Ag2r-La Mondiale

Following the socialist triumph in the French election, aristocrats and bankers have requested transfers to the City. And La Mondiale Europartner, the wealth management subsidiary of France’s fourth-biggest insurer AG2R La Mondiale, wasn’t far behind.  

Sighs of relief at AG2R La MondialeCyclingnews.comSébastien Hinault (AG2R La Mondiale) wins stage 3 at Circuit de Lorraine and ends the 2012 victory drought for his team. It had been more than seven months since French team AG2R La Mondiale had won a race, but on Friday, May 18, 2012, the curse was ...  

Rabottini escaped from the peloton alongside Frenchman Guillaume Bonnafond (Ag2r-La Mondiale ... over the peloton to almost five minutes – putting Cunego, the ‘Little Prince’, in virtual pink. Riding with both verve and passion, Rabottini was ...  

La Mondiale Europartner has unveiled its wealth management service in the UK, offering a range of RDR-ready investment portfolios and services for high net worth clients. The firm, which is the international division of French insurer AG2R La ...  

The group consisted of Voigt, Horner, George Bennett (NZL), Gregory Rast (SUI), all of RadioShack-Nissan-Trek; Timothy Duggan (USA) of Liquigas-Cannondale; Maxime Bouet (FRA) and Mikael Cherel (FRA) of AG2R La Mondiale; Marc De Maar (AHO) and Bradley White ...  

VeloNationAg2r La Mondiale's long wait ends with two victories in one dayVeloNationEarlier today Sébastien Hinault (pictured) ended a long, somewhat embarrassing drought for the Ag2r La Mondiale team, which had been the only WorldTour team without a victory. Hinault spared the team its blushes when he won stage three of the Circuit ...Sylvain Georges' stage 6 solo effort: a 'beautiful' win indeedvelonews.competitor.comall 8 news articles »  

Leigh Howard (AUS) of Orica-GreenEDGE ... Lloyd Mondory (FRA) of AG2R La Mondiale; Juan Pablo Suarez (COL) of Colombia-Coldeportes; and Alexandre Geniez (FRA) of Team Argos-Shimano established a breakaway. This breakaway swept the second sprint points ...  

AG2R La Mondiale at same time, 10 Amets Txurruka (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi at same time, 11 Mikel Nieve Ituralde (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi at 0.36, 12 Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Garmin - Barracuda at 0.39, 13 Dario Cataldo (Ita) Omega Pharma-Quickstep at same ...  

Interview: Ag2r-La Mondiale's John GadretDaily PelotonAG2R and Vincent (Lavenu) trusted me and I will never forget it. I love the family spirit there is in the team. We avoid getting worked up. Moreover, it's a team I watched all the time on TV when I was a kid! Luke Allingham - If you could choose a ...  

Sail WorldTransat AG2R La Mondiale - Advantage who?Sail WorldA little more left breeze than expected last night allowed the Transat AG2R La Mondiale sailors to head more to the west. The Figaro fleet displayed similar paths on the tracking, although seperated in time. The group is split into two, ...  

American Taylor Phinney took the first pink jersey of race leader at the four-day Giro del Trentino in Italy yesterday as his BMC team stormed to victory in the opening team time trial in Arco, while Nicolas Roche's Ag2r squad fell apart in the 15km race against the clock.  

American Taylor Phinney took the first pink jersey of race leader at the four-day Giro del Trentino in Italy yesterday as his BMC team stormed to victory in the opening team time trial in Arco, while Nicolas Roche's Ag2r squad fell apart in the 15km race against the clock.  

Do you like this? Tweet John Gadret hasn't been back to Denmark since he rode the 1998 world championship for cyclo-cross in Middlefart in his first year as a U23, but he was also never called for a pre-race press conference at the start of a Grand Tour before he walked in alongside race favorites Ivan Basso, Michele Scarponi, Fränk Schleck, Roman Kreuziger and Joaquim Rodriguez.  

Gadret looking for podium for AG2R in the Giro d'ItaliaCyclingnews.comMatteo Tosatto will be road captain. "Without a pre race favorite or a GC contender in our line-up we will have an opportunistic approach to this year's first Grand Tour. We have tried to put together a group of riders, who can help and support Juan ...and more »  

TOURISM leaders in Yorkshire have pledged to mount a major charm offensive as Tour de France chiefs prepare to visit the region. The most senior executives behind the world-famous cycle race will be in Yorkshire this month for meetings in Leeds and a ...  

