Jonas Vingegaard does not sound like a man limping into the Tour de France after a brutal Giro d’Italia. He sounds refreshed, reset, and quietly dangerous.
The Tour that stands above all tours is happening right now and we all know and love it. We haven’t had such a great fight among four riders in quite a while, and although Tadej is the one all in yellow at the moment, it’s…
The origins of the yellow jersey – the iconic Tour de France leader’s jersey – are often disputed. One rider from the 1913 Tour, Phillipe Thys, told Champions et Vedettes that Henri Desgrange, the father of Le Tour, asked him to wear a yellow jersey…
Today it is taken for granted that the leaders of the various classifications of a multistage bicycle race wear coloured jerseys to distinguish them from the other riders. But, of course, that wasn’t always the case. For the first dozen or so years of the…
If you image search the web for Peter Sagan, a 30-year-old Slovak professional racing cyclist, the results will be dominated by the colour green. The reason is obvious – Peter holds the world record for the most Škoda Green Jerseys collected at the Tour de…
