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Greg Van Avermaet exploits curt climbs, cobbles and crash avoidance | The 2018 Tour de France week one recap

July 16, 2018 · by Alex · in Tour de France

Yellow jersey contenders Green jersey contenders Week one recap Week two recap Final week recap Week one is best divided into the green story and the yellow story. Let’s deal with the green story first…

Who will win the green jersey? A handful of points competition contenders for the 2018 Tour de France

July 4, 2018 · by Alex · in Tour de France

Yellow jersey contenders Green jersey contenders Week one recap Week two recap Final week recap Peter Sagan failed to win the points competition (here’s what that is) at last year’s Tour de France because he…

Stage 17: Primoz Roglic unsurprisingly quick downhill

July 19, 2017 · by Alex · in Tour de France

Last year Primoz Roglic was one hundredth of a second away from wearing the leader’s jersey in the Giro d’Italia. He went on to win the second time trial in that race, even though it…

Stage 16: Michael Matthews welcomes hills and crosswinds

July 18, 2017 · by Alex · in Tour de France

Proof that the best way to beat Marcel Kittel in a sprint is to bin him long before the finishing straight. As I said before the race, the German tends to fade a bit as…

Stage 14: Fabio Aru learns that the peloton is long

July 15, 2017 · by Alex · in Tour de France

As cocky finishes go, Michael Matthews’ 50m long no-handed roll to the line was up there. Greg Van Avermaet couldn’t catch him even when he stopped pedalling – although the ghost of Peter Sagan had…

Stage 11: Marcel Kittel superior to the point of it becoming a bit boring

July 12, 2017 · by Alex · in Tour de France

There are various levels of dominance. When results seem so predictable that no-one’s really interested any more, you really are on top. Marcel Kittel has now won five of the 11 stages at this year’s…

Stage 10: Marcel Kittel sticks with the obvious road to the green jersey

July 11, 2017 · by Alex · in Tour de France

First up, a bit of green jersey housekeeping because I omitted a couple of pertinent developments from stage nine, what with focusing on the general classification and all. Most strikingly, Arnaud Demare, who was doing…

Stage seven: Photography is Marcel Kittel’s friend

July 7, 2017 · by Alex · in Tour de France

Another win for Marcel Kittel, this time by somewhere around half a millimetre, but they all count. I presume the race judges ruled that Kittel had a crucial bit of grit affixed to his tyre…

Stage six: Marcel Kittel or Arnaud Démare?

July 6, 2017 · by Alex · in Tour de France

A three-week race has to have a bit of ebb and flow. You wouldn’t be able to perceive peaks if there were no such thing as valleys. After a couple days of high drama, stage…

Stage four: Cavendish finds more give in roadside barrier than Sagan’s elbow

July 4, 2017 · by Alex · in Tour de France

It was a day of aqueducts, châteaux and sheep. The flat profile meant the break was always going to be caught and when that break turned out to be just one rider – Belgian Guillaume…

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