Tour de France Wrap-up: Our Favorite Moments

TrainingPeaks once again had exclusive behind the scenes data analysis and video interviews from the Tour de France. If you didn't have a chance to follow our daily race reports be sure to check out our favorite stages and video interviews from Team Saxo Bank-SunGard and Team Sky riders.

Here are our favorite interviews:

• Juan Antonio Flecha on the second rest day in Orange, France.

• Some riders, like Laurens Ten Dam, just know how to work the crowd on L'Alpe d'Huez.

• Stage 15: Chris Anker Sorensen discusses the Pyrenees and the upcoming stages in the Alpes.

• Tejay Van Garderen uses TrainingPeaks to train for the Tour de France. What are you training for?

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Gear's Thoughts: The Tour

July is here, which means only one thing to cycling fans: it's Tour de  France time!  I've followed The Tour for over 20 years now, and I'm just  as excited about it now as I was back then. The technology, the riders, the roads of France, the spectacle, the lore, it's a remarkable combination that plays out over 3 weeks and I love waking up and watching the final 50k each day on TV.. er, the web usually.

The Tour, as it's simply called, is the Super Bowl of cycling. Everybody knows that. In fact, that's why it is simply awesome, because it's the one bike race that everyone has heard of, even folks here in the USA. Each year it brings a round of questions from my friends and neighbors, who are not quite as gung-ho about cycling as I am.

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Stages 1-6 of the Tour de France

TrainingPeaks has been collecting and sharing daily Tour de France power files in conjunction with SRM, Team Sky and Saxo Bank-SunGard. There has been some amazing data coming out of the stages this past week and a very special thanks must go out to the riders themselves who have provided a unique insider view into the Tour de France.

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Saxo Bank-SunGard and TrainingPeaks Extend Partnership

Lafayette, CO, March 15, 2011 

Today Saxo Bank-SunGard is happy to announce an extended partnership with the American company Peaksware, LLC and its state of the art training software, TrainingPeaks.com.

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Which was Harder, Tour de France 2010 or 2009?

Tour de France Review: Comparing Race Files for 2009 and 2010 from Team Saxo Bank’s Chris Anker Sorensen

A rare view into what it takes to compete in the world’s hardest bike race, by Dirk Friel

Team Saxo Bank’s Chris Anker Sorensen recently completed his second Tour de France, and for the second year in a row he was a major contributing factor in the success of his teammate Andy Schleck, who placed 2nd overall. Chris has had a very successful season and continues to notch up impressive results despite suffering a broken collar bone just 7 weeks before the start of this year’s Giro d’Italia. In fact, Chris went on to win stage 8 of the Italian tour by riding away solo from a long breakaway.

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