Tadej Pogacar set to be rider to beat again as he looks to join elite Tour club
Tadej Pogacar will start the Tour de France as the overwhelming favourite to wear yellow in Paris once again.
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Mark Cavendish snubbed from Tour de France again after team-mate Tim Declercq tests positive for Covid
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl have announced that Tim Declercq will miss this year’s Tour de France after testing positive for Covid. Florian Senechal will be his replacement, meaning that Mark Cavandish remains sidelined reserve ahead of the race.
Mark Cavendish misses out on QuickStep-AlphaVinyl selection for Tour de France
Mark Cavendish has not been handed a Tour de France place, his QuickStep-AlphaVinyl team have confirmed.
Mark Cavendish misses out on Tour de France, Julian Alaphilippe also absent from Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl team
Mark Cavendish has been left out of Quick Step-Alpha Vinyl’s eight-man team for the Tour de France. Sprinter Fabio Jakobsen has been selected as the team's preferred sprinter, as expected, despite the British rider’s impressive form and his national road race title at the weekend.
Bradley Wiggins says Mark Cavendish deserves Tour de France spot and backs Chris Froome to ‘surprise us all’
Bradley Wiggins believes former teammate Mark Cavendish deserves a shot at defending his green jersey and breaking the Tour de France stage record this year. Cavendish is set to miss out on being selected by QuickStep-Alpha Vinyl for the upcoming Tour, which starts on July 1, with team manager Patrick Lefevere stating Fabio Jakobsen is the preferred sprinter.
UAE Team Emirates and Tadej Pogacar prepare for hat-trick at Tour de France 2022
UAE Team Emirates and their champion rider Tadej Pogacar will be looking to reinforce their position at the pinnacle of cycling when they begin defence of the Tour de France title on July 1.
Cavendish confident of adding to Giro stage tally but rules out day in pink
Mark Cavendish said on Wednesday that he is optimistic about his chances of adding to his tally of 15 Giro d’Italia stage wins as he prepares to return to the race for the first time since 2013.
‘Definitely not’ – Chris Froome can forget hopes of winning fifth Tour de France, says Robbie McEwen
Chris Froome is “definitely not” winning the Tour de France again, according to Eurosport expert Robbie McEwen. Froome’s hopes of joining Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Indurain on five yellow jerseys look increasingly unlikely as he continues to look a shadow of his former self. Ad/> The Brit has not been the same rider since his horror crash during a recon ride at the Criterium de Dauphine in 2019, which left him with a fractured neck, femur, hip, elbow and ribs.