Talking exclusively to ITV, world champion Mark Cavendish tells us his aims for the summer ahead of the Tour de France and 2012 Olympics in London Cavendish is proud to be riding on a British team as world champion - and he is looking forward to seeing the ...  

Rinaldo Nocentini (AG2R La Mondiale) finished second in the stage with Branislau Samoilau (Movistar) completing the top three. Despite a number of splintered attacks – all the big contenders arrived together at the finish. That means that with just one ...  

Scarponi had finished second last year, 6min 10sec behind Contador. Fellow Italian Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas-Cannondale) was third and John Gadret (Ag2r-La Mondiale) of France was fourth. "It will be a welcome reward, a prize for a very good performance in ...  

Nicolas grew up with a keen sensibility for wine and an enviable network of contacts the length of the Côte d’Or. He makes his own negociant wine under the name Roche de Bellene, and has 15 hectares or so of organic vines which supply his own Domaine de ...  

I saw several celebrity sightings yesterday including Nicolas McQuire, Research Director ... Philips Healthcare, EPAL, R. Hoffmann-La Roche and many others. I also saw booths from mobility vendors Syclo, SAP, Antenna, ClickSoftware, Verivo and many ...  

Damiano Cunego (Italy / Lampre) +7" 9. Rui Costa (Portugal / Movistar) 10. Jean Christophe Peraud (France / AG2R) Standings 1. Joaquim Rodriguez (Spain / Katusha) 20:29:18" 2. Samuel Sanchez (Spain / Euskaltel) +9" 3. Robert Kiserlovski (Croatia / Astana ...  

Earlier in the race Romain Bardet (Ag2r-La Mondiale), Pello Bilbao (Euskaltel-Euskadi), Raymond Kreder & Alex Howes (Garmin-Barracuda), Steven Caethoven (Accent Jobs-Willems Veranda), Cedric Pineau (FdJ-BigMat), Simone Stortoni (Lampre-ISD), Sébastien ...  

Danail Andonov Petrov of Team Caja Rural is further 5 seconds behind at the third position, while Adrian Palomares Villaplana of Team Andalucia and Romain Bardet of Team AG2R La Mondiale are holding the fourth and the fifth positions in the respective order.  

“That works or me.” The 2012 race will live up to its reputation for attracting top-flight teams. Those have included professional teams such as AG2R La Mondiale (France), BMC Racing Team (U.S.), Tram Gamin-Barracuda (U.S.), Orica-GreenEdge Cycling ...  

Video game developer Cyanide and publisher Focus Home Interactive has released a number of new screenshots for their line-up of upcoming cycling video games, Pro Cycling Manager 2012 for the PC and Tour de France for the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the ...  

which comprise the Tour de France, Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a España. Search.ch will present the leader’s jersey for the points classification in the 76th running of the race. “As the leading directory and service portal in Switzerland, the Tour de ...  

CADEL Evans has cut his losses in the Ardennes before a sinus infection wreaks havoc with his Tour de France campaign. The Australian cycling star was forced to pull out during Amstel Gold, the first of the three Ardennes one-day classics, because of his illness.  

Le Tour de France 2011 was the first console retail release of the long-running PC sports simulation Pro Cycling Manager. The game received a fair amount of commercial success in Europe so the franchise is returning with a second retail outing for consoles ...  

A stunning example of Émile Gallé’s Rose De France vase recently discovered in an estate will ... The multi-layering and use of metallic foils behind the glass makes this piece a tour de force. Only a few known examples of this series of vases are ...  

Roman Kreuziger (Astana), Ivan Basso (Liquigas-Cannondale), John Gadret (Ag2r La Mondiale) and Joaquim Rodriguez (Katusha) will also be seeking overall glory, with their race set to intensify in the mountainous second and third weeks. Frank Schleck ...  

A CYCLIST hoping to raise thousands of pounds for charity has had £5,000 of bikes stolen. Nick Prout is just eight weeks away from his charity challenge of cycling six of the Tour de France mountain stages to raise money for Cry (Cardiac Risk in the Young).  

