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2020 Tour de France, Egan Bernal, Features, News - September 16, 2020

Egan Bernal is out of the Tour de France

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Egan Bernal (Ineos-Grenadiers) won’t start stage 17 of the Tour de France. The defending champion has abandoned the race to recover from his injuries and set new goals for the remainder of the season. “This is obviously not how I wanted my Tour de France to end, but I agree that it is the right …

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Another rider tested positive to coronavirus at Tirreno-Adriatico

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The 2020 Tour de France peloton might have avoided coronavirus so far, but the same can’t be said of those who raced at the recent Tirreno-Adriatico. EF Pro Cycling announced on Tuesday that Magnus Cort Nielsen had tested positive after the race’s penultimate stage on Sunday. He didn’t start Monday’s final-stage ITT as a result. …

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Tour de France gallery: The KOM battle heats up on stage 16

Stage 16 of the 2020 Tour de France always looked like a day for the breakaway and so it turned out to be. After a frenetic start a large group got up the road and built a huge lead over a relaxed peloton. Several hours later, Lennard Kämna took a comfortable solo stage win from …

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Sagan’s green jersey hopes are still alive, but fading

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For the first time since 2011, seven-time points classification winner Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe) looks likely to finish the Tour de France in Paris wearing his own team kit. With five stages to go at the 2020 Tour, Sagan finds himself 65 points behind Sam Bennett in the battle for the green jersey. Although he has …

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2020 Tour de France, Features, News - September 16, 2020

Brailsford defends Ineos Grenadier’s Tour de France roster selection

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As the Ineos Grenadiers ride into the final week of the Tour de France with a new set of priorities now that Egan Bernal is no longer in contention for yellow, team principal Dave Brailsford has defended the squad’s Tour roster selection. According to The Guardian, Brailsford noted that critics of Ineos’s Tour lineup selection …

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Egan Bernal is out of the Tour de France

Another rider tested positive to coronavirus at Tirreno-Adriatico

Tour de France gallery: The KOM battle heats up on stage 16

Sagan’s green jersey hopes are still alive, but fading

Brailsford defends Ineos Grenadier’s Tour de France roster selection

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