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PARIS ” If he’s looking for a reason to skip the Tour de France, Lance Armstrong now has a big one: Mont Ventoux. In a break with tradition, the notorious mountain ascent will be featured on the ...

The only thing keeping Spain‘s Alberto Contador from his second overall Tour de France title was Saturday’s punishing climb to the top of Mont Ventoux. Contador passed the final test in style.

Lance Armstrong isn't convinced that Tadej Pogacar is actually struggling. The American analyzed the sixteenth stage of the Tour de France, in which Pogacar smashed the record time on Mont Ventoux, in ...

AUBENAS, France -- It's too bad Alberto Contador leads the Tour de France by more than four minutes. Today's 20th stage of the race's 96th edition really could have been something. Instead, it will ...

AUBENAS, France -- After three weeks and thousands of miles of riding, it all comes down to this: a soaring bald mountain in Provence where the Tour de France can be won or lost. The fabled and ...

AVIGNON, France (AFP) – Tour de France leader Chris Froome on Monday hit out at critics who believe he could be following in the footsteps of shamed drugs cheat Lance Armstrong after his stunning win ...

Alberto Contador all but sealed his second Tour de France title yesterday, keeping the yellow jersey after a punishing mountain ride in the next-to-last stage. And almost certain to join him on the ...

It was around 9p.m. as Versus lead Tour de France analyst Phil Liggett in Montélimar was going over his notes and doing his best to relax the night before the biggest stage yet of the Tour de France.

MONT VENTOUX, France — The name means “windy mountain” and that it is. Some of the most extreme gales ever recorded have battered this forboding limestone hump that, by any definition, is the ...