BERN, SWITZERLAND – Fabin Cancellara, who will represent Switzerland at the Olympics in London, has cut short the Tour de France bike race to join his wife, who is about to give birth in Bern. He would have joined the 11th stage of the race Thursday 12 July. Cancellara said the decision was hard, but [...]
Cancellara rides for cycling safety in new bpa campaign
March 19, 2012 by
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Fabian Cancellara, Switzerlands’s four-time world champion cyclists, is getting a different kind of publicity with the new spring campaign from bpa/bfu, the Swiss Safety Council. “Lovelo” about loving your bike – with a helmet on – has a simple message: put your helmet on right by testing with two fingers above your [...]
Cycling World Championships: Cavendish wins as Cancellaro takes fourth
September 25, 2011 by
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK – Britain’s Mark Cavendish won the World Championship road race, 25 September following a mass sprint. He became the first Briton to win the title since Tommy Simpson in 1965. Cavendish confirmed his position as the finest sprinter of his generation with a well-timed drive for the line after he was guided to [...]
Cavendish strikes back but Cancellara keeps yellow jersey
July 8, 2010 by
International sports, Tour de France cycling Epernay, France (GenevaLunch) – Mark Cavendish, the sprinter from the Isle of Man, dominated the 2009 finishes but has had a difficult start to this year’s Tour de France, including being responsable for one of the big crashes that have marred the race. He put that behind him to [...]
Petacchi wins sprint while Cancellara keeps yellow
July 8, 2010 by
International sports: Tour de France cycling Reims, France (GenevaLunch.com) – Italian sprinter Alessandro Petacchi won the fourth stage of the 2010 Tour de France, from Cambrai to Reims. The British rider Mark Cavendish, who dominated the sprints in 2009, could only come in 12th after a weak finish. Swiss World and Olympic champion Fabian Cancellara [...]
Cancellara keeps yellow as golden retriever causes chaos
July 4, 2010 by
International sports, Tour de France cycling [video of dog crash] Brussels, Belgium (GenevaLunch) – Fabian Cancellara kept the leader’s yellow jersey at the end of the first full day’s racing of the 2010 Tour de France. The Swiss world and Olympic champion finished with the pack in a chaotic finish that featured a number of [...]
Fabian Cancellara takes another Tour prologue
July 4, 2010 by
International sports, Tour de France cycling Rotterdam, Netherlands (GenevaLunch) – Fabian Cancellara took exactly 10 minutes to gain the first yellow jersey of the 2010 Tour de France when he won the prologue by 10 seconds from German rider Tony Martin. For the Swiss rider, currently world time trial and Olympic road race champion, it [...]
Lance Armstrong back for Tour de Suisse after 9 years
June 2, 2010 by
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Lance Armstrong will be back in the Tour de Suisse cycling race for the first time since he won it in 2001. The race promises to be a colourful one, with Armstrong, who won the Tour de France seven times, gearing up for the big French race after crashing out of [...]
International sports, cycling: Cancellaro completes double in spring classics
April 11, 2010 by
Roubaix, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France (GenevaLunch) – Fabian Cancellara, the Swiss Olympic road race champion won the famed Paris-Roubaix race, 259 kilometres with more than 50 over cobblestones Sunday 11 April. Cancellaro opened up a lead of more than two minutes when there were still 40km to go and easily maintained his lead as the pack fell [...]
International sports, cycling: Swiss triumph in Belgium
April 4, 2010 by
Ninove, Belgium (GenevaLunch) – Fabian Cancellara, the Swiss Olympic road race champion, won the Tour of Flanders to become only the 11th rider to win the three spring classics. He won Milan-San Remo in 2008 and Paris-Roubaix in 2006. Belgian riders Tom Boonen and Philippe Gilbert were next in this year’s race. Lance Armstrong was [...]
