A dash to Mont Ventoux. If you want to watch on TV note today’s finish has an early arrival.
Tour de France Stage 15 Preview
A day for the breakaway which means frantic racing for all the riders and teams desperate for a result.
Tour de France Stage 14 Preview
The last day in the Pyrenees and the biggest, the breakaway has a good chance today but it depends how Tadej Pogačar feels at breakfast too.
Tour de France Stage 13 Preview
A mountain time trial. We seemed to witness one yesterday and a repeat result looks likely.
Tour de France Stage 12 Preview
The Tour takes on a new dimension today as it goes into the Pyrenees for the first summit finish. Can Tadej Pogačar deliver the big blow to Jonas Vingegaard or can Visma-LAB undo UAE and strike back?
Tour de France Stage 11 Preview
Don’t call it a sprint stage, today’s route has been revised to add more climbs and a series of steep roads, including some unmarked climbs await. Watch out for the Tramontane wind today too.
Rest Day Review
Who needs the Alps and the Pyrenees? The Tour’s reached the first rest day in the city of Toulouse and the time gaps are wide. It’s been a lively, long week.
Christian Prudhomme called these opening stages a trompe l’œil, an “optical illusion” as to glance at them was to imagine them as flat days for sprinters but several have proved to be GC days. Is the general classification with Tadej Pogačar over a minute clear of Jonas Vingegaard an illusion or a settled fact? We’ll get answers in the coming days.
Tour de France Stage 10 Preview
A big day for the breakaway but if the move can’t get clear then it risks being caught by the GC contenders. Today’s course is hard, and harder than the profile and its labels suggest.
Tour de France Stage 9 Preview
A sprint stage and with it some pressure as this is the last chance for the sprinters before the mountains.
Tour de France Stage 8 Preview
The first of two sprint stages this weekend. Today’s stage is flat in the totality but the finish is slightly uphill.