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2020 Tour de France, Features, Photo galleries, Racing - September 9, 2020

Tour de France gallery: A sketchy day on the Atlantic coast

Against the odds, all 165 remaining riders in the Tour de France were able to start stage 10 on Tuesday. It was a super-flat day along the Atlantic coast which brought the promise of strong crosswinds, and while there wasn’t as much echelon action as on stage 7, the race did split into several pieces. …

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Features, Racing, Sam Bennett - September 9, 2020

Sam Bennett shows us what it means to win a Tour stage

There was a season, some eight years ago, when Sam Bennett almost hung up his wheels. He was 21, a good bike racer, an Irishman pulled under the wing of Sean Kelly’s An Post development team. But the next step was a tall one. He was plagued by knee injuries and sickness. His confidence was …

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Bernal is waiting until ‘the right moment,’ and there could be a few ahead

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Nine stages into the Tour de France, defending champ Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenadiers) is 21 seconds off the lead. In the four stages so far at this race that could reasonably be called mountainous, Bernal has looked … fine. Primoz Roglic and his Jumbo-Visma team have looked better, which is why the Slovenian is wearing …

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What these charts can tell us about the first week of the Tour de France

We’re nine stages into the 2020 Tour de France and the riders have now enjoyed their first rest day. Before the race resumes on Tuesday though, it’s worth taking stock of how the race has unfolded thus far. Thanks to the work of VeloClub member Cam Harris, we’ve got the perfect way of doing so. …

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Fingers crossed as rest-day COVID testing begins at the Tour

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In some ways it’s still surprising the Tour de France even got started. That as the number of coronavirus cases surged around France, sport’s biggest annual circus was allowed to set off from a COVID-19 hotspot and embark on a nationwide journey. And yet, the Tour did start, and nine stages have now been completed …

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