Category: Tour de France
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Team-mates, tiredness and Tadej’s toil | a recap of Stages 10-15 of the 2022 Tour de France
Preview Week 1 recap Week 2 recap The week began with Tadej Pogacar low on team-mates but leading Jonas Vingegaard. The week ended with Vingegaard low on team-mates but leading Pogacar. I’ll get to how that happened in a moment. Before then, one of the things I haven’t yet touched on is the performance of…
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Van Aert and Pogacar and honestly not much else | a recap of stages 1-9 of the 2022 Tour de France
Preview Week 1 recap Week 2 recap Week one of the 2022 Tour de France then… Wout van Aert is taking the points, Tadej Pogacar is taking time and no-one else is quite sure what to do with themselves. The Wout van Aert competition This year the green jersey will be worn by the rider…
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Who will win the 2022 Tour de France?
There’s plenty of scope for slip-ups and misfortune over the course of a three-week bike race. All the same, it’s hard to see the 2022 Tour de France as anything other than Tadej Pogacar v Primoz Roglic v Covid-19. Preview Week 1 recap Week 2 recap The favourite Tadej Pogacar’s 2020 Tour de France win…
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Victories for Froome and Cavendish, but mostly for Pogacar | a recap of Stages 16-21 of the 2021 Tour de France
The yellow jersey contenders Week 1 recap Week 2 recap Victory for Chris Froome, who was named ‘most polite rider’ by Tour de France organisers ASO after the race. Getting through three weeks of frenetic grand tour racing was kind of a win too, given he suffered a broken hip, fractured femur, fractured elbow, broken…
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Eddy Merckx says Mark Cavendish is pretty tidy | a recap of Stages 10-15 of the 2021 Tour de France
The yellow jersey contenders Week 1 recap Week 2 recap Week 3 recap After a frenetic first week that ended with Tadej Pogacar 5m18s ahead of his closest credible rival, the headline news from the second week is that the Slovenian is now… 5m18s ahead of his closest credible rival. Fortunately, the Tour de France…
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Pog smashes it, Rog crashes it, with dashes of Cavendish | a recap of Stages 1-9 of the 2021 Tour de France
The yellow jersey contenders Week 1 recap Week 2 recap Week 3 recap The first week of the Tour de France is not normally so much about the racing as what ensues as a result of the racing. I’m talking about crashes, basically. In other races, you have a good few riders who are only…
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Let’s take a look at the 2021 Tour de France runner and riders
The yellow jersey contenders Week 1 recap Week 2 recap Week 3 recap It’s almost Tour de France time. Who in hell is in with a chance of winning the thing this year? Last year’s Tour was an odd one. First of all, it was in September. Second of all, there was the matter of…
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If you want to keep getting the Tour de France on TV emails, you’ll need to sign up again
The short version: If you want to continue receiving my Tour de France recaps by email, you’ll need to sign up to the mailing list again. You can do that here. (Some of you have already signed up again and are already receiving the ‘new’ email. You guys can ignore all of this.) The slightly…
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What in high heaven did Tadej Pogacar just do? | A recap of stages 16-21 of the 2020 Tour de France
Preview + favourites Week One recap Week Two recap Week Three recap Remember pogs? Little cardboard and plastic discs that kids collected? Their popularity peaked in about 1994, four years before the Pog that just won the Tour de France was born. These were the standings as we entered the final week of the 2020…
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Bye bye Bernal | A recap of stages 10-15 of the 2020 Tour de France
Preview + favourites Week One recap Week Two recap Week Three recap It’s not often that the reigning Tour de France champion cracks like old plaster and waves his chances of winning the race again goodbye. Egan Bernal had a very bad stage and everything else that happened this week is secondary. That was the…