Stage 21 - July 26th
Montereau-Fault-Yonne—Paris Champs-Élysées (164km)

Stage 21 ResultsFinal ResultsLive Replay
  1. Alberto Contador (Astana) at 85:48:35
  2. Andy Schleck (Saxo Bank) at 04:11
  3. Lance Armstrong (Astana) at 05:24
  4. Bradley Wiggins (Garmin - Slipstream) at 06:01
  5. Frank Schleck (Saxo Bank) at 06:04
  6. Andréas Klöden (Astana) at 06:42
  7. Vincenzo Nibali (Liquigas) at 07:35
  8. Christian Vande Velde (Garmin-Slipstream) at 12:04
  9. Roman Kreuziger (Liquigas) at 14:16
  10. Christophe Le Mevel (Francaise Des Jeux) at 14:25

Stories by Barry Wicks »

  • Posted: Sat, Nov 7th
    Barry Wicks' Journal: Lessons from the bear
    There is a bear living in my backyard. Not just metaphorically, but a real, live BC bike race, eat the small dog, massive apple sauce poop pile, growling, stinky, large black type of bear out there.
  • Posted: Wed, Oct 7th
    An open letter from Barry Wicks' nose following its unmitigated abuse at CrossVegas.
    I am Barry's cracked and bleeding sinuses, pouring sticky sweet goo down into his nasal cavity. I am draining my wrath out on to his upper lip as he gasps for breath in the dry desert night. I am vengeful and full of hate. The evil stench of a million vacant souls trickles ...
  • Posted: Tue, Jul 14th
    Barry Wicks Journal: An addiction to sweet singletrack
    Editor's Note: After a spring layoff from the writing gig, Kona pro mountain bike and cyclocross racer Barry Wicks is back by popular demand. I have become addicted to club soda. I think I have consumed possibly the entire supply Canada Dry has ...
  • Posted: Mon, Jun 22nd
    Barry Wicks Journal: Dodging rapid roadies.
    Editor's Note: After a spring layoff from the writing gig, Kona pro mountain bike and cyclocross racer Barry Wicks is back by popular demand.
  • Posted: Wed, Dec 10th
    Barry Wicks' journal
    It is the week before the US National Championship of Cyclocross and I am having trouble figuring out a good topic for my biweekly VeloNews.com journal. I wish this was because I am so focused and preoccupied with the impending championship event, but in reality my mind wanders ...
  • Posted: Wed, Nov 26th
    Barry Wicks' Journal: Head speed concept
    Rain drops fall heavily on my jacket as I weave my way through throngs of haughtily dressed Japanese women, each staring disapprovingly at me though their transparent Hello Kitty umbrellas, as they go about their upscale shopping in downtown Kobe city. I am searching for an ...
  • Posted: Wed, Nov 12th
    Barry Wicks' journal on racing cyclocross in Belgium
    They say the best way to perfect a skill is to go to where that skill is practiced perfectly. For cyclocross, Belgium is that place. Cycling fanaticism in Belgium is difficult to explain. There is really no correlation to it in the United States. Football is the easiest ...
  • Posted: Thu, Oct 30th
    Kona cyclocrosser Barry Wicks' latest journal entry.
    The wheel in front of me twitches and pulses with enormous energy as it tries desperately to pull away from my gasping breaths. My legs ache, the pain beginning deep, unbelievably deep, slowly creeping up through the layers of my consciousness, finally reaching the threshold ...
  • Posted: Wed, Oct 15th
    Team Kona cyclocrosser Barry Wicks reports on some of his off-the-bike pursuits.
    VeloNews.com publishes a diary from Kona pro cyclocross racer Barry Wicks every other Wednesday. Wicks' column alternates with one by Cyclocrossworld.com-Cannondale's Jeremy Powers
  • Posted: Wed, Oct 1st
    A new column by cyclocross star Barry Wicks
    Editor's Note: This is the first of a regular column on VeloNews.com written by Team Kona professional cyclocross racer Barry Wicks. Transitioning from my mountain bike to my cyclocross bike in the fall is an adventure in rehearsed humility. I know that buried deep ...