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2011 Tour de France – Stage 20 Wrap-up

by Jeremy and Cog
July 23, 2011 Featured, Races, Teams 8 Comments
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Going into today’s Stage 20, the names Fignon and Lemond were on everyone’s mind, as people pondered whether Leopard-Trek’s Andy Schleck would fall, Fignon style, to BMC’s Cadel Evans by the scantest of margins in this final individual time trial. As predicted, Schleck did lose the yellow jersey to Evans, but not by the handful of seconds many expected. Rather, Evans recorded the time trial of his life, finishing second to TT wunderkind Tony Martin of HTC-HighRoad by a mere 7 seconds. While Schleck performed as well as we’ve come to expect–finishing 2:38 behind Martin–it was not enough to defeat...Continue Reading

2011 Tour de France – Stage 20 Preview

by Whit
July 22, 2011 Featured, Races No Comments
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For a preview of tomorrow’s time trial, head here to read my latest piece for Bicycling.com. For obvious reasons, I can’t reproduce the text here, but I think you’ll find it informative nonetheless. (And yes, I know I overlooked Tony Martin–it’s been a long Tour…)

And don’t forget to join me tomorrow at 8:30EST in the Live Blog over at Bicycling.com for what’s certain to be an exciting stage!

Thanks for reading–feel free to share your comments below.

 

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2010 Tour de France – Stage 20 Wrap-Up

by Whit
July 25, 2010 Races 20 Comments
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Admit it—you’re bit sad.

The greatest Tour in over a decade wrapped-up today with it’s usual high-speed promenade around the Champs-Elysées, bringing to a close the 5th-closest Tour de France in the event’s 100-plus year history.

Mark Cavendish took the day’s honors—his 5th win of this year’s event—and in doing so brought himself tantalizingly close to securing his first green jersey.  Unfortunately for the young Manxman, Alessandro Petacchi—an Italian needing only to finish better than sixth should Cavendish win—ended the day second, winning Italy it’s first green jersey since Franco Bitossi in 1968.

The day started with a bit of drama as Team...Continue Reading

2010 Tour de France – Stage 20 Live Blog

by Whit
July 25, 2010 Races No Comments
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Come on over and join me today in today’s Live Blog for Bicycling Magazine.  I’ll be sharing duties with Joe Lindsey, Bicycling contributor and writer of The Boulder Report.

Hope to see you there!

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Tour de France – Stage 20 Wrap-up

by Whit
July 25, 2009 Races No Comments
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 If I told you before the Tour started that a Rabobank rider would win on Ventoux, would you have thought it would be Juan Manuel Garate? Didn’t think so. But he did, and in doing so salvaged what has to be considered a disappointing Tour for the oranje.Tactics and wind certainly took their toll today, effectively negating the chance to see one of the race’s elite taking the win. But we did see some great racing, racing that produced the true champions of the 2009 Tour de France.When it was all said and done, the GC remained largely unchanged. The...Continue Reading

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