If you’ve been following women’s cycling for a while, you probably remember a time when the big races felt somewhat predictable. There was Annemiek van Vleuten, whose incredibly powerful mountain attacks made her the rider to beat whenever a stage race reached high altitude. There…
This edition of the Tour de France, the 113th since 1903, was the most dramatic and exciting I’ve ever seen – and this despite the fact that there was no suspense at all, not since stage 10, about who would win the yellow jersey (if…
Tadej Pogačar won his fifth Tour de France on Sunday in Paris and joins Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault, and Miguel Induráin in the ranks of the immortals who have won the race five times. Induráin, the only rider to win five consecutive Tours,…
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…
