This has been a very unusual year for the Dutch cyclist Tom Dumoulin – and it has nothing to do with the Covid-19 pandemic. In January, the 30-year-old Jumbo-Visma rider decided to take an indefinite, unpaid time-out from the sport.
When is an athlete too old to race a bike professionally on the road? Is age the determining factor or are results the sole measurement of a rider’s capacity to make a positive impact? The answer isn’t clear in the modern pro peloton.
Wow, what a breathtaking, dramatic Tour de France we have just witnessed. Everything about the three-week race was good for the soul: the racing was fast and hard, there were terrific performances by new stars and, best of all, the loud, aggressive crowds were back,…
After a dominant performance throughout the whole race, the 22-year-old secured the general classification, young rider, and mountains classifications again. Last year he became the only rider to win these simultaneously. He is now the only rider to do it twice in a row. One…
Four more stages of this turbulent, surprising, crash-filled Tour de France are left to run and, despite all the drama and shocks, nothing essential has changed in the race for the yellow jersey, except a reshuffling of the runners-up and Tadej Pogačar increasing his lead.…
It would have been quite normal to expect that, after a first week filled with crashes, shocks and drama, the Tour de France would lose some of its excitement going into the second week. But not at all. This is a Tour de France that…