The Luxembourg rider, who finished third in last year's Tour De France, replaces Jakob Fuglsang in the team after the Dane was forced to pull-out with an inflammation of the articular capsule and ligament of the left knee. "My season was directed at ...  

SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Bicyclist Floyd Landis, stripped of his 2006 Tour de France win after testing positive for testosterone, is the subject of a federal investigation into a $450,000 defense fund he created and later abandoned, a legal source said on Friday.  

Following the recent announcement of an NTSC release for the two titles based on this year’s Tour de France event, publishing label Focus Home Interactive has confirmed an international release for the videogames. Both the PC sports simulation, Pro ...  

A CYCLIST from South East Cornwall with a serious and incurable disease is to tackle five stages of the Tour de France for charity after the condition changed his outlook on life and he decided to make his dream a reality. Christian Dransfield, who lives ...  

Former Tour de France stage winner Haussler was second for the second straight day. He finished a half-dozen bike lengths back of Sagan. Leigh Howard was third. APTOS, Calif. (AP) Peter Sagan of Slovakia won his second straight stage with a … Full Story ...  

Tom Boonen is the most successful cyclist of the current season considering the fact that he has bagged as many ten victories in the first half of the season. The Belgian has noted that the 2012 Olympic Games is his ultimate goal of the season and he will ...  

CYCLING’s most famous race was today tipped to bring a multi-million-pound boost to the Capital. The Tour de France could get under way in Edinburgh after race organisers inspected the city with a view to staging its Grand Départ – which is often held ...  

BRUSSELS (AP) Tom Boonen, the season's top one-day racer, has decided to skip the Tour de France to focus on Olympic gold in London. The winner of Paris-Roubaix and the Tour of Flanders says the Olympic road race is tougher than it looks. He thinks he'll ...  

The Scottish capital Edinburgh is keen to host the start of the 2017 Tour de France, bid organisers said on Wednesday, hoping to replicate the success of the last time the race was held across the Channel in 2007. EventScotland said it was working with ...  

Belgian cycling ace Tom Boonen says he'll skip the Tour de France so he's fresh for the Olympic road race. Belgian cycling star Tom Boonen announced on Tuesday that he will forego this year's Tour de France so as to be fresh for a tilt at the Olympic road ...  

The Scottish capital Edinburgh is keen to host the start of the 2017 Tour de France, bid organisers said on Wednesday, hoping to replicate the success of the last time the race was held across the Channel in 2007. EventScotland said it was working with ...  

TOUR de France champion Cadel Evans continues to stick to a proven formula in his quest to defend his title in the most famous cycling race in the world, signing on for this months Tour de Romandie. The Australian, who has so far had a quite early season ...  

Geraint Thomas came away from the world track championships in Melbourne with two medals. (Picture: Reuters) What a great feeling to return from the world championships in Melbourne with two medals and a world record safely in the bag. To be honest, the ...  

SOCHI, Russia, April 16 (Reuters) - Russia hopes to benefit from the cycling governing body's (UCI) push for globalisation by staging a World Tour race which could turn out to be like 'a mini Tour de France'. Alexander Gusyatnikov, a senior official with ...  

THREE Plymouth cyclists are gearing up to tackle the epic route of the Tour de France. Members of the city club, the YOGis, are pedalling for 20 days across 3,500 kilometres before the famous race. Simon Pope, James Thompson and Chris Glazier are joining ...  

A FORMAL bid has been launched to bring the world’s biggest sporting event to Yorkshire, the head of the region’s tourism body has revealed. Speaking in the House of Commons at a launch event for the Yorkshire Post’s new quarterly magazine, Yorkshire ...  

The celebrated British duo were not expected to appear alongside each other until the Tour de France but Sky have confirmed their two biggest stars will ride together at the race in Switzerland, starting on April 24. The race - won last year by Cadel Evans ...  

LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND (AP) —Tour de France winner Cadel Evans and road race world champion Mark Cavendish head the entry list for the Tour de Romandie next month. Race organizers say Cavendish’s Britain and Sky teammate, Bradley Wiggins, winner of this ...  

Andy Schleck of team RadioShack-Nissan is to receive official honours for the 2010 Tour de France victory, following the disqualification of Alberto Contador because of a doping-related suspension. Race director Christian Prudhomme has told Belgian ...  

