Road Bicycle Racing
- May 7 – May 29: 2011 Giro d'Italia
- Alberto Contador sealed overall victory in the Giro d'Italia for the second time in his career. The win was later awarded to second place finisher Michele Scarponi after Contador was given a retroactive ban following his positive test for clenbuterol at the 2010 Tour de France.
- July 2 – July 24: 2011 Tour de France
- Australian Cadel Evans won the race, having gained the lead in a time-trial on the penultimate day. He became the first Australian to win the race, and at 34, the oldest post-war winner.
- August 20 – September 11: 2011 Vuelta a España
- Spanish Juan José Cobo claimed his first major title. British Chris Froome and Bradley Wiggins on the podium.
- September 19 – September 25: 2011 UCI Road World Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark
- Mark Cavendish became the first British male since Tom Simpson to win the road race title
Read more about this topic: 2011 In Sports
Famous quotes containing the words road, bicycle and/or racing:
“How the cold creeps as the fire dies at length
How drifts are piled,
Dooryard and road ungraded,
Till even the comforting barn grows far away,
And my heart owns a doubt
Whether ‘tis in us to arise with day
And save ourselves unaided.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. Most important of all, we know that if at any point between the beginning and the end of his journey he stops moving and does not get off the bicycle he will fall off it. That is a metaphor for the journey through life of any living thing, and I think of any society of living things.”
—William Golding (b. 1911)
“Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don’t get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goat’s cheese ... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)