Blog - Tour de France 2011

The tweets of the week: the after Tour depression

After a few weeks without any new edition due to the Tour de France, the Tweets of the week are back! And this edition is particularly complete with the Tweets of the 3 weeks following the Tour. Among these we find some Tweets of riders who share with us how they experience their comeback at home after the Tour, but also the future new job of Jérémy Roy, the incredible speed of the Movistar Team, the big age question of Team Garmin-Cervélo at the Eneco Tour and many others!

The comeback after the Tour de France, different for each rider ...

Tony Martin replays the Dauphiné time trial, Cadel Evans can celebrate a future Tour de France 2011 win

As expected, the final victory of the Tour de France 2011 was decided in the individual time trial in Grenoble today. The Australian rider Cadel Evans (BMC Racing Team) obtained the most interesting result by finioshing second on the 42.5 kilometer long race in the streets of Grenoble, behind Tony Martin (Team HTC-Highroad) who already won exactly the same time trial during the Critérium du Dauphiné. Indeed, after his second places in 2007 and 2008, Evans will become the first Australian winner of the Tour de France tomorrow on the Champs-Elysées in Paris!

The first rider started under a heavy sky and it didn't take long before the rain started to fall on the riders during their in ...

Videos Tour de France 2011 : the ceremony for best team for Garmin-Cervélo and the start in Gap

This morning the 17th stage of the Tour de France 2011 started in Gap, the city where yesterday's stage also finished.

Before the start, a official ceremony takes place on the signature podium in order to hand out the trophee from Digital for best team to the team which is top ranked in the teams classification.

In this article you'll be able to discover what such a ceremony looks and sounds like, but you'll also find a video of the stage start towards Pinorolo in Italy!

The prize-giving ceremony for best team to Garmin-Cervélo

A video of the start of the 15th stage of the Tour de France 2011 in Limoux

This afternoon, the 15th stage of the Tour de France 2011 started in the city of Limoux, not far from the medieval city of Carcassonne.

In this article you'll find a video of the fictive start of this stage, which is 192.5 kilometers long and goes to Montpellier.

On the start line, Thomas Voeckler (Team Europcar) was wearing the yellow jersey, Mark Cavendish (Team HTC-Highroad) the green jersey of the points classification and Rigoberto Uran (Team Sky) the white jersey of best young rider. Present at the start a bit further away in the peloton, Jelle Vanendert, who won yesterday's stage on top of the Plateau de Beille, wears the polka dot jersey of the king of the mountains classification today.

You can see them all comin ...

The 10th stage of the Tour de France 2011 sprinted for victory by André Greipel

The 10th stage of the Tour de France 2011 was won in the sprint by André Greipel (Omega Pharma-Lotto). The German rider managed to beat his former team mate (and already a rival), Mark Cavendish on the finish line in Carmaux.

The summary of the 10th stage: Aurillac > Carmaux

A stage full of accidents won by Luis Léon Sanchez gave Thomas Voeckler the yellow jersey in the Tour de France 2011

Today's stage was not only marked by a 6 rider break away but also by two big accidents, one in a very winding and dangerous descent and the other one because of a very bad manoeuvre of the driver of the invitees car of France Télévisions.

Reduced to 3 riders, the break away finally continues till the end and Luis Léon Sanchez (Rabobank) wins the stage in fron tof Thomas Voeckler (Team Europcar) who takes the yellow jersey, 7 years after having wore it for the first time, the time to which he thanks the fact that French spectators like him so much!

The summary of the 9th stage of the Tour de France 2011 : Issoire > Saint-Flour

Cadel Evans wins the Tour de France 2011 stage in Mûr de Bretagne

Cadel Evans (BMC Racing Team) won at the end of this afternoon for the second time in his career a Tour de France stage, with the stage win of the 4th stage of the Tour de France 2011 in Mûr-de-Bretagne.

A long lasting leading group with 5 riders includign Jérémy Roy (FDJ), Gorka Izagirre (Euskaltel-Euskadi), Imanol Erviti (Movistar Team), Blel Kadri (AG2R La Mondiale) and Johnny Hoogerland (Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team) was finally taken back at a bit less than 4 kilometers from the finish and the stage was decided in a sprint-like way!

The summary of the 4th stage: Lorient > Mûr-de-Bretagne

The crossing of the finish line in Redon in a video

Today, we crossed the finish line of the Tour de France 2011 stage finishing in Redon after having done the last part of the official race route by bike.

Escorted by an official car we got to cross the finish line only a few hours before the riders did and we also got to climb on the podium while the official hymn of the Tour de France was playing.

Not much later we got to see Tyler Farrar (Team Garmin-Cervélo) who beat Romain Feillu (Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team) in the sprint !

You can see a video of the last kilometer of how we crossed the finish line below, completely mapped out, thanks to KinoMap!

You can also see some photos of the finish in Redon by clicking here!
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Tour de France 2011 : Jérémy Roy, disappointed not to be the most combative rider

Jérémy Roy (FDJ) was in the leading group of the first stage of the Tour de France 2011 today. The stage ended on the Mont des Alouettes with a victory for Philippe Gilbert (Omega Pharma-Lotto), as if it was planned like that!

The leading group with Jérémy didn't continue till the finish but what was most disappointing for him was that he didn't get the first Prix Brandt de la combativité (most combative rider) of this 98th Tour de France.

His reaction in an interview!

I was in the leading group from kilometer 0.01, I jumped on with the first attack and I thought this would be the leading group of the day because there were several sprinters teams upfront and several riders of Europcar and Vacansoleil, so I thought that a rider from one of ...

The Passage du Gois in pictures, the day before the start

This morning, the first stage of the Tour de France 2011 will start at the end of the Passage du Gois where the official ceremony will be the sign to get started with the 98th edition of the Grande Boucle.

We were there this morning and we were able to get over the Passage du Gois during the low tide, just like the riders will do tomorrow on their way between the départ fictif and the départ réel.

You can find some photos in the dedicated section of this website, Tour de France 2011: Passage du Gois, the day before the start.

Also, don't forget you can also find some pictures of the official teams presentation on Thursday, in the Tour de France 2011 : tea ...