Trial by cobbles could further unsettle Tour de France contenders who are already battered and bruised So, after two quiet, uneventful days of the 2010 Tour de France, the riders head for the cobbles. With almost all the major contenders nursing bumps and scrapes, some more serious than others, the last thing any of them wants to do today is ride across nine miles of bone-jarring pavé .

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Riders prepare for bump and grind

• Floyd Landis’s credibility scrutinised after years of denials • Wada and Usada expected to launch investigations into claims The global media expressed varying degrees of confidence in Lance Armstrong following Floyd Landis’s allegations against the seven-times Tour de France winner but shared in their response a world-weariness over the ongoing battle for cycling’s credibility. Armstrong has fiercely denied Landis’s claims that he used performance-enhancing drugs, and the collective reaction has been to ask where the evidence is for Landis’s allegations and whether anything can ever be proven.

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Armstrong claims get mixed reaction