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Tour de France – Paris
Well, what an absolutely amazing Tour this has been this year. Congratulations to Cadel Evans, winning his first Tour after coming second on two previous occasions. A brilliant ride on the time trial saw him overcome the 57 second deficit … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Schlek, Cadel Evans, Frank Schlekt, Green jersey, Mark Cavendish, Tour de France, yellow jersey
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Stage 11 – Blaye-les-Mines to Lavaur
An extremely rainy day at the end of the stage today in Lavaur brought back the breakaway into the peleton. Team HTC led out Mark Cavendish to his third stage win of the 2011 tour and his eighteenth in total. … Continue reading
Stage 10 – Aurillac to Carmaux
The shortest stage of this years Tour de France at 158km meant a win for Omega Pharma-Lotto in Aurillac, but not the green jersey wearer Philippe Gilbert. Gilbert, yellow jersey wearer Voeckler were in a group that broke away over … Continue reading
Stage 9 -Issoire to St-Flour
Well another incident packed day at the Tour de France. Yet more crashes. Earlier on the stage, David Miller and David Zabriskie crash, with Zabriskie abandoning the Tour, along with Alexander Vinokourov from the Astana team with a fractured femur. … Continue reading
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Tagged car wipes riders out, crashes, Thomas Voeckler, Tour de France 2011, yellow jersey
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Stage 7 Tour de France
A terrible shame that Bradley Wiggins is out of the Tour de France. He looked to be in great form, especially after his win in the Criterium du Dauphine. I was looking forward to seeing him in the mountains. On … Continue reading
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Tagged Bradley Wiggins, Mark Cavendish, Tour de France 2011
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Stage 5 Tour de France
Great result for Mark Cavendish on stage 5. A lot of falls today though, with Tom Boonen, several minutes behind at the end. [pagelist]