The best are here for the race they call a mini Tour de France. However, I feel something is missing. The Tour Down Under is a spectacular race. Each year it’s the start gun for the UCI ProTour, and the course is revered by the cyclists who participate.  

Cancellara, virtually a shoe-in for at least one stage victory at July's Tour de France and favourite for gold in the Olympic time-trial, crashed badly about 62km from the finish and was whisked off to hospital. Another crash split the peloton with 34km ...  

The race is just half the distance of the iconic 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike ride and 26.2-mile run in Hawaii, which should give the seven-time Tour de France winner more of a chance to assert himself in the saddle. But having led off the bike by just 41 ...  

PARIS, April 6 (Reuters) - French teams Cofidis, Saur-Sojasun and Team Europcar and Dutch outfit Argos-Shimano were granted wild cards to take part in this year's Tour de France, organisers said on Friday. Each of the 18 ProTour teams will take part in the ...  

E YORKS: Beverley and Holderness MP Graham Stuart is urging the public to back the campaign to bring the opening stages of the 2016 Tour de France to Yorkshire. Mr Stuart said: "The tour de France is one of the world's top sporting events and hosting it in ...  

Cyanide might be best known for creating a recent number of games based on the Game of Thrones intellectual property. However, the company has long been involved with cycling simulations and it plans to deliver a new Tour de France game for the PlayStation ...  

Supporters of Mr Sarkozy's UMP party at the rally on Trocadero Square, like 67-year-old Jacqueline Rousseau, fear such policies will hurt France and accuse Mr Hollande of double standards. "If Nicolas Sarkozy doesn't make it, all the rich will leave and we ...  

French Professional cyclist, John Gadret has struggled in the 2012 season and has not secured any victories yet. His most recent appearance was during the Criterium International and the cyclist had to settle for a disappointing 69 place finish during the ...  

(but) we've seen an improvement in that trend in the last couple of weeks," added chief financial officer Michael Rousseau. Air Canada's $210 million ... and for reasons of long-ago history. Lama Nicolas reports. May 22 - St. Mary's General Hospital ...  

Danilo Di Luca, Pierre Rolland, John Gadret and Venezuelan Jose Rujano are also expected to compete for GC honours with former Giro winners Cunego, Scarponi and Basso. Phinney is realistic about his chances of keeping the lead. "The stages here are full of ...  

If Nicolas Sarkozy is re-elected ... heavily influenced by Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Contrat Social (1762). This fatal amendment removed the protection to property given in Locke's admirable formulation and led to innumerable encroachments on property ...  

Michele Scarponi (Italy / Lampre) +3:34" 6. Ryder Hesjedal (Canada / Garmin) +3:36" 7. John Gadret (France / AG2R) +4:29" 8. Rigoberto Uran (Colombia / Team Sky) +4:53" 9. Sergio Henao (Colombia / Team Sky) +4:55" 10. Ivan Basso (Italy / Liquigas ...  

Italian Domenico Pozzovivo took fourth place at 6sec, just ahead of Frenchman John Gadret and Canadian former leader Ryder Hesjedal. Winner of the Fleche-Wallonne in April, Rodriguez showed all his explosive climbing abilities, leaving it until late on ...  

Basso dictated a fierce pace and soon distanced the likes of Tiralongo, John Gadret (Ag2R-La Mondiale), 2004 winner Damiano Cunego (Lampre) and overnight white jersey Sergio Henao (Team Sky). The Giro’s six strongest riders were left, with Hesjedal ...  

Italian Domenico Pozzovivo took fourth place at 6sec, just ahead of Frenchman John Gadret and Canadian former leader Ryder Hesjedal. Winner of the Fleche-Wallonne in April, Rodriguez showed all his explosive climbing abilities, leaving it until late on ...  

Sylvain Georges of Team Ag2r-La Mondiale has joined the winning club at the Amgen Tour of California 2012. The cyclist rode brilliantly during the 186.3 kilometre stage 6 of the race and overcame the race favourites. He completed the race in a quickest ...  

BIG BEAR LAKE - Stage 6 of the Amgen Tour of California went to France's Sylvain Georges of AG2R-La Mondiale. The 28-year-old cyclist took the biggest win of his career after riding solo in the lead for the last 30 miles of the 115.7-mile Palmdale-to-Big ...  

