Tag: cycling

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 […]