Every Tour de France has a number of crash-filled stages … today’s Stage 9 alone saw the exits of Team Astana’s Alexander Vinokourov (broken femur) … likely a career-ending injury since Vino planned to retire after this season, Garmin-Cervélo’s Dave Zabriskie (broken wrist), and OmegaPharma-Lotto’s Juergen Van den Broucke (broken shoulder) and Frederik Willems (broken [...]
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Azizulhasni Awang, post-crash at the Manchester World Cup Keirin MANCHESTER, England (AFP) – Sir Chris Hoy escaped a spectacular crash in the keirin on Saturday during the UCI track cycling World Cup meeting in Manchester, England, winning an event that saw Malaysian Azizulhasni Awang cross the line with a seven-inch splinter of wood embedded [...] View Ascent activity on 23-Dec-10 at 01:22PM in a larger map This was one of the most exhilarating and painful things I’ve done in a long time. First time back on the bike after breaking my arm on September 25 … 11 miles, about 800 feet of climbing, and I felt it all; legs and [...] As some of you know, I crashed hard a couple weeks ago (September 25, 2010), and broke my arm good … a clean break of the humerus at the surgical neck. As near as I can tell, I hit a small sinkhole in the pavement … not a pothole, because the asphalt is still there, [...] Saxo Bank’s Jens Voigt shrugged off the pain of yet another crash at the Tour de France. On stage 16 Tuesday, Voigt was hurtling down the descent of the Col de Peyresourde, the first of four mountain passes, when he suffered a puncture and crashed at top speed. The German managed to avoid a repeat [...] Mark Cavendish has been catching a lot of heat for causing the crash in Tuesday’s stage at the Tour of Switzerland, but when you watch the video of the crash, it’s really not that clear. I see Cavendish throwing his bike left to right as he is accelerating, but he is still holding his [...] Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Transitions) won a very messy second stage of the Giro d’Italia on Sunday, outsprinting the remnants of a peloton shattered by a series of crashes in the 210km race from Amsterdam to Utrecht in the Netherlands. The stage was tailor-made for a bunch sprint, following a relatively flat and twisting route through the [...] Tour de France: Jens Voigt has keenly negotiated the ups and downs of professional cycling – ESPN BOURG-SAINT-MAURICE, France — Let’s pause and, for just a moment, put peloton politics and doping speculation and Contador versus Armstrong aside to celebrate the career of the most conscientious man in the business, Jens Voigt. It was horrifying [...] |
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