Remco Evenepoel has not only maintained his position in third place during the Tour de France but has managed to outperform Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogačar in the 17th stage of the Tour.
The Tour de France has delivered lots of thrills and drama but so far few big surprises as pre-race favourite Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) takes a slim lead into the first rest day. World road race champion Remco Evenepoel (Soudal–Quick Step) is second, 33…
The 2024 Tour de France opened with more drama than Star Wars as Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) took the yellow jersey on stage 2 (as he did in the Giro d’Italia) and Romain Bardet (dsm-firmenich PostNL) won his first-ever yellow jersey on a remarkable…
Rarely has a Tour de France been so eagerly anticipated as this year’s edition, and rarely has a Tour been so badly hit by misfortune in the runup. The crashes and illnesses that have affected three of the four main protagonists of the race have…
Is this year’s Tour de France hexed? It isn’t, of course, but sometimes you have to wonder why so many bad things have affected what at the beginning of the year seemed likely to be the mother of all Tours. For in what other Tour…
Primož Roglič had seized the Critérium du Dauphiné by the scruff of the neck in the two mountain stages leading up to Sunday’s stage 8 finale. He led the GC by over a minute, with the least difficult of the three mountain stages left to…
Another big road race. Another mass crash. More injuries, more riders forced to abandon a race, more riders forced to sit out the Tour de France. And another stage that had to be neutralized because all the available ambulances were taking the injured to local…
To repeat the obvious: It has been a very difficult year for Visma–Lease a Bike, after its two bona fide superstars, Wout van Aert and Jonas Vingegaard, were injured in crashes and had to sit on the sidelines for weeks.
You can tell that Tadej Pogačar is very confident about winning the Giro d’Italia – because he’s already thinking about winning the Tour de France. In comments to journalists after Sunday’s ninth stage, the UAE Team Emirates leader said the French race was already “in…
