Sentence examples for road stages from inspiring English sources

He was the only man today to use the same bicycle he uses in road stages, a Look carbon monoblock model.

Indeed, on one of the last road stages, after a series of attacks had come to nothing, he backed off and almost stopped.

The race starts with an 8.7 kilometres time trial around Herning, followed by two road stages.

The points classification was won by Di Luca, after he finished in the top ten in eight of the road stages.

After a stage each for the breakaway and the sprinters, during which there were no major changes to the overall standings, the riders were faced with the very climbing-intensive final two road stages.

The courses for the road stages in the Netherlands were noted to have a lot of street furniture on them, which combined with the riders' nerves on the first day of a three-week Grand Tour as well as crosswinds from the North Sea to make the first mass-start stages very perilous.

The Tour last opened with a road stage in 2008.

That makes it the shortest road stage of the Tour- and potentially the hardest, too.

He was the first American to win a road stage of the Tour de France.

His father, the first American to win a road stage of the Tour de France, plans to be in Beijing.

Mark Cavendish is starting to win them by margins that can be counted in seconds, just like a normal road stage.