By Meena Kar, Paris, October 14, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Route for the 2010 Tour De France has been declared. The cyclists will have to ride through some rocky roads of Pyrenees in the ...

Paris, Oct 14 (DPA) Organizers of the Tour de France presented Wednesday the course for next year's edition of the race as doping suspicions once again plagued the world's most prestigious cycling ...

Paris, Oct 13 (THAINDIAN NEWS) French prosecutors have launched a preliminary investigation and inquiry to examine used syringes found in medical waste containers during the Tour de France race. The eventual ...

Paris, Oct 5 (DPA) A report charges that Lance Armstrong's Astana cycling team was given "special treatment" by the International Cycling Union (UCI) during this year's Tour de France, the online edition ...

London, Sep. 14 (ANI): Less than five-and-a-half months after James Bowthorpe ventured out on his 18,000-mile bike ride through 20 countries, the cabinet-maker from south London is set to become the fastest ...

London, Sept 10 (ANI): Kate Hudson has kicked off rumours of a wedding with boyfriend Alex Rodriguez after being spotted with a diamond sparkler on her ring finger. The 30-year-old actress has ...

Washington, Sept 4 (ANI): Contrary to popular belief, antioxidant quercetin doesn't boost athletic performance, say researchers. Quercetin is a naturally occurring antioxidant found in the skins of fruits, leafy vegetables, and berries, as ...

Oviedo (Spain), Sep 2 (DPA) Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva, 27, was Wednesday awarded Spain's prestigious Prince of Asturias Prize in the category of sports, the jury announced in Oviedo. Isinbayeva won ...

Melbourne, Aug.19 (ANI): Former World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Muhammad Ali, 67, has been named the greatest sports star by Australia's No. 1 sporting magazine Alpha. Ali's record in professional boxing's most competitive ...

Aug 13 (IBNS) The Bride Wars beauty, Kate Hudson, stamped a smacker on the baseball star, Alex Rodriguez (A-Rod), in a packed stadium. The action elevated the kissers to an item. This picture was ...

The 2009 Tour de France got over this Sunday, July 26, but it seems that the controversies surrounding it are far from getting settled down. This year's winner, Alberto Contador has made ...

The elite 2009 Tour de France has finally come to an end after twenty-one difficult stages, much to the grief of the fans, and the Spaniard Alberto Contador from Astana has emerged ...

By Siegfried Mortkowitz Paris, July 27 (DPA) The 2009 Tour de France was not yet over and talk had already begun about next year's race. The reasons were many: a dominating champion, a ...

Paris, July 26 (DPA) Alberto Contador won the 2009 Tour de France Sunday, the second Tour title of his career, outsprinting Luxembourg's Andy Schleck and seven-time Tour champion Lance Armstrong. The 26-year-old Contador's ...

Juan Manuel Garate of Spain, from the team Rabobank, won the stage 20 of the 2009 Tour de France on Saturday, July 25th. In the last dash of efforts by the riders ...

Montelimar (France), July 25 (DPA) The penultimate stage of the 2009 Tour de France got under way Saturday here, the final hurdle in Alberto Contador's quest for his second Tour championship. The hurdle ...

London, July 25 (ANI): Cycling superstar Lance Armstrong is under fire after it was revealed that his latest bike for the Tour de France has been decorated with hundreds of dead butterflies. Controversial ...

Bourgoin-Jallieu, France, July 24 (DPA) The 19th stage of the 2009 Tour de France began Friday in the city of Bourgoin-Jallieu with most riders thinking about Saturday's decisive stage and Lance Armstrong ...

At the end of the stage 18 of the 2009 Tour de France, Alberto Contador still managed to remain ahead of all the others, warding off off all the attacks and keeping ...

Annecy, France, July 23 (DPA) The 18th stage of the 2009 Tour de France, a crucial individual time trial, got under way Thursday in the Alpine city of Annecy when Yauheni Hutarovich ...

Lance Armstrong, the cancer surviving cyclist who is steadily performing at this years Tour de France is probably facing one of the worst case of forgery in his life. The cyclist ...

Alberto Contador as many had anticipated to come up from the edge, has popped up to the first spot in the Tour de France 2009 15th stage, and thus claimed the yellow ...

By Siegfried Mortkowitz Paris, July 20 (DPA) Lance Armstrong's dream of winning an eighth Tour de France title burst on Sunday as he was left gasping in the wake of Alberto Contador's majestic ...

Finally the 14th stage of this year's Tour de France has put a new name on the top of the standings although the leaders were still right on course. The stage 14 ...

Pontarlier (France), July 19 (DPA) The 15th stage of the 2009 Tour de France got underway Sunday in the city of Pontarlier, as the race began its decisive phase in the Alps ...

According to the major cyclists, Levi Leipheimer's loss due to a broken bone in his right wrist has leveled the playing field significantly in the Tour de France 2009. Prior to Leipheimer's ...

25 year old Australian born German rider Heinrich Haussler of the Cervelo Test Team, won the stage 13 of the Tour de France 2009. The 199 kilometer (123.6 mile) ride from ...

At the end of the stage 12 of the Tour de France on Thursday, July 16, Denmark's Nicki Sorensen went ahead of the pelaton in the 131 mile ride that stretched from ...

This Wednesday British rider Mark Cavendish won the stage 11 of Tour de France 2009. Tyler Farrar of the US and Yauheni Hutarovich of Belarus were at the 2nd and 3rd spots ...

Tonnerre, France, July 16 (DPA) The 12th stage of the 2009 Tour de France got underway Thursday with sprinters looking at one of their last chances for a stage win before the ...