A Tour de France rest day separated Remco Evenepoel’s surprising (to say the least!) victory on Sunday’s stage 16, when he beat race leader Tadej Pogačar on the brutal climb to the Plateau de Solaison, and his unsurprising dominance in Tuesday’s time trial, when Pogačar…
When Markko Karu joined The Unseen Stage, he was already familiar with L’Étape. An experienced mountain biker and endurance rider from Estonia, he approached the project with a clear ambition: to see what would happen if he paired his love of cycling with a truly…
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…
