Let’s be honest: every cyclist – yes, including you, me, and Dave from accounting with his squeaky hybrid – secretly thinks they’d win the Tour de France.
Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates–XRG) and Jonas Vingegaard (Visma–Lease a Bike) fought yet another tooth-and-nails duel for three weeks, though some of the suspense fell out of it after the Dane lost 1:05 to his Slovenian nemesis in the stage 5 time trial. Vingegaard’s deficit…
Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates–XRG) has once again asserted his supremacy by claiming his fourth Tour de France title. From the moment he pulled ahead during the stage 5 time trial—gaining a decisive 1:05 advantage over Jonas Vingegaard (Visma–Lease a Bike)—Pogačar maintained a relentless pace…
As expected, Tadej Pogačar took a stranglehold on his fourth Tour de France victory in the first two of three Alpine stages, resisting with his customary icy aplomb Visma–Lease a Bike’s desperate efforts to find a weakness in his armour.
A stage that offers more than 5,000m of altitude gained and includes two HC climbs was always going to feel like a Tour de France ‘queen stage,’ and Saturday’s stage 14 did not disappoint – except perhaps the fans of Tadej Pogačar who wanted him…
On Thursday’s stage 12 of the Tour de France, Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates–XRG) answered all the questions and replied to all the challenges Jonas Vingegaard and his Visma–Lease a Bike team had thrown at him over the first 11 stages of the race.
Simon Yates won Monday’s stage 10 of the Tour de France, the first victory of his Visma–Lease a Bike team in this year’s race, as Ben Healy (EF Education–EasyPost) became only the fourth Irishman in the history of the race to wear the race leader’s…
The GC race might already be over… Can Jonas Vingegaard make up 1:13 on Tadej Pogačar in the next two weeks? It’s possible, of course. A crash, a bad day, a bad decision – there are dozens of ways to lose a lead, even for…
Tadej Pogačar won the 100th victory of his already storied career on Tuesday’s stage 4 of the Tour de France, and he did it in the best way possible, beating the best of his rivals in a sprint while wearing the world champion’s rainbow jersey.
Has any Tour de France ever started more dramatically than Saturday’s stage 1? I don’t know but it’s hard to imagine any more chaotic and, frankly, insane race than what happened on the 184.9km course that started and ended in Lille. If this was a…
