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Tour de France 2013: Chris Froome victorious in stage eight Tour de France video highlights indexPrevious | British cyclist Chris Froome wins stage eight of the Tour de France on Saturday. On the race's first proper day in the mountains, Froome crossed the finish line 51 seconds ahead of Team Sky teammate Richie Porte. The pair moved into first and second place overall. Froome attacked on the final climb, pulling away from rivals Alberto Contador and Alejandro Valverde Sourc...e: L'EquipeLength: 3min 32secSaturday 6 July 2013 Share inShare EmailShareEmbedAutoplay settings More on this story Froome claims yellow jersey Tour de France: Chris Froome moved into the Tour's yellow jersey with an impressive show of strength from Team Sky Chris Froome: 'I feel strange' Show all Sport videos

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Tour de France 2013: Orica-GreenEdge win stage four as Simon Gerrans wins yellow jersey, as Orica-GreenEdge storm to victory in the team time trial Pancake flat and very fast, this looks easy in itself, but will be a nasty little test after the toughest opening three days since 1992. Times are taken on the fifth rider to cross the line, so the team that wins will have a nucleus of strong rouleurs who have got through the previous two days of climbing without too much damag...Continue reading

Simon Gerrans wins Stage 3 in TDF 2013 Tour de France 2013: Simon Gerrans wins stage three as Peter Sagan settles for consecutive second-place finishes Geraint Thomas offered his very own definition of sporting courage here in Corsica when he defied the excruciating pain of a cracked pelvis to cycle for 145.5km over a fiendishly twisting mountainous course and force himself to the end of the third stage of the Tour de France....Continue reading

Jan Bakelants Triumphant in Second Stage of Tour de France Belgium's Jan Bakelants won the second stage of the Tour de France Sunday to take the yellow jersey on his debut in the famous race. The 27-year-old, who rides for the RadioShack Leopard team, held off the charging peloton to win by just a single second after the 158km from Bastia to Ajaccio.... Slovakia's Peter Sagan and Poland's Michal Kwiatkowski finished second and third in their desperate bid to overhaul Bakelants. Race favorite Chris Froome of Britain also made his presence felt for the first time, stretching clear on the final of four climbs on the day, before slowing up to allow a group of six riders, including Bakelants, to make their bid for victory. "I saw that, in the last 500 meters that I still had a gap and I said, 'Come one, hold this. It's going to be the nicest day of your life!' And then I did it," he told the official Tour de France website. "I knew I would probably also take this yellow jersey and it's incredible. Maybe it'll be the first and the last time in my career but today I wear it," he added. It was his first win since turning professional in 2009 and he is the first Belgian a stage in the Tour de France since Jelle Vanendert in 2011. He leads the overall standings by that single second from a host of riders, including Froome, 2011 Tour winner Cadel Evans and Spain's Alberto Contador, who had taken a nasty tumble in the chaotic end to the first stage Saturday. Marcel Kittel of Germany won the opening stage, but on the mountainous terrain of Corsica could not stay with the peloton and finished 17 minutes 30 seconds adrift. Britain's sprint ace Mark Cavendish suffered a similar fate but last year's green jersey winner Sagan did grab valuable points in this year's battle with his second place. Young French hopeful Pierre Rolland of Europcar claimed the polka dot jersey for the leader of the King of the Mountains classification after reaching the summit of the Col de Vizzanova in first place. After the incredible events of the first day, when a team bus blocked the finish line, the stage passed off smoothly. Omega Pharma-QuickStep's German star Tony Martin survived to the finish despite being hospitalized after a heavy fall in the crash which also claimed Contador. The third and final leg of the Tour in Corsica will be a 145-km ride from Ajaccio to Calvi Monday.

