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| Jul 31 |
 With
a much-needed rest day following what have been a frantic and dramatic
opening ten days to the 101st edition of the Tour de France, finally
there is a chance to draw breath and look back on what has been the
best opening half of the race we can remember. (road.cc)
July 15, 2014  Astana's
Vincenzo Nibali
-- the saviour of Italian cycling? (podiumcafe.com)
July 15, 2014  Wednesday's Tour de
France Stage 11 departs Besançon at 12:30pm CET (6:30am U.S. Eastern)
and is expected at the finish at Oyonnax at around 5:17pm CET (11:17am
U.S. Eastern). Tour de France live streaming video
should get underway at around 2:15pm CET (8:15am U.S. Eastern).
(cyclingfans.com)
July 15, 2014  Tinkoff
Saxo team owner Oleg
Tinkov believes that Alberto
Contador would have won the Tour de France had he not
crashed out with a broken tibia on stage 10. (cyclingnews.com)
July 15, 2014  Brennauer extends
lead. (cyclingnews.com)
July 15, 2014  The
team will be down to just six riders, after losing Andy Schleck and Danny van Poppel. Haimar Zubeldia is
the team's highest placed rider on GC, at 20th place, 8:01 behind Vincenzo Nibali.
(cyclingnews.com)
July 15, 2014  Richie Porte was
told to stop banging his head against a brick wall when his season
started to go wrong earlier this year. (cyclingweekly.co.uk)
July 15, 2014
2014
Races
& Results.
Tour de France - July 5-27 (Stages & Results), Tour of Qinghai Lake - July 6-19 (Stages & Results), La Course Tour de France - July 27 (Route), Giro d'Italia Femminile - July 4-13 (Results), Tour of Austria - July 6-13 (Results), 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 15, 2014  Trek
has extended the contract with one their most exciting talents as Giacomo Nizzolo has
put pen to paper to sign a deal that will see him be part of the team
until the end of the 2016 season. The Italian hopes to continue his
rise through the sprinting ranks over the coming years.
(cyclingquotes.com)
July 15, 2014  The
Mavic SSC (Special Service Course) is expanding yet again with the
introduction of the La Maison Jaune in Newbury Park, California.
Serving as a home base for the American neutral support and as an event
space for Mavic and their dealers, the Yellow House is the latest
installment in a long history of cycling support. (bikerumor.com)
July 15, 2014  "The
Tour is an event apart. Everything about it is bigger, sometimes to the
point of outrageousness. For three weeks, the peloton is under the
microscope, magnified like the Gauls’ village at the beginning of
Asterix’s adventures." (cyclingnews.com)
July 15, 2014  Today,
a combination of carbon technology, reliable wheels, and disc brakes,
makes the world beyond pavement far more comfortable to explore. Taking
off where cyclocross bikes left off, the new Diverge models from
Specialized are purpose built to conquer dirt roads and goat trails.
(bikerumor.com)
July 15, 2014  Kona
is one of the few brands to use scandium enriched aluminium, and the
Esatto uses Kona’s ‘race light scandium 69’ blend. Scandium is added to
the aluminium to refine the material grain, increasing strength and
meaning that less material can be used. (bikeradar.com)
July 15, 2014  The
Hiro chuck (sounds like ‘Hero’) is inspired by the vintage Japanese
chucks used by Keirin mechanics to achieve high pressures in a
demanding environment where hundreds of tires may have to be inflated
to high pressure each and every night. (bikerumor.com)
July 15, 2014 July 14, 2014 July 14, 2014 |  "It’s
an eerily unique, claustrophobic feeling: head to toe my body is
screaming in pain from the crashes, I’m panting with all my aerobic
might but only inhaling what feels like half the oxygen I need, plus
I’m now facing what’s called the hardest sporting event in the world.
This is everything I’ve worked for, dreamed of, yearned for over the
past decade. It’s no lack of training or fitness or fortitude or
desire." (velonews.com)
July 15, 2014  The
Amy D. Foundation, a nonprofit organization created in honor of the
late pro cyclist Amy
Alison Dombroski, is introducing an elite race program for
the 2014-2015 cyclocross season. (velonews.com)
July 15, 2014  "There's
no new policy, change in tactic or strategy. That's what we do. I think
we have to keep in mind that a guy who was doping has been caught
through the Biological Passport. It's a success story but we have to
handle these cases correctly and that's what we did."
(cyclingnews.com)
July 15, 2014  Having
crashed out of the Tour de France with a broken tibia, Alberto Contador is
now back in Spain to be examined for hs injuries. The Spaniard still
hopes that he will be able to line up in the Vuelta later this year.
(cyclingquotes.com)
July 15, 2014  The
Tour de France has completed three stages in the Alps, visits the Jura
range tomorrow before the Alps and then the Pyrennes. The race rates
climbs with five labels, from 4th category for the easiest all the way
to 1st category and then HC for hors catégorie, or “beyond
categorization”. A frequently asked question is how are these
categories determined. (inrng.com)
July 15, 2014  Michal Kwiatkowski
looks like a nice enough kid. Or, as his sport director Brian Holm put it,
like a little accountant. “He’s so humble. Off the bike. On the bike,
you look at him and think, ‘How can that little humble guy be so greedy
on the bike?’ In a bunch sprint? He doesn’t look like Greipel you know. He
looks like an accountant making your numbers,” Holm said.
