Tuesday, 22 July 2008
 
The first thing to note about the Alps in the Tour de France is that they are two things. Big and consequential. Momentary lapses in concentration lead to high speed crashes and the end of your race. The riders in the Tour left Italy and came back to the race's homeland. The stage was big one and was marred by an awesome looking crash that left a rider bikeless and a heart in the mouth descent that did impact the general classification.
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Sunday, 20 July 2008
 
Ivan Rana proved he’s still a force on the world cup stage as he impressively won today’s Kitzbühel BG Triathlon World Cup, the last major tune-up for the athletes before The Beijing Olympics. Rana has spent most of the last few years in the shadow of Javier Gomez but today he showed Spain may have another medal threat in Beijing this August.
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Sunday, 20 July 2008
 
Ironman Lake Placid will be remembered for a few things but the main one will be the rain. it poured with rain at times and the athletes, true to the Ironman credo, kept on with it and made the best of the shocking conditions. One of the first casualties of the race was Australia's Ali Fitch who was lying second in the race and came off on a turn as she tried to chase down a lead. Many athletes were just pleased to get the race done as conditions were variable throughout the day.
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Sunday, 20 July 2008
Buongiorno and welcome to Italy as the Tour de France makes a brief stop over. The peloton made the first climb of the Alps this Tour look very cruisy as they slowly rode parts of the group of their wheel. The Tour riders are so remarkable that they make the steepest climbs look good. There have been a lot of theories about the Silence Lotto team of Cadel Evans... we too have a theory which you can read under State of Play.
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Saturday, 19 July 2008
The sprinters took their last chance to take a victory on Stage 14. The next four days are spent in the Alps and most of the sprinters take 'a few days off' as they let the big general classification riders show their strength and figure out who will be the winner of this years' Tour. Stage 14 saw the return of the old school order after the young speedster Mark Cavendish succumbed to his fatiguing legs after an amazing start to the Tour that has never been performed by any other man from Great Britain.
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Saturday, 19 July 2008
This stage of the Tour will be remembered for one thing. The dominance of Mark Cavendish. 'The Cav' has been the quickest man in this race and could quite successfully claim to be the fastest man on two wheels as he again lit up the finish line and left former green jersey wearer Robbie McEwen in his wake. Admittedly McEwen is in France for different business this year but he has been the benchmark for sprinting during the last decade.
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Thursday, 17 July 2008
Stage 12 Tour de France. Just another routine day on the Tour. There was a crash, a sprint to the line, the yellow jersey on an Australian and a positive drug test to one of the most influential riders in the bunch. As the news broke that it was in fact Riccardo Ricco who tested positive the rest of the bunch carried on as only they know how. Read on in this article as we go inside the Tour and give out a couple of very interesting insights and a heads up on some interesting TV.
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Wednesday, 16 July 2008
The Stage 11 jaunt to Foix was a great one for Tour leader Cadel Evans. The Pyrenees was a weird adventure this year and the battle raged really for only one stage. In years gone past the great mountains of the Pyrenees held a lot more in terms of the overall general classification. Stage 11 did see another rider expelled from the Tour due to a positive test for EPO. Spanish rider Moisés Dueñas of Team Barloworld was the rider named as having a positive test. Justice is swift on the Tour with the rider being dispatched quickly and without much comment.
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