Virtual Tour de France in July to include women
4 years, 5 months ago

Virtual Tour de France in July to include women

The Hindu  

Elite women riders still lack an actual Tour de France in which to showcase their talent but over the next three weekends they will achieve equality in the inaugural “virtual” version of the event. RELATED| In all, 23 men's and 17 women's professional teams are confirmed with four-times Tour champion Chris Froome joined by his Team Ineos colleagues Egan Bernal, the reigning champion, and 2018 winner Geraint Thomas. RELATED| “Thanks to the virtual Tour de France, which will be widely broadcast on TV, the champions and their fans will fill in the void left by the Tour de France, which will reunite with the public in Nice on 29 August.” Viewers in 130 countries will be able to watch the action while amateur riders have the opportunity to compete in mass participation races on the same roads as the pros. The six hour-long stages offer equal opportunities for sprinters, climbers and all-rounders, and teams will battle for the traditional yellow, green and polka dot Tour de France jerseys through a points-based system.

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French Climbs Mont Ventoux in 2025 Tour de France Route
1 month, 3 weeks ago

French Climbs Mont Ventoux in 2025 Tour de France Route

Associated Press  

The 2025 Tour de France will feature a traditional route with a focus on climbing in the last 10 stages. The race starts in Lille and ends in the Alps, with three mountain-top finishes at Mont Ventoux, the Col de la Loze, and La Plagne. The 2025 edition also marks the 50th anniversary of the polka-dot jersey for best climber …

Tour de France 2025 routes revealed with brutal Pyrenean treble set to stage Pogacar-Vingegaard rivalry
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Tour de France 2025 routes revealed with brutal Pyrenean treble set to stage Pogacar-Vingegaard rivalry

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Tour de France stage 6 preview: Route map and profile with sprinters set to shine in Burgundy wine country
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Tour de France stage 6 preview: Route map and profile with sprinters set to shine in Burgundy wine country

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Tour de France 2024 stage 3 preview: Map and profile of 231km route set for bunch sprint in Turin
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Tour de France 2024 stage 3 preview: Map and profile of 231km route set for bunch sprint in Turin

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2024 Tour de France: Who are the top cyclists to watch out for?
5 months, 3 weeks ago

2024 Tour de France: Who are the top cyclists to watch out for?

The Hindu  

The 111th edition of the Tour de France commences on the 29th of June in Florence. | Photo Credit: REUTERS Jonas Vingegaard, the defending champion will look to make it a third consecutive victory at the Tour de France. | Photo Credit: AP Riding on the back of some incredible form, two-time Tour de France winner, Pogacar will definitely start …

Tour de France fantasy guide and tips: How to score and the best riders to select
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Tour de France fantasy guide and tips: How to score and the best riders to select

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Tour de France 2024 riders and teams: Every cyclist at this year’s race
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Tour de France 2024 riders and teams: Every cyclist at this year’s race

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Tour de France 2024 embarks from Florence, Pogacar starts favourite
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Tour de France 2024 embarks from Florence, Pogacar starts favourite

The Hindu  

The Tour de France embarks from the Italian city of Florence on Saturday with Tadej Pogacar gunning for a historic Giro-Tour double, while champion Jonas Vingegaard seeks a third straight title with the battle set to go down to the wire in three weeks time in Nice. The big four all predicted the first two days would feature a scrap …

Tour de France 2024: Five yellow jersey contenders and five more riders to watch
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Tour de France 2024: Five yellow jersey contenders and five more riders to watch

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Chris Froome to miss Tour de France as Israel-Premier Tech selection revealed
6 months ago

Chris Froome to miss Tour de France as Israel-Premier Tech selection revealed

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Tour de France 2024 will have a brutal start, four summit finishes and a time trial to conclude
1 year, 2 months ago

Tour de France 2024 will have a brutal start, four summit finishes and a time trial to conclude

The Hindu  

The Tour de France will start in Italy for the first time with a stage that includes more than 3,600 metres of climbing. High mountains will be on the 2024 schedule as soon as the fourth day in a race that features two individual time trials and four summit finishes. The finale of cycling’s marquee race will leave Paris for …

Tour de France 2023 standings and latest results
1 year, 5 months ago

Tour de France 2023 standings and latest results

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Vingegaard keeps yellow jersey at Tour de France as Poels soloes to victory in 15th stage
1 year, 5 months ago

Vingegaard keeps yellow jersey at Tour de France as Poels soloes to victory in 15th stage

Associated Press  

SAINT-GERVAIS MONT-BLANC, France — With just one week of racing left in the Tour de France, the duel for the ages between Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogacar could still go either way. The 35-year-old Poels, who was part of an early breakaway in Sunday’s 179-kilometer 15th stage, took advantage of a short but very steep ascent located just before the …

Men and women will use same time trial route for cycling at 2024 Paris Olympics
1 year, 5 months ago

Men and women will use same time trial route for cycling at 2024 Paris Olympics

Associated Press  

Men and women will compete on the same time trial route for the first time during cycling events at next year’s Paris Olympics. The 35 men and 35 women will take on the same 32.4-kilometer time trial route on July 27 — with the men beginning two hours after the women. The men’s route is 273 kilometers while the women’s …

