2015 Tour de France
Tour de France: LeMond repeats calls for greater transparency in the sport
July 20, 2015
VALENCE, France (CT) – Triple Tour de France winner Greg LeMond has appealed for greater transparency in the sport of cycling, saying that the riders, teams and bodies such as the UCI all have a part to play in helping to win back public trust. The American, who is on the race as a Eurosport […]
Daily News Digest
July 20, 2015
In this morning’s edition of the CyclingTips Daily News Digest: Greipel takes another sprint victory; Lisa Brennaur leads Thüringen Rundfahrt; Mattia Gavazzi wins final stage of Tour of Qinghai Lake, Radoslav Rogina wins overall; Robert Power wins Giro Ciclistico della Valle d’Aosta; Froome faults media after urine thrown at him; Laurent Jalabert confronted by Matt […]
Greipel takes a third sprint victory on stage 15 of the Tour de France
July 20, 2015
VALENCE, France (CT) – Andre Greipel (Lotto Soudal) has claimed a third stage win at the 2015 Tour de France, winning the stage 15 bunch sprint in Valence ahead of John Degenkolb (Giant-Alpecin) and Alexander Kristoff (Katusha). Peter Sagan (Tinkoff-Saxo) was fourth, taking his 10th top-five finish in 13 road stages at this year’s Tour. […]
Froome faults some media reports after urine thrown at him: “It is no longer the riders who are bringing the sport into disrepute, it is those individuals”
July 19, 2015
Chris Froome has claimed that some media reporting is indirectly to blame for attacks on Team Sky, suggesting that incidents involving himself and Richie Porte are down to some unnamed individuals reporting on the race. The Tour leader spoke at length on the topic after the end of stage 14 to Mende and drew a […]
Mission accomplished for MTN-Qhubeka with Mandela Day success
July 19, 2015
MENDE, France (CT) – Getting a wild-card entry to this year’s Tour de France was victory enough for the Pro Continental MTN-Qhubeka squad — in doing so they became the first African-registered trade team to compete in the world’s biggest bike race. But in the two weeks since the Tour began MTN-Qhubeka has not just […]
Cummings scoops MTN-Qhubeka’s first Tour de France stage win on Mandela Day
July 19, 2015
MENDE, France (CT) – Talk about good timing. On Mandela Day, the anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s birth and a date highlighted by the South African MTN-Qhubeka team of being of particular significance to the squad, its rider Steve Cummings took victory at the Tour de France. The success is the first-ever stage win by the […]
