The favorites in the 2010 Tour de France had an uneventful day. Stage 10 was a classic rolling stage with a break of riders too far down the general classification to raise the interest of the peloton. Radio Shack’s Sergio Paulinho took the two man sprint for the win. Fourteen minutes later the main group …
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Southeast riders: Tour de France stage 9
Without a doubt Cadel Evans of Team BMC put in a heroic ride in today’s stage 9 of the Tour de France. Unknown to almost everyone, including his teammates, the Australian was riding with a fractured elbow. Team manager Jim Ochowicz said, “We didn’t want to let our competitors know and have them attacking Cadel …
Southeast riders: Tour de France review
Today’s stage 8 of the Tour de France lived up to the promise of shaking up the general classification. Beyond the drama of Lance Armstrong crashing out of the overall contention, Cadel Evans of Team BMC and teammate to Southeast riders George Hincapie and Brent Brookwalter took the yellow jersey from the back of Frenchman …
Southeast riders: Stage 2 Tour de France
Yesterday BMC’s George Hincapie and Brent Bookwalter escaped the chaos in the final three kilometers of stage 1. Today in stage 2 of the Tour de France (Brussels to Spa) the descent of the Stockeu, according to the riders, was as slick as ice and the Greenville resident wasn’t so lucky. According to a team …
Southeast racers at the Tour de France: Hincapie and Bookwalter
Of the two-hundred riders contesting the 2010 edition of the Tour de France, eight of them are American and out of that select group two are from the Southeast: Brent Bookwalter of Athens, Georgia and George Hincapie, a Greenville, South Carolina native – both from Team BMC. Throughout the Tour de France Carolina Cycling News …