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2011 Tour de France – Stage 2 Wrap-up

Pavé would like to thank Handspun, Clément, and Laekhouse for supporting our coverage of the 2011 Tour de France. Initially, stage 2’s 23kilometer team time trial wasn’t an enormous opportunity for Tour hopefuls to gather good results – it wasn’t long enough for dedicated TTT teams to really gain considerable ground in the General Classification. … Continue reading

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2011 Tour de France – Stage 1 Wrap-Up

Pavé would like to thank Handspun, Clément, and Laekhouse for supporting our coverage of the 2011 Tour de France.   After a somewhat relaxed start to today’s Stage 1 of the 2011 Tour de France, two crashes in the final 10 kilometers provided a dramatic finale to an otherwise slow day of racing. Unfortunately for … Continue reading

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International Cyclocross Weekend Wrap-Up

Sunday saw the seventh and penultimate round of the UCI Cyclocross World Cup in Pont-Chateau, with Neils Albert – having won the Belgian Championship last week, and wearing the white jersey of the World Cup leader – looking to cement his lead. Continue reading

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2010 Tour de France – Stage 20 Wrap-Up

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 … Continue reading

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2010 Tour de France – Stage 19 Wrap-Up

I’m certain to have missed the time cut by now, but here’s my two cents anyway: 1. Is Fabian Cancellara to Tony Martin and time trials what Alberto Contador is to Andy Schleck and the Tour de France?  Discuss. 2. Seriously though, I thought I learned my lesson the first 3 times I bet against … Continue reading

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2010 Tour de France – Stage 18 Wrap-Up & Stage 19 Predictions

It’s funny how our opinion of certain riders changes during the course of the Tour de France.  It makes sense, though, as the Tour is the sport’s grandest stage, the perfect place for riders to reinvent themselves and careers to be resuscitated —or resurrected. Take today’s sprint for example: Mark Cavendish won Stage 18 with … Continue reading

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