Tour De France (and a cheeky bit of Italy too)

By the time the Tour De France has been completed, 2,132 miles of road will have been covered over 21 gruelling days of racing. To get through the world’s most physiologically demanding event, the 198 riders will each consume 10,000 calories a day,  the equivalent of 17 Big Macs. New York Times journalist, Daniel Coyle suggests the Tour De France is, “the equivalent of running a marathon almost every day for three weeks.” The outright winner market is dominated by two riders – favourite Alberto Contador (1.9 on Betfair), the winner of three of the last four Tours and Andy Schlek, (2/1 with Ladbrokes) runner-up for the last two years and winner of the young rider classification for the last... Continue reading...

This entry was posted on Saturday, July 2nd, 2011
(Posted in: Articles, Cycling, Oggsblog)

Tour de France 2010

For the third time in four years, twenty seven year old Spaniard Alberto Contador has taken the yellow jersey in cycling’s most prestigious match-up, the 3 week 3500km Tour de France. Second and third place went to Luxembourg’s Andy Schleck (+00:00:39) and Russia’s Denis Menchov, (+00:02:01) respectively; the green jersey for best sprinter was awarded to Alessandro Petacchi of Italy, the polka dot jersey for best climber was awarded to Anthony Charteau of France, the white jersey for best young rider was awarded to Andy Schleck (for the third time now). Highlights of this year’s Tour include the uncharacteristically plentiful number of crashes (for what it’s worth, riders had to endure about 13km of cobblestone – the longest distance since... Continue reading...

This entry was posted on Friday, August 6th, 2010
(Posted in: Articles, Cycling)