BIG BEAR LAKE - Stage 6 of the Amgen Tour of California went to France's Sylvain Georges of AG2R-La Mondiale. The 28-year-old cyclist took the biggest win of his career after riding solo in the lead for the last 30 miles of the 115.7-mile Palmdale-to-Big ...  

Tomas Vaitkus of Team Orica GreenEdge finished third with Mark Cavendish of Team Sky and Manuel Belletti of Team AG2R La Mondiale securing the third, the fourth and the fifth positions in the respective order. Frank Schleck finished the race at the 95 th ...  

Rabottini had broken away with Frenchman Guillaume Bonnafond and went over the top of all four climbs at the head of affairs while veteran Italian Damiano Cunego - the 2004 Giro champion - at one stage was in pink as he led a counter attack. Rabottini ...  

At the 10km point, a small breakaway group had escaped, and they built up a gap of almost two minutes: Guillaume Bonnafond (AG2R); Miguel Mínguez (Euskaltel-Euskadi); Francesco Failli (Farnese Vini-Selle Italia); Matthias Brandle (NetApp); and Martijn ...  

Rabottini had broken away with Frenchman Guillaume Bonnafond and went over the top of all four climbs at the head of affairs while veteran Italian Damiano Cunego - the 2004 Giro champion - at one stage was in pink as he led a counter attack. Rabottini ...  

An early five-man breakaway which included Guillaume Bonnafond (AG2R), Francesco Failli (Farnese Vini), Matthias Brandle (NetApp), Martijn Keizer (Vacansoleil-DCM) and Miguel Minguez (Euskaltel) organised itself just 13km into the stage and rode on to ...  

A breakaway of five riders, Miguel Minguez (Euskaltel-Euskadi), Matthias Brandle (NetApp), Francesco Failli (Farnese-Selle Italia), Martin Keizer (Vacansoleil) and Guillaume Bonnafond (AG2R La Mondiale) kept the peloton awake. It was eventually caught in ...  

Swiss drugmaker Roche ranked among the day's worst heavyweight performers ... In France, Socialist challenger Hollande ousted President Nicolas Sarkozy in Sunday's final election round, by a narrow margin. The French CAC 40 index rose 0.7 percent, with ...  

Few people in the world can brag about beating seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong in a race, while raising more than $50,000 for charity, but add Orchard Park native Mary Eggers to that list. The Rochester-area nurse and triathlete ...  

9. Tom Danielson, United States, Team Garmin -- Cervelo, 86 hours, 4 minutes, 7 seconds. 17. Christian Vande Velde, United States, Team Garmin -- Cervelo, 27 minutes, 12 seconds behind. 32. Levi Leipheimer, United States, Team RadioShack, 1 hour ...  

9. Tom Danielson, United States, Team Garmin -- Cervelo, 86 hours, 4 minutes, 7 seconds. 17. Christian Vande Velde, United States, Team Garmin -- Cervelo, 27 minutes, 12 seconds behind. 32. Levi Leipheimer, United States, Team RadioShack, 1 hour ...  

9. Tom Danielson, United States, Team Garmin -- Cervelo, 86 hours, 4 minutes, 7 seconds. 17. Christian Vande Velde, United States, Team Garmin -- Cervelo, 27 minutes, 12 seconds behind. 32. Levi Leipheimer, United States, Team RadioShack, 1 hour ...  

9. Tom Danielson, United States, Team Garmin -- Cervelo, 86 hours, 4 minutes, 7 seconds. 17. Christian Vande Velde, United States, Team Garmin -- Cervelo, 27 minutes, 12 seconds behind. 32. Levi Leipheimer, United States, Team RadioShack, 1 hour ...  

9. Tom Danielson, United States, Team Garmin -- Cervelo, 86 hours, 4 minutes, 7 seconds. 17. Christian Vande Velde, United States, Team Garmin -- Cervelo, 27 minutes, 12 seconds behind. 32. Levi Leipheimer, United States, Team RadioShack, 1 hour ...  

9. Tom Danielson, United States, Team Garmin -- Cervelo, 86 hours, 4 minutes, 7 seconds. 17. Christian Vande Velde, United States, Team Garmin -- Cervelo, 27 minutes, 12 seconds behind. 32. Levi Leipheimer, United States, Team RadioShack, 1 hour ...  

