Rose Cantine

Axel Merckx (son of Eddy) and Wim Vansevenant, lanterne rouge of the Tour de France in 2007 and 2006, will be competing at the post-Tour criterium in Wolvertem-Meise (Belgium) on Saturday, August 4. This is Axel Merckx’s last season. Vansevenant’s second lanterne rouge has gotten him a lot of press, much more than if he [...]

The Tour isn’t quite over yet, at least in terms of the doping test results. El Pais reports that Iban Mayo (Saunier Duval - Prodir) tested positive for EPO in the 24th stage of the Tour de France.
Astana has fired Alexander Vinokourov from its cycling team. Vinokourov tested positive for blood “doping” (i.e. getting an [...]

Barely 24 hours after the Tour de France ended, German TV station ZDF says doping expert, Dr. Werner Franke, is in possession of evidence that Dr. Fuentes (of the Puerto doping scandal) gave Contador banned substances. Dr. Franke says that Contador is being protected by senior Spanish officials (article in Dutch from de Telegraaf). [...]

After the prizes have been handed out (yellow jersey to Contador, green jersey to Boonen, red-peas jersey to Soler), we are left thinking about what to do with the next Tour.
Here are a few proposals:
(1) Allow doping because it’s always been part of the Tour.
The Telegraph UK says: Doping is a part of the [...]

Wim Vansevenant becomes the third man in history to win the lanterne rouge twice in a row, coming in 3h 52′ 54″ after the winner. Congratulations, Wim! The Dutch TV crew gave him a red lantern to hang on his bike at the end of the stage.
Articles in the press about Vansevenant:
Het Laatste Nieuws (Belgian):
http://www.hln.be/hlns/cache/det/art_538301.html?wt.bron=homeHVDN
The [...]

Alberto Contador has won the Tour de France 2007 with Cadel Evans coming in 2nd and Levi Leipheimer in 3rd place. Tom Boonen gets the green jersey (best sprinter), Soler the red-peas jersey (king of the mountains). Wim Vansevenant is the Lanterne Rouge, making him the third man in the history to win it in [...]

Yesterday afternoon, I saw a television interview of Wim Vansevenant, lanterne rouge of the 2007 Tour. The camera showed him warming up on a stationary bike at 10:00 am. Being last, he was scheduled to go first in the time trial from Cognac to Angouleme. There were video clips showing him calling his mother and [...]