Froome's 'monumental' Tour de France triumph

The winning Froome along with the Sky Team cross finish line [Photo: Guardian]

Britain's Christopher Froome won the 100th edition of the Tour de France cycle race Sunday 21 July yesterday at Paris, France.

28 years old Froome reached the final stage of the Tour by a margin of four minutes 20 seconds from Colombia's Nairo Quintana. Froome was all tears for his significance achievement.

[Photo: BBC]

Froome's success means Britain has now produced two successive Tour de France winners after Sky team-mate Bradley Wiggins last year became the first Briton to win the prestigious event.

Six-time Olympic champion Chris Hoy also hailed Chris Froome's Tour de France triumph as a monumental achievement for Britain. 

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100th Edition Le Tour de France 2013: Watch Live the Final stage - Versailles - Paris Champs Élysées | Free Streaming Online - 21 July

The final phase of the 100th edition of the famous Tour de France cycling competition enters the final stage as cyclists race from Versailles to Paris Champs Élysées Sunday today.

Britain's Kenyan-born Froome’s third-place finish Friday gives him a 5min 3secs advantage in the 100th edition of the sport’s most famous race, and he simply needs to avoid an accident during today’s procession from Versailles to the Champs-Elysees to claim the trophy.

Like Britain's Andy became the first British tennis player to win the Wimbledon tennis after 77 years, Christopher Froome will become the second British cyclist to win the tour in 99 years after Bradley Wiggins's victory last year.

Top 10 riders for today's final phase of Tour de France [Chart]

The route of the final phase is a bit longer than Stage 20 at 133.5 kilometers (83 miles). The final stretch includes 10 laps of a circuit up and down the Champs Élysées. In a departure from the usual route, the riders will be forced to race around the Place d'Etoile instead of the usual turn in front of the Arc de Triomphe, according to the the Tour.

The late start (5:45 p.m. local time) will create a special atmosphere as the riders race toward the finish under the lights in Paris.

The 21st round of the Tour de France race begins Sunday, July 21 at 8 PM. ET | 16:00 GMT

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Armstrong says sorry for taking performance-enhancing drugs

Admitting one's faults and crime is one thing, but publicly apologizing and saying sorry is just another - and perhaps noble.

This is exactly what Lance Armstrong, the seven time Tour de France winner, who was later stripped of his honours for taking energy intensifying banned drugs, finally did in an interview with American chat show queen Oprah Winfrey.

However, after the interview while speaking to CBS this morning about the 'intense and emotional' interview that took place in Austin, Texas, Oprah said: 'He did not come clean in the manner I expected, I was surprised.'

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After years of bitter and forceful denials, he offered a simple 'I’m sorry' to friends and colleagues and then admitted he used performance-enhancing drugs during an extraordinary cycling career that included those seven Tour de France triumphs.

Armstrong is said to have spoken openly to Travis Tygart about doping, claiming it was rampant in all sports, especially NFL football, and that he was being singled out for punishment.

Read details of interviw at: Mail Online

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'Ex Cyclist' Lance Armstrong sued by Sunday Times for £1million

When he was cycling, he was a hero.

Paying for his frauds: Ex Cyclist Lance Armstrong

Now that he has been stripped off of all the honours and awards, including the seven title, he is being pushed into courts for frauds he committed.

The latest is that Lance Armstrong is being sued by The Sunday Times for more than £1million after it lost a libel action to the disgraced cyclist for printing doping claims now known to be true.

It may be added that The Sunday Times paid Armstrong £300,000 in 2006 to settle a case after it reprinted claims from a book alleging that Armstrong had taken performance-enhancing drugs.When he was cycling, he was a hero.

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He is expected to lose out on £30 million in sponsorship over next five years. The Sunday Times, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., said its total claim against Armstrong is 'likely to exceed' £1 million pounds

Read more about it at: Mail Online

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Armstrong stripped of titles - and banned for life

Lance Armstrong was stripped on Monday of his seven Tour de France titles and banned for life by the governing body of cycling following a report from the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency that has accused him of leading a massive doping programme on his teams.

Doping: Lance Armstrong stripped of titles and banned for life

International Cycling Union (UCI) president Pat McQuaid said the USADA’s report had been accepted and they would not appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. “Lance Armstrong has no place in cycling and he deserves to be forgotten in cycling,” Mr. McQuaid said at a news conference. “This is a landmark day for cycling.”

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The decision clears the way for Tour de France organisers to officially remove Armstrong’s name from the record books, erasing his consecutive victories from 1999 to 2005.

Read moe about it at The Hindu

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Team GB fail to pick up a medal on the opening day

It was just one of a number of disapointments suffered by Team GB on a day when none of their medal hopefuls were able to secure a place on the podium.

Mark Cavendish's girlfriend looked on with daughter Delilah as the cyclist suffered heartache on the roads [Photo: AFP/Getty Images]

As for tennis, it looked as if Murray brothers  were not playing for gold, but defeat still hurt for Andy and Jamie Murray as they lost on the grass of Wimbledon in the first round of the Olympic men's doubles.

In a very tight battle with Austria's Jurgen Melzer and Alexander Peya they went down 5-7, 7-6 (8/6), 7-5 after two hours and 23 minutes.

