Is this year’s Tour de France hexed? It isn’t, of course, but sometimes you have to wonder why so many bad things have affected what at the beginning of the year seemed likely to be the mother of all Tours. For in what other Tour…
Primož Roglič had seized the Critérium du Dauphiné by the scruff of the neck in the two mountain stages leading up to Sunday’s stage 8 finale. He led the GC by over a minute, with the least difficult of the three mountain stages left to…
Another big road race. Another mass crash. More injuries, more riders forced to abandon a race, more riders forced to sit out the Tour de France. And another stage that had to be neutralized because all the available ambulances were taking the injured to local…