Cavendish closes on record Tour stage wins

Sagan, in second place, has another chance at yellow on Sunday, but his Tinkoff team isn’t quite as strong as BMC or Sky in the TTT. “This morning we were honoured at the presentation for being the best team yesterday”.

“It’s a very tricky team time-trial given it’s very undulating”.

Contador fell off his bike just before the start, but the Spaniard got back on and continued.

“Given what happened a year ago, it was a big goal for me mentally rather than physically to arrive with the attitude that Im here to ride at the front of the race, ” Froome said after Fridays seventh stage. “Mark Cavendish makes me cheering in my hospital bed”.

Nairobi-born Froome, 30, said: “That was a tough climb, but my team-mates did a great job to bring me to the front”.

Martin, meanwhile, appeared frustrated as he crossed the line, seemingly annoyed at a missed opportunity to claim a stage win.

“The gap was there and I just went for it. Greipel’s a gentleman he could have closed it – Sagan would have closed it”, said Cavendish.

He leads two-time Tour champion Alberto Contador by 36 seconds, defending champion Vincenzo Nibali by 1:38 and Nairo Quintana, the 2013 runner-up, by 1:56. “To be honest I dont really know the Mur de Bretagne, Im going to be doing a bit of studying tonight.”.

American Greg Lemond did likewise in 1991 after Dane Rolf Sorensen crashed just before the finish in Valenciennes.

Tour de France Standing 2015 delivered a stunning run this Saturday July 11, 2015.

The day started once again with the early break easily established but like in the days before the peloton was never prepared to give them much room to play.

The Mur is not as hard to negotiate as the organizers believed and the simple fact that a lot of riders managed to get to the finish in a bunch meant that it was hard to navigate between them and launch a decisive attack.

But the 30-year-old chose to bide his time before surging to his first win since the 2013 Tour and move two behind Bernard Hinault’s tally of stage wins. Fans from all over Africa have taken notice. They live for cycling, for riding bikes.

“Paris is going to be outrageous, it will be incredible”, Ryder said.

“This has been like a movie, an emotional roller coaster at this Tour”, Martin said.

Cocaine is among a class of stimulants whose use is banned only in competition. He became the second race leader to pull out of the race, after Swiss rider Fabian Cancellara fractured two vertebrae in his lower back on Monday. In March, the one-day classics specialist posted his first victory In almost two years to win Gent-Wevelgem.

This time there was no crash near the finish, like the one on Thursdays sixth stage that cost Tony Martin a broken collarbone, forcing him to withdraw while wearing the race leaders yellow jersey.

(AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani). The breakaway group with Eritrea’s Daniel Teklehaimanot, wearing the best climber’s dotted jersey, Luis Angel Mate Mardones of Spain, Brice Feillu of France, Croatia’s Kristijan Durasek and Anthony Delaplace of France, from…

Etixx-Quick Step manager Patrick Lefevere thought Tony Martin had a serious problem when he saw the German rider celebrating with his teammates after pulling out of the Tour de France.