Stage Report: Lotto Soudal’s Caleb Ewan won the final stage of the 2019 Tour de France on the Champs-Elysées. The Australian was the best in the mass sprint after 128 kilometres into the centre of Paris, Dylan Groenewegen (Jumbo-Visma) finished a close second in a messy sprint on the Champs Élysées cobbles. Egan Bernal (Ineos)
Geraint Thomas expects Team Ineos to be even stronger at next year’s Tour de France with three winners in the squad. The Welshman, who won last year’s race, believes Chris Froome will be chasing a record-equalling fifth title alongside this year’s champion Egan Bernal. “If all three of us are there on the start line,
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Egan Bernal became the first Tour de France winner from Colombia with victory in the 106th edition of the race. The 22-year-old Ineos rider won by one minute, 11 seconds from team-mate Geraint Thomas, who won the race in 2018, with Dutch rider Steven Kruikswijk in third. Slovakia’s Peter Sagan won the green points classification
Egan Bernal became the youngest rider in 110 years to win the Tour de France after Caleb Ewan won the traditional sprint finish in Paris. With the race leader not challenged on the final stage, 22-year-old Bernal became the first Colombian winner. He crossed the line in the peloton, hand-in-hand with his Ineos team-mate and
Was the Tour de France 2019 the greatest edition in history? Chris Froome’s recovery from horror crash ‘ahead of schedule’ says Dave Brailsford ‘Our cars were set on fire by Basque separatists’: The inside story of ITV’s Tour de France coverage Mendips Sportive July 27 Wiltshire Wildcat August 4 Ride Yorkshire August 11
Was the Tour de France 2019 the greatest edition in history? Chris Froome’s recovery from horror crash ‘ahead of schedule’ says Dave Brailsford ‘Our cars were set on fire by Basque separatists’: The inside story of ITV’s Tour de France coverage Mendips Sportive July 27 Wiltshire Wildcat August 4 Ride Yorkshire August 11
Was the Tour de France 2019 the greatest edition in history? Chris Froome’s recovery from horror crash ‘ahead of schedule’ says Dave Brailsford ‘Our cars were set on fire by Basque separatists’: The inside story of ITV’s Tour de France coverage Mendips Sportive July 27 Wiltshire Wildcat August 4 Ride Yorkshire August 11
Colombian Conquistadors: They’re part of the landscape now, those Colombian riders; Chaves, Gaviria, Quintana, Uran and now Egan Bernal, all rampaging across Grand Tours and Classics landscapes. Ed Hood was one of the first to ‘big up’ Egan Bernal, here is his article form a couple of years ago about the Colombians influence on modern
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Tour de France 2019 Dates: 6-28 July. Coverage: Live radio commentary on each stage via the BBC Sport website plus daily BeSpoke podcast. Chris Froome’s recovery from a serious crash is “ahead of schedule” according to Team Ineos boss Sir Dave Brailsford. The four-time Tour de France winner, 34, broke his neck, femur, elbow, hip
Tour Icon – Book Review: Greg LeMond is America’s most successful cyclist, ignoring the dubious results of Mr. Armstrong, and he is also held in high regard through-out the World of cycling. Leslie Reissner takes a look at a book by Guy Andrews on the career of the multi-champion, LeMond. From a young boy dreaming
REPETE teases new bikes with launch party next week – Repete Cycles is living up to their “again & again” name with a complete company reboot, starting afresh with a new line of small batch premium handmade Czech steel bikes. It’s been a few years since we’ve caught up with Repete. But they look to
Tour Rider Interview: There was quite a few successful Australian professionals in the peloton in the 70’s; Michael Wilson, Gary Clively and Don Allan to name three – but the man who really set the ball rolling was Melbourne’s Phil Anderson. The first ever non-European maillot jaune talks to Ed Hood about the Tour de
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Stage Report: Vincenzo Nibali (Bahrain-Merida) won the shortened stage 20 to Val Thorens. Just after the start, the Italian sneaked into the escape group to eventually go solo for the stage victory. Egan Bernal (Ineos) successfully defended his yellow jersey, while Steven Kruijswijk (Jumbo-Visma) pushed on to the podium at the expense of Julian Alaphilippe
Team principal Sir Dave Brailsford says making Egan Bernal and Geraint Thomas joint leaders of Ineos has “worked to perfection” at the Tour de France. Bernal is poised to become the first Colombian to win the race, while defending champion Thomas is set to finish second after the processional run into Paris on Sunday. “You
Defending champion Geraint Thomas said “anything that could go wrong, went wrong” at this year’s Tour de France despite being set to finish second. The Briton will finish runner-up to Ineos team-mate Egan Bernal if they both cross the finish line on Sunday’s largely processional race round Paris. Thomas said this year’s race had been