Stories by Neal Rogers

• Posted: Thu, Jul 24th
  Stage 18 - By the numbers
  Stage 18, Bourg-d’Oisans to Saint-Etienne, 196.5km WeatherSunny and warm, clear skies, temperatures in the low 80s. Stage winnerOn a day destined to see a winner come from a breakaway, Columbia’s German Marcus Burghardt took his ...
• Posted: Wed, Jul 23rd
  Who won: Sastre or Evans?
  CSC-Saxo Bank’s Carlos Sastre took both the stage win atop L’Alpe d’Huez and the race lead following Wednesday’s massive 210km queen stage of this year’s Tour — but who was the day’s biggest winner? Following this Tour’s final mountain stage, one minute and 34 ...
• Posted: Tue, Jul 22nd
  Stage 16 - By the numbers
  Stage 16, Cuneo, Italy, to Jausiers (157km) Weather: Sunny and warm, clear skies, variable winds blowing up the valleys, creating headwind on both hors catégorie climbs Stage winner: Cyril Dessel (AG2R-La Mondiale) won a downhill sprint out of a ...
• Posted: Tue, Jul 22nd
  Vande Velde ready for the ride of his life
  Three weeks ago, Garmin-Chipotle’s Christian Vande Velde left his European home in Girona, Spain, for the Tour de France with the goal of his first-ever top 10 finish. However as the Tour’s second rest day came to a close Monday, the 32-year-old American sits fifth ...
• Posted: Sun, Jul 20th
  Stage 15 was a mixed bag for the Garmin gang
  Stage 15 of the 2008 Tour de France proved a mixed bag for the Garmin-Chipotle team. First, the good news: Danny Pate got into the day’s four-man breakaway, finishing third on the stage after a valiant ride fell just short in the final kilometer. And GC leader Christian ...
• Posted: Sat, Jul 19th
  Stage 14 - By the numbers
  Stage 14, Nimes to Digne-Les-Baines, 194.5km WeatherHot and sunny, strong westerly winds (tailwinds for the peloton) up to 45kph. Air temperature at the start was 86 degrees, while the road temperature during the stage reached 107. Stage ...
• Posted: Thu, Jul 17th
  Mr. Rogers' Tour - Riccò case a setback for "new cycling"
  Tour de France organizers ASO may be regretting the choice of music played after the peloton rolled out of Lavelanet at the start of stage 12 Thursday. Only 45 minutes after the news of Ricardo Riccò’s positive test for red-blood cell booster CERA rocked the start ...
• Posted: Sun, Jul 13th
  Mr. Rogers' Tour - Riccò rides right into questions
  Not to minimize Stefan Schumacher’s surprising stage 4 time trial win, but the 2008 Tour de France saw its first truly amazing performance Sunday as Saunier Duval-Scott’s Ricardo Riccò rode away from the best riders in the world to take his second stage win in four days.
• Posted: Sat, Jul 12th
  Frank Schleck says he's happy to see Kirchen in yellow
  CSC-Saxo Bank’s national Luxembourg champion Frank Schleck dismissed statements made by race leader Kim Kirchen Friday that there was no love lost between the compatriots. Following Friday’s difficult stage, which saw the CSC team of brothers Frank and Andy Schleck set a ...
• Posted: Fri, Jul 11th
  One week in to the 2008 Tour de France — a status report
  After seven stages, the 2008 Tour de France is one-third over and starting to take shape, even with the Monday’s first high-mountain stage looming in the distance. Four of the first week’s six road stages have seen separation on the day’s final climb, with the race’s ...
• Posted: Wed, Jul 9th
  Stage 5 was a day of firsts at the 2008 Tour de France
  Wednesday’s 232km stage from Cholet to Chatearoux might have been the fifth stage of this 2008 Tour de France, but in many respects it was a day of firsts. It was the first hot, sunny day of a Tour that began in the rain and cold winds of Brittany — weather that seemed ...
• Posted: Tue, Jul 8th
  Mr. Rogers' Tour - Will power
  Oh so close. Garmin Chipotle’s Will Frischkorn, out ahead of the peloton in a four-man breakaway from the first 10 kilometers of the Tour’s third stage from Saint-Malo to Nantes, came within a wheel’s length of winning a stage in his first grand tour. Not a bad ride ...