Category: Tour de France
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Tadej Pogacar’s 11-second week | a recap of Stages 16-21 of the Tour de France
The route promised third week drama. The time gaps didn’t. Tadej Pogacar’s lead was 4m13s at the end of last week and, even with Mont Ventoux and the Alps on the menu, that only expanded to 4m24s by the end of the race. I finished the general classification section of my middle week recap by…
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Will Tadej Pogacar fade to yellow | a recap of Stages 11-15 of the 2025 Tour de France
It’s not shaping up to be a classic, is it? The only real note of intrigue remaining in this Tour de France is whether Tadej Pogacar might at some point show some sign of human frailty. If there was a moment that summed up where we are in this race, it came ahead of Stage…
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Ben Healy gives himself an even tougher job than the incredibly tough ones he just did | a recap of Stages 1-10 of the 2025 Tour de France
It’s a Tour de France of two halves, as no-one says. British-born Irishman Ben Healy’s in yellow for the halftime oranges, having already achieved a full race’s worth of breakaway success. It’s not a great era for Team Breakaway, the informal and ever-changing team that forms on the road each morning with the shared mad…
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RIP ITV Tour de France highlights
Okay, steel yourself to make the most of what’s left. 2025 will be the last year of ITV Tour de France highlights. A very great TV programme is about to go away for good and unfortunately there ain’t a damn thing you can do about it. In October it was announced that both live coverage…
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Tadej Pogacar’s (modern) blockbuster win + The People’s Champion | a recap of Stages 16-21 of the 2024 Tour de France
There was plenty of action in the final week of the 2024 Tour de France – but action alone doesn’t hit too hard when there is so little sense of jeopardy. As such, Tadej Pogacar’s dominant victory was a lot more impressive than it was entertaining. Foreshadowing a damp squib The final week began with…
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Well done Pogacar, Vingegaard bloody | a recap of Stages 10-15 of the 2024 Tour de France
There’s still a week to go in the Overcooked Tadej Pogacar v Undercooked Jonas Vingegaard experiment. The sport’s meat thermometers are really struggling to see how the Dane could overhaul what still appears to be a growing deficit though. Overcooked? Or underfed? Stage 10 probably goes down as the most boring Tour de France stage…
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Third wheel Remco, gravel grovelling, Mark Cavendish doesn’t know what year it is + more | a recap of Stages 1-9 of the 2024 Tour de France
After nine stages of the 2024 Tour de France, the big stories are probably Remco Evenepoel inserting himself between yellow jersey Tadej Pogacar and reigning champion Jonas Vingegaard, and Mark Cavendish winning a stage – a feat that is almost paradoxically newsworthy precisely because of what a common occurrence it has been. Roll up, roll…
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Pogacar v Fatigue, Vingegaard v Fitness, overcooked v undercooked + everyone else | a 2024 Tour de France preview
It’s time for the annual Tadej Pogacar v Jonas Vingegaard head-to-head. There are however a pair of potential spanners in the works which mean everybody else can dampen their default defeatism a touch this year. The scoreline currently sits at 2-2 between Pogacar and Vingegaard when it comes to Tours de France victories and we…
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ITV4 will show the Tour de France in 2024 (and so will Eurosport/Discovery)
The good news for UK cycling fans is that ITV4 will be covering the whole of the 2024 Tour de France. They’ll have live coverage and then highlights at 7pm, same as every year. (Although the highlights do sometimes get shunted back a bit.) Some of the bigger stages will also be broadcast from the…
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Jonas Vingegaard does not deal in seconds | a recap of Stages 16-21 of the 2023 Tour de France
Jonas Vingegaard’s average daily time gain over Tadej Pogacar over the first two weeks of this year’s Tour de France was less than half a second. He improved on this rather dramatically over the next two days. While the Dane was frequently second by seconds, by the end of three weeks he was first by…