(velonews.com)
July 15, 2014  Geraint Thomas says Alberto Contador's
absence will have a mixed effect on how much work Sky will have to do
in the remainder of the Tour de France. (cyclingweekly.co.uk)
July 15, 2014  Two
weeks ago NetApp-Endura announced that they had found a long-term
naming German sponsor that would take over from NetApp and Endura at
the end of the year. Today the team has revealed its identity, with
Bora set to become the first major German naming sponsor for several
years. (cyclingquotes.com)
July 15, 2014  There
may not have been a French winner of the Tour de France since Barnard Hinault in
1985 but in Romain Bardet
and Thibaut Pinot
the future looks bright. (sbs.com.au)
July 15, 2014  Fabian Cancellara
still planning on Hour Record attempt, along with Bradley Wiggins and Tony Martin.
(cyclingweekly.co.uk)
July 15, 2014  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. Please email me to volunteer" (dougreport.com)
July 15, 2014  Advances
in portable GPS systems give rider and coaches essential input data to
allow even more accurate predictions of performance on a specific time
trial, incorporating hilliness and windiness. (phys.org)
July 15, 2014  The
Tour de France is one of the most iconic and physically demanding
sporting events in the world. Held annually since 1903, it has evolved
from a simple test of endurance and speed to a festival of technology
and innovation as teams fight to find the egde that will take them over
mountains, high speed straights and cobbled roads ahead of their
rivals. (phys.org)
July 15, 2014  BikeRadar
verdict: 3 out of 5
stars. "If aero isn’t your thing, Enve’s Classic wheels should be on
your radar." (bikeradar.com)
July 15, 2014 July 14, 2014 July 14, 2014 | July 15, 2014  UCI
president Brian Cookson
has said that he hopes that the new La Course race run by Tour de
France organizers will evolve beyond the current one day setup,
although he said that for now he was not aware if this is being
planned. (cyclingtips.com.au)
July 15, 2014  Cadel Evans is
set to decide on his future within the sport before the end of this
season with his current contract set to end in December. According to
the former Tour de France winner’s agent, Evans has not
entered negotiations with other teams, with the rider’s agent Jason Bakker saying,
“I think when he finishes at BMC that will be the end of his career.”
(cyclingnews.com)
July 15, 2014  Canadian
bike brand Argon 18 have revealed on their website today the news they
have signed a three-year deal with one of the professional teams
currently participating in the Tour de France, but they won't
be revealing the identity of the team until the end of the race.
(road.cc)
July 15, 2014  Alberto Contador was
in tears. The rider known as “El Pistolero,” the man who has overcome a
brain aneurysm, defeated Lance
Armstrong, and been at the center of a controversial
doping suspension, had, for the first time in his career, abandoned a
grand tour, brought down by a violent crash early on stage 10 of the
Tour de France. (velonews.com)
July 15, 2014  The
highest-placed American in the 2014 Tour de France, Tejay van Garderen,
spoke to journalists at his BMC team's hotel in Besançon on Tuesday
about his hopes for the second half of the race. (cyclingnews.com)
July 15, 2014  In
spite of the fact that he put his closest rivals to the sword, won the
toughest stage of the race so far and saw Alberto Contador
crash in front of him. Vincenzo
Nibali says he hasn’t won the Tour yet.
(cyclingweekly.co.uk)
July 15, 2014  The
widespread availability of reliable power measuring and feedback
devices has provided a great toolset for more focused training in
endurance sports like cycling and triathlon. However these
tools can also be utilized to give advantages during competition.
(powertap.com)
July 15, 2014  "A
day at the Tour presents hundreds of options for Roadside adventures,
and sometimes it’s tough choosing which path to follow. One story I was
determined to get on my trek through the Vosges and Alps, was an
interview with one of the Tour’s Podium Girls." (pezcyclingnews.com)
July 15, 2014  The
34-year-old rider from Victoria signed up for the team when it started
three years ago after he had been racing with AG2r, Crédit Agricole,
Cervélo and Team Sky since his professional debut in 2005.
(cyclingnews.com)
July 15, 2014  BikeRadar
verdict: 5 out of 5
stars. "The Supersix’s phenomenal performance is a fitting match for
the Tourminator." (bikeradar.com)
July 15, 2014  If
you’re at all familiar with GoPro HD Hero cameras, the first thing
you’ll notice about the Shimano Sports Camera is that it feels smaller
and lighter than other cameras on the market. (cyclingtips.com.au)
July 15, 2014  Five-star
rated app features GPS data from the riders, news, mapping, commentary
and more. (bikeradar.com)
July 15, 2014  The
problem for cyclist Gillian
Wu started when she yelled at a gaggle of
pedestrians lingering in the bike lane to get out of the way.
(9news.com)
July 15, 2014 July 14, 2014 |
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