Category: Tour de France
Biking Bis blog readers are favoring Lance Armstrong to win his 8th Tour de France victory this year.
Respondents to the poll “Who will win the 2010 Tour de France” gave Armstrong 36% of the vote. Last year's winner, Alberto Contador, received 31% of the vote.
While cycling pundits are saying this Tour de France is going to be a showdown between Armstrong and Contador, most are touting the Spaniard as the eventual winner. The 97th Tour de France starts this morning with a prologue in Rotterdam and ends in Paris on July 25.
Andy Schleck, the second-place finisher in last year Tour …
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The 2010 Tour de France bike race is going to be difficult to miss this year, given the daily live and recapped TV coverage, online video streaming, live animations, and text updates for computers and mobile devices.
You might even find the standings buried in the agate results of the sports section in the following day's newspaper. Actually, it has been years since that was the sole source of Tour de France information.
Leading the pack is the Versus television network, which is offering an average 14 hours of TV coverage every day. The broadcasts featuring Phil Liggett, Paul Sherwen and Bob Roll start at 11:30 a.m. (ET) Saturday for the prologue in Rotterdam ….
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Who do you think will win the 2010 Tour de France?
Will it be a repeat win by one of the former champions like Lance Armstrong, Alberto Contador or Carlos Sastre? Or will a new cyclist — such as Cadel Evans, Christian Vande Velde, or one of the Brothers Schleck — climb to the top step of the podium in Paris?
I'm running a poll here in the right column where you can vote. I'll post the results Saturday morning before the Tour de France prologue starts in Rotterdam. Then we'll follow that favorite to see if he does finish on top when the race ends July 25.
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It's deja vu all over again for Lance Armstrong fans who read the following Tweet on Monday:
“And yes, this will be final Tour de France. It's been a great ride. Looking forward to 3 great weeks…… Doh, sorry, meant “my” final Tour.”
Last time he announced his retirement, he was a 33-year-old with an unprecedented six Tour de France championships to his credit. He made that announcement to a roomful of reporters before the start of the Tour de Georgia in 2005.
He went on to win the Tour de France that year — number 7, and made good on his pledge to retire — for 3 1/2 years ….
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Seven other Americans competing at bike race
When July rolls around, you'll know where to find cyclist George Hincapie — somewhere in the peloton of the Tour de France.
2010 is no different. Hincapie will competing in his 15th Tour de France when it rolls out of Rotterdam on July 3.
That's a string exceeded only by Joop Zoetemelk, who competed in, and completed, 16 Tours de France before retiring in 1986. The Dutch cyclist, who now runs a hotel in France, won the Tour de France in 1980.
[Zoetemelk was stung by allegations that the only reason he won was because Bernard Hinault abandoned because of knee problems. Joop made the valid point: “Surely winning the Tour de France is a question of health and robustness. ….
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Surprising no one, Lance Armstrong has been named to the RadioShack roster for the 2010 Tour de France.
He'll be joined by Americans Levi Leipheimer and Chris Horner.
Also on the roster are Andreas Kloeden of Germany, Janez Brajkovic of Slovenia, Sergio Paulinho of Portugal, Yaroslav Popovych of Ukraine, Gregory Rast of Switzerland and Dmitriy Muravyev of Kazakhstan.
The 38-year-old …
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As Stage 8 of the Tour de Suisse drew to a close with a final climb on Saturday, Lance Armstrong attacked a group that was chasing a six-man break up the road.
The General Classification contenders reeled him back, but Armstrong proved that there's still plenty of life in his legs.
He emphasized that point on the final stage Sunday with a decent finish in the individual time trial that catapulted him into second place overall, just 12 seconds behind winner Frank Schleck. Aussie Tony Martin (HTC Columbia) won the ITT, and defending champ Fabian Cancellara (Saxo Bank) trailed by 17 seconds.
Armstrong, riding for Team RadioShack, finished 11th at 1:09 behind. He reported to his Tweet followers ….
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This has to be one of the most difficult one-day organized bike tours for weekend warrior bicyclists in 2010.
The l’Étape du Tour departs from Pau, France, on July 18 and follows the same route the pros will take later in the week over two mountain passes with a finish atop the Col du Tourmalet.
Presesented for the 18th year by Tour de France organizers, the ride allows the rest of the bicycling population to endure the gut-wrenching climbs and dizzying heights that the pros experience.
This year's ride is the same as Stage 17, a 108-mile jaunt the pro cyclists will tackle on July 22; one of six mountain stages of the 2010 Tour de France…
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The 2010 Tour de France bike race that rolls out July 3-25 will be a 2,232-mile counterclockwise loop around France that sees four mountain stages in the Pyrenees and an individual time trial in the final week.
In fact, the organizers found the climb up the Col du Tourmalet so nice that they've scheduled it twice, once on the way to Pau in Stage 16 and then as the finish on Stage 17.
The grand tour begins with a 5-mile prologue in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The remaining 20 stages are comprised of six mountain stages (three finish on summits), four medium mountain stages, nine flat stages and one individual time trial, a 36.6-mile race against the clock on the next to last day.
Announced in Paris on Wednesday, the immediate reaction was a mixed bag. Defending champion Alberto Contador liked it better than the 2009 route, but was worried about the cobblestones in Belgium. Green jersey winner Thor Hushovd …..
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When Lance Armstrong announced last September that he was coming out of retirement to race once again at the Tour de France, I only hoped that he wouldn't embarrass himself.
He dropped out of pro cycing for 3 1/2 years and had turned 38 years old. He might have been a little beyond his prime.
But Armstrong has proven the past three weeks that he still has the stamina and guts to compete at the elite level. Remarkably, he never fell out of the Top 10 and spent most of the race in either 2nd or 3rd place.
A podium finish in Paris is damn good. We can only wonder at the result if he had a team working for him instead of sharing loyalties with the eventual champion, Alberto Contador.
Unless something happens on the way to Paris on the final stage on Sunday, here's how he reached the podium:
Stage 1: 10th place, 40 seconds behind — Armstrong holds the best time in the individual time trial for much of the day in Monaco. Fabian Cancellara won the stage. …
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