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Bradley Wiggins increased his lead by winning the Stage 9 individual time trial. Stage results: Bradley Wiggins, 51:24 Christopher Froome, :35 Fabian Cancellara, :57 Tejay Van Garderen, 1:06 Sylvain Chavanel, 1:24 Cadel Evans, 1:43 Peter Velits, 1:59 Vincenzo Nibali, 2:07 Denis Menchov, 2:08 Andreas Kloden, 2:09 And with that, this is how the General Classification […]

2011 Tour de France King of the Mountains winner Samuel Sanchez crashed hard around the midpoint of stage 7. Two other riders were also caught up in it and landed on top of him. The way the medical staff was tending to him, it looked like he may have injured his collarbone. He was last […]

While the mountain stages frequently produce unpredictable results, one thing is for sure — they change the race and today’s mountain finish would be no different. Peter Sagan took the mid-point sprint uncontested when Matthew Goss’ bike gave him trouble. It was as anticlimactic as it sounds. One good thing about a hilly stage is […]

I was away from the house yesterday and was unable to do a timely stage review. Here’s the important stuff: Tyler Farrar was able to start stage 6 and was said to not be participating in today’s sprints. His body was covered in bandages. Andre Greipel, winner of the last two stages, crashed twice and was […]

Today’s stage profile looked incredibly flat and that’s likely a sign that there won’t be a lot of excitement beyond the final 3 miles of the race. But that doesn’t mean that there isn’t news. It was announced today that former team mates George Hincapie, Levi Leipheimer, Christian Vande Velde and David Zabriskie have allegedly […]

When I mention to my friends that I enjoy watching bike racing on TV, they constantly clown on me and claim it’s not a real sport like football and they state that the racers are wimps. Well, yesterday I mentioned a few crashes that occurred. Here is the fallout from those crashes: Kanstantsin Sivstov (out) […]

During the intermediate sprint stage, Cavendish easily dusted the other sprinters to claim the most points out of the peloton riders but that doesn’t mean it was without controversy. One of the other riders bumped and then changed their line forcing Cav to go around him. Still, it wasn’t much of an issue as Cav […]

Stage 1 was very quiet early on. Team Radio Shack was doing most of the pace setting since they were in control of the yellow jersey. They kept a pretty slow and easy pace for the first half of the race or so. The riders typically ride in a large dense pack called the peloton. […]

The Tour de France is the most legendary of all bike races and for good reason. The racers will cover 2173 miles between June 30th and July 22nd over 20 stages of racing. During that time, the racers will face: 9 flat stages 4 medium mountain stages – one with a summit finish 5 mountain […]