Blog - Tour de France

2010 Tour de France: why Mark Cavendish didn't win the green jersey

Several people came to ask me about it in the past few days ... and several of my customers in the Tour de France 2010 were also wondering about the same question ... How come Mark Cavendish (HTC-Columbia) wins 5 stages in a sprint (the small rider from the Isle of Man seems to have found back his sprinters legs he was looking for since the start of the season) while he didn't win the green jersey of best sprinter?

Indeed, Alessandro Petacchi (Lampre-Farnese Vini) took - almost a week ago already - home the precious green tissue. How could Ale-Jet (who won "only" 2 stages) beat Cav like this?

The answer to this question could be very short and simple: simply because the Italian rider has shown a more regular performance than the British sprinter. Since I saw this question popp ...

2010 Tour de France: Fabian Cancellara wins the prologue in Rotterdam

This afternoon the prologue of the Tour de France 2010 took place in Rotterdam in The Netherlands. For the 4th time in the history of the Tour de France, Fabian Cancellara (Team Saxo Bank) won this initial individual time trial and thus took the first yellow jersey of the 97th edition of the Tour.

Partially run under the rain, this time trial has become more dangerous for some riders, but Spartacus was lucky ... the sun popped through again when he did his solitary effort.

The summary of the prologue of the Tour de France 2010

The list of participating riders for the 2010 Tour de France and their numbers

As you probably know by now, the Tour de France 2010 will start in Rotterdam on Saturday (see my article The 2010 Tour de France route on Google Maps/Google Earth and the route and time schedule for detailed information about the route). While the official website indicates the participating riders are not known yet, they actually are now ...

In this article you'll thus discover the list of riders who will come to the start of the Tour de France 2010 and who'll do all they can to finish the 3,642 kilometers up to Paris where they'll finish on Sunday 25 July 2010. You'll ...

2010 Tour de France teaser Dutch TV: a wheel on the Erasmusbridge

On Saturday, the Tour de France 2010 will start in Rotterdam (The Netherlands). The NOS, the Dutch equivalent of the BBC, is ready for it and announces this to the Dutch spectators with an original teaser ....

NOS 2010 Tour de France teaser

The 2010 Tour de France route on Google Maps/Google Earth and the route and time schedule

With only one week to go until the start of the Tour de France 2010 it definitely became urgent to provide you, as usual with the different cycling races and most specially for the Tour de France, the Tour de France 2010 route on Google Maps/Google Earth!

In this article you'll find the time- and route schedules, the stage profiles and the route of each of the stages on Google Maps. At the end of this article you can also download a file which allows you to view the whole Tour de France 2010 route in Google Earth and, if you want to, to make a virtual fly-over over one or more stages just lik ...

St Michel presents its activities in and around the Tour de France 2010 as official supplier of Galettes and Madeleines

A few days ago, you could read all informations about the official syrup of the Tour de France 2010, Teisseire, here, today it's up to the Galettes et Madeleines officielles of the Tour de France to present their activities in and around the Tour.

Let's have a look at St Michel, in the advertising caravan, in the cities the Tour passes through and on the Internet!

St Michel presents itself as the 100-year-old with the same values, same spirit and same love for tradition as the Tour de France. Indeed, the family company was created in 1905, only 2 years after the start of the first Tour de France in Montgéron and becomes Official Supplier of the most important cycling event in the world in 2010, thus introducing t ...

A colourful Tour de France 2010 with Teisseire

The information rayon-boissons.com published on 23 February 2010 has been confirmed today by the syrup brand and by the Tour de France's official web site (at 93 days from the start).

Teisseire not only becomes one of the brands of the advertising caravan in the Tour de France 2010, but also "sirop officiel" until 2013!

When the site rayon-boissons.com announced the information a bit more than a month ago, it seemed as if the brand would only be present in the advertising caravan of the Tour, without however becoming a sponsor of the event (especially because the logo didn't appear on the ...

The selected teams for the Tour de France 2010

Two days after the Critérium International 2010, Amaury Sport Organisation (A.S.O.) published the list of the 22 teams which will participate in the Tour de France 2010. It was quite clear that this list would make some teams happy while others would of course be disappointed, because at least 3 of the teams who requested an invitation would receive a negative answer.

The teams which were sure to participate

The Critérium International 2010 in Corsica: a test for a Grand Départ of the Tour de France 2013?

Updated on Wednesday 3 February 2010: the route (stage cities) of the Critérium International 2010 has been announced

The Critérium International 2010 in Porto-Vecchio

The Grand Départ (start) of the 2011 Tour de France in the Vendée confirmed, without prologue

Announced on paris.thover.com since January 2008 already and recently confirmed, the Grand Départ of the 2011 Tour de France from Vendée has officially been presented today.

The department on the west coast of France will organise a first stage in line, a team time trial and the start of another stage in line.
Let's discover the details of this Grand Départ ...

The Grand Départ of the 2011 Tour de France and the stage cities of the first stages