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Gallery: Crosswind chaos on stage 7 of the Tour de France
What looked set to be a regulation sprint stage ended up being anything but. Bora-Hansgrohe piled on the pressure early, splitting Peter Sagan’s green jersey rivals off the back, before late crosswinds shook up the GC quite significantly. Oh and there was a Thomas De Gendt breakaway too. What might have been a rather predictable …
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The Tour you don’t see: Bandages and bubbly in week 1 of the Tour de France
With the help of our friends at Velon, let’s step behind the scenes at the 107th edition of the Tour de France. What would it be like to be a fly on the wall for team victory celebrations with Wout van Aert, Primoz Roglic and the rest of Jumbo Visma? Or get pre-race analysis from …
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Van Aert wins stage 7 as big names lose time: Daily Tour Digest
(Want the Daily News Digest delivered directly to your inbox? Here’s the sign-up.) Wout van Aert powered to his second victory of this year’s Tour de France on a stage 7 that featured no shortage of action despite its seemingly tame parcours. The marquee sprinters in the peloton were dropped very early on the stage …
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Will the breakaway survive? Here are the factors that matter
An ever-present feature of a Tour de France stage is the breakaway: a small group of cyclists working incredibly hard to stay clear of the main peloton, attempting to reach the final kilometres of the stage with their advantage intact and a stage win in sight. And yet, breaks are caught more often than not, …
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Emma Pooley Everests again – this time on gravel
Weeks after breaking the world record for Everesting, Emma Pooley has slogged her way through another massive ride – this time Everesting on gravel. On Wednesday, Pooley rode 16 laps of the brutally steep ‘Himmelfahrt nach Matten’ gravel segment in central Switzerland. The climb is 3.66 km in length at an average gradient of 16%, …
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