9. Tom Danielson, United States, Team Garmin -- Cervelo, 86 hours, 4 minutes, 7 seconds. 17. Christian Vande Velde, United States, Team Garmin -- Cervelo, 27 minutes, 12 seconds behind. 32. Levi Leipheimer, United States, Team RadioShack, 1 hour ...  

9. Tom Danielson, United States, Team Garmin -- Cervelo, 86 hours, 4 minutes, 7 seconds. 17. Christian Vande Velde, United States, Team Garmin -- Cervelo, 27 minutes, 12 seconds behind. 32. Levi Leipheimer, United States, Team RadioShack, 1 hour ...  

Garmin-Barracida had two men in the group in the shape of Michael Kreder and Alex Howes, and they were joined by AG2R’s Romain Bardet, Pello Bilbao of Euskaltel-Euskadi, Steven Caethoven from Accent Jobs, FDJ-BigMat’s Cedric Pineau, Lampre-ISD’s ...  

First team down the ramp tonight is AG2R at 3.25pm local time, 11.25pm AEST. Sky kicks off the final five teams at 12.16pm AEST followed in three minute intervals by Radioshack Nissan, Orica GreenEDGE, Garmin Barracuda and BMC. Watch out for the ...  

Tour of California 2012 helps prepare cyclers for the Tour de France that takes place in July. There are two cyclers with L.A. connections that will be competing in the eight-day event. Chris Barton was born in Ojai, CA. He is part of Bissel Pro ...  

SANTA ROSA -- Chris Horner has done almost everything as a professional cyclist. After 17 years, he has competed in the Tour de France and Giro d'Italia and is a four-time U.S. champion. But as Horner prepares to start the weeklong Amgen Tour of ...  

Also Cyclist Chris Horner still has no memory of Tour de France crash Amgen Tour of California begins Sunday As London Olympics approach, U.S. plays catch-up in triathlon Cyclist Sarah Hammer gets second wind after bad Beijing experience "It was ...  

Seven-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong finished seventh in the Memorial Hermann 70.3 Ironman triathlon on Sunday in Galveston. And he was not happy at the finish line. Just take a look at the above video. Armstrong was clipped at the ...  

Stage six of the 2012 Amgen Tour of California saw Sylvain Georges (AG2R) ride a solo effort to the win, finishing a full 28 seconds ahead of the main bunch. Georges spent nearly 175km of the 186km stage off the front, at first with a half-dozen ...  

The Tour of Britain cycle race, the British equivalent of the Tour de France, is to finish in Surrey. The final stage of the race on 16 September will start in Reigate and end in Guildford, passing through Ranmore and Cranleigh. Organisers have ...  

Danielson then used that as a launching pad to have a successful debut in the Tour de France, finishing ninth overall (best finish by an American in the race). Chris Horner won the general classification in 2011 and will be back once again with ...  

Alexander Kristoff (Norway / Katusha) 7. Elia Favilli (Italy / Farnese Vini) 8. Manuel Belletti (Italy / AG2R) 9. Arnaud Demare (France / FDJ) 10. Jonas Jorgensen (Denmark / Saxo Bank) Overall standings 1. Ramunas Navardauskas (Lithuania/Garmin ...  

Roche Holding AG (ROG), the biggest maker of cancer drugs ... backed parties opposing austerity measures on May 6 and Francois Hollande defeated Nicolas Sarkozy to become the first Socialist in 17 years to control France. The Swiss Performance ...  

Manuel Belletti of Team AG2R was looking good towards the final kilometres but could not finish amongst the top three. The Italian occupied the fifth spot while his compatriot Giacomo Nizzolo of Team RadioShack-Nissan achieving the sixth position.  

Fort Lewis College graduate and the top American cyclist from the 2011 Tour de France Tom Danielson has a strategy for the USA Pro Cycling Race this summer: Live in the moment. That and eat a lot of onions and jalapeños. His grandmother-in-law ...  

Contador won the 2011 Giro on the road but lost it after testing positive for a banned substance in last season's Tour de France. With the Spaniard's 2011 results wiped from cycling's record books Scarponi, who finished runner-up at 6min 10sec ...  

