Thor Hushovd News

Norway's Thor Hushovd, who intends boycotting the Opening ceremony in the Beijing Olympics in protest against China's human rights record in Tibet, homed a few purely cycling points at St Brieuc yesterday, ...

For the past week everybody in the cycling world has been gearing up towards to Tour de France .

THE burly Norwegian Thor Hushovd won yesterday's second stage of the Tour de France, sprinting in at the head of a heaving pack that had timed its pursuit of four Frenchman to perfection.

The Bretons love a fighter and, in the lamentable absence of a homegrown winner yesterday, were delighted to pay homage to Norway's Viking warrior, Thor Hushovd.

Sprint specialist Thor Hushovd of Spain won the second stage of the Tour de France on Sunday, with Alejandro Valverde keeping the overall lead after a windy, rain-soaked ride through the Brittany countryside.

Former mountain ace Richard Virenque thinks Cadel Evans can win the Tour de France if he rides aggressively.

Thor Hushovd showed he is likely the favourite for the green jersey this year with a clear win in Saint Brieuc.

Besides Tour de France legends Lance Armstrong and Robbie McEwen, no man has won more stages in the Tour de France since 2000 than Thor Hushovd.

Norwegian Thor Hushovd won stage two of the Tour de France with a fantastic sprint finish in the final 300m between Auray and Saint Brieuc.

Norway's Thor Hushovd has won the second stage of the Tour de France by leading a group sprint.

Among the rookies at this year's Tour de France, Mark Renshaw will be a name to watch.

Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme hopes that changes to this year's race format will provide more suspense.

With the Tour de France starting this weekend, eurosport.yahoo.com answers some of your questions on cycling's most prestigious event.

Julian Dean will join a small but elite band of New Zealand cyclists when he lines up for his fourth Tour de France beginning on Saturday night.

CONTENDERS for the maillot jaune, or yellow jersey, awarded to the Tour de France race winner.

With Tom Boonen almost certain to miss the Tour de France, Gert Steegmans has additional responsibility in the sprints.

I started this exercise last week, and aim to finish it off today: namely, taking the temperature of all the big July teams, a/k/a the Cycling Quotient Top teams, #11-22 minus the Italian continental teams you ...

Stage 7: Luneville-Karlsruhe, 228.5 km So today the riders will whiz between the cities of Luneville in France and Karlsruhe in Germany, a total of 228.5 km with two climbs early on.

With 43 km to go they have 2.23 on the bunch. The trio started their adventure at 5 km on the rolling terrain of another sprinters stage and gained a max advantage of 4:35. The trio having been out in wind for ...

American George Hincapie was the quickest in the sprint to win the second stage of the Dauphine Libere here on Tuesday, but Thor Hushovd still retains the overall lead.