Female Tour de France 2012 LIEGE to Paris Cycling Team RÉVE

This is the REAL Tour de France, with no doping, true courage and love for cycling, no helicopters following them everywhere they go, no scandals of any kind: The LIÉGE TO PARIS.
I truly recommend you to pay a visit to their web page and follow their accomplishments. They are awesome! They are going to ride 3,472 kilometers in all and as of now, they have left the Alps behind!
The name of the team is RÉVE and I will be following them very closely, that is for sure.

This July, in partnership with peloton magazine and on behalf of Bikes Belong, we’re going back to France with six female amateurs intent on writing a new chapter in the annals of women’s cycling. The Rêve women’s team will ride the complete 2012 Tour de France route, proving to themselves, other female cyclists, and women thinking about taking up the sport, that any bicycle dream is possible. In true Rêve fashion they’ll ride one day ahead of the men’s Tour, stay in the same spartan hotels and endure the unrelenting grind of daily transfers that define the three-week journey around France. Every training mile and every kilometer in France will be pedaled in support of Bikes Belong. Bikes Belong is a national coalition of bicycle retailers and suppliers working to make cycling safer and more accessible for women. We aim to make a significant contribution to that purpose.

The Women’s SuperSix will feature the advanced ergonomics of FSA components, the latest SRAM Red with Quarq power meters we hope to share the data, and in the mountains, we’ll have the advantage of SRAM’s WiFLi climbing gearing. Understanding that no bike component is more important or personal than your choice of saddle the team will have the full benefit of Fizik women’s-specific technology under them.

Moreno Moser Wins Tour de Pologne Stage 6

Moreno Moser, a professional Italian cyclist racer won today´s stage 6 of the Tour de Pologne (Bukovina-Bukowina Tatrzańska, 192 km: 5 laps of 38,5 km with 5 passages on the 1st category Kom of Zab, 5 on the 1st category Kom of Gliczarow Gorny, in addition to the final hill on Bukowina Tatrzànska).
Just before the finish line, the young Italian cyclist overtook Henao, who had attacked at 3000 to go from the head group in which Lampre-ISD’s Niemiec (photo Bettini archive) and Mori were pedaling too.

At 191km in length and with 15 climbs, ten of them classified for the climber’s competition, the sixth stage of the Tour of Poland made up for the lack of absolute altitude with frequency in its ascents, clocking in 4400m of climbing, but never going higher than 1000m above sea level.

“The race was not so tough as it could have been, because the pace was raised onlt in the final part of the course – Bondariew, sport director from Lampre-ISD, commented – Good performance by Niemiec, who also tried to escape from the bunch on the downhill before the final hill: he was with Vanavermaet and Majka, but those two breakaway mates crashed and so Przemyslaw could not have their support anymore. Then, he covered in a competitive way the last hill, also trying to support Mori who, suffering because of the cramps, could not defend his position in the overall classification”.

GENERAL CLASSIFICATION after stage 6

1 Moreno Moser (Ita) Liquigas-Cannondale 27:25:17
2 Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) Omega Pharma-Quickstep 0:00:05
3 Sergio Luis Henao Montoya (Col) Sky Procycling 0:00:16
4 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Katusha Team 0:00:25
5 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) RadioShack-Nissan 0:00:28