Italian Domenico Pozzovivo took fourth place at 6 seconds, just ahead of Frenchman John Gadret and Canadian former leader Ryder Hesjedal. Winner of the Fleche-Wallonne in April, Rodriguez showed all his explosive climbing abilities, leaving it ...  

Rich pickings … Richie Porte may have locked in a Tour de France place and a possible spot for the Olympics. Photo: AFP BRADLEY WIGGINS and Britain's Team Sky are on an ideal trajectory for a tilt at overall victory in this year's Tour de France.  

Bradley Wiggins' bid to defend his Criterium du Dauphine crown could be useful in more ways than one this June as the Briton continues his bid for Tour de France glory. Wiggins' joy at winning his maiden Dauphine—a major French stage race and ...  

Domenico Pozzovivo (Colnago), the diminutive Italian who won Sunday's stage eight, led a group of race favourites over the line another four seconds back to take fourth place ahead of France's John Gadret (AG2R). Rodriguez moves into the race ...  

Roche Holding AG (ROG) slid as the drugmaker raised its ... The newspaper gave no other details. Nobel Biocare spokesman Nicolas Weidmann declined to comment when contacted by Bloomberg yesterday. Banks and insurers pushed the SMI lower, with ...  

4. Alexander Candelario (Team Optum), United States, same time. 5. Lloyd Mondory (AG2R La Mondiale), France, same time. 6. Fred Rodriguez (Team Exergy), United States, same time. 7. Hugo Houle (Spidertech), Canada, same time. 8. Koen De Kort ...  

With the teams starting in reverse GC order, first team off is Ag2r – however distasteful it is to be last team on GC and starting whilst the crowd is ‘cold,’ the French equipe can’t mess around if they’re serious about putting Gadret on the ...  

His 2010 season was wrecked by tendinitis around his left kneecap while last year saw Boonen forget even the most basic of bike-handling skills: heavy crashes ended his hopes in both the Tour de France and Vuelta a Espana, plus sidelined him ...  

Jemison, a two-time Tour de France competitor and former U.S. National Champion, chose Park City as a place to hang his hat and test his lungs during the height of his racing career close to 15 years ago. Rather than Boulder, Colo., which he ...  

You won't need a flight and a passport to take a tour of France this summer. Maverick Concerts has announced its 2012 schedule, which features a "Tour de France," acknowledging anniversaries of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, plus the 75th ...  

Jemison, a two-time Tour de France competitor and former U.S. National Champion, chose Park City as a place to hang his hat and test his lungs during the height of his racing career close to 15 years ago. Rather than Boulder, Colo., which he ...  

(Suffering!) Joaquim Rodríguez (Katusha), Roman Kreuziger (Astana), Ryder Hesjedal (Garmin-Barracuda), Frank Schleck (RadioShack-Nissan) and John Gadret (Ag2r La Mondiale) are other names who have eyes on the Maglia Rosa. Team BMC, of course ...  

Shadow Chief Secretary Rachel Reeves (left) said the Government was 'out-of-touch' Credit: Stefan Rousseau/PA Shadow Chief Secretary ... round of the presidential election. The incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy faces becoming the first president not ...  

Nicolas Roche tells VeloNews that he is angry after the stage 1 crash that took him down at the Amgen Tour. The Ag2r captains says the team  

MOSCOW — Russian cyclist Alexandr Kolobnev has rejoined the Katusha team after clearing his name in a Tour de France doping case. Katusha said in a statement Wednesday that it has signed Kolobnev for the 2012 season, though he will not race ...  

Other international challengers include last year's best young rider, Roman Kreuziger of the Czech Republic, Joaquin Rodriguez of Spain and John Gadret of France, who was bumped up to the podium after finishing fourth last year. "There's no ...  

Participating WorldTour Teams, the highest-ranked in the sport, include: BMC and Garmin-Barracuda, both registered in the United States, as well as AG2R La Mondiale (France), GreenEdge (Australia), Liquigas-Cannondale (Italy), Omega Pharma ...  

Pozzovivo moved to the front, riding easily, followed by Sylvester Szmyd, Damiano Cunego of Lampre, Acqua & Sapone’s Carlos Betancur, Colombia-Coldeportes’s Darwin Atapuma, Androni’s José Serpa and Ag2R’s Hubert Dupont. Dupont, tenth in GC ...  