Kittel Wins Stage 1

Marcel Kittel Wins Opener at TDF 2013 BASTIA, Corsica Riders at the Tour de France know to expect the unexpected. But nothing could have prepared them for the mayhem that turned Saturday’s first stage of the 100th Tour into a demolition derby on two wheels. Seemingly for the first time at the 110-year-old race, one of the big buses that carry the teams around France when they’re not on their bikes got stuck at the finish line, literally wedged under scaffolding, unable to m...Continue reading

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The Lineup Most of the 22 teams for the 100th Tour de France have released the names of their nine riders. The official start list will not be ready until the afternoon of 28 June, but letour.fr will list more selections every day. Omega Pharma-QuickStep, ORICA GreenEDGE, RadioShack-Leopard and Belkin ProCycling, Katusha, Lotto-Belisol, Cannondale Pro Cycling, Vacansoleil-DCM and Cofidis but already been featured and, in part three, we look at BMC, Movistar, FDJ.fr, Argos-Shi...Continue reading

TDF 2013 - The Route Stage 1 213 kmPorto-Vecchio / Bastia Stage 2 156 kmBastia / Ajaccio Stage 3 145.5 kmAjaccio / Calvi... Stage 4 25 kmNice / Nice Stage 5 228.5 kmCagnes-sur-Mer / Marseille Stage 6 176.5 kmAix-en-Provence / Montpellier Stage 7 205.5 kmMontpellier / Albi Stage 8 195 kmCastres / Ax 3 Domaines Stage 9 168.5 kmSaint-Girons / Bagnères-de-Bigorre Rest day Saint-Nazaire Stage 10 197 kmSaint-Gildas-des-Bois / Saint-Malo Stage 11 33 kmAvranches / Mont-Saint-Michel Stage 12 218 kmFougères / Tours Stage 13 173 kmTours / Saint-Amand-Montrond Stage 14 191 kmSaint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule / Lyon Stage 15 242.5 kmGivors / Mont Ventoux Rest day Vaucluse Stage 16 168 kmVaison-la-Romaine / Gap Stage 17 32 kmEmbrun / Chorges Stage 18 172.5 kmGap / Alpe-d’Huez Stage 19 204.5 kmBourg-d’Oisans / Le Grand-Bornand Stage 20 125 kmAnnecy / Annecy - Semnoz Stage 21 133.5 kmVersailles / Paris Champs-Élysées See more

A Perfect 100th Tour de France Are you ready to roll TCB fans ? The 100th Tour de France will be contested entirely in France and the route for this special edition offers fans from around the world a chance to see some truly magnificent aspects of the host country. Between the start in Porto Vecchio and finish in Paris, the 2013 event will visit 10 UNESCO World Heritage sites - while many other spectacular locations will be seen by a global audience.... There will be a vast array of things to admire on the route of the 2013 Tour de France: from the Gothic cathedral in Albi, to the imposing military fortress in Saint-Malo, and onward to the magnificent medieval town of Mont-Saint-Michel, this is a Tour that's perfect for tourists. There are historic sites mixed with futuristic architecture from Postman Cheval's Ideal Palace in Hauterives or the impressive new MuCEM in Marseilles the visual treats extend well beyond the sight of the peloton. The terrain may be ideal for this sporting challenge but the route also exposes fans to many other elements of France. Tourists and television viewers alike will be lured in by the beauty of the stages of a route that takes the Tour to Corsica for the first time. In the opening stanza of the race, the peloton will past the beautiful cliffs of Bonifacio, the creeks of Piana, and the peaks of Bavella. After leaving the ‘Island of Beauty', the theme of water will stay in the spotlight; there's a visit to the Promenade des Anglais in Nice and the traditional visits to both the Pyrenees and Alps. The final time trial comes early (stage 17) and it takes the Tour to the shores of Serre-Ponçon. Other sites for tourists this July include the old city of Lyon and Vaison-la-Romaine, and the chateaux of the Loire Valley. And, on the final day, the stage to Paris will start in Versailles. Before the winner's jersey is presented, however, there will be a twilight journey through the heart of the capital of France. The peloton will race through the City of Lights at dusk on the final day that is destined to be spectacular. Even after the race is over, there are treats for the spectators including a light show on the Arc de Triomphe after the presentation of the champion's yellow jersey.

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