Posted by uspostTennisTuesday, September 14th, 2010
Spain’s golden year of sporting success just keeps getting sweeter and sweeter. Rafael Nadal’s victory at the U.S. Open is the latest coup for Spain in a season-long fiesta on the international stage. Spain won soccer’s World Cup in South Africa, Alberto Contador captured his third Tour de France and now Nadal has completed a [...]
The two-time Tour de France winner Laurent Fignon has died aged 50 following a battle with cancer. The French rider won the Tour de France in 1983 and 1984 and finished runner-up in 1989, losing by just eight seconds, the smallest margin in the history of the race, to the American Greg LeMond. Fignon also [...]
The riders of the Tour de France have begun the second-to-last stage, a 32.3-mile time trial that will determine the final positions on the podium. Defending champion and leader Alberto Contador will be the last to race on Saturday, and he is expected to seal his overall victory. He could also win the stage.Among others [...]
The riders of the Tour de France have set out on the 18th of the 20 stages of this year’s Tour de France, a day that could be decisive for those fighting for the green jersey of best sprinter. The flat 123-mile trek from Salies-de-Bearn to Bordeaux in the country’s southwest is expected to end [...]