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Visualising the 2019 Tour de France: The ups and downs of the first ‘week’

Throughout this year’s Tour de France CyclingTips VeloClub member Cameron Harris has been putting his data journalism skills to work to help us make sense of the race. He’s created a bunch of charts that illustrate various aspects of the Tour in a way that a results sheet simply can’t. Through Cameron’s work, we get …

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Top four mountain bike jumps in Tour de France history

On stage 10 of the 2019 Tour de France, in what is becoming something of a tradition, a mountain biker jumped over the peloton. Some people think this stunt is an accident waiting to happen, that it’s highly irresponsible. Others think it’s inspirational. Some simply think it animates the Tour. For many mountain bikers these …

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2019 Tour de France, Features, George Bennett, Julian Alaphilippe, Opinion and analysis, Racing, Steven Kruijswijk, Thibaut Pinot, Vincenzo Nibali -

Five predictions for ‘week two’ of the Tour de France

With 10 stages in the rearview mirror at what has already been a compelling Tour de France, the action should heat up even more as the race rolls on this week. The Tour is bound for the Pyrenees over the next few days, and that will mean fireworks out on the road during ‘week two’ …

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2019 Tour de France, Egan Bernal, Features, Geraint Thomas, Julian Alaphilippe, Opinion and analysis, Racing, Rigoberto Urán, Steven Kruijswijk -

Today at the Tour: After crosswinds shuffle the deck, the peloton pauses

Generally, when people use the phrase “the winds of change,” they’re speaking metaphorically. After nine and half days of racing at the Tour de France, the winds of change blew quite literally on the peloton Monday, shaking up the general classification just 35km before the first rest day was set to begin. On the open …

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2019 Tour de France, Deceuninck-Quick-Step, Elia Viviani, Features, Julian Alaphilippe, Opinion and analysis, Racing -

Tales from the Tour: Riding the rest day with Alaphilippe

Julian Alaphilippe has lost his Michael Mørkøv. Maximiliano Richeze, too. For the past kilometre, he’s been riding along, one hand on the bars, one wrapped around his phone, texting, trying to find his missing team-mates. They got split up somewhere around Albi Cathedral in a swarm of civilians trying to tail Deceuninck-Quickstep’s rest day ride, …

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