Tag Archive for ‘Team HTC-Columbia’
Cavendish Highlights Team Columbia–HTC Roster for Upcoming Tour of Missouri
Three-time world-champion Michael Rogers and 2007 Tour of Missouri winner George Hincapie also named as part of the squad Jefferson City, MO – Mark Cavendish, who won six stages during the recently completed Tour de France, headlines a star studded international Team Columbia-HTC squad for this year’s Tour of Missouri, scheduled for September 7 – [...]
Cavendish Cruises on Champs-Élysées, Contador Crowned – 96th Tour de France Stage 21
An exultant Alberto Contador (Astana) stood on top of the final Tour de France podium for the second time in his short cycling career. The 2007 Tour de France champion can now boast of consecutive Tour victories (a team exclusion in 2008 prevented him from defending his Tour crown) and a total of four consecutive [...]
Holy Manxman, Cavendish Takes Fifth – 96th Tour de France Stage 19
Sandwiched between the final Individual Time Trial and the climb up the mystical Mont Ventoux, today’s 178 km Stage 19 from Bourgoin-Jallieu to Aubenas was supposed to be a relaxed transitional stage where a break would amble off the front and the peloton would amble, er race, after, but never quite catch them. And for [...]
Deja Dominant, Cavendish Takes Fourth – 96th Tour de France Stage 11
With an uphill finish on today’s 192km Stage 11 from Vatan to Saint Fargeau, Mark Cavendish (Team Columbia – HTC) was not a popular pick to take the victory. Thor Hushovd (Cervelo Test Team) and Oscar Freire (Rabobank) seemed more physically suited for this type of finishing straight and had proven so during the Stage [...]
British Fireworks on Bastille Day – 96th Tour de France Stage 10
On Le Fête Nationale, Bastille Day, the fireworks were supplied, not by a Frenchman, but by a Brit. Mark Cavendish (Team Columbia – HTC), technically from the Isle of Man, showed that he had enough firepower to light up the overcast skies over the Stage 10 finishing town of Issoudun as he easily took the [...]
Ten For Teutenberg
Ina-Yoko Teutenberg continued her recent run of success this past Friday winning Drenthe 8 Van Dwindeloo. Coming off the win at Redlands Classic and perhaps her career highlight, winning Ronde Van Vlaanderen Vrouwen last Sunday, Teutenberg can be very pleased with the way her 2009 season has begun. “If you told me a few weeks [...]
Columbia’s Better Is Better Than Your Better
The town of Toulouse has seen the Tour de France 25 times in its history, the last being in 2003 when the Triple Crankset rode the Tour. Back then, a young Juan Antonio Flecha soloed to victory for his iBanesto.com team and unveiled his signature salute. Today, it was Team Columbia providing all the fireworks. [...]
Cyclist Village Follows The High Road Through France
Social-networking platform to document Team Columbia’s Tour de France trek With all eyes focused on France this month for one of the greatest annual events in all of sports, new social-networking platform Cyclist Village (www.cyclistvillage.com) will take cycling fans behind the scenes to get a unique view into the three-week road show known as the [...]
They Call Him Andre the Giant
I haven’t paid much attention to the Tour Down Under this week, and now it’s over. The lack of any Versus coverage until the Amgen Tour of California doesn’t help.With the first week of the new semester (I teach journalism at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va.), I’ve been busy with that.Heck, I’ve paid more [...]
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