Tag: Tour de France

The 2016 Tour de France will be remembered, above all, for the manner in which Chris Froome and his Team Sky stamped their superiority on the world’s most grueling and prestigious road race. When he crossed the final finish line in Paris on Sunday, 4…

Part of the second week of the 2016 Tour de France was run in the shadow of the horrific terrorist attack in Nice, on Bastille Day, France’s national holiday, in which more than 80 people died. The organizers of the Tour considered cancelling the next…

The final week of the Tour de France begins, not with a rest day, but with a transitional stage. Monday’s Stage 16, 209km from Moirans-en-Montagne to the Swiss city of Berne, has only one modest climb towards the end of the stage, but it is…

Cavendish took his fourth stage win of the 2016 Tour de France with his trademark sprint ahead of Alexander Kristoff and Peter Sagan (Tinkoff). Chris Froome had a relatively easy day and stayed in yellow.