Belgian Philipsen sprints to Tour de France third stage win
1 year, 5 months ago

Belgian Philipsen sprints to Tour de France third stage win

The Hindu  

Belgian sprinter Jasper Philipsen outpaced and outmuscled the other fast men to take the high-speed bunch finish at the end of the third stage of the Tour de France on Monday. The Alpecin rider held off German Phil Bauhaus, with Australian Caleb Ewan third as the race crossed into France after two days in the Spanish Basque Country. English rider …

France’s Lafay wins Tour de France stage two as Yates retains overall lead
1 year, 5 months ago

France’s Lafay wins Tour de France stage two as Yates retains overall lead

The Hindu  

Victor Lafay gave his Cofidis team their first Tour de France victory in 15 years when he claimed the second stage, a 209-km hilly ride from Vitoria Gasteiz on Sunday. The Frenchman, who had showed great form in Saturday’s opening stage, powered away with one kilometre to go and did not look back with a reduced bunch breathing down his …

Tour de France 2023: All you need to know about the race, timings, stages, live streaming info
1 year, 5 months ago

Tour de France 2023: All you need to know about the race, timings, stages, live streaming info

The Hindu  

The Tour de France – starting out as a sheer business strategy, with a little over 60 entrants and 12,000 francs as its prize money – has now flourished into creating history. The Tour de France 2023 has the following stages: 4 hilly stages 8 flat stages 8 mountain stages 4 summits 1 individual time trial 2 rest days Where …

6 riders from American contingent could help decide Tour de France
1 year, 5 months ago

6 riders from American contingent could help decide Tour de France

Associated Press  

The goal for Neilson Powless at the Tour de France starting Saturday is simple: win a stage. There is Sepp Kuss, the climbing extraordinaire from the Jumbo-Visma squad, who ended a 10-year drought for Americans with a stage win last year and who will try to usher Jonas Vingegaard to back-to-back yellow jerseys; Matteo Jorgenson, who featured in several breakaways …

Bilbao start for 2023 Tour de France, race to test climbers
2 years, 1 month ago

Bilbao start for 2023 Tour de France, race to test climbers

Associated Press  

PARIS — Starting in the Basque Country in northern Spain, next year’s Tour de France will feature four mountain-top finishes and a Tour record 30 difficult climbs but only one time trial. After cutting through the Beaujolais wine region, there is a big climb of 17.4 kilometers on stage 13 up Grand Colombier in the Jura region, where defending Tour …

Tour de France reveal brutally mountainous route for 2023 race
2 years, 1 month ago

Tour de France reveal brutally mountainous route for 2023 race

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Van Vleuten wins women’s Tour de France for 1st time
2 years, 4 months ago

Van Vleuten wins women’s Tour de France for 1st time

Associated Press  

PLANCHE DES BELLES FILLES, France — Veteran rider Annemiek van Vleuten won the women’s Tour de France for the first time on Sunday after clinching the eighth and final stage in style. The 39-year-old Van Vleuten won the stage by 30 seconds from Dutch countrywoman Demi Vollering, who also finished the race second overall. On Saturday’s penultimate stage, Van Vleuten …

Egan Bernal could turn 2023 Tour de France into three-way thriller with Pogacar and Vingegaard
2 years, 4 months ago

Egan Bernal could turn 2023 Tour de France into three-way thriller with Pogacar and Vingegaard

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Jonas Vingegaard wins Tour de France
2 years, 5 months ago

Jonas Vingegaard wins Tour de France

LA Times  

Tour de France Jonas Vingegaard, wearing the overall leader’s yellow jersey, celebrates on the podium after the 21st stage of the Tour de France in Paris on Sunday. Jonas Vingegaard blossomed from a talented rookie to a dominant leader in his own right over three weeks of epic racing to win his first Tour de France title Sunday. But Roglic’s …

Chris Froome out of Tour de France after testing positive for Covid
2 years, 5 months ago

Chris Froome out of Tour de France after testing positive for Covid

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Tour de France organisers reveal women’s race will start at Eiffel Tower in 2022
3 years, 2 months ago

Tour de France organisers reveal women’s race will start at Eiffel Tower in 2022

The Hindu  

The route for the inaugural women's Tour de France was unveiled on Thursday with eight stages, embarking from the Eiffel Tower on July 24 next year. The first complete edition of the women's version of cycling's iconic race starts on the day the 109th edition of the men's Tour ends. Race director Marion Rousse, a former French cycling champion and …

Tour de France result: Julian Alaphilippe wins stage 1 as Chris Froome caught in major crashes
3 years, 5 months ago

Tour de France result: Julian Alaphilippe wins stage 1 as Chris Froome caught in major crashes

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Tour de France to hold women's cycling race in July 2022
3 years, 6 months ago

Tour de France to hold women's cycling race in July 2022

The Hindu  

A women's version of the Tour de France will be held in 2022 with a start on Paris' iconic Champs-Elysees boulevard after the conclusion of the men's race, organizers announced Thursday. The “Tour de France Femmes” aims to become a permanent fixture on the women's world tour cycling calendar after various failed attempts in the past. READ | “The Tour …

