But we all have a little shadenfreude in us, don’t we?
There are certain things you can expect to see during the Tour de France: doomed breakaways, sunflower fields, spectacular châteaux and, sooner or later, an aerial shot containing a crudely drawn piece of male anatomy. The last of those is not part of the official…
The moment the television camera showed Jonas Vingegaard getting into an ambulance after his crash on Sunday’s stage 15, an odd feeling came over me: the feeling that the spectacle I was watching, the Tour de France, had suddenly, and brutally, changed. And I realised…
Two-time race Tour winner Jonas Vingegaard abandoned the 2026 Tour de France after crashing on a harmless-looking curve with 22km left to ride on Sunday’s stage 15, breaking his collarbone. The incident occurred as Visma–Lease a Bike had set up the stage to challenge race…
Though everyone knew how Tuesday’s stage 10 of the Tour de France would end – with a victory by Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates–XRG) – it was dramatic enough to warrant its own series of takeaways.
