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July 8, 2014





Marcel Kittel (Giant-Shimano)
Photo: © Bettini Photo.
Marcel Kittel won a close fought sprint to take stage 4 of the Tour de France from Le Touquet-Paris-Plage to Lille. The German managed to edge out Alexander Kristoff and Arnaud Demare to seal his third stage win of the race, while race leader Vincenzo Nibali enjoyed another relatively quiet day in the saddle. (cyclingnews.com)

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Photo: Chris Froome after a crash on stage four of the 2014 Tour de France (cyclingweekly.co.uk).
The 29-year-old Briton was knocked over after two riders touched in the peloton and one swerved into him, sending him down on his left side. (velonews.com)

July 8, 2014




Photo: Honestly, it was my mistake. I took the right side of a roundabout, the road was wet and I slid down. I suffered few bruises on right leg and arm - I hope to don't suffer any problems during the next days...
Peter Sagan is known for his excellent bike-handling skills but today the Slovakian went down in a crash near the finish. Admitting that it was his own fault, the Slovakian was pleased with his fourth place that allowed him to score important points for the points competition. (cyclingquotes.com)

July 8, 2014




Andrew Talansky (Garmin Sharp) can hardly believe he's won the race
Photo: © ASO/G. Demouveaux.
American Tour de France contenders Andrew Talansky and Tejay van Garderen warmed down and recovered on the rollers after Tuesday's fourth stage to Lille but like much of the peloton, their thoughts were already fixed on Wednesday's fifth stage from Ypres to Porte du Hainault close to the Arenberg Forest. (cyclingnews.com)

July 8, 2014




Photo: Greg Henderson negotiates Stage 5: The stairs (Lotto-Belisol).
The Lotto-Belisol rider crashed at a roundabout with two of his team-mates. The incident happened less than 30km from the finish in the day's 163.5km stage from Le Touquet-Paris-Plage to Lille. While Lars Bak and Bart De Clercq were able to continue, it was game over for Henderson. (sbs.com.au)

July 8, 2014







Photo: Tour de France Stage 5 Profile.
Wednesday's Tour de France Stage 5 departs Ypres at 1:45pm CET (7:45am U.S. Eastern) and is expected at the finish at Arenberg Porte du Hainaut at around 5:18pm CET (11:18am U.S. Eastern).  Tour de France live streaming video should get underway at around 1:45pm CET (7:45am U.S. Eastern). (cyclingfans.com)

July 8, 2014





Dayer Quintana (Movistar) soloes to the win on the Kitzbüheler Horn
Photo: © Mario Stiehl.
Kennaugh holds onto race lead on the Kitzbüheler Horn. (cyclingnews.com)

July 8, 2014




Oleksandr Polivoda (Kolss Cycling Team) in the yellow race leader's jersey
Photo: © 7Cycling.
Polivoda hangs on to overall lead. (cyclingnews.com)

July 8, 2014




2014 Races & Results.
Tour de France - July 5-27 (Stages & Results),
Giro d'Italia Femminile - July 4-13 (Stages & Results),
Tour of Austria - July 6-13 (Stages & Results),
Tour of Qinghai Lake - July 6-19 (Stages & Results),
La Course Tour de France - July 27 (Route),
Tour de Pologne - Aug 3-9 (Stages),
Tour of Utah - Aug 4-10 (Stages),
USA Pro Challenge - Aug 18-25 (Stages),
Vuelta a España - Aug 23-Sept 14 (Stages),
Tour de Suisse - June 14-22 (Results),
Giro d'Italia - May 9 - June 1 (Results),
UCI Road World Championship - Sept 20-27 (Stages).

July 8, 2014




Photo: I’m more attached to technology like phones and computers than I’d like to be.
The physics graduate, motocross racer, frame-builder, mountain bike pioneer, component, wheel and tire designer and Trek consultant talks about the joy of bread and his attachment to technology. (cyclingweekly.co.uk)

July 8, 2014




Photo: The old rider’s favourite: ‘I’m more of a climber than a sprinter’ (or vice versa) is about to become redundant.
Are you more of a sprinter, a climber or a plain old rouleur? You may think it comes down to your natural muscle make-up, but Cyclist reveals it’s not what you’ve got, it’s how you use it. (cyclist.com.au)

