2014 Tour de France

Bikes of Le Tour: Marcel Kittel’s yellow Giant Propel

by Dave Everett Sponsors love to get as much coverage as possible throughout the biggest cycle race of the year — its a prime platform to gain huge amounts of publicity, from sending riders out on long range breakaways that will get good air time but ultimately fail to stay the distance, to simply supplying […]

Nibali: “Having the yellow jersey is very good but it is a long race.”

He was off the pace in the Critérium du Dauphiné but Vincenzo Nibali has said his morale and confidence is high after he raced to a superb solo victory on stage two of the Tour de France on Sunday. “I have to say that I am feeling very, very happy today,” the Italian said after […]

Van Garderen audio: “I feel good. I feel really good”

Crossing the line, wheeling to a halt and showing a satisfied smile, it was clear that Tejay van Garderen was very encouraged by his feelings on stage two of the Tour de France. The American rider finished an excellent fifth in the Tour at 23 years of age, two years after he was third overall […]

Onboard footage of Tour de France stage 1

Rocacorba Daily

In this morning’s edition of the Rocacorba Daily news digest: Vincenzo Nibali wins stage 2 of the Tour de France, takes overall lead; Giorgia Bronzini wins stage 2 of the Giro Rosa, Vos maintains overall lead; Peter Kennaugh wins Tour of Austria opener; Oleksandr Polivoda wins stage 1 of the Tour of Qinghai Lake; Fernando […]

Contador says surge wasn’t bid for yellow jersey, Rogers also speaks

Alberto Contador has said that the pressure he put on close to the finish of stage two of the Tour de France was simply intended to size up his opponents, and that he didn’t have the intention of trying to take the yellow jersey. The Tinkoff Saxo rider ramped up the pace 5.3 kilometres from […]

Tinkoff-Saxo’s Riis and BMC’s Peiper on Contador and van Garderen

Both Tinkoff-Saxo directeur sportif Bjarne Riis and his BMC Racing Team equivalent Allan Peiper have expressed confidence in their respective GC leaders for this Tour de France, saying that each rider has done things well since the Critérium du Dauphiné to arrive in good shape. The duo had contrasting fortunes in the French event; Contador […]

Vincenzo Nibali wins in Sheffield and takes Tour lead overall

Vincenzo Nibali (Astana) has won stage 2 of the Tour de France, crossing the line in Sheffield solo after putting in a trademark late attack with just 1.9km left to race. The newly crowned Italian national champion was part of an elite lead group of roughly 20 riders that crested the day’s final climb with […]

Audio: Gerrans on Cavendish clash - ‘he was obviously pretty desperate’

One day after a high speed crashed caused by a clash between Mark Cavendish and Simon Gerrans, the Australian has confirmed that the British rider made an apology to him about the accident. The duo hit the ground hard inside the final kilometre of Saturday’s opening stage of the Tour de France. Cavendish ended up […]

Audio: Cavendish talks injury, Tour withdrawal and apology to Gerrans

Mark Cavendish was surrounded by a throng of journalists, cameramen and photographers at the start of stage two of the Tour de France, but it was for very different reasons than he had originally envisaged. Had things gone to plan, the attention he would have got would have been for victory on stage one and […]