Chris Froome

Geschke wins stage 17 of the Tour with long solo escape, GC top-10 gets a shake-up

July 23, 2015

PRA LOUP, France (CT) – Simon Geschke (Giant-Alpecin) has held off a late charge from Andrew Talansky (Cannondale-Garmin) to win stage 17 of the Tour de France with a long-range solo attack. Geschke attacked from a 28-rider breakaway with just under 50km remaining and was able to build and maintain a lead over two second-category […]

Debate after Sky releases Froome’s data; Tucker argues numbers don’t add up

July 23, 2015

GAP, France (CT) – Team Sky responded to calls for it to be more transparent on Tuesday’s second rest day of the Tour de France yet, for some, the release of climbing data from Chris Froome ended up creating as many questions as it sought to answer. The team said in the lead-up to the […]

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Sky releases Chris Froome’s powermeter data from stage 10 of the Tour de France

July 22, 2015

At the Tour de France’s second race day in Gap Team Sky released power data from race leader Chris Froome’s stage 10 ride in the hopes to silence critics of his performance. Speaking to the press, Team Sky general manager Dave Brailsford said: “We thought we’d give people concrete numbers and facts. We’re not going to get […]

Daily News Digest

July 21, 2015

In today’s Daily News Digest: Plaza fends off Sagan to take stage 16; Lepistö wins stage 4 of Thüringen Rundfahrt; Geraint Thomas loses time in spectacular crash; “If God wants, I win.” Consistency continues but Sagan still hunting stage victory; “Mayuko Hagiwara has the potential to win the Giro Rosa”; BMC back van Garderen as […]

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 […]

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 […]

Van Avermaet holds off Sagan to win stage 13 of Le Tour, Froome retains yellow

July 18, 2015

RODEZ, France (CT) – Greg Van Avermaet (BMC) has won stage 13 of the 2015 Tour de France, outsprinting Peter Sagan (Tinkoff-Sagan) in a thrilling finale in the town of Rodez. The remnants of the day-long breakaway were caught by the peloton on a steep final climb, just 300 metres before the finish. When that […]