Tour de France 2012 - Start List

Start list

‘Pretty unfortunate but we are not done with this Paris-Nice’ – Ben O’Connor slips down GC after brutal conditions hit

Australian Jayco-Alula rider tumbles from fourth to 20th overall on stage 4 after icy rain delivers mid-race pause
'I just want to have a hot shower' - Tirreno-Adriatico peloton suffers for seven hours in cold and rain

Jonathan Milan crashes at speed just 24 hours after winning stage 2
'I found an opening, but I was a little far back' - Tom Pidcock impresses in sprint four days after Strade Bianche battle with Pogačar

Q36.5 rider survives seven hours in the rain to take second in Colfiorito sprint

Former World Champion Romans Vainsteins faces four months in prison for defaulting on family support payments

Latvian arrested at Bergamo airport over €70,000 debt to ex-wife
History of the Lance Armstrong doping case

From 1999 cortisone test to lifetime ban, how Lance Armstrong became the most disgraced athlete of all time
'We should never have raced this final' - New Paris-Nice GC leader Jonas Vingegaard unhappy racing resumed after neutralisation

'Everyone was freezing, nobody could feel their brakes' says Dane after brutal fourth stage at Race to the Sun

Ganna and Van der Poel play Milan-San Remo cat and mouse in cold and wet six-hour Tirreno-Adriatico stage

'When you're racing to win, you don't worry about your rivals' Italian says after late attack chased down
‘I didn’t even know if we were racing’ – cold, confusing neutralisation dampens Matteo Jorgenson’s efforts on Paris-Nice stage 4

American lost the yellow jersey on Wednesday's decisive climb after a lack of communication around stops and restarts
I ruined my gravel bike by trying to make it ‘progressive’ - Don’t make the same mistake as me!

Leave race setups to the pros, you’ll have more fun on a normal gravel bike