In the most beautiful venue, in the night of Paris, the symbol of the centenary edition of the world’s biggest cycle race, Movistar Team completed a historic performance in the 2013 Tour de France. The telephone squad paid three visits to the final podium in the Champs-?lys?es with?Nairo Quintana, runner-up after Chris Froome (SKY) and…
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2013 Tour de France: Team Saxo-Tinkoff Take Teams Classification
Today was the day when the 100th anniversary edition of Tour de France came to an end, and it could hardly have been a more beautiful backdrop than the Parisian boulevard, the Champs Elys?e, in the summer evening light. Beautifully symbolical, the stage was launched in the city of Versailles, where the treaty of peace…
2013 Tour de France: Nairo Quintana Scores Stunning Victory On Stage 20
The 2013 Tour de France saved a golden climax for Movistar Team in its finale, completing a tremendous?Grande Boucle?with Nairo Quintana’s victory in the final mountain stage. The Colombian closed his debut in the French grandtour in style, coming solo across the finish of the HC climb of?Semnoz in Annecy, the end of a 125-kilometer…
2013 Tour de France: Cadel Evans Focuses On Stage Wins
BMC Racing Team’s Tejay van Garderen finished 10th in Wednesday’s individual time trial at the Tour de France ? 1:51 off the winning time ? after posting the best time among the earlier starters. Change Of BMCs Helped Van Garderen clocked 53:24 in somewhat rainy conditions on the 32-kilometer course that featured two categorized climbs.…
2013 Tour de France: Lotto Belisol Licking Their Wounds After Stage 12
The twelfth stage in the Tour de France, from Foug?res to Tours, was another chance for the sprinters. In this 218 km long stage no hill had to be climbed. But the sprint was disordered because of a crash, Marcel Kittel won the sprint of a reduced group. It was the third stage win this…
2013 Tour de France: Andre Greipel Second On Stage 10
Bretagne was the scenery of the start of the second week of the Tour de France. After a well-deserved rest day in Saint-Nazaire the riders had to begin with a stage of 197 km from Saint-Gildas-des-Bois to Saint-Malo. A stage made for the sprinters, won by Marcel Kittel before Andr? Greipel. Immediately after the start…
2013 Tour de France: Alberto Contador – If You Don’t Believe It, You Can’t Achieve It
Team Saxo-Tinkoff held a press conference with team captain Alberto Contador during today’s rest day where he expressed optimism about his chances in the race and responded to different questions about the race so far: – Why not try to attack the yellow jersey yesterday? “I was looking at the race and at the end…
2013 Tour de France: Movistar Apply Blowtorch In Pyrenees Battle
Splendid teamwork from start to finish by the Movistar riders -which stays on top of the teams’ classifications and keeps Quintana’s white jersey, putting three riders within the best ten overall- leads Valverde into 2nd place GC and takes Richie Porte (SKY) 15 minutes down. Movistar Team leaves behind today the first half of the…
2013 Tour de France: Cadel Evans Keeps Hopes Alive
Cadel Evans of the BMC Racing Team bounced back from a challenging opening day in the Pyrenees Saturday with a sixth-place finish in the mountains on Sunday. ‘Keep Your Hopes Alive’ Evans and a select group that included his teammate, Steve Morabito, finished 20 seconds after Daniel Martin (Garmin-Sharp) out-dueled breakaway companion Jakob Fuglsang (Astana…
2013 Tour de France: Contador and Kreuziger Climb GC After Great Tour Stage
No less than five climbs of which four were in the first category formed the scenery as Team Saxo-Tinkoff and Movistar split up the peloton on today’s 168.5 kilometer long ninth stage of Tour de France from Saint-Girons to Bagn?res de Bigorre. The first big rider to explode was Richie Porte (Sky) and kept chasing…