The Italian will face stiff competition from the likes of Roman Kreuziger (Astana), John Gadret (Ag2r-La Mondiale) and Joaquin Rodriguez (Katusha), while all eyes will be on established names like Ivan Basso (Liquigas-Cannondale) and Frank ...  

He plans to use the weeklong race as preparation for the Tour de France and a possible appearance in the Summer Olympics. "It was a little foreign to be back in the peloton," Leipheimer said after finishing 46th out of 128 riders. "As time ...  

So too was Frenchman John Gadret (Ag2r La Mondiale), whose attack with 3km to go proved fruitless. On what ended as a day for the uphill specialists, the surprise package was second-place finisher Bartosz Huzarski (Team NetApp). The Polish ...  

The Borders could host part of the Tour de France in 2017 under proposals to bring the world’s most famous cycling event to the region. The proposal would involve Edinburgh staging the Tour prologue – a short time-trial – in five years’ time.  

Boonen, with six Tour de France sprint stage victories, was always going to be the favourite in a sprint finish and so it proved with the 31-year-old now hoping to carry his Indian summer on and claim a fourth Paris-Roubaix title next Sunday.  

Sebastian de Belalcazar, conqueror of Quito, traveled north and founded Cali in 1536 and Popayán in 1537; Nicolas Federman crossed Llanos Orientales and went over the Eastern Cordillera. Since the beginning of the periods of Conquest and ...  

Rabottini had broken away with Frenchman Guillaume Bonnafond and went over the top of all four climbs at the head of affairs while veteran Italian Damiano Cunego - the 2004 Giro champion - at one stage was in pink as he led a counter attack.  

Alexandr Dyachenko and Andriy Zeits who came second in the TUR last year will challenge defending champion Alexandre Efimkin from Team Type 1 and the young guns Esteban Chavez from Colombia-Coldeportes and Romain Bardet of Ag2r-La Mondiale.  

Georges, 28, a second-year rider for Ag2r-La Mondiale, claimed his fifth career win after pedaling alone in the lead for the final 30 miles, finishing the stage in 5 hours, 7 minutes, 6 seconds. "The most difficult thing about the final ...  

Horner had a terrible crash in last year’s demo-derby Tour de France and has been a bit wobbly this Spring. Everyone will be watching his form early on to see if he can repeat. Meanwhile, youth is crowding the picture, as three under-25 ...  

Rousseau versus Hobbes: On the cover of the French magazine Philosophie, the two victors in France's first presidential election round, the incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy and the Socialist candidate Francois Hollande, are dressed up accordingly.  

SALT LAKE CITY — Five of the world’s top 15 international cycling teams have committed to the 2012 Tour of Utah. Utah’s event is set for Aug. 7-12 and is the first major weeklong stage race following the Tour de France and London Olympics.  

Leipheimer added the time off could help make him stronger for the summer's big events — the Tour de France and the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. "After the crash, I understood immediately something was wrong when there was swelling ...  

With the 99th edition of the Tour de France just two months away, two riders look to be the favorites to take victory in Paris on July 22 — Bradley Wiggins and Cadel Evans, the defending champion. If it comes down to these two riders ...  

BRUSSELS — Tom Boonen, the season’s top one-day racer, has decided to skip the Tour de France to focus on Olympic gold in London. The winner of Paris-Roubaix and the Tour of Flanders says the Olympic road race is tougher than it looks.  

Chris Horner had perhaps his most successful year as a cyclist in 2011. He won the Amgen Tour of California, finished second in the Vuelta al Pais Vasco, a celebrated one-day race, and finished fourth at the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya.  

The breakaway includes Maxime Boulet (AG2R La Mondiale), Jeffrey Louder (UnitedHealthcare), David Boily (Spidertech), Ben Jacques-Mayne (BISSELL), Sebastian Salas (Optum), Joshua Atkins (Bontrager LIVESTRONG) and Sam Johnson (Exergy).  

Ricco was kicked off the 2008 Tour de France while in second place after failing a test for the blood-booster CERA. He served a 20-month ban from cycling and was also tried and fined 5,710 euros by a court in Padua, Italy.  

President Nicolas Sarkozy said Tuesday on Canal Plus TV that there ... accomplices of Merah's and his older brother remains in custody. Sylvie Corbet and Ingrid Rousseau in Paris contributed to this report.