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The second week of the Tour of France has gone. Unfortunately before the 12th stage Andrew Talansky had to leave the Tour, after a long fight against the pain, due to a crash on stage 10. He tried to remain in the race until he could, he didn’t want to give up, but he was losing too minutes and he was out of the competition. Andrew says to be disappointed, and proud of his team that supported him all the season. Today the Tour is in pause, and all the riders can relax to restart tomorrow with a 237 km stage (Carcassonne – Bagneres de Luchon). Probably this stage will be not the crucial but some attacks would happen: riders will have to pedal cleverly because this stage has a very dangerous roads. Today we you enjoy this pictures of the second week of The Tour of France by Jered Gruber.

After one day of pause, the Tour restarts today with the stage of Besançon – Oyonnax. The Tour de France seems to be very hard: the weather was inclement with continuous rains, bad conditions and wet tarmac and a dangerous paved roads (Ypres – Arenberg Porte du Hainaut). After the fall of Chris Froome and Alberto Contador, that caused the brake of the wrist and the hand in Chris and the leg in Alberto, that caused the retirement from the Tour of the two bigs, “la Grand Boucle” is showing us how hard this race can be. Our Andrew Talanky were unlucky too, but he is fine enough to continue his race, standing up and trying to rech the yellow jersey. We hope for a quick healing of Chirs and Alberto, and we are costantly following the Tour, full of dramatic turns of events. Here a small photogallery with some photos by Jered Gruber.

Zarautz Triathlon 2014 – 3/80/20k Zarautz is a fantastic race for many reasons and one of those is the punishing climbs that feature towards the tail end of the bike ride. Fraser raced quite a lot in Spain and spent a lot of in the country for training camps over the years. As such he heard lots about what is regularly described as ‘the best race in the country’. Usually he races 70.3 UK in June however this year he decided to have a change of scenery and commited to racing in Zarautz, which is on the northern coast of Spain – not far from San Sebastian. It is a beautiful stretch of coastline and a remarkable location for a race. This race is essentially a half ironman event, but with a longer swim. Strictly speaking it is a ‘double olympic’ distance race and as such he felt it played to his strength. Another nice aspect of the event in Zarautz is the point to point sea swim. The race starts on a little beach a couple of miles around the headland and you essentially try and point yourself towards the far off sandy beach and hope for the best. He rode a fairly good ...

The firs week of the Tour de France has gone, but we have a lot of photos to show you, since the first stage in Yorkshire, the arrival in London, mix of cultures and people that are showing passion for cycling, or simply interest for an event like this. Tour de France is the most prestigious event in cycling, full of passion, competition, action and team strategy. You can enjoy the emotions of the Tour de France by this stunning photos made by Jered Gruber and Steve Smith (stage 1).

Every year Ironman Germany in Frankfurt is well known for its world class field of starters. That’s not at all surprising, as it’s the race for the European crown in triathlon. Castelli also had two hot irons in the fire, namely Ironman World Champion Frederik Van Lierde and Andreas Raelert. The performance of Raelert (who won in Frankfurt 2010) was eagerly awaited, as he only decided on his start a few days before the race. Unfortunately the German had to abandon during the run while fighting for a spot on the podium. When speaking of the podium, it’s been a battle between Frederik Van Lierde, Jan Frodeno and Sebastian Kienle, where the 2-time 70.3 World Champion had the better outcome at the finish. Castelli athlete Van Lierde finished second and ungrudgingly admitted, that Kienle was a class on his own in winning with new course record on his 30th birthday. Nevertheless the Belgian proved, that he is on the right track to defend his Kona title later this year at a reunion with Frodeno and Kienle among others. Top-3 men: 1. Sebastian Kienle (GER) 7:55:14 2. Frederik Van Lierde (BEL) 8:00:25 3. Jan Frodeno (GER) 8:07:05 Some more race impressions ...