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Jul. 22, 2007
Stage 14- Mazamet to Plateau de Beille (197km)
Following right after the time trial, this is the first of three demanding stages in the Pyrénées. It opens with an immediate 9km climb over the Black Mountains, but the first real obstacle is three hours down the road: the hors-catégorie Port de Pailhères climb (17km at 7.2 percent). Then, following a tumbling descent to Ax-les-Thermes, the riders race 16km down the Ariège valley before reaching the finishing climb to Plateau de Beille (16km at almost 8 percent).
Jul. 22, 2007
Contador claims Stage 14; Rasmussen pads lead The sorting out continued at the Tour de France on Sunday as Alberto Contador and Michael Rasmussen emerged as the race’s most serious contenders, ...
Jul. 22, 2007
Climbers to the fore on Plateau de Beille Discovery Channel’s stage 14 winner Alberto Contador was standing on thepodium atop Plateau de Beille before the gruppetto had crossed the ...
Jul. 22, 2007
Stage 14: A Casey Gibson Gallery It was a wild day in the Tour de France on Sunday, with all the spectacle a shooter could desire — one yellow chicken chasing another, a battalion ...
Jul. 22, 2007
Vino's Tour comes crashing down as fan's flag lays him low Alexander Vinokourov was already laboring in the gruppetto Sunday after losing all hope of winning the 2007 Tour de France when he suffered one more ...
Jul. 22, 2007
Contador v. Rasmussen — deal or not? Michael Rasmussen may be leading the Tour de France, but he’s not winning any friends in either the peloton or the court of public ...
Jul. 22, 2007
Rasmussen not exactly winning hearts and minds among his colleagues Michael Rasmussen's continued presence on the Tour de France, in the wake of revelations that he has missed several random doping controls in the ...
Jul. 22, 2007
Stage stats: Stage 14 Weather: Partly cloudy throughout most of the stage, with temperatures in the 70s in the flats and cooler on the summits, moderate winds on the ...
Jul. 21, 2007
Into the Pyrénées. After Saturday's TT, the Tour goes back to the hills The yellow jersey should take on a significantly more sporting hue on Sunday when the Tour de France peloton tackles the first of three stages in the ...
Jul. 21, 2007
Vande Velde's View: The Motorcycle diaries The Tour is one big moving circus.
The smallest portion of the whole thing is the peloton; 180-or-so guys on bikes. Even when you add all of the ...