July 8, 2014




Photo: Christophe Bassons's 2000 memoir Positif updated, expanded and finally published in English.
The story of a rider squeezed out of the sport for daring to not toe the company line. (podiumcafe.com)

July 8, 2014




Photo: Keep up with all the Tour news with the Cyclingnews Tour Tracker app ...
Five-star rated app features GPS data from the riders, news, mapping, commentary and more. (bikeradar.com)

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Marianne Vos in pink
Photo: © Giro Rosa.
World champion retains the pink jersey. (cyclingnews.com)

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Photo: THE COBBLESTONES OF WALLERS-ARENBERG Credit: Graham Watson .
Wednesday's stage five can be regarded as a mini 'Paris-Roubaix' and should shake up the overall classification. (cyclingweekly.co.uk)

July 8, 2014




Photo: Chris Froome will ride a Pinarello DogmaK, the same frame used by the team at Paris-Roubaix. He'll use Shimano C50 wheels wrapped with FMB Paris Roubaix 27mm tubulars. Photo: Caley Fretz | VeloNews.com.
Pretenders. Out of their element. That’s how some of the biggest names in cycling will feel as they toe the line in Ypres on Wednesday, staring down the barrel of a mini Paris-Roubaix, armed only with skinny arms, big lungs, and hope — always hope — that they won’t crack like eggs against the stones. (velonews.com)

July 8, 2014




Photo: a selection of podcasts covering the Tour de France if you want to try them..
"One of the great things about the Tour de France is the amount of coverage and content available. This includes podcasts. I’m a fan of podcasts as you can listen while doing something else and the way they are recorded means analysis and debate of the day’s racing as opposed to live coverage." (inrng.com)

July 8, 2014




Photo: A huge yorkshire pudding edition this week..
Looks like Yorkshire has absolutely berserk with their support. 200 Million lining the roads on stage 1 alone. How many of these 200,000 Million will be complaining again next week about cyclists on the road? (wednesdaylegs.wordpress.com)

July 8, 2014




Photo: Tomorrow is the first major GC showdown of the Tour de France.
Irishman says team has increased motivation due to Spaniard’s strong form. (cyclingtips.com.au)

July 8, 2014





Chloe Hosking
Photo: © Bert Geerts/dcp-bertgeerts@xs4all.nl.
"Stage four of the Giro Rosa was as close as we get to rest days in women's cycling; after three hard road stages I think everyone sub-consciously wanted one too." (cyclingnews.com)

July 8, 2014




Photo: My focus is on doing everything I can to support Team Sky riders to be on the podium and to help Chris to win this race, to inspire people in this country to get involved and to keep on cycling.
Dave Brailsford has been forced to reiterate that he is fully focussed on helping Brit Chris Froome win the Tour de France, after Sky’s manager claimed he wanted to win the race with a Frenchman in the future. (cyclingquotes.com)

July 8, 2014




Photo: The body is made from a metal replacement plastic.
"What started out as an idea for a simple tire lever that wouldn’t break ended up, with the thinking time afforded by a transatlantic flight, becoming a rather clever multitool that packs in the essentials plus a few bonuses we’re not used to seeing." (bikerumor.com)

July 8, 2014




Photo: Riding with hairy legs slows you down, so says Specialized's wind tunnel .
In cycling terms, Specialized reckons you can save around 70 seconds on average over 40km by shaving your legs. (bikeradar.com)

July 8, 2014




Photo: I don’t recall the last time I felt a need to write about chain lube.
"I really love that Finish Line so thoroughly believes in this gizmo that they sell it empty so that you can add your favorite lube." (redkiteprayer.com)

July 8, 2014






Photo: There are no live streams of the race, but we get really good coverage on twitter.
It’s time for the biggest women’s stage race of the year, the Giro Rosa, running from 4th to 13th July, the only women’s race that the UCI allow to run for ten days – and this year it’s extra special, as it’s the 25th iteration of the women’s Giro. (prowomenscycling.com)

July 8, 2014




Photo: Leopard-Trek's Jens Voigt had a bad day at the office on the 14th stage of the Tour de France. Photograph: Nicolas Bouvy/EPA. © theguardian.com
Anna Weltman: "I am looking for PARTICIPANTS to be in a Research Study that I am conducting, for my Master's thesis in Sport Psychology. My thesis is on cyclists who crash and what it takes to get them back on the bike after they have recovered." (dougreport.com)

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Photo: Daily Distraction.

