Cycling

Since Englishman James Moore won the first Bicycle race in Paris on the 31st of May 1868, Cycling has encompassed many forms of bicycle competition, ranging from road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, track cycling, BMX racing and bike trials and cycle speedway. The most famous Cycling race in the world, and probably one of the world’s premier annual sporting events, is the Tour De France which lasts 23 days and is over 3,500 kilometres long. Lance Armstrong is probably Cycling’s most famous figure, winning the Tour De France a record seven times.

Seven-time Tour of France winner Lance Armstrong believes, at 38, he has little chance of beating arch-rival Alberto Contador of Spain to win an eighth title this year.
“It would be very difficult. I’m 38, Alberto is 27 and he’s improving every year. I know it, people know it, Alberto knows it,” he told Spanish newspaper [...] Read article

South Australian Jack Bobridge has recorded the second fastest 4km individual pursuit ride ever, and the only faster time would not be legal under today’s racing rules.
Bobridge, 20, posted a sizzling time of 4 minutes and 14.427 seconds during a qualifying ride today in the Australian Championships at Adelaide’s Super-Dome.
The only rider who has gone [...] Read article

World champion Cadel Evans admits he surprised himself with his sixth place finish at the Tour Down Under.
The Australian cycling star was outstanding in Saturday’s decisive Willunga stage, sparking a key four-rider break and threatening to snatch the overall lead.
It was some of the best road racing seen in Australia.
Evans’ main goal for this Tour [...] Read article

On Saturday’s decisive stage of the Tour Down Under on Willunga Hill, Cadel Evans attacked. In his rainbow jersey, representing his world champion status, Evans went some way to repairing the unjust persona that the Australian public has formed of the Tour de France runner-up.
Although it wasn’t enough to snare the lead, Evans’ attack was [...] Read article

Australian cycling star Cadel Evans honoured the world champion’s famed rainbow jersey and won widespread praise after the greatest day in Tour Down Under history.
Lance Armstrong and world cycling boss Pat McQuaid were among those applauding Evans (BMC) after he threatened to snatch the overall lead on the decisive fifth stage at Willunga, south of [...] Read article

Australian world cycling champion Cadel Evans has already performed far better than expected at the Tour Down Under, finishing third in a brutally-hard stage three.
Evans made the most of his opportunities in the 132.5km stage from the Adelaide suburb of Unley to the Hills town of Stirling.
Portuguese national champion Manuel Cardoso also surprised by winning [...] Read article

Lance Armstrong is in the unusual position this week of helping drive the “train” rather than benefitting from its horsepower.
The record seven-time Tour de France champion is at the Tour Down Under with the new Radioshack team, whose main objective is a stage win.
Given this has again developed into a sprinter’s Tour, and Armstrong is [...] Read article

Besides a broken shoe, Tour Down Under stars Lance Armstrong and Cadel Evans stayed out of trouble through the opening stage. Evans was caught up in the crash less than a kilometre into the 141km first stage north of Adelaide from Clare to the Barossa town of Tanunda.
But some quick repairs on his bike shoe [...] Read article

Lance Armstrong was quick to praise his new signing Tim Roe after the young Adelaide native shone in his first Tour Down Under. The 20-year-old cyclist was in a three-man break that dominated the 141km opening stage north of Adelaide from Clare to Tanunda.
Roe is riding this week for the UniSA composite national team, but [...] Read article

Sporting celebrity hero worship is a funny thing. So many of us do it, yet it is something we often chastise. And few athletes typify this dichotomy like Lance Armstrong.
Armstrong, currently competing in Australia at the Tour Down Under in Adelaide, is one of the truly elite sporting stars at present; one of those very [...] Read article

World champion Cadel Evans will finally return to the race that caused so much tension in last year’s planning. Evans is determined to be a factor in May’s Giro d’Italia, or Tour of Italy.
The Australian cycling star was in conflict with his old team Silence Lotto at times last year because they wanted him in [...] Read article

Lance Armstrong has backed up his talk with impressive action, displaying unexpected form in the Tour Down Under’s Cancer Council Classic.
As New Zealander Greg Henderson gave the new cycling super team Sky their first win, Armstrong (RadioShack) and fellow Tour de France winner Oscar Pereiro (Astana) of Spain were part of a five-man break that [...] Read article

Over 100,000 will gather in Adelaide’s CBD today to watch Lance Armstrong, Cadel Evans and their pro-cycling buddies – impressive for a city with just over one million inhabitants. Adelaide, so often derided by its eastern seaboard brethren as a backwater has, in fact, contributed much to the wider Aussie sporting landscape, be it cycling, [...] Read article

Lance Armstrong has defended the decision to abandon his personal anti-doping tests, saying cycling’s strict biological passport has taken over.
When Armstrong started his sporting comeback a year ago at Adelaide’s Tour Down Under, a key element was that the record seven-time Tour de France winner would have his own testing.
The Texan has strongly argued against [...] Read article

Lance Armstrong continues to rate Cadel Evans as a serious Tour de France rival, despite the Australians’ poor result last year.
Evans was runner-up in 2007-08, the best results by an Australian in the event’s history, but struggled badly last year and finished 30th.
Armstrong, meanwhile, finished third in his comeback year after winning cycling’s greatest race [...] Read article