Key pointsØ La Course by Le Tour will take place in two legs this year, first from Briançon to the Col d’Izoard and then to Marseilles, with a completely new format for the second leg: a pursuit.Ø A few minutes before the riders in the Tour de France arrive, the […]
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Program change to see Simon Yates line up at the Tour de France
A program change will see Vuelta a Espana and Paris-Nice stage winner Simon Yates line up at Liege-Bastogne-Liege this Sunday and the Tour de France in July. The switch will give ORICA-SCOTT a two-pronged general classification attack at the world’s biggest cycling race and will leave brother Adam Yates to […]
Grand Depart of the Tour de France 2018: Start on Passage du Gois
Key points – Vendée will host the Grand Départ of the Tour de France for the sixth time —the tenth start from Pays de la Loire. The peloton will set off from the Passage du Gois on Saturday, 30 June 2018.– The first riders to uncork the champagne will be […]
Grand Depart of the Tour de France 2018: The Vendee and the Loire
The departments in the Pays de la Loire region hosted the Tour de France’s cyclists on its very first edition. Indeed, it was via the department of the Vendée that the pack entered the region in 1903 on the Bordeaux-Nantes stage, destined to become a classic on the routes of […]
2017 Teams for Tour de France, Paris Nice and Dauphine Libere
2017 Tour de France Stages and Details
2017 Tour de France Stages and Route Map 2017 Tour de France Summit Profiles 2017 Tour de France Stages 3, 5, 8 Climb Details 2017 Tour de France Stages 9 and 12 Climb Details 2017 Tour de France Stages 13 and 15 Climb Details 2017 Tour de France Stages 17 […]
2017 Tour de France Route Announced
Key points:– 30 years after the 1987 Grand Départ in Berlin, the Tour will start in the German city of Düsseldorf and later head to Belgium and Luxembourg.– The course of the 2017 Tour de France will feature France’s five mountain ranges. Tour favourites will go head-to-head on steep gradients. […]
Tinkoff Tour de France Final Wrap: Accolades and accomplishments after the hard work pays off
After the race’s second and final rest day – a chance for the guys to reflect on another stage win and a large buffer in the green jersey contest – the Tour roads turned upwards for the final five day’s racing. Green was all but sewn up, but a few […]
Injury Update on Tom Dumoulin
Team Giant-Alpecin reports that Tom Dumoulin (NED) involved in a crash at the Tour de France is recovering well. Dumoulin arrived back home in the Netherlands on Saturday and went for further check-ups, which have shown a good healing and surgery will not be necessary. With the recovery heading in […]
Lotto and Greipel Tour Wrap Up
Yesterday André Greipel won the unofficial World Championships for sprinters on the legendary Champs-Elysées and this for the second year in a row. It was the first stage win for the German this Tour, the second one for Lotto Soudal. The Gorilla has now won eight times this season. It’s […]