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• Hushovd At Last, As Cancellara Prepares To Lose Yellow
  July 9th, 2009
  

  by Justin Davis
  Norwegian Thor Hushovd finally ended his frustrating wait for victory on this year’s Tour de France by winning a treacherous, rain-hit sixth stage from Gerona to Barcelona Thursday.
  Saxo Bank’s Fabian Cancellara retained the race leader’s yellow jersey with a 0.22sec lead on American Lance Armstrong after the [...]

• Breakaway Riders Look To Barcelona’s Olympic Stadium
  July 8th, 2009
  

  PERPIGNAN, France, July 8, 2009 (AFP) – Mark Cavendish’s domination of the Tour de France bunch sprints is set to come to an end, temporarily at least, on the race’s sixth stage which ends at Barcelona’s Olympic stadium on Thursday.
  A day before the first summit finish of the race at Arcalis [...]

• Finland’s Veikkanen wins sixth stage of Tour of Germany
  September 4th, 2008
  

  NEUSS, Germany, Sept 4, 2008 (AFP) – Finland’s Jussi Veikkanen won the sixth stage of the Tour of Germany on Thursday after winning the sprint finish on the 188.8km route from Bad Fredeburg to Neuss.
  Leader Linus Gerdemann of Germany keeps the yellow jersey after finishing in the peloton, but [...]

• Tour of Germany Results – Stage 6 and Overall
  September 4th, 2008
  

  Results in the 188.8km sixth stage of the Tour of Germany between Bad Fredeburg and Neuss here on Thursday:
  Stage 6
  1. Jussi Veikkanen (FIN) 4hr 17min 22sec, 2. Maxim Iglinskiy (KAZ) s.t., 3.
  Thierry Hupond (FRA) s.t., 4. Pablo Garcia Lastras (ESP) s.t., 5. Remi Pauriol
  (FRA) s.t., 6. Christophe Mengin (FRA) [...]

• Edvald Boasson of Team Columbia Wins Stage Six At The Eneco Tour
  August 26th, 2008
  

  San Luis Obispo, CA, 26 August 2008 – Team Columbia continued to dominate the results at the Eneco Tour ProTour race in Belgium on Tuesday, with Edvald Boasson Hagen using his power and speed to win and Andre Greipel retaining the overall race lead.
  A nine-rider breakaway looked set to fight out the finish but Team [...]

• Tour de France Stage 6 Recap Video by Versus
  July 10th, 2008
  

  This Bicycle.net video is brought to you by our friends at Versus.com
  Attack Mode
  By Bob Roll
  Super-Besse, as we thought it would, provided to be a thrilling stage full of attacks from the favorite in the GC battle.The best moments of the Tour have come courtesy of the battle for the most coveted jersey in all of [...]

• Stage 6 Finishing Sprint Video by Versus
  July 10th, 2008
  

  This excellent video of the finish of stage 6 is supplied by our friends at Versus.com
  Ricco Shows He’s Ready
  By: Paul Sherwen
  We expected a lot out of the first mountaintop finish of the Tour at Super-Besse and the day did not let us down. Ricardo Ricco proved that his successes in the Giro d’Italia were not [...]

• Tour de France Stage 6 Results
  July 10th, 2008
  

  Tour de France class standings after 6th stage
  SUPER-BESSE, France, July 10, 2008 (AFP) – Class standings from the 6th stage of the Tour de France, a 195.5km ride from Aigurande to Super-Besse on
  Thursday:
  OVERALL
  1. Kim Kirchen (LUX/COL) [...]

• Riccardo Ricco of Saunier Duval Wins Tour de France Stage 6
  July 10th, 2008
  

  Ricco wins Tour’s sixth stage
  SUPER-BESSE, France, July 10, 2008 (AFP) – Italian Riccardo Ricco of Saunier Duval won the Tour de France sixth stage, a 195.5km race from Aigurande to here in the Massif Central, here Thursday, with Kim Kirchner of Luxembourg, riding for the Colombia team, taking the race leader’s yellow [...]

• Kirchen of Team Columbia In Yellow, As Ricco Wins Tour de France Stage 6
  July 10th, 2008
  

  SUPER-BESSE, France, July 10, 2008 (AFP) – Team Columbia’s Kim Kirchen created his own piece of Tour de France history by becoming the first Luxemburger in nearly 50 years to pull on the race’s yellow jersey on Thursday.
  Italian Riccardo Ricco of Saunier Duval won the sixth stage, [...]