Monthly Archive for July, 2011

Edward Whymper's Grave Stone

A Hero’s Guide to France: Les Alpes et les Pyrénées

If you ask the Heroes from whence they came they will often reference the West Coast or East Coast before…

Illuminated by spotlights, the crowd waits for the peloton to come around again

Crit Season

It’s crit season in America. Coming into the long, hazy heat of summer, all over the wide expanse of this…

The Col D'izoard

Col d’Izoard to Briançon

Photographs by Jonathan Sadler and Luke Batten

Jonathan Hero Constructing a Cairn For Faustino

Tenspeed Hero and IL Peccato

Our visit to cover the Tour de France had us stumbling across the prehistoric caves of the Pyrenees, Roman aqueducts…

Descent on the Col d'Izoard

Cervières

As a photographer, going to Alpe D’Huez during the Tour is like dating the most popular girl in high school….

Cadel Evans Wins The Tour de France!

The 2011 Tour de France: Hero’s View

What the Heroes have learned covering our first Tour de France: No. 1. When three L’Equipe reporters walk out of…

Cavendish Wins Again!

Mark Cavendish Wins the Final Stage of the 2011 TDF

Stage 21-95 km Créteil to Paris Champs-Élysées / Well, we have reached the final stage, and there is little more…

Tony Martin Wins!

Tony Martin Wins Stage Twenty of the 2011 TDF

Stage 20-42.5 km Individual Time Trial: Grenoble to Grenoble / I usually have a team ride on Saturday mornings. Reserving…

Rolland Wins!

Pierre Rolland Wins Stage Nineteen of the 2011 TDF

Stage 19-190.5 km Modane Valfréjus to Alpe-d’Huez / French dramatist and Nobel laureate Romain Rolland once plainly

Andy Schleck Wins!

Andy Schleck Wins Stage Eighteen of the 2011 TDF

Stage 18-200.5 km Pinerolo to Galibier Serre-Chevalier / The Heroes had just settled in for our traditional morning coffee and…

Boasson Hagen Wins!

Edvald Boasson Hagen Wins Stage Seventeen of the 2011 TDF

Stage 17-179 km Gap to Pinerolo / With hacking scandals looming

Hushovd Wins!

Thor Hushovd Wins Stage Sixteen of the 2011 TDF

Stage 16-162.5 km Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux to Gap / There are so many things to love about Norwegians! Take, for instance, the…