And then, much touted Mark Cavendish failed to challenge in the men's cycling road race and - along with teammates Bradley Wiggins, Chris Froome, David Millar and Ian Stannard - finished way out of contention.

Read more:Daily Mail

Cycling result bursts Britain's bubble at Olympics

Britain’s glow from the glittering Olympic opening ceremony didn’t extend to the men’s cycling road race Saturday, where Mark Cavendish was expected to bring the host country its first gold medal of the London Games. 


Cavendish finished 29th after his Great Britain team-mates failed to reel in a late breakaway in the 250km race that finished on The Mall.

Instead it was doping-tainted Alexander Vinokourov of Kazakhstan celebrating in the Mall outside Buckingham Palace after winning the 250-kilometer race in a closing sprint and leaving Cavendish well back in the pack.

“It’s just unbelievable,” said Vinokourov, who won Olympic silver in the road race at Sydney in 2000. “I finished the Tour de France a little tired, but the Olympics, I must go there.”

Read more: Arab News

Wiggins wins 2012 Tour de France

While Andy Murray's dream to become the first Britain to win the Wimbledon title in 73 years and also for his first could not materialize recently, the there was a blanket of sadness all over Britain. 

Jubilant Wiggins - the first British cyclist to win the Tour de France [ Photo: Getty Images / BBC Sport ]

But now there are good tidings for Britain as Bradley Wiggins becomes the first British rider to win the Tour de France. as compatriot Mark Cavendish claimed a fourth consecutive final-stage victory Wiggins, 32, finished in the chasing peloton in Sunday's final stage around the streets of Paris with a winning margin of three minutes and 21 seconds.

Fellow Brit and Team Sky team-mate Chris Froome consolidated second place with Italy's Vincenzo Nibali third.

Read more: BBC Sport

Bradley Wiggins on verge of winning Tour de France

For Bradley Wiggins, the champagne on the Champs-Elysees is about to flow.

Photo credit: AP | Bradley Wiggins of Britain, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, bows to cheering spectators on the podium of the 19th stage of the the Tour de France. (July 21, 2012)

He all but locked up the Tour de France title with a tour-de-force performance to win the final time trial - putting him on the cusp of becoming the first Briton to win cycling's showpiece race.

Wiggins blew away the field in Saturday's race against the clock in Stage 19, his second Tour victory this year in a time trial, his specialty.

"I really wanted to go out there and finish with a bang, and fortunately I was able to do that," said Wiggins, noting he realized the breadth of emotion when he spotted his mechanic in tears.

Read more: NewsDay

Tour de France 2012: Voeckler wins Stage 16

Europcar’s Thomas Voeckler produced a stunning performance to clinch stage 16 of the Tour de France on Wednesday, a 197-kilometre trek from Pau to Bagneres-de-Luchon.

Jubilant Voeckler after his Stage 16win

The 33 year old, fourth overall last year, held his nerve to drop the members of a 38-man breakaway one by one and secure his second stage win.

Britain’s Bradley Wiggins finished safely to retain the yellow jersey heading into stage 18, while defending champion Cadel Evans had yet another disappointing day.

Read more / watch video: EuroNews

Track Cycling World Championships in Melbourne: Three world records shatter at Worlds meet

Defending champion Anna Meares of Australia set the first of three world records in qualifying on the second day of the Track Cycling World Championships yesterday.

Meares’ time of 10.782 seconds in the flying 200m at the Hisense Arena easily eclipsed the old mark of 10.793 set by Lithuania’s Simona Krupeckaite in Moscow in 2010.

The Australian women’s team pursuit squad of Josephine Tomic, Melissa Hoskins and Annette Edmondson broke the second record of the day with a time of 3 minutes, 17.053 seconds to better the mark of 3:18.148 set by Britain at February’s track world cup in London.

Read details: Taipei Times

Cycling: Paris to Nice [Second Stage] Live Streaming Links

Paris to Nice cycling is annual event since almost a decade now. It is an eight-days event that passes through some of the beautiful countryside in Europe. The race is also known as the Race to the Sun. Why it is called, can be anybody's guess.

The participants will cover a total distance of 1252.8 km over 8 stages and in 8 grueling days. The race has since started on 4 March in Dampierre-en-Yvelines and will end on 11 March in Nice. 

The weather is always unpredictable during this race. While weather at the start may be sketchy, it is often experienced that the race never finished under a sunny sky in Nice.


In the first stage, Great Britain's Bradley Wiggins finished second in stage one of Paris-Nice as the Team Sky rider completed the 9.4-kilometre time-trial from Dampierre-en-Yvelines to Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse one second behind Sweden's Gustav Larsson on Sunday, 4 March.

The Stage-2 of the race planned on 5th March would be from Mantes-la-Jolie to Orléans, stretched over a distance of 185.5 km (115.3 miles).

The live coverage of the Stage -2 will start by 14:00 GMT.

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Track World Cup: Laura Trott wins bronze

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Great Britain's Laura Trott won a second medal of the week by taking bronze in the omnium at the Track World Cup in Colombia.

The 19-year-old finished third in the individual pursuit and fifth in the scratch race before winning the time trial to give her a score of 29 points. Trott won a gold medal in the team pursuit earlier in the week