Ilnur Zakarin became the first Russian to ever win a stage at the Tour de France! Froome managed to stay in front with Porte, while Quintana has totally cracked and lost around 28 seconds.
Part of the second week of the 2016 Tour de France was run in the shadow of the horrific terrorist attack in Nice, on Bastille Day, France’s national holiday, in which more than 80 people died. The organizers of the Tour considered cancelling the next…
Kristoff was already celebrating but as the photofinish showed, the Slovak managed to beat him by a hair’s breadth and got his third stage win at the 2016 Tour de France. Fabian Cancellara was sixth and Chris Froome 13th.
The final week of the Tour de France begins, not with a rest day, but with a transitional stage. Monday’s Stage 16, 209km from Moirans-en-Montagne to the Swiss city of Berne, has only one modest climb towards the end of the stage, but it is…
