“Everyone is tired,” the defending Tour de France champion Geraint Thomas said after the 15th stage of this year’s race. He may just as well have been talking about those of us who have been following the Tour from our living room sofas. What a…
After André Greipel moved to Arkéa-Samsic, Lotto Soudal had to find a new young prospect to replace him. Caleb Ewan, whose talent might have been neglected at Mitchelton-Scott, proved himself more than worthy of the challenge. Of all the sprinters in the peloton, it’s the…
Andy Raymond Schleck is a former pro-cyclist, a Luxembourg native, the 2010 Tour de France winner and has cycling running in his family. Currently, he functions as a chairman of the Škoda Tour de Luxembourg and as an ambassador at the Tour de France’s Škoda…
If the second half of this year’s Tour de France is as eventful and exciting as the first, 2019 will be considered a vintage year in the Tour’s history. Yes, all those mountains lie ahead, and that’s where the race used to hold most of…
The chaos of crosswinds during stage 10 put Team Ineos in second and third place and it looks like it’s only a matter of time till Thomas and Bernal surpass Alaphilippe. They can sit tight and wait for the others to attack. There’s no place…
The first week of the 2019 Tour de France was a very good one for the host country, with 27-year-old Julian Alaphilippe, of the French Deceuninck-Quick Step team, becoming the first Frenchman to wear the race leader’s yellow jersey since 2014.
