Posts Tagged "Thomas Voeckler"
What chance do the French have at this year’s Tour?
By Tom Fish, 19 May 2013Ask any general member of the public when the last French winner of the Tour de France was, they’d probably guess sometime within the last ten years.
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After a hard-earned rest day on Tuesday, last night saw the peloton enter the Jura Mountains for stage ten, the first of the high mountain stages at this year’s Tour de France.
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Criterium du Dauphine Stage 2: Live blog, updates
By vitalyg, 5 Jun 2012Join us for live coverage of the second stage of Critérium du Dauphiné. Live blogging will begin at 11:00PM AEST, with comments added throughout the stage.
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Most of you will know Johnny Hoogerland as the rider who ripped himself to shreds on a barbed wire fence during Cadel Evans’ win in last year’s Tour de France.
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Cadel Evans, from great rider to great Australian
By Joe Karsay, 25 Jul 2011
Cadel Evans started the penultimate stage of the Tour de France as the greatest cyclist Australia had ever produced, and finished it as our greatest individual athlete.
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Evans slips but stays in hunt for Tour
By AFP, 22 Jul 2011 Australia’s Cadel Evans has slipped to fourth overall but remains well in the hunt for a victory in the Tour de France.
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Tour de France stage 18: clash of gladiators
By camcallsthegame, 22 Jul 2011 I sat down and didn’t move during the time it took Andy Schleck to take out stage 18 of the Tour de France. What an awesome 198.4 kilometres of first-class cycling from Pinerolo to Galibier – Serre Chevalier.
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Cadel Evans gains time as desperate Voeckler stumbles
By Athas Zafiris, 21 Jul 2011 Yellow jersey holder Thomas Voeckler paid the price for his bravery as stage 17 of the 2011 Tour de France came to another dramatic conclusion. He lost 27 seconds to his rivals on the 8.5km descent to the Italian town of Pinerolo.
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It’s time, Cadel
By Andrew Sutherland, 19 Jul 2011 Lance Armstrong once noted that professional cyclists looked like vampires. Cadel Evans, with his large reptilian eyes and nervous disposition, looks more like an exotic lizard.
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Tour de France is TV’s greatest sporting spectacle
By Andrew Leonard, 19 Jul 2011 Put aside your built up prejudices about cycling and drugs, because if this is what has held you back from tuning into SBS from 10pm every night for the past two weeks then your attitude has to change. With a week of the Tour de France remaining this is looming as one of the better [...]
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Cadel in the box seat, as Stage 14 ends in stalemate
By Athas Zafiris, 17 Jul 2011 History says the winner of the climb to Plateau de Beille goes on to win the Tour de France. Well, as the saying goes, history is bunk.
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Cadel Evans shines in the Pyrenees
By Athas Zafiris, 15 Jul 2011 Some questions were answered and many more were being asked after the completion of the first big mountain stage of the Tour.
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THE ROAR ON