Saturday 16 July 2011


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Cycling News Highlights from July 14 - 15 , 2011.  

International



·        July 15, 2011

Garmin-Cervelo celebrate third Tour win in Tour de France 2011.
Team Garmin-Cervélo celebrated its third ever Tour de France stage win today in Lourdes. A week and a half after its team time trial win and win with Tyler Farrar, World Champion Thor Hushovd took number three in Lourdes.

·        July 15, 2011
      Danielson becomes Garmin's Tour de France leader
American Tom Danielson surprised many followers of the Tour de France by becoming Garmin-Cervélo's leader. He starts the stage to the holy city of Lourdes today ninth overall, one day after the race's first mountain stage.

·        July 14, 2011

       Geraint Thomas: "I had goosebumps on the Tourmalet

The toast of the Tour on today's twelfth stage was former British champion Geraint Thomas (Team Sky).
He made the day's main breakaway and led the Tour for most of the Col du Tourmalet, despite two crashes on the upper part of the Hourquette d'Ancizan descent 40 kilometres earlier. At one point, he was the virtual yellow jersey. 

·        July 14, 2011

       Box Hill declared limited access for Olympic RR

After missing out on the vast majority of track cycling tickets, prepare to be short-changed at the Olympic road race: you'll need to wear a wristband to get anywhere near the best bits.
The London-Surrey Cycle Classic (August 14), the test event for the 2012 Olympic road race, provides a taste of the restrictions imposed on would-be spectators on two key parts of the route.






Thursday 14 July 2011





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Cycling News Highlights from July 7 -13 , 2011.  

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  • July 13, 2011



Cavendish takes it victory in Lavaur Stage 11 in Tour de France.

Mark Cavendish reasserted his dominance in the bunch sprints of the Tour de France, winning in Lavaur by a half a bike length and claiming the green jersey. He beat none other than arch-rival Andre Greipel (Omega Pharma-Lotto), who pipped him at the line the previous day. Third went to this Tour's other sprint winner, Tyler Farrar of Garmin-Cervelo

  •   July 12, 2011


The driver didn’t even stop in Stage 9 -Tour de France 2011

Juan Antonio Flecha has spoken for the first time about his crash on stage nine that occurred when the driver of a France Télévisions VIP car swerved into the five-men breakaway 36km from the finish in Saint-Flour.
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  •  July 9, 2011


Horner out of Tour de France after stage 7 crash.

Christopher Horner was not at the start of the Tour de France's eighth stage Saturday, after suffering a concussion the previous day. Radioshack team manager Johan Bruyneel announced the abandon Saturday morning.
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