'Focused on Just Returning Back to my Former Level': Chris Froom Doesn't Think He Can Win Tour de France 2021
3 years, 6 months ago

'Focused on Just Returning Back to my Former Level': Chris Froom Doesn't Think He Can Win Tour de France 2021

News 18  

Chris Froome has ruled himself out of contention for a record-equalling fifth Tour de France title later this month, saying he needs more time to rediscover the form needed to battle for the yellow jersey. In a long road to recovery, Froome had hoped to gather momentum this week but Wednesday’s disappointing showing in the time trial stage left him …

'Age a state of mind': Chris Froome targets fifth Tour de France in new season with Israel Start Up Nation
3 years, 11 months ago

'Age a state of mind': Chris Froome targets fifth Tour de France in new season with Israel Start Up Nation

Firstpost  

Froome has won four Tour de France races and switched from Ineos to ISN, backed by Israeli-Canadian billionaire Sylvan Adams, in his bid to join an elite clique led by Eddy Merckx who have won five. Paris: A defiant Chris Froome declared he was “not finished yet” on Monday as his new cycling team Israel Start Up Nation held a …

Tour de France: 156 riders pass COVID-19 tests - sports news
4 years, 3 months ago

Tour de France: 156 riders pass COVID-19 tests - sports news

The Hindu  

The remaining 156 Tour de France riders were authorized to keep racing on Tuesday after the latest coronavirus tests. All 785 tests on Sunday and Monday of riders and staff members of the 22 teams returned negative, Tour organizers and cycling governing body announced before Stage 16 in the Alps. The latest screening around the race’s second rest day was …

Tour de France: Yates in yellow, Sagan attacking on Stage 7 - sports news
4 years, 3 months ago

Tour de France: Yates in yellow, Sagan attacking on Stage 7 - sports news

The Hindu  

Stage 7 of the Tour de France started on Friday with British rider Adam Yates wearing the race leader’s yellow jersey and the team of three-time world champion Peter Sagan causing havoc by setting a furious pace at the start of the 168-kilometre route into southwest France. Other rivals to Sagan in the trailing group included 11-time stage winner Andre …

Van Aert sprints to victory in Tour de France stage five - Sports news
4 years, 3 months ago

Van Aert sprints to victory in Tour de France stage five - Sports news

The Hindu  

Belgian Wout van Aert won the fifth stage of the Tour de France on Wednesday, a 183km ride from Gap that featured no breakaway, an almost unprecedented scenario in normal racing conditions in the modern era. Dutchman Cees Bol was second and Sam Bennett took third place to become the first Irishman to wear the green jersey for the points …

Chris Froome: I have already re-focused on Vuelta
4 years, 3 months ago

Chris Froome: I have already re-focused on Vuelta

The Hindu  

Four-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome says he has already re-focused his thoughts on October’s Vuelta a Espana after being left out of the Ineos Grenadiers squad. At that point it made more sense to re-adjust, move the goalposts and re-focus on targetting the Vuelta.” ‘I was willing to go in and help Egan and help the guys try …

Tour de France 2020: Grappling with staging the world’s toughest bike race in a pandemic
4 years, 3 months ago

Tour de France 2020: Grappling with staging the world’s toughest bike race in a pandemic

CNN  

CNN — It’s set to be a Tour de France like no other. “The Tour de France will not stop if there’s a positive case, even if nobody knows whether it will be completed or not,” International Cycling Union president David Lappartient told Reuters. Documents obtained by cycling website VeloNews – which were confirmed to CNN as accurate by race …

Sports in Europe adjust to new reality
4 years, 4 months ago

Sports in Europe adjust to new reality

China Daily  

Residents resume exercising in Barcelona, Spain, on May 2 after the government eased lockdown measures. Cycling's governing body, Union Cycliste Internationale, or UCI, has released guidelines to serve as a template for teams, organizers, race officials, the media and fans of men's and women's road racing. Cycling website VeloNews reported that the general aim is to test everyone before a …

Sports in Europe adjust to new reality
4 years, 4 months ago

Sports in Europe adjust to new reality

China Daily  

Residents resume exercising in Barcelona, Spain, on May 2 after the government eased lockdown measures. Cycling's governing body, Union Cycliste Internationale, or UCI, has released guidelines to serve as a template for teams, organizers, race officials, the media and fans of men's and women's road racing. Cycling website VeloNews reported that the general aim is to test everyone before a …

Cycling: Tour de France Ready to Roll Out After a Delay of Two Months
4 years, 4 months ago

Cycling: Tour de France Ready to Roll Out After a Delay of Two Months

News 18  

The Tour de France rolls out of the French Riviera next Saturday with peaks, plains and rigid coronavirus protocols standing between the 176 riders and the final dash along the Champs-Elysees in Paris. Colombia's 23-year-old defending champion Egan Bernal will defend his title as sole captain of Ineos, who ruthlessly axed both four-time winner Chris Froome and 2018 champion Geraint …

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