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July 24 th 2018 – 17:25 Julian Alaphilippe of Quick Step Floors took the first Pyrenean stage one week after he claimed his maiden Tour de France victory on the first day in the Alps. He extended his lead in the King of the Mountain classification while Geraint Thomas retained […]
Food for thought: 12 million of the 16 million schoolchildren in South Africa walk to school. 500,000 of them sometimes walk more than four hours for want of a better alternative. The non-profit Qhubeka (whose name means ‘move forward’) was established in 2005 and has spent the last thirteen years […]
22 July, 2018, Carcassonne (FRA) Greg Van Avermaet was back on the attack at the Tour de France on stage 15 today and showed that he is still in good form heading into the second rest day by riding as part of the breakaway before narrowly missing out on a […]
Another stage at the Tour de France and another victory for Astana Pro Team. Magnus Cort brings the Kazakh team a second stage win in a row, taking stage 15 in a perfect sprint from a breakaway group, in the streets of Carcassonne. – It’s amazing! It was one of […]
21 July, 2018, Mende (FRA) Damiano Caruso led the way for BMC Racing Team in the closing stages of stage 14, battling to fifth on the line after spending a day at the front of the race alongside teammates, Stefan Küng and Greg Van Avermaet. Stage 14 saw the Tour […]
July 21 st 2018 – 19:08 Spain’s Omar Fraile of Astana took his first Tour de France stage victory, in line with the tradition of Spanish winners in Mende after Marcos Serrano in 2005 and Joaquim “Purito” Rodriguez in 2010. The Basque attacker fended off Julian Alaphilippe who took the […]
20 July, 2018, Valence (FRA) Michael Schär spent the day in the breakaway on Tour de France stage 13 before attacking solo in the closing kilometers of the stage to secure the elusive red number of the Most Combative Rider while Greg Van Avermaet was in the mix in the […]
It takes a special kind of rider to find the legs to win a stage after three excruciatingly difficult days in the mountains, but the UCI World Champion, Peter Sagan, is that kind of rider. Taking the win in a bunch sprint in Valence, the Slovak rider kept his head […]
July 20 th 2018 – 17:44 Peter Sagan claimed his eleventh stage win at the Tour de France, the third one since the start in Vendée, as he outsprinted Alexander Kristoff and Arnaud Démare in Valence. It was a transition stage for race leader Geraint Thomas between the Alps and […]
July 17 André Greipel: “The past three days weren’t easy and too hard for me. I knew that this would be another tough day in the saddle. I could only hope the peloton would ride up the first climb rather slowly, but that wasn’t the case. Soon, I felt this […]
