Stories by Andrew Hood

• Posted: Fri, Jul 11th
  Stage 7 - By the Numbers
  Stage 7, Brioude to Aurillac, 159km Weather: Sunny in morning, building clouds on climbs, cooler, late showers, strong cross and headwinds, highs in 60s. Stage winner: Luís León Sánchez (Caisse d’Epargne) worked into a four-man breakaway that ...
• Posted: Fri, Jul 11th
  A conversation with Christian Vande Velde: Vande Velde: ‘The strongest I’ve ever felt’
  Christian Vande Velde (Garmin-Chipotle) has been one of the revelations so far in the first week of the Tour de France. Through the first opening seven stages, Vande Velde has ridden with consistency and strength to slot into fourth overall at just 44 seconds out of the ...
• Posted: Fri, Jul 11th
  Andrew Hood's Tour de France Notebook, stage 7
  MILLAR TIME OVER David Millar officially gave up the chase for the yellow jersey after a give-all raid that ran out of air early in Thursday’s hilly course across Massif Central. Despite struggling up Super-Besse in Wednesday’s stage, the Garmin-Chipotle captain ...
• Posted: Thu, Jul 10th
  Andrew Hood's Tour de France Notebook, Stage 6
  RICCO A LA PANTANI? Will Riccardo Riccò pull a page from the playbook of his childhood hero, Marco Pantani, and surprise everyone at this Tour de France? Riccò insists he’s here only for stage victories, but his impressive pop in Thursday’s stage could ...
• Posted: Thu, Jul 10th
  Stage 6 - By the numbers
  Stage 6, Aigurande to Super-Besse, 195.5km Weather Partly sunny, warmer, highs in the 80s, light westerly wind
• Posted: Thu, Jul 10th
  A conversation with Garmin executives at the Tour de France
  Sponsoring a bike team makes good business sense, especially if you’re Garmin and one of the largest companies in the fast-growing, highly competitive GPS market. Garmin unveiled its high-profile deal with Slipstream sports at the start of the 2008 Tour de France as the ...
• Posted: Wed, Jul 9th
  2008 Tour de France: Stage 5, by the numbers
  Stage 5, Cholet to Châteauroux, 232km Weather: Partly cloudy in the morning, warm and sunny in afternoon, moderate westerly breeze with 20kph, highs in the low 80s
• Posted: Wed, Jul 9th
  Andrew Hood's Tour de France Notebook, Stage 5
  Valverde scare: It looked innocuous on the medical report, just cuts and scrapes, but Alejandro Valverde’s Tour de France was nearly short-circuited Wednesday in a pileup. Valverde, 28, flipped over his handlebars and landed on the same collarbone he broke in the ...
• Posted: Tue, Jul 8th
  Andrew Hood's Tour de France Notebook, stage 4
  Garmin party: Garmin-Chipotle was in a good mood today. The riders raced with a yellow dossard because they stood atop the team GC while Will Frischkorn raced with a red background on his number after winning Monday’s most aggressive rider’s prize. Frischkorn ...
• Posted: Tue, Jul 8th
  2008 Tour de France stage 4 - By the numbers
  Stage 4, Cholet-Cholet, 29.5km (individual time trial) Weather: Mostly sunny, with building clouds in afternoon, no rain. Strong SW winds up to 35kph, highs in upper 60s Stage winner:
• Posted: Tue, Jul 8th
  Evans pleased with Tour time trial results
  While Gerolsteiner’s Stefan Schumacher scored an impressive ─ and surprising ─ win in Tuesday’s 29.5km individual time trial in Cholet, he’s still not ranked among the favorites to wear the yellow jersey in Paris on July 27.
• Posted: Mon, Jul 7th
  Andrew Hood's Tour de France Notebook, stage 3
  BADGER STILL BITES: Don’t say the Bernard Hinault has lost any of his punch with old age. Just as Samuel Dumoulin was stepping atop the podium to accept his prize as the day’s winner, a protester dressed in a neon yellow vest jumped in front of the pint-sized Dumoulin ...