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2020 Tour de France, Features, Photo galleries, Racing - September 12, 2020

Tour de France gallery: Slovenia storms the podium on stage 13

After a couple days for the sprinters and the opportunists, the climbers and GC men got their chance on stage 13 of the Tour de France. Dani Martinez (EF) took an impressive win from the breakaway, beating two Bora-Hansgrohe riders in the process, while in the GC group Slovenia took command of the overall podium. …

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Don’t look now, but Richie Porte is in with a shot at the Tour podium

Richie Porte could end up on the Tour de France podium. I’m reticent to even write that, because Porte perpetually feels like he’s one ineffectual Neville Longbottom of a jinx away from catastrophe, but write it I did. Did you see him today? Not hanging in there, not dangling, but at the forefront of the …

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Egan Bernal at his best is not quite good enough. Yet.

This is Egan Bernal near his best, he admitted Friday, shortly after losing 37 seconds to a pair of flying Slovenians through the Massif Central. And his best, right now, is not quite good enough. “I mean, I am looking at my numbers and I am doing one of my best numbers,” Bernal said, speaking …

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Trek-Segafredo wins Giro Rosa’s opening TTT, Longo Borghini leads race

Trek-Segafredo took home the chocolates at stage one of the Giro Rosa, a team time trial in Grossetto, Italy. They finished just ahead of Boels Dolmans in second and Mitchelton Scott in third. Seconds separated these three teams, after the 16.8km circuit, with Boels Dolmans three seconds behind and Mitchelton Scott under five seconds back. …

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Tour de France gallery: Third time lucky for plucky Hirschi

Marc Hirschi (Sunweb) has earned himself plenty of fans over the past couple weeks. On stage 2 of his very first Grand Tour, the 22-year-old Swiss rider finished second behind Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-QuickStep) after getting in the stage-winning move. That was impressive enough. Then on stage 9 Hirschi put in a big solo attack that …

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Tour de France gallery: Slovenia storms the podium on stage 13

Don’t look now, but Richie Porte is in with a shot at the Tour podium

Egan Bernal at his best is not quite good enough. Yet.

Trek-Segafredo wins Giro Rosa’s opening TTT, Longo Borghini leads race

Tour de France gallery: Third time lucky for plucky Hirschi

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