Sprinters Hunter and Cooke Lead the Way for Team Barloworld in Tour De FranceBYLINE: KEVIN MCCALLUMCape Times (South Africa)
A Tour de France sprint finish is as exciting to watch as it is dangerous to race, with career glory on the line for the riders. Here's how they prepare.
Outre le cyclisme, Marion Clignet était également une coureuse de montagne accomplie, qui a remporté le championnat deFrance decourse à pied longue distance et de duathlon cycliste, ainsi que six triathlons de moyenne distance. E...
The 18th stage suits the sprinters, but since we are in the third week of the Giro the odds are that the attackers will have it their way. The route adds up to 231 kilometres and the finale features a number of hills.(Slideshow route/profile) It would be a bold investment for a spr...
can wander out a long way and still be only up to your waist which is great for the kids, finally they got an ice cream from the man who walks along the beach with an ice cream trolley, Stella remembered this from the last time we came to France and she was dead set on getting ...
SAINT-MALO, France - Hitting the asphalt at something like 60kilometers (40 miles) per hour...Leicester, John
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Read the full-text online article and more details about "Tour De France: Sprinters Move Aside, It's Time for the Mountain Stages" by Brand, Jon - The Christian Science Monitor, July 14, 2011By BrandJon
For the first time in 11 years, the sprinters' stranglehold on the Champs-Elyses was broken in spectacular fashion when one of Lance Armstrong's key rivals, the Kazakh rider Alexandre Vinokourov, blasted off in the final kilometre to win alone at the line.Fotheringham, Alasdair...