Category: Tour de France
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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…
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Thibaut Pinot is climbing – recap of stages 11-15 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 At the start of my first week recap, I said that Julian Alaphilippe was the perfect man to be leading the race. You may have noticed that I then completely failed to…
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Julian Alaphilippe’s pyromania – a recap of stages 1-10 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 After the first “week” of the Tour de France, Julian Alaphilippe is in the yellow jersey. Julian Alaphilippe is the perfect man to be leading the race at this point. How did…
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Where’s Chris Froome? Other riders to watch at the 2019 Tour de France plus a few words about the route
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 I always thought that the great danger of blowing your nose while cycling in strong winds was that you might end up with a streak of snot across your face. Apparently you…
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Undroppable Geraint Thomas | the 2018 Tour de France final week recap
Yellow jersey contenders Green jersey contenders Week one recap Week two recap Final week recap Geraint Thomas didn’t really concede any time, to anyone, at any point. This is a good and effective way of winning a Tour de France. Julian Alaphilippe stays on the Pyrenean roads Stage 16 saw the race enter the Pyrenees…
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Geraint Thomas wins the Alpine leg | 2018 Tour de France week two recap
Yellow jersey contenders Green jersey contenders Week one recap Week two recap Final week recap If the Alpine leg were a solid object, it would presumably be a bodily appendage made out of cheese. But I don’t mean that. I mean the three key Tour de France stages that took place in the Alps. Into…
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A sprinter’s view of the mountains as Mark Cavendish fails to make the time cut
When Mark Cavendish finished stage 11 of this year’s Tour de France, they were clearing the barriers away. Podium ceremonies had been and gone and the new yellow jersey, Geraint Thomas, was busy doing a press conference. Cavendish was way outside the time cut, he knew he was way outside the time cut, but he…