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29 August 2020, Nice (FRA) After a strong day out in the breakaway, Michael Schär was crowned the most combative rider on a wet and crash-marred stage one of this year’s Tour de France which eventually came down to a bunch sprint that saw Matteo Trentin finish as CCC Team’s […]
After a longer wait than usual, the first Grand Tour of the 2020 season had finally arrived. Starting and finishing in Nice, the race’s Grand Départ consisted of three loops around the city, totalling 156km. The two third category climbs wouldn’t figure in the day’s result, with the flat finale […]
Frenchman becomes 12th different Deceuninck – Quick-Step rider to win a race this year 29-Aug-2020: Florian Sénéchal confirmed his strong condition, which in the past weeks netted a fourth overall at Tour de Wallonie and a podium finish in the Bretagne Classic, and notched up an impressive victory at the […]
Alexander Kristoff of UAE Team Emirates won the first bunch sprint of the 2020 Tour de France on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, beating world champion Mads Pedersen (Trek-Segafredo) and Cees Bol (Team Sunweb). It’s his fourth stage win in the Tour de France after two in 2014 and […]
At the turn of each decade, the Tour de France has gone through organisational changes and backstage struggles that have variously turned out to be decisive or utterly inconsequential. The journey back in time proposed by letour.fr comes full circle with an ending on the Tourmalet. 100 years after the […]
29-Aug-2020: We would like to clarify that we have been contacted by CADF earlier this week to discuss the incident surrounding Remco Evenepoel’s crash at Il Lombardia earlier this month. As has already been stated publicly, the item that was captured being removed from Remco’s pockets was a small bottle […]
Nice, Saturday, August 29th, 2020 – Britain’s Lizzie Deignan (Trek Segafredo) made the best of her current form and perfect teamwork to outwit title-holder Marianne Vos and world champion Annemiek van Vleuten and win La Course by Le Tour de France with FDJ on Saturday. The 2015 world champion, supported […]
In the finale of La Course by le Tour de France, Trek-Segafredo teammates Elisa Longo Borghini and Lizzie Deignan put on a show that highlighted how teamwork could be the difference between winning and losing – or in the case of cycling, coming in second. Thanks to the self-sacrificing efforts […]
This article appeared in the Wall Street Journal: “The Tour de France Was Obsessed With Germs Long Before the Pandemic The strangest edition of the world’s most famous bike race begins on Saturday, amid rising coronavirus cases in France By Joshua RobinsonAug. 28, 2020 When the world suddenly learned this […]
Key points: – The 7th edition of La Course by Le Tour de France avec FDJ looks more unpredictable than ever on a course around Nice especially designed to favour tactics over sheer strength. Title holder Marianne Vos and in-form Lizzie Deignan, who races at home, are excited about the […]
