JOEL SAGET/AFP/Getty Images The four musketeers were giving French cycling renewed hope in today’s stage 2 in the Tour de France. You could not get a better mix to please the French public than Thomas Voekler, Sylvain Cavanal, David Le Lay and Christophe Moreau in a long breakaway. It’s been a long time since the… Read more »
Posts Tagged: THOR Hushovd
Mr. 2nd Gets a Win
Erik Zabel has been on a bad streak of second place finishes for a long time. Today he finally broke out of the slump and showed flashes of classic Erik Zabel. The typicaly sprint finish stage saw THOR Hishovd finish second and keep his overall lead. Zabel is obviously happy with the result: “Today I… Read more »
THOR Hammers Ghent Wevelgem
Some in my local once thought that Ghent Wevelgem was some sort of Viking holiday. The response to the name was “ok let’s wear our viking helmets…”. Surpirsingly no Norwegian has ever won this race that takes the heartiness of a Viking to win. With only two climbs versus the 17 of Flanders, Ghent Wevelgem… Read more »
San Remo Fever
The feast of San Giuseppe is traditional day that San Remo used to be raced on. That day to Americans is known as the day after St. Patrick’s Day. Usually San Remo was raced on the Saturday around St. Giuseppe. This year, San Remo is raced on that day, which would probably mean an Italian… Read more »
Cancellara Wins, Dekker Leads
Rabobank traded GC leaders today as Oscar Friere gave up the yellow and red jersey to the young all rounder Tomas Dekker. Cyclingnews has a bit of info on the young Dutchman. Trained by Luigi Cecchini and considered one of the biggest future stars in world cycling, Dekker the younger had improved his climbing considerably… Read more »