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Photo: Will Frischkorn raced with the Garmin team in many major European races, including the Tour de France and the 2009 Tour de Suisse, shown here. Photo: Tim De Waele | TDWSport.com.
Will enjoyed a successful career as a top-level racer — culminating in the 2008 Tour de France, where he missed victory by only inches in stage 3 of that year’s race. More notably, Frischkorn was a clean racer throughout his career. Realizing that he would never reach the very top level of riders in the pro peloton, he walked away from the sport when he was 29 years old — which many consider to be about the prime age for pro cyclists. (velonews.com)





















July 8, 2014




Photo: Garmin-Sharp's 2014 Tour de France team. Photo: Tim De Waele | TDWSport.com.
"It’s funny how many people have asked if I’ll be racing the Tour de France this year. They probably don’t realize that there are 29 guys on the team, and only nine get to start the Tour (we capitalize Tour as if it’s a religious reference)." (velonews.com)

July 8, 2014




Photo: Marcel Kittel wins stage four of the 2014 Tour de France .
Unsurprisingly, Marcel Kittel won the fourth stage of the 2014 Tour de France. Surprisingly, however, it wasn’t straightforward at all. (cyclingweekly.co.uk)

July 8, 2014






Photo: He has no idea where Kristoff is coming from?
Mark Cavendish is livid with Katusha fastman Alexander Kristoff’s claims that Cavendish crashed on purpose during the first stage of the Tour de France. (cyclingquotes.com)

July 8, 2014





Gregory Rast and Andy Schleck (Trek Factory Racing)
Photo: © Fotoreporter Sirotti.
Andy Schleck has been forced to abandon the Tour de France after the injuries he sustained in a crash on stage 3 ruled him out of starting Tuesday’s stage to Lille. (cyclingnews.com)

July 8, 2014




Photo: An Alpe d'Huez monument honors the fallen during World War I. On Wednesday, the Tour will pay homage to WWI in the north of France, and in Belgium. Photo: BrakeThrough Media | VeloNews.com.
On Wednesday morning, the Tour de France peloton will dot itself across the north of France and Belgium, rolling over battlefields of the Great War and by plain white crosses with no names. It’s been 100 years since the start of a war that killed 16 million people. (velonews.com)

July 8, 2014




Photo: When it comes to gear, cyclists refuse to go against the wave — even despite concerns about genital damage..
London-based researchers said there was no correlation between cycling and ED, nor was there a connection between the sport and infertility, according to a new study. However, there was a slight increase in the risk of prostate cancer in cyclists over 50. (nydailynews.com)

July 8, 2014




Photo: There are a few different reasons that a cyclist couldn’t make it up an incline..
In one of the stages of the Tirreno-Adriatic race in 2013, there was a 27 percent gradient. That’s pretty steep for a race. Many cyclists would just have to walk their bike up such an incline. But how steep is too steep? (wired.com)

July 8, 2014




Photo: Zak Dempster leads an escape in the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad .
Just over two years ago, Zak Dempster won the Tour Series round in Woking. Yesterday, he sprinted alongside the sport’s fastest on The Mall to complete his third Tour de France stage, the latest step in the Australian’s rise through the ranks. (cyclingweekly.co.uk)

July 8, 2014




Photo: Customers are being asked to immediately stop using their bikes.
Both Trek and Scott have issued safety recalls on a number of mid priced bicycles sold between 2011-2013 with SR Suntour Suspension Forks. According to the notice, the fork dropouts can break. All told, Scott is recalling 5,200 bikes, while Trek is recalling 120,000. (bikerumor.com)

July 8, 2014




Photo: Will this year's Tour be raced like 2011-13 - or will we see a repeat of recent events at the Criterium du Dauphine? (Getty).
Are the events we saw at the recent Critérium du Dauphiné a thing of the past at the Tour? (sbs.com.au)

July 8, 2014




Photo: Currently suspended by Saxo-Tinkoff for biological passport irregularities and a pending investigation, Roman Kreuziger remains optimistic. Photo: Tim De Waele | TDWsport.com.
Roman Kreuziger said Tuesday that he believes in justice after a pending anti-doping inquiry due to biological passport abnormalities stopped him from taking part in the 2014 Tour de France. (velonews.com)

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