Tag Archive for ‘Tour de l’Aude’
Teutenberg Takes Third Stage, Pooley the Overall – Tour de l’Aude, Stage 9
In the ninth and final stage of the 26th Tour de l’Aude, Germany’s Ina-Yoko Teutenberg (HTC-Columbia) took her third stage of the race and 21st Tour de l’Aude stage of her career. Marianne Vos (Nederland Bloeit) and German Angela Hennig (Noris Cycling) would finish in second and third, respectively. On the 90.5 km stage in [...]
Vos Victorious – Tour de l’Aude, Stage 8
Marianne Vos (Nederland Bloeit), the current number one ranked woman by the UCI, had yet to reap the fruits of her labor in this year’s edition of the Tour de l’Aude Cycliste Féminin. But that finally changed during Saturday’s 112 km Stage 8 form Aunat to Limoux as Vos took the bunch sprint over Ina [...]
Pooley Powers to Stage Win, Solidifies Overall Lead – Tour de l’Aude, Stage 7
Cervelo Test Team’s Emma Pooley captured Friday’s 105 km Stage 7 of Tour de l’Aude Cycliste Féminin and solidified her lead in the General Classification. Australian Emma Mackie (Team TIBCO) began the day’s affairs by going on the attack at the 23km mark. But on another difficult mountainous stage, which featured four categorized climbs, a [...]
Two for Teutenberg – Tour de l’Aude, Stage 6
Ina Yoko Teutenberg (HTC-Columbia) continued her domination over the streets of the Aude region of France by taking her second stage in this year’s Tour de l’Aude Cycliste Féminin, and 20th overall of her career. American Brooke Miller (Team TIBCO) animated Thursday’s 100 km Stage 6 in Castelnaudary early, jumping out of the pack to [...]
Another Day, Another American Victory As Mattis Solos – Tour de l’Aude, Stage 5
While most American cycling fans have been fixated on the events transpiring on the West Coast with the 6th edition of the Amgen Tour of California, an American contingent of women is making some noise in the longest running UCI event on the women’s elite cycle racing calendar, the Tour de l’Aude Cycliste Féminin. A [...]
America’s Abbott Takes Flight, Pooley Climbs Into Jersey – Tour de l’Aude, Stage 4
Resilient Abbott confirms her position as one of America’s top riders, while Cervelo’s Pooley takes the lead in the General Classification. Mara Abbott (US National Team), who rides domestically for the California based Peanut Butter & Co. TWENTY12, was once America’s cycling darling, with many media outlets anointing her the next American World Champion after [...]
Teutenberg Takes Sprint, American Small Third – Tour de l’Aude, Stage 3
Ina Yoko Teutenberg (HTC-Columbia), who has garnered at least one win in each Tour de l’Aude in which she has participated, claimed another by taking Monday’s 110km Stage 3 in Lezignan Corbières. Teutenberg took the initiative early in the stage escaping from the pack with Andrea Bosman (Ned) Leontien.nl at the 14 km mark. The [...]
Cervelo Test Team, Time Trial Strong – Tour de l’Aude, Stage 2
The defending champions of the Tour de l’Aude Feminine did not have much to prove coming into this year’s race; Cervelo Test Team was already considered one of the strongest teams in the women’s professional peloton. But just in case there may have been some doubt to that claim, even after winning the Prologue and [...]
Cervelo Test Team’s Armitstead Rolls, Tour de l’Aude, Stage 1
Great Britain’s Elizabeth Armitstead garnered her biggest victory in her young career yesterday by taking Stage 1 of the Tour de l’Aude. The race was decided fairly early as the precocious 21-year-old and eight others, including America’s Brooke Miller (TIBCO), TIBCO teammate, Emma Mackie, Chantal Blaak (Leontien.nl), Adrie Visser (HTC-Columbia), Romy Kasper (Noris), Loes Gunnewijk [...]
Bruins In A Hurry – Tour de l’Aude, Prologue
The Tour de l’Aude, the longest running tour in women’s cycling, began today with a 3.9 km Prologue in Gruissan. The Netherland’s Annemiek van Vleuten (Nederland Bloeit) set the early mark, being the first to traverse the distance in under five minutes. Van Vleuten would stay in the hot seat until midway through the race, [...]
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