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2019 Tour de France, Egan Bernal, Features, Julian Alaphilippe, Opinion and analysis, Racing - July 27, 2019

Today at the Tour: Bernal into yellow after a surreal day in the Alps

The biggest day of Egan Bernal’s young career coincided with one of the most surreal moments in modern Tour de France history. Stage 19 of the 2019 Tour de France, a route with five categorized climbs across the French Alps and a planned summit finish at Tignes, will go down as the day the Colombian phenom …

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Time is running out for Alaphilippe’s rivals

Julian Alaphilippe is finally starting to dream. After 14 days in yellow, after surviving the Pyrenees, after surviving the first big test in the Alps, he’s starting to think that maybe, just maybe, he can win the Tour de France. He’s starting to picture himself as the first French winner since Bernard Hinault way back …

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What is Movistar doing?

Nairo Quintana won Friday’s stage to Valloire, but it’s not entirely clear that he was supposed to. Movistar is fractured, privately and publicly. Two of its three stars have been tied to other teams, or at the very least tied to leaving Movistar. None has performed to expectations this Tour de France. They sit in …

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George Bennett’s crash highlights cycling’s brutality

Cycling as a sport demands unnatural risks of its participants. On the descent of the Col de Vars, midway through the Tour de France’s punishing 18th stage, George Bennett showed just how.

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The Tour de France middle man’s modest dreams

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There’s a yawning gap between the riders who think they can win the Tour de France and the riders who know they can’t. It contains the middle men, the new and the young and the hopeful and, at the moment, it contains Xandro Meurisse. Meurisse is 27, in his first Tour de France. Two weeks …

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Today at the Tour: Bernal into yellow after a surreal day in the Alps

Time is running out for Alaphilippe’s rivals

What is Movistar doing?

George Bennett’s crash highlights cycling’s brutality

The Tour de France middle man’s modest dreams

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