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It's that time of the year, the part of the season where riders start making moves ahead of next year. Here's a round-up of who’s moving WorldTour teams? Team Ineos Transfers Team Ineos will be adding Giro winner Richard Carapaz from Movistar to add to its existing three Grand Tour winner lineup. It's only fitting... Continue Reading →
A big day for the french today. Stage 14 of the 2019 Tour de France saw Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ) take the stage victory atop the Tourmalet, while his fellow frenchman Julian Alaphilippe finished second and added to his overall lead. Steven Kruijswijk (Jumbo-Visma) nabbed third. Defending champion Geraint Thomas (Ineos) lost 36 seconds on the... Continue Reading →
Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-Quick-Step) absolutely crushed the 2019 Tour de France Stage 13 time trial today. Not only will he retain the yellow jersey, but he took the stage victory as well. Defending champion Geraint Thomas (Team Ineos) finished 14 seconds down to take second place over the 27.2km course. Thomas De Gendt (Lotto-Soudal) took third... Continue Reading →
Simon Yates won the 12th stage of the 2019 Tour de France today from the breakaway, winning the three-man sprint to beat out Pello Bilbao (Astana) and Gregor Muhlberger (Bora-Hansgrohe). The three broke away on the day's final climb. “I’ve been saving energy until we got here in the mountains and this was my first... Continue Reading →
Caleb Ewan picked up his first Tour de France stage win today, I doubt it will be his last. In a mass sprint at Toulouse on Wednesday Ewan grabbed the stage victory with no more than the width of a road tire as Frenchman Julian Alaphilippe kept the overall lead. https://youtu.be/v1Pl-ChTaXI Defending champion Geraint Thomas... Continue Reading →
I got a few emails telling me the list of rider Strava profiles I shared the other day was incomplete, missing a favorite rider, etc... So here you all are, a damn near complete list of 2019 Tour de France rider Strava profiles: 2019 Tour de France Rider Strava Profiles TEAM INEOS Dylan Van Baarle... Continue Reading →
What a day in the Tour de France! Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) sprinted to his first career Tour de France stage victory today on Stage 10 and a handful of GC contenders lost serious time. Richie Porte (Trek-Segafredo), Jakob Fuglsang (Astana), Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ), Rigoberto Urán (EF Education First), and Mikel Landa (Movistar) all gave... Continue Reading →
Peter Sagan was the best of the remaining opposition after the pure sprinters had been dropped on the climbs that littered Stage 5 of the 2019 Tour de France through the Vosges. Despite Team Sunweb controlling the peloton for most of the run into the finish, Michael Matthews was boxed in when the sprint began... Continue Reading →
The almost entirely flat parcours of the 213.5-kilometer Tour de France Stage 4 today had the sprinters’ hopes up from the start. Bad news for the day’s three-rider breakaway, when the sprinters smell blood you'll never get too much breathing room. Such was the story today, as the final breakaway survivor Michael Schär was caught... Continue Reading →
Julian Alaphilippe (Deceunick-Quick-Step) was my pre-race favorite for stage 3 of the Tour de France, the stage was practically built for him. How he did it though, was a bit of a surprise. Instead of holding out for the uphill sprint, he put in an attack with a little over 15 kilometers to go and... Continue Reading →
Two days into the Tour de France and Jumbo-Visma already has two stage victories. The Dutch team took a decisive win in today's stage 2 team time trial in Brussels, leaving Ineos in their dust by a good 20 seconds to secure the victory. Stage 1 winner Mike Teunissen will keep the yellow jersey another... Continue Reading →
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