Sentence examples for record of tour from inspiring English sources

A year on, the Manxman was clad in the red, white and blue stripes of British champion, he had immense support from his five team-mates in the Omega Pharma-Quick Step squad to the little cobbled climb, and he hung on by a wheel from the Italian Elia Viviani to take his personal record of Tour of Britain stage wins to nine.

The UCI, particularly the leadership of McQuaid and the honorary president Hein Verbruggen, who was president at the time of Armstrong's record run of Tour success, have met criticism over the Usada investigation.

For he is now being pressured to overtake Tom Okker's record of 79 tour titles.

Armstrong's chances of approaching the record of five Tour victories are bolstered by his strong United States Postal Service team.

Merckx was more guarded when asked about Mark Cavendish's chances of challenging his record of 34 Tour stage wins.

He also denies that he hopes to equal or break the record of five Tour victories set by Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Indurain.

Last Friday, American prosecutors dropped a criminal investigation of Lance Armstrong, who holds the record of seven Tour wins, without charges, but an investigation by the United States Anti-Doping Agency continues.

Frank's book The Americans (l956), the record of a tour of the United States that combined the sense of accident of a family slide show with a sense of the ominous worthy of the Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico, was the masterpiece of this vision; and no work of the postwar era was more influential in all fields of visual expression.

Although the 28-year-old Armstrong has many peak years left in principle, he sounds dubious about trying to match the record of five Tour victories held by Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Indurain, the dominant riders of the 1960's, 70's, 80's and 90's.

Among the competitors was Henri Paret who, at 50 years old, still holds the record of oldest Tour de France cyclist.

So will his record company, Verve, which may release a live recording of the tour.