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Contador wins
Posted Jul 29th 2007, 5:17pm by Nick Judd in Tour de France
Alberto Contador wins the Tour de France...
24-year-old Contador, from Madrid, retained the leader's yellow jersey after finishing fifth in yesterday's time trial, and did enough to win the tournament overall. The American Discovery Channel team was the youngest champion since Jan Ullrich of Germany in 1997. He was the first Spaniard to stand atop the winner's podium since the last of Miguel Indurain's five wins in 1995. However, the Daily Mail has suggested that he could now face allegations of doping himself. To read the claims, click here
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Bennati wins stage 20
Posted Jul 29th 2007, 5:04pm by Nick Judd in Tour de France
Italian Daniele Bennati wins his second stage win of the Tour.
It finished: 1. Bennati 2. Hushovd 3. Zabel 4. Hunter 5. Boonen 6. Sebastien Chavanel 7. Cancellara 8. Millar 9. Förster 10. Quinziato.
To see how it finished, click here
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Split to help clean up?
Posted Jul 29th 2007, 4:53pm by Nick Judd in Tour de France
Tour officials suggest split to clean up sport's act.
Tour de France officials have suggested the Tour could stop working with UCI, with the director even suggesting cycling chief Pat McQuaid steps down as the sport looks to clean its image. Christian Prudhomme's interview can be found in Germany's Sueddeutsche Zeitung daily
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Cadel's best yet to come
Posted Jul 29th 2007, 4:42pm by Nick Judd in Tour de France
Cadel Evans apologised to fellow Australians for not winning yesterday's time trial, but his former coach says the best is yet to come...
Aussie coach Damian Grundy, who coached Evans from the age of 14, said his old charge still has one or two years of improvement before we can expect to see the Predictor-Lotto rider win the Tour. To read the full interview with his former coach, click here
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Posted Dec 6th 2007, 9:16am
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Cycling Weekly
Posted Jul 26th 2007, 1:41pm by Russ Fraser in The Mags
This year's Tour de France just keeps on getting more and more exciting, and springing more and more surprises. Last weekend's first individual time trial featured a huge number of shocks – not least that yellow jersey Michael Rasmussen stayed on the road and produced a performance that kept him the race lead. Can he keep hold of it to Paris, or will emerging star Alberto Contador finally break him in the hills? Follow the last week of the 2007
Meanwhile in this week's magazine, the Tech team get their hands on Rasmussen's bike, as well as green jersey-elect Tom Boonen's race machine. Fitness gurus explain how riders should keep themselves hydrated during long days in the saddle.
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Farcical start to Stage 16
Posted Jul 25th 2007, 10:22am by james evans in Tour de France
From the BBC website:
0951: Farcical scenes as a significant group of riders refuse to start when the hooter sounds, they apparently want to show their disapproval of doping. After 30 seconds or so, some riders at the back have enough and sneak their bikes through the crowd to get started. A stubborn group at the front refuse to budge however and are eventually greeted with boos from the crowd before they eventually start. What a way to get this stage going, it can only get better from here.
T-Mobile's Marcus Burghardt says: "We just wanted to make out feelings known. The authorities have to take stern measures against those riders they think are not clean."
Link: Live Stage updates
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Tour wakes up to bad hangover
Posted Jul 25th 2007, 8:25am by james evans in Tour de France
With the furore surrounding Alexandre Vinokourov's positive drug test and the withdrawal of the Astana team, Stage 16's 218.5km route from Orthez to Col d'Aubisque:
Link: Stage 16
... started in a somewhat farcical manner.
Link: Rider protest
Meanwhile, the fall-out from yesterday's news continues to dominate thoughts. Tour director Christophe Prudhomme insists the structure of the sport needs a complete overhaul.
Link: Prudhomme wants revolution
Continue to have your say on the biggest scandal to hit this year's Tour de France.
Has the Tour now lost all credibility? Was Astana right to withdraw their whole team? And where do we go from here?
Link: Isporty Forum
The Astana team have however confirmed that they will continue racing in other events.
Link: Team remains
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Astana out as Vino tests positive
Posted Jul 24th 2007, 7:55pm by james evans in Tour de France
The Tour was again thrown into disarray yesterday with the withdrawal of the entire Astana team following Alexandre Vinokourov's positive drugs test.
The BBC reports how events unfolded:
Link: Tour descends into farce
Tour organisers have responded by insisting they are winning the war against the drug cheats.
Link: Clerc satisfied
Have your say on the biggest scandal to hit this year's Tour de France.
Has the Tour now lost all credibility? Is Vinokourov innocent? Was Astana right to withdraw their whole team? And where do we go from here?
Link: Isporty Forum
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Posted Dec 6th 2007, 9:17am
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Melinda Kizer
Tired of hearing about "Tour de Fraud"... They tested and found some drug use - isn't that the purpose of testing? The Olympics have had a record of participants flunking tests - anybody cancelling the Games because of it?? Give it up! It is disappointing, but it is EXACTLY what the sport needs to clean itself up - throw a few out of the TDF (including teams) and the "profit" in cheating no longer exists. Vive Le Tour!
Thomas Swan
Well, I guess the entire world was waiting for this news. I guess my wishes didn't come true... I was hoping they'd place the finish line, 100 yards out into the Seine. I might have watched that portion of the race, anyway. I doubt if you can find 10 people in the USA who would even watch this joke... Why they would waste good drugs on those peddlers, is beyond me.