After a crash on stage 1 and the last place in stage 2, Caleb Ewan (Lotto-Soudal) bounced back to win stage 3 in a highly contested bunch gallop in Sisteron, beating Irish champion Sam Bennett of Deceuninck-Quick Step and European champion Giacomo Nizzolo of NTT Pro Cycling. Julian Alaphilippe retained […]

The undulating parcours of stage 3, with its three categorized climbs, wasn’t as tough as it might have first appeared. The most difficult ascents of the 198km route would be over with a little more than halfway through the day, meaning it was mostly flat or downhill to the finish […]

Deceuninck – Quick-Step’s Frenchman showed his class again as he took an emotional win in a nail-biting finish 30-Aug-2020: A magnificent display helped Julian Alaphilippe continue to build upon his extraordinary legacy, as he took a fifth stage victory at the Tour de France, moving into the race’s overall lead […]

The 28-year-old attacked on the final climb of the day to put himself in contention for his first Grand Tour stage win, but the Mitchelton-SCOTT rider couldn’t match the speed of winner Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck – Quick Step) in a three-way sprint for victory. Climbs AheadA seven-rider breakaway was allowed […]

Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-Quick Step) took his fifth Tour de France stage victory in Nice after he launched a strong and well timed attack in the last climb. He outclassed debutant Marc Hirschi (TeamSunweb) on the line and paid a tribute to his late father. Adam Yates (Mitchelton-Scott), the third breakaway […]

Saturday night investigations at the Clinique Saint-Jean in Cagnes-sur-Mer revealed a broken kneecap of the left knee of Philippe Gilbert. The Lotto Soudal rider will be unable to take the start in stage two of the Tour de France. “I was riding around position 20 in the peloton when they […]

Rain and slippery roads caused a number of crashes during the first stage of the Tour de France. Worst team victim was John Degenkolb. He crashed on his both knees with 65 km to go, managed to finish the race alone and arrived some minutes out of time limit. The […]

29 August 2020, Nice (FRA) After a strong day out in the breakaway, Michael Schär was crowned the most combative rider on a wet and crash-marred stage one of this year’s Tour de France which eventually came down to a bunch sprint that saw Matteo Trentin finish as CCC Team’s […]

After a longer wait than usual, the first Grand Tour of the 2020 season had finally arrived. Starting and finishing in Nice, the race’s Grand Départ consisted of three loops around the city, totalling 156km. The two third category climbs wouldn’t figure in the day’s result, with the flat finale […]

Alexander Kristoff of UAE Team Emirates won the first bunch sprint of the 2020 Tour de France on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, beating world champion Mads Pedersen (Trek-Segafredo) and Cees Bol (Team Sunweb). It’s his fourth stage win in the Tour de France after two in 2014 and […]