Evans still wary of Contador
CADEL Evans has refused to discount Alberto Contador’s bid for a fourth Tour de France crown despite the Spaniard suffering from knee trouble.
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Kolobnev out after positive drugs test
RUSSIAN cyclist Alexandr Kolobnev became the first rider to be forced out of the Tour de France after a testing positive for a banned substance.
Evans survives day of crashes and chaos
CADEL Evans admitted to being terrified after seeing a crash that caused more big names to abandon the Tour de France in agony.
Hoogerland ‘happy to be alive’ after mayhem
IT was a day of unprecedented carnage at the Tour de France, as the leading riders crashed out and Johnny Hoogerland barely escaped with his life.
Evans terrorised by Tour carnage
CADEL EVANS has never been more frightened in a bike race than seeing the carnage that claimed Astana’s Alexandre Vinokourov.
Crash could end Vinokourov’s career
ALEXANDRE Vinokourov’s cycling career appears to have come to a premature end.
Voeckler profits on day of carnage
LUIS LEON Sanchez took stage nine honours but Frenchman Thomas Voeckler rode himself into the yellow jersey.
Hushovd holds yellow in fierce battle
RUI ALBERTO COSTA has won stage eight today in a gutsy ride at the Tour de France.
Crash ends Tour for Wiggins
THE Tour de France is over for Team Sky’s Bradley Wiggins after he was injured in a pile-up of up to 80 riders.
Cavendish strikes again to take stage 7
A CHAOTIC crash involving up to 80 riders inside the final 40km took a little of the gloss off Mark Cavendish’s stage win – his second in three days.
Goss pipped on line for Tour stage
AUSTRALIAN Matt Goss says a split-second loss in concentration 200m from home robbed him of a maiden stage win at the Tour de France yesterday.
Cadel still has mountain to climb
AFTER 1200km of the Tour de France, Cadel Evans is smiling.
Boonen limps out of Tour de France
BELGIUM’S 2005 world road race champion Tom Boonen, injured in a crash on Wednesday, quit the Tour de France during the seventh stage.
Goss painfully close to maiden stage win
MATT Goss expressed mixed emotions after missing out on a maiden Tour de France stage win.
Norwegian Hagen wins sixth Tour stage
EDVALD Boasson Hagen, the Norwegian sprinter on Team Sky, denied Launceston’s Matt Goss his first win at the Tour de France this morning.
Driver faces charge on cyclist’s death
AN elderly driver is facing manslaughter charges over the death of Australian cycling star Carly Hibberd in an Italian road crash.
Evans grateful for missing ‘carnage’
CADEL Evans described the last day of the Tour de France in Brittany as “utter carnage” as riders got caught out in the prevailing crosswinds.
Cycling mourns loss of Hibberd
AUSTRALIAN cycling is mourning the death of Carly Hibberd after the 26-year-old Queenslander was hit by a car during a training ride in Italy.
Aussie cycling star killed in crash
RISING Australian cyclist Carly Hibberd has died in a training accident in Italy.
Sprint king Cavendish wins fifth stage
MARK Cavendish finally announced himself as a contender for the green jersey with his 16th career stage win at the Tour de France.
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