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Tadej Pogačar on the Tour: ‘For sure it’s in the back of my mind’

May 14, 2024 at 1:09 pm3 min reading

Road cycling

With a significant lead in the Giro d’Italia, Tadej Pogačar is already setting his sights on the Tour de France in July, aiming to become the first rider since Marco Pantani in 1998 to win both races in the same year.

The Unexpected Rise of Jan Ullrich at the 1997 Tour de France

July 7, 2021 at 12:21 pm5 min reading

Road cycling

Winning a Tour de France title is an achievement of a lifetime for any team leader, even with the support of his domestiques. So, how did Jan Ullrich manage to get the Tour title riding as a domestique himself? It was a combination of exceptional…

5 Most Interesting Tour de France Stages of All Time

August 28, 2020 at 10:36 am7 min reading

Road cycling

Every year the Tour organizers find a different way to put the 21-stage puzzle together to challenge the peloton in a new way. There are some stages that are so popular that they keep coming back and others that simply stick to memory. Let’s take…