Even with a 1:48 deficit against Jonas Vingegaard, UAE Team Emirates competitor Tadej Pogačar remains hopeful as two pivotal stages of the Tour de France lie ahead.
This year’s Tour de France is like a wealthy and generous uncle, it keeps giving and giving and giving. Just when you think that the race cannot get more dramatic, it does. And despite all of the drama of the past week – and there…
You have to take your hat off to the Amaury Sport Organization (ASO), the company that owns and organizes the Tour de France, for wanting to shake up the traditional narrative of the race. In the past, the first week of the Tour has usually…
The first two stages of this year’s Tour de France were quite extraordinary, and not only because they went against long tradition by being very difficult and forcing teams to show their GC cards early. After only two days of racing, the two yellow jersey…
After a 15-year wait, Cofidis was lifted by Victor Lafay, who clinched the second stage victory at the Tour de France in San Sebastian. His triumph was down to a perfectly orchestrated attack under the flamme rouge, amidst a spectacularly intense final hour of the…
The Tour de France has witnessed a quite remarkable transformation in team dynamics over the past two decades. From the strategic formation of ‘sprint trains’ to the shifting priorities in the general classification, teams have adapted their tactics to changing circumstances. At the same time,…
Predicting the winner of this year’s Tour de France yellow jersey looks like a no-brainer. Just toss a coin: if it comes up heads, two-time Tour winner Tadej Pogačar (UEA Team Emirates) will win; if it’s tails, last year’s victor, Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma), will be…
I know what I want from an eight-part documentary series about the 2022 Tour de France: to see and hear and learn what I couldn’t see and hear and learn about the riders, teams and the race itself when I watched it on TV. I…
There is one major takeaway from this year’s Critérium du Dauphiné: Jonas Vingegaard is ready to take on Tadej Pogačar in the Tour de France in three weeks’ time. The Jumbo-Visma leader’s superiority over his GC opponents was so evident that even his rivals appeared…
The 75th edition of the Critérium du Dauphiné witnessed the forceful performance of Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) as he clinched the overall title and triumphed in two solo stage victories. With this, the Danish cyclist marked the third WorldTour stage race victory of his career, having…
