Tour De France
The Tour de France bicycle race is the world's largest annual sporting event, having been run every year since 1903 except for periods during the two World Wars. With a live tele...
Read more
It was an unforgiving 95 degrees Fahrenheit in eastern France last week. Rain had fallen nearly every day of the week prior to Stage 16, Wednesday, July 21, making for a very steamy road up the face ...
Read more
Paris (dpa) - One could hardly blame Tour de France director
Christian Prudhomme if he were rooting for race leader Michael
Rasmussen of Denmark to have a very bad day in We...
Read more
Former Tour de France champion Jan Ullrich retired from cycling Monday amid continuing investigations of his alleged role in a Spanish doping scandal.The 33-year-old German, who won the Tour in 199...
Read more
Paris (dpa) - Alberto Contador of Spain on Sunday won the 94th
Tour de France by one of the smallest margins of victory in the
history of the race.
The 24-yea...
Read more
Tour de France leader Michael Rasmussen was removed from the race by his team after winning Wednesday's stage, the biggest blow yet in cycling's doping-tainted premier event."Michael Rasmussen has ...
Read more
Paris (dpa) - A list of all champions of the Tour de France.
1903: Maurice Garin, France
1904: Henri Cornet, France
1905: Louis Trousselier, France
1906: ...
Read more
Tour de France leader Fabian Cancellara has a message for coach Bjarne Riis: Thank you, and wish you were here. The Swiss rider and his CSC teammates popped open champagne after his opportunistic v...
Read more
Paris (dpa) - A list of all champions of the Tour de France.
1903: Maurice Garin, France
1904: Henri Cornet, France
1905: Louis Trousselier, France
1906: ...
Read more
Like a cyclist who can't shake his pursuers, the Tour de France continues to be dogged by the cloud of doping. Race leader Michael Rasmussen became the latest rider to face scrutiny Friday when he ...
Read more
At the Tour de France, timing is everything. Michael Rasmussen of Denmark, dogged by new doping accusations, turned in the time trial of his life Saturday to keep the race leader's yellow jersey he...
Read more
All the right elements were there: The smiling winner in his bright yellow jersey. The fans several rows deep under the majestic trees of the Champs-Elysees. But something seemed broken about the T...
Read more