Tag: Tour de France

Even Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) cannot believe he held off Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) to win Stage 9 of the Tour de France at Le Runs. (Image: AP)

Tadej Pogacar Wins Stage 9 (Le Runs), Primoz Roglic Yellow Jersey

The Tour de France continued with another punishing mountain stage in the Pyrenees. Slovenia’s Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) won his first-ever Tour de France stage with a victory in Stage 9 by a half-wheel at Le Runs. Fellow Slovenian Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) finished second and seized the yellow jersey […]

Primoz Roglic reaches the finish line first at Orcieres-Merlett in Stage 4. (Image: Anne-Christine Poujjular/AP)

Primoz Roglic Power Climbs to Summit Win at Orcieres-Merlett (Stage 4)

Primoz Roglic, the consensus Tour de France favorite from Holland’s Team Jumbo-Visma, rode to a victory in Stage 4’s summit finish following a hellacious power climb up to Orcieres-Merlett. Roglic quickly recovered from a nasty crash at the Criterium du Dauphine two weeks earlier to win his first stage at […]

Lotto Soudal’s Caleb Ewan wins a sprint to the finish in the Tour de France Stage 3 at Sisteron. (Image: AP)

Tour de France: Caleb Ewan Sprints to Sisteron Stage 3 Victory

Fighting a brutal head wind, Australia’s Caleb Ewan (Lotto Soudal) waited until the last possible second to accelerate and make his move to win Stage 3 (Nice > Sisteron) of the Tour de France. Julian Alaphilippe (DQS) retained the yellow jersey and overall lead during the third day of the […]

Julian Alaphilippe (center) wins a final sprint in Stage 2 of the 2020 Tour de France (Image: Cor Vos/Cycling Tips)

Julian Alaphilippe, Alexander Kristoff Early Winners at Tour de France

Norway’s Alexander Kristoff (UAE) won the first stage of the 2020 Tour de France on Saturday during a rainy day in Nice that included numerous crashes. Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-Quick-Step) crashed during Stage 1, but won the yellow jersey with a victory in Stage 2 (Nice Haut Pays > Nice) during […]

Egan Bernal (center) flanked by his Ineos teammates on the way to the finish line at the final stage of the 2019 Tour de France in Paris. (Image: Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP)

2020 Tour de France Odds: Egan Bernal, Chris Froome Favorites

Oddsmakers at the Westgate SuperBook in Las Vegas list defending champion Egan Bernal as the favorite at 11/4 odds to win his second consecutive Tour de France. Bernal became the first rider from Colombia to win the Tour de France. He was also the youngest rider (22 at the time) […]

The 2020 Tour de France was scheduled to start in Nice for only the second time in its history. (Image: Tour de France)

2020 Tour de France Postponed Until Late August

The 107th installment of the Tour de France, the most popular cycling race in the world and one of the three races on the Grand Tours, will be postponed until late August due to the coronavirus pandemic that has been ravaging France and the rest of Europe. The 2020 Tour […]