Blog - Tour de France 2010

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 ...

Video interview Arnaud Coyot on the 2010 Tour of Switzerland: his feelings in the time trial and his chances to be at the 2010 Tour de France!

Last Sunday the Tour of Switzerland 2010 started with an individual time trial in Lugano. After this time trial, during his cooling down, Arnaud Coyot (Caisse d'Epargne) took some time to answer our questions, talk about this time trial and evaluate his chances to participate in the 2010 Tour de France.

In the video interview below you'll discover the answer to the question: will the recent suspension of Alejandro Valverde have a negatif effect on Arnaud's chances to be part of the Caisse d'Epargne selection for the Tour de France 2010 or not?

He even mentions a possibility to win some races in the future ... it would be nice if he would, don't you think?!
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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

After the war between the UCI and A.S.O., a new war between the UCI and the AFLD

While A.S.O. and the UCI are working together in piece since August 2008 (see my article "Did the Tour de France and the UCI manage to find out how to continue together?) - and after the collaboration between the Agence Française de Lutte contre le Dopage (AFLD) with the UCI for the doping checks in the Tour de France - a new war has been declared between the UCI and the AFLD.

It all started with a report the AFLD published early October.

The AFLD report about the problems with the doping checks during the Tour de France 2009