Aug 13th, 2010 at 10:00PM: Seems the Tour de France cycling championship has another bone to pick with France, this time with its hospitality.
Lance Armstrong has always had a love-hate relationship with France, but in a recent keynote speech at this week's National Business Travel Association conference in Houston, Armstrong added another bone to his picking list: France hotels.
When asked about his experiences as a ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Lance Armstrong calls France hotels 'horrible'
Aug 13th, 2010 at 10:00PM: Seems the Tour de France cycling championship has another bone to pick with France, this time with its hospitality.
Lance Armstrong has always had a love-hate relationship with France, but in a recent keynote speech at this week's National Business Travel Association conference in Houston, Armstrong added another bone to his picking list: France hotels.
When asked about his experiences as a ...Alberto Contador wins 2010 Tour de France
Jul 25th, 2010 at 8:00AM: Spanish rider Alberto Contador has claimed his third Tour de France win after securing the victory yesterday in a 32.3 mile long individual time trial that ran across the French countryside from Bordeaux to Pauillac. Despite being pushed to the limit by his rival, Luxembourg's Andy Schleck, Contador extended his lead in the race, winning by 39 seconds. Today, he'll finish off the 2010 Tour by ...Take a cycling tour with Trek Travel
Jul 8th, 2010 at 8:00AM: If you've been watching the Tour de France this week, you've no doubt seen Lance Armstrong and the rest of Team Radioshack riding their beautiful Trek bikes as they've rolled across the Netherlands, Belgium, and of course France. Perhaps it has even motivated you to dust off the Huffy and hit the road yourself. But did you know that Trek offers cycling tours to exotic places around the globe? ...The Tour de France begins today!
Jul 3rd, 2010 at 8:00AM: The world's greatest cycling event, the Tour de France, gets underway today when the best riders on the planet descend on Rotterdam in the Netherlands for a short 8.9km (5.5 mile) prologue that will help set the early tone to this year's event. Ahead of the teams sits 20 more grueling stages, spread out over three weeks, that includes six mountain stages, with three summit finishes, one of which ...2009 Tour de France is underway
Jul 5th, 2009 at 10:30AM: The 2009 Tour de France got underway yesterday with an individual time trial through the streets of Monaco. The Prologue was a short and fast 15.5km (9.6 miles) sprint that started with a steady climb and ended with the riders screaming back down the hill towards the finish line. At the end of the day, time trial specialist Fabian Cancellara took the stage victory and the famous Yellow Jersey, ...Wanna Ride in the Tour de France?
Oct 1st, 2008 at 9:00AM: Unless you are willing to dedicate your life to either training or discovering undetectable performance-enhancing drugs, chances are you won't be competing for that yellow jersey. Maybe you could get a job as one of those guys who rides on the back of a motorcycle with a camera. Or you could just travel to France during the race and take in the proceedings through a haze of wine and cheese. But ...
