Oscar Onley’s great week in the Tour de Suisse has given Picnic-PostNL plenty of points; but so did Alexis Renard’s second place in the Copenhagen Sprint World Tour one day race as both teams jostle to avoid relegation.
It’s too close to call and sets up a tense Tour de France. The high pressure event of the year will be even more stressful for some team managers, including those at Intermarché-Wanty as the team slips down the rankings.
The Tour de France guide with all the stage profiles one one page, plus the race rules, points scales, time cuts and more is now online at inrng.com/tour.
Were you looking forward to the end of season Saudi races next year? They won’t happen now after the UCI has rejected One Cycling’s proposed calendar of events.
In a press release cycling’s governing body said One Cycling was “incompatible with the governance and regulatory framework of the UCI as well as lacking sporting coherence” which is a polite way of saying something quite rude. UCI President David Lappartient went further in quotes from to news agency AFP too.
The final stage and almost a summit finish. In the past this has been the most frantic stage of the week. Pogačar looks invincible but it’s wide open to win the stage.
The big day in the Dauphiné. Can anyone turn the tables on Tadej Pogačar and his team?
If you’ve been tuning all week so far, note today’s finish is an hour earlier than usual.
The Dauphiné goes into the Alps but this is a taster before the weekend, some sharp punchy climbs rather than long mountain passes.
Sprint or breakaway? Today’s stage has the least amount of vertical gain outside the time trial but it’s the last chance for everyone before the Alps tomorrow.
Every day is a GC stage in the Dauphiné but today is a real fitness test, we’ll get a close-up look at the form of Evenepoel, Pogačar and Vingegaard.
Jonathan Milan’s already got one stage and is in the yellow jersey but has a challenge to repeat today.
At least one team looks likely to vanish next year, while some others might undergo big changes. Indeed because a lot of this is conditional it makes for an uncertain summer ahead.