2013 Tour de France

2013 Tour de France: stage 9 highlights

Highlights from stage 9 of the 2013 Tour de France.

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2013 Tour de France: stage 8 highlights

Highlights from stage 8 of the 2013 Tour de France.

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Chasing Le Tour: Froome climbs into yellow

After the first week of the 2013 Tour de France the top 20 in the general classification were only separated by 25 seconds. But after stage 8, the first day in the mountains, the cream has risen to the top and the GC has taken shape.

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Froome points finger at cycling’s dirty generation

Tour de France leader Chris Froome fired a broadside at a cycling generation tainted by doping scandals as he insisted he is racing “100 percent” clean at the world’s biggest and most notorious bike race.

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Chasing Le Tour: Sagan joins the winners’ list

Until today Peter Sagan hadn’t won a stage at this year’s Tour and he wasn’t satisfied with “just” wearing the green jersey. But now that Sagan has opened his account, the four biggest sprint contenders (Sagan, Cavendish, Greipel and Kittel) have all joined the winners’ list.

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Vayer power-to-weight theory sparks controversy

Controversy is in the air at the 100th Tour de France amid claims by a prominent former coach that riders who dope can be detected simply by calculating the power generated while on their bikes.

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2013 Tour de France: stage 7 highlights

SBS Cycling Central highlights from stage 7 of the 2013 Tour de France.

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Orica-GreenEDGE Backstage Pass - Stage 6

In what can only be described as mate-ship at it’s best, Daryl Impey claims the first yellow jersey for South Africa after Simon Gerrans unselfishly committed himself for the team resulting in Daryl taking the lead. Enjoy another special edition of Backstage Pass from the 2013 Tour de France.

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Chasing Le Tour: Greipel punches back

When Mark Cavendish turned on the afterburners and convincingly won yesterday’s fifth stage into Marseille, there was no reason to suspect he wouldn’t do the same on today’s sixth stage. But instead it was André Greipel and his Lotto-Belisol leadout train who showed that Cav is beatable. Greg Henderson tells us how they did it.

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Cavendish furious after a bad day at the office

For Mark Cavendish there can be nothing worse than losing a Tour de France stage in a sprint finish, especially when the man who beats him to it is one of his greatest rivals.

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