While ultimately the day belonged to Alberto Contador, the Paris finale offered a fitting stage for Bathurst’s Mark Renshaw to come a brilliant second to Britain’s Mark Cavendish.
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Cycling winning the war against drugs
The Tour de France reached such a nadir in the 2006-08 period that something had to be done about the mainly older generation of cheats, says Brendan Gallagher. Now, there are reasons to feel positive.
A final tour of the Tour de France
From sulkiest rider to most unusual press freebie, Alasdair Fotheringham looks at the things that made this year’s Tour de France buzz.
Tour de France: Evans falters as Contador steams ahead
For Australia’s cycling cheer squad, the extent of Cadel Evans’ demise has come as a genuine shock. So how did Australia’s golden boy from a genuine yellow jersey chance to 12th place?
The agony of the Tour de France (and middle-aged cyclists)
While Julius Caesar feared the Ides of March, for those of us lucky enough to live with a cyclist, it is the whole month of July that we dread.
Lance v Alberto: Tour de France tension is climbing
The most tense spot on the Tour right now is within the Astana team. With stage 17 of the Tour de France ended — won by Frank Schleck — Lance Armstrong has again slammed his team leader Alberto Contador.
Tonight the Tour de France surely ignites?
Tonight’s brute of a 223km stage of La Grande Boucle offers any rider outside the Astana team their first realistic moment of truth since the Trans France Express took control of the race on just the fourth day.
Tour De France: Bastille Day offers palace plots and intrigues
What could be more French than on Bastille Day for the Tour De France to wake up all kinds of political machinations thick in the air.
Aussies prang as Tour de Lance invades Andorra
Just when you thought things couldn’t get worse for Australia in the Tour De France…
Tour de France: sport’s ultimate enfant terrible faces doping chaos
The Tour de France is now beset by more drug controversies in its lead-up than ever before.
Tour de France winner’s cancer to ignite drugs debate?
Fignon’s cancer is bound to reignite debate about the potential grave medical consequences from the taking of performance enhancing drugs, writes Ross Stapleton.
Colombian cyclists carving up the world circuit
A bicycle race in Bogota, Colombia, can involve charging through a crime-ridden slum, swerving down potholed streets to avoid drunken men and being chased by dogs. It’s not quite the Tour de France, but…
How to win the Tour de France, part two
Ever wondered how the Tour de France works. Here is the second in a two part series on how the great race is run and won. By freelance journalist Nahum Ayliffe.
How to win the Tour de France, part one
Ever wondered how the Tour de France works. Here is the first in a two part series on how the great race is run and won. By freelance journalist ,Nahum Ayliffe.
Has the Tour de France turned the doping corner?
There have been drug cheats caught at this year’s Tour de France, but unlike previous years, it has not brought the event to its knees. Has the sport turned the corner? Nahum Alyiffe investigates.
Drugs, cycling and the lure of filthy lycra
It’s an odd phenomenon, and one that’s difficult to explain, but the popularity of the Tour de France increases exponentially each year in Australia in almost inverse proportion to the event’s credibility, says Charles Happell.
