Phew! I don’t know about you, but I would be tired from all that riding and racing. And so is the peloton. So today is a day off for the riders as they travel down to Bordeaux for tomorrow’s 169.5 km Stage 9 from Bordeaux to Dax.
T-Mobile’s riders are still safe atop the General Classification in the 2006 Tour de France after today’s 181 km stage from St-Meen-le-Grand to Lorient on the Brittany coast. The stage was won by Frenchman Sylvain Calzati who broke away from the peloton along with five other riders after 47 km in the race. Most of […]
If you weren’t expecting to see a T-Mobile jersey on this page (signifying the leader of the Tour de France), then you probably aren’t alone. With Jan Ullrich out of the race, it seemed to many commentators like T-Mobile was just along for the ride in this year’s Tour. Sergei Gonchar (UKR) and Michael Rogers […]
Robbie McEwen (AUS) did it again today, winning his third stage of the 2006 Tour de France, edging out Italy’s Danielle Bennati and yellow jersey wearer Tom Boonen (BEL) at the finish line of today’s 189 km stage from Lisieux to Vitre. A three-man break took of after about 74 km and they weren’t caught […]
I just learned that nominations are open for the 2006 PodCast Awards. It will only take a second of your time to CLICK HERE and nominate The FredCast in the Sports category. You will be asked for the name of the podcast (The FredCast) and the web site (https://thefredcast.com). You will also be asked for […]
Today’s 225 km stage from Beuvais to Caen was dominated by the breakaway of two riders that began 20 km from the start and continued up until just the last few kilometers from the finish. Normally, the peloton catches up to the break much sooner, and for a time it looked like the break might […]
With Tom Boonen (BEL) in yellow and Danielle Bennati (ITA) wearing Boonen’s green jersey, the peloton headed out of Huy, Belgium, today on a 207km stage to Saint-Quentin in northern France. The pack quickly separated into two sections after a break by Egoi Martinez (ESP/Discovery) at the 18.5 km mark , with a five-man break […]
For The Week of July 3, 2006 In this show’s news: The Tour de France is underway!; News from the Prologue through Stage 3; More News and Thoughts on Doping; Garmin delays Mac Support; a new hour record; and more. In the feature section: ‘Bents on the FredCast; PocketPC program for tracking Le Tour; Tour […]
T-Mobile’s Matthias Kessler (GER) took today’s tough 216.5km stage from Esch-sur-Alzette to Valkenburg by chasing down long-time stage leader Jose Luis Arrieta (ESP) from the AG2R team and then outsprinting Michael Boogard on the final climb, to win the stage 5 seconds ahead of any other cyclist. Kessler had made an attempt to win yesterday’s […]
In a show of “turnabout is fair play,” Thod Hushovd (NOR used some of George Hincapie’s (USA) own strategy today to retake the yellow jersey and the lead in the 2006 Tour de France. Despite the injury to his arm from yesterday’s Stage 1 finish line run-in with a huge green plastic hand (which required […]
