Discovery's Team sponser? and the Tour de Suisse

Well Tour de Suisse has concluded with a win by Vladimir Karpets. He beat out his teammate Vladimir Efimkin by 1 minute and 41 seconds to gain the overall lead and took the victory. Efimkin dropped from first overall to a disappointing 5th after controlling the lead for so long. Fabian Cancellara took the win of the stage today with a twenty second lead to Andreas Kloden. There is a lot of talk surrounding the sponsorship of Discovery Team. As of the end of this year Discovery Channel's 3 year deal with the Discovery team terminates. Johan Bruyneel has said they are not worried about the sponsorship. They has been some gossip that the sponsor may come from China due to the ties that the team has made there recently. They have just got a new rider from the country. If I hear anything I will update all of you on it immediately.

Tour de Suisse and Landis? 1 month anny

Today is also 1 month anniversary of the cyclist blog. Keep on reading my readers. Well the second to last stage of the Tour de Suisse has been won by Rigoberto Uran. This 20 year old rider from the questionalble team Unibet.com. He attacked near the 500 meter mark and beat out the likes of Andreas Kloden. Also Vladimir Efimkin has remained in the overall lead with 24 second to Kim kirchen. The tour will end tomorrow 33.5 kilometer time trail. From an comment I have received I am also going to direct my attention to the Floyd Landis Trail. We are still awaiting the verdict. There has been no news since the attack that Landis's business manager, Will Geoghegan, made towards Greg Lemonds secret. This all happened on the 24 of may. As soon as I receive info on the case I will let you all know.

Gusev takes Charge at the Swiss Mountains

Today Discovery Team's rider, Vladimir Gusev, took the stage win in the mountains of Switzerland. The young Russian rider took aim and beat the Field to the finish with a 2 minute and 2 second lead. This win now guaranteed Gusev to be added to Team Discovery's 9 man team at the Tour de France. Another notable mention was Christopher Horner taking second place today at the stage. The American was the only rider from the Predictor-Lotto team to place in the top 10 of today's stage. Vladimir Efimkin took ninth today and remained in the lead of the Tour de Suisse. He has a lead of 24 seconds to Kim Kirchen. Kim has recently become a threat moving up through the ranks to take his spot in second place. Tomorrow's stage is 152.5 kilometer.

Updates and the Tour de Suisse

Well I have completed my updates. The new features include the survey at my left side of the page as well as the new subscription box which is also on the left. The survey will help me help you find the topics that will most interest you. Also the subscription box allows you to enter your address into it and I will updates a program which will allow me to send you my new posts through a mailing list. I hope you like the new features please let me know if you have comments. I am also working on creating a poll which will ask you which opinion on certain races. It will be up and running by the Tour de France. Well back to the cycling news. Andy Schleck lost his lead today overall to Vladimir Efimkin by 21 seconds. He now is in third place following Jose Angle Gomez Marchante in second. The stage winner today is the young Tomas Dekker. He is a 22 year old rider from Rabobank. He won by a total of 8 seconds. Today's stage was cut short due to bad weather in the morning. It started to hail which means that riding is pretty treacherous. It was cut from the original 190.8 kilometers to just 95. Tomorrows stage is supposed to be 125.7 kilometer long. This of coarse depends on if mother nature decides to change that again.