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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…
