Tour de France Features

One year after he competed in the Leadville Trail 100 mountain bike race and decided to return to competitive road cycling, Lance Armstrong has completed the first season of his second comeback. When Armstrong decided to return, he stated his reasons as two-fold: he missed the competition and he wanted to further the mission of [...]

Lance Armstrong has returned to competitive cycling after a 3 1/2 year retirement. The seven-time Tour de France titlist, cancer survivor, father of three (soon to be four) children, and global businessman will compete in about a half-dozen races in 2009 for two reasons: to expand his mission of global cancer awareness and to return [...]

Carlos Sastre, 33, won the 2008 Tour de France on Sunday after leading the race for the final five stages following a solo victory in the 17th stage to L’Alpe d’Huez. Sastre was victorious over Cadel Evans (Silence-Lotto) of Australia by 58 seconds and by 1 minute and 13 seconds over Bernard Kohl (Gerolsteiner) of [...]

It’s been 27 years since Jonathan Boyer of Carmel, California, became the first American to compete in the Tour de France. And every year since, the number of U.S. riders, like the race itself, changes. This year, only four Americans will compete in the 2008 Tour de France. George Hincapie of Greenville, S.C., has competed [...]

Miguel Indurain Greg LeMond was favored as defending titlist in the 1991 Tour. Former race winners Pedro Delgado of Spain, Laurent Fignon of France, and Ireland’s Stephen Roche were also in the field. The surprising rider was Miguel Indurain of Spain. Indurain finished 10th in 1990, the highest finish of his first six Tour attempts [...]

Tour de France champions all have different styles. But through the race’s more than 100-year history, the best have also all been the same in some respects. They’ve all had great individual skills and a focused desire to win. Naming five of the best Tour de France riders is easy. Each dominated the event during [...]

Great climbers usually win the Tour de France. Dozens of famous and infamous peaks have been used during stages and as finishing summits. Although some climbs remain nearly the same every time they’re contested, Tour organizers also look for mountain innovation, like the introduction of the climb to L’Alpe d’Huez as an individual time trial [...]

NEWS BULLETIN . . . (The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Switzerland has ruled against dethroned 2006 Tour de France champion Floyd Landis’ to bid overturn his two-year US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) ban and clear his name. Landis will have to serve the full two-year suspension retroactive to Jan. 30, 2007, the date [...]

(This article originally appeared on Active.com on July 21, 2006.) LA TOUSSUIRE, France — Driving at the Tour de France course as a member of the media provides a moveable movie — shot from behind the windshield. The “film” is an ideal documentary of what the Tour is really all about. The last two days, [...]