of the Tour de France to the Elysée presidential palace once the race is over on Sunday.
Luxembourger Andy Schleck’s hopes that he would win back the overall leader’s yellow jersey from Alberto Contador on the slopes of the mythical Tourmalet mountain in the Pyrenees on Thursday have been dashed, after he failed to launch an effective attack against the Spaniard.
The polemic continues as to whether Tour de France leader Alberto Contador should have waited for Andy Schlek on the Port de Balès on Monday after the chain on Schlek’s bike came off ...
