De Gendt foils sprinters. Sunny team wins in Paris-Nice.
This is Paris-Nice, the Race to the Sun. Who else would win but the team of Vacansoleil, the Sunny Vacationers. Thomas De Gendt, FDJ’s Jérémy Roy and Leopard Trek’s Jens Voigt rode a tailwind into...
View ArticleHenderson wins Paris-Nice stage 2.
Sky doing jack! Greg Henderson (Team Sky) won the mass, everybody go! sprint in Amilly after a text-book lead-out from teammate Geraint Thomas. Director Sportif Shaun Yates admitted his boys “didn’t do...
View ArticleVoeckler takes Paris-Nice stage 4 in breakaway.
A slight miscalculation, an error in timing, not fatal unless you’re a sprinter planning to win the fourth stage of Paris-Nice from Creches sur Saone to Belleville. To be precise, a thirteen second...
View ArticleKlöden wins stage four of Paris-Nice. Age is just a number.
The Radio Shack double shot took control of Paris-Nice. Old man Andreas Klöden won the stage and yanked the yellow jersey off Thomas de Gendt while young gun Janez Brajkovic rolled in seventh. Both...
View ArticleMartin dominates Paris-Nice time trial. German in yellow.
Tony Martin does a killer Spartacus imitation. Germany’s young Tony Martin crushed the race of truth in Paris Nice, averaging 48.5km/h on a rolling course to Aix-en-Provence. He beat a strong and...
View ArticleDi Gregorio wins miserable stage 7 in Paris-Nice.
“I’ve done Paris-Nice twice and I’ve done Tirreno twice, and I’d be perfectly happy never to go back to Paris-Nice again in my career.” That was Tyler Farrar’s explanation for why he’s racing in Italy...
View ArticleVoeckler shows panache, Martin wins overall in Paris-Nice.
The French love panache — after all, they invented the word. The definition is someone, in this case a bike racer in Paris-Nice, who has a “dashing confidence of style, or shows a certain flamboyance...
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