Cadel Evans will ride into Paris today (all going well) in yellow ahead of the biggest win of his career in arguably the best Tour de France in years.  It was always going to come down to the final timetrial but many of the GC favourites tried their best to turn the tables on the [...]

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As the most exciting Tour in years enters it’s final three days, all the jerseys are within play with very small gaps between all the top contenders in each category.  Yesterday Andy Schleck finally answered his critics by blowing the peloton apart following a very early attack on the Col d’Izoard with over sixty kilometres [...]

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Ten stages in and it’s time to catch up.  Lots of action, lots of crashes and unfortunately lots of GC contenders out of the race.  Oh and as Eurosport put it - “hang on isn’t that Cadel Evans?”…
Stage 4: Lorient - Mûr-de-Bretagne 172km (July 5)

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For those that haven’t seen it here is the video of the crash at the Tour de France involving a French TV car and riders Johnny Hoogerland (Vacansoleil) and Juan Antonio Flecha (Sky Procycling).  The driver has since (unsurprisingly) been thrown off the Tour.  Both riders managed to finish with Hoogerland collecting the polka dot [...]

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Three stages down and World Champion Thor Hushovd of Garmin-Cervelo remains in yellow with teammate Tyler Farrar taking his first stage win after a hectic sprint.  Before we get into that though, lets take a look back at Sundays Team Time Trial.
Stage 1 was all about Alberto Contador losing time in the aftermath of the [...]

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With no prologue, the first stage of the 2011 Tour was always going to be interesting and yesterday was no exception but not for the reasons you might think.  Philippe Gilbert of Omega Pharma-Lotto had been widely tipped to take the stage and the first yellow jersey following a successful spring classic campaign and the [...]

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Irish rider Nicolas Roche will once again lead Ag2R at the Tour de France it was announced today.  The team in full is- Maxime BOUET (FRA), Hubert DUPONT (FRA), John GADRET (FRA), Sébastien HINAULT (FRA), Blel KADRI (FRA), Sébastien MINARD (FRA), Jean-Christophe PERAUD (FRA), Christophe RIBLON (FRA), Nicolas ROCHE (IRL).

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Shimano has just announced that their Di2 electronic shifting technology will be available at Ultegra level from September.

Di2 has been used by pro-riders in the peloton for a few years now and even by sprinters.  Benefits include an auto-tuned front derailleur, pre-programmed gear ratios and precise and quick shifting.  However up until now the price [...]

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The UK Daily Mail has launched huge debate in road cycling circles by claiming that superstar sprinter Mark Cavendish will switch teams from HTC-Highroad to UK based Team Sky.

The move has been speculated since the genesis of Team Sky which has a specific goal of putting British riders on the top step of the podium.

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Final thoughts from Ryan after a hard weeks racing -
Stage 8

Older reports below

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Checking in from stage 2 and then 3 of the RAS.  On Monday the riders faced high winds over the 165km resulting in a huge five and a half hours in the saddle.  As Contador observed in the Giro recently, the stage could be won in the hotel as recovery will be key.

Stage 3

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Giant-Kenda rider Ryan Sherlock checks in from stage 1 of the RAS.

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Alberto Contador leads the Giro d’Italia after ten stages with yesterday’s stage going to Mark Cavendish who outclassed Allessandro Pettachi to take his first stage of the Giro and sixth overall.

But it has been Contador, still on appeal for a doping ban arrising from last years Tour de France, who leads in the pink jersey [...]

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Yesterdays 3rd stage of the Giro d’Italia was marred by tragedy yesterday when Belgian Wouter Weylandt passed away following a crash while descending on the Passo del Bocco.

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Garmin-Cervelo rider Johan Van Summeren pulled of a shock victory at the fabled ‘Hell of the North’ yesterday, gaping the field in the final stages to cross the line solo for the biggest win of his career.  Pre-race favourite Fabian Cancellara of Leopard-Trek was second 19 seconds down having chased hard  for almost 60km of [...]

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One of the greatest riders of our time, Fabian Cancellara is an animal in the classics (and the Tour etc.etc.).  Here we take a little look at the rider and the cobbles.

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The governing body of cycling, the UCI, has decided to appeal the acquittal of Spanish rider Alberto Contador arising from his positive test for clenbuterol during the 2010 Tour de France.

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Back to the Volta a Catalunya where Spain’s Alberto Contador took the stage in style with a solo victory by some 23 seconds.  The Saxo Bank rider showed his powerful acceleration to jump clear, only matched by Levi Leipheimer, the American eventually dropped too.

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The season is still young but many of the top Pro stage racing road riders are in Calalan for this seven day race.  Joining the likes of Alberto Contador, Ivan Basso and Cadel Evans are Irish pros Philip Deignan, Dan Martin and Nicolas Roche.  So far things have been fairly standard but today’s (Wednesday) stage [...]

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Giro d’Italia organisers RCS Sport have announced the teams invited to this years race, starting May 7th.

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Triathlon is growing at a phenomenal rate in Ireland with an Ironman 70.3 hitting our shores for the first time this year.  IrishTriathlon and Wicklow Adventure Race director Brian Crinion outlines this exciting discipline and exposes some of the myths.

There are over 200 events every year on the Irish Triathlon calendar. Starting with the [...]

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Team RadioShack’s Markel Irizar is the overall winner of the Vuelta a Andalucía (Ruta Ciclista del Sol). In the fifth and last stage to Antequera, the Basque rider kept his one second advantage over Belgian rider Jurgen Van den Broeck. Levi Leipheimer finished 3rd, 2 seconds behind.

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Continuing our road focus today lets take a look inside the Team Sky service truck courtesy of Shimano.

This is one of the more professional setups on the Pro-Tour circuit and a far cry from what most teams will use even in the bigger Grand Tours.

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SRAM have just released a video of a sneak peak of a new Pro-Tour edition of SRAM Red.  Very little details are available, even the press site has no press release yet.

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Following the various AGMs a number of rule changes have just come into effect, a summary of which is below.

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Just before the American holiday of Thanksgiving Irish journalist Paul Kimmage interviewed Floyd Landis for an article in the Sunday Times.  On Sunday last the article was published in the magazine section of the paper but was written for a general audience. Website nyvelocity managed to get the transcript for the interview from Kimmage who [...]

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A smorgasbord of news today including Ireland’s National XC Marathon Champ Ryan Sherlock, the Lid law in the North and Scalextric’s first cycling set.
Sherlock signs with Kenda-Giant UCI Continental team.

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Saxo bank rider Alberto Contador has received a one year ban from the Spanish Cycling Federation for a positive test for Clenbuterol at the 2010 Tour de France.  As a result he will be stripped of the title should an appeal be unsuccessful.

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With the announcement of the Schleck’s new team Leopard-Trek, many wondered (including us) as to how the team would be represented on the road.  Thankfully the design doesn’t include any spots but is easy on the eye.  Trek have released a video of them building the new teams bikes which apparantly happened in a whirlwind.

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Dan Martin will be racing in a new strip in 2011 as Garmin-Transitions have merged with The Cervelo Test Team.  The iconic Argyle design that has been present in the squad for years, has almost disappeared except for the collar and cuffs.  The overall design is similar to the old Cervelo design.
Garmin retain their headline [...]

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