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The 2020 Giro d’Italia route is epic. A couple weeks after the reveal of the 2020 Tour de France route, we get a look at what to expect from the 2020 Giro d'Italia. What's on the menu? How about five mountaintop finishes, three time trials and an absolutely brutal final week of racing. High altitude... Continue Reading →
On today's flat transition stage before the alps, Caleb Ewan took his second stage victory of this year’s Tour de France on stage 16. He out sprinted Elia Viviani (Deceuninck-Quick-Step) and Dylan Groenewegen (Jumbo-Visma) to be the first man to the line. “To be honest I felt so bad today during the day. I think... 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 →
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 →
Thomas De Gendt (Lotto-Soudal) won stage 8 of the 2019 Tour de France as the last survivor of the day’s breakaway, having held off a late chase by Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ) and Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-Quick-Step). “I had a really good feeling all day so I believed in it all day,” De Gendt said. The duo... Continue Reading →
The Tour’s longest stage was held today and it was decided by a few hair widths. Dylan Groenewegen won today's 230 kilometer (143 mile) stage 7 just ahead of Caleb Ewan after an uphill sprint in Chalon-sur-Saône. It’s Groenewegen’s first stage win at the 2019 Tour de France and his fourth career stage victory. It's... Continue Reading →
Great ad with Peter Sagan for Specialized's range of Turbo e-bikes, with the slogan “Specialized Turbo makes your world flat.” "We'll do it live!" killed me.
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 →
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