Category: Tour de France
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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…
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Primoz Roglic leads – but how? | A recap of stages 1-9 of the 2020 Tour de France
Preview + favourites Week One recap Week Two recap Week Three recap The story of the first nine-day “week” of the Tour de France is that Primoz Roglic leads Egan Bernal by 21 seconds, pretty much exactly as I predicted. (Not the time gap part. That would need insane. Just the hierarchy.) That doesn’t tell…
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Who will win the 2020 Tour de France? (and other assorted questions)
Preview + favourites Week One recap Week Two recap Week Three recap So. The Tour de France then. Any questions? There’s a Tour de France this year? Yes. Are they actually going to make it all the way to the finish? Well, now you’re asking. Not sure I’d put big money on it happening, but…
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Who is in form for the 2020 Tour de France? And who isn’t? Which other 2020 races will actually matter?
There is going to be a Tour de France. It is due to take place from Saturday August 29 until Sunday September 20. It’s mad that they’re even trying to hold a three week race on public roads, but then if any sporting event can adapt to unexpected circumstances, it is the Tour de France.…
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Egan Bernal might never win the Tour de France again – a recap of stages 16-21 of the 2019 Tour de France
Main contenders for the 2019 Tour de France A recap of stages 1-10 A recap of stages 11-15 A recap of stages 16-21 Team Ineos’s 22-year-old Colombian rider Egan Bernal won the Tour de France and everyone instantly agreed that he’d win the next 10 editions – just as they’d agreed that Nairo Quintana would…