Cattle cull forces change to Tour de France stage route
Changes have been made to Friday’s stage 19 of the Tour de France due to the culling of cows taking place in the Col des Saisies area.
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UAE's back-to-back wins tighten early grip on the Tour de France
LES ANGLES, France, July 6 : Slovenia's Tadej Pogacar underlined UAE Team Emirates-XRG's early dominance at the 113th edition of the Tour de France, claiming victory in Monday's third stage just 24 hours after Isaac del Toro's victory in Barcelona.
Pogacar wins Tour stage three to take yellow jersey from Vingegaard
LES ANGLES, France, July 6 : Defending champion Tadej Pogacar's final attack paid off as the UAE Team Emirates-XRG rider won his first stage of this year's Tour de France on Monday, taking the overall lead from Jonas Vingegaard, who finished second.
Del Toro wins Tour de France stage two as Pogacar closes in on Vingegaard
BARCELONA, July 5 : Isaac del Toro overcame a mechanical issue and a long wait to change his bike before launching a late attack to win the second stage of the Tour de France on Sunday, becoming only the second Mexican to claim a stage at the race after Raul Alcala more than three decades ago.
Vingegaard closes difficult chapter as he dons Tour yellow jersey
BARCELONA, Spain, July 4 : Jonas Vingegaard's dream of recapturing the Tour de France yellow jersey after a gap of three years came true on Saturday, marking a remarkable comeback from a harrowing crash in 2024.
Vingegaard takes yellow jersey as Tour de France begins with team time trial
BARCELONA: Jonas Vingegaard took an early lead in his quest for a third Tour de France title as the Visma-Lease a Bike rider recorded the fastest time in stage one — a 19.6-km team time trial in Barcelona — with a finish in 21 minutes and 47 seconds on Saturday. Italian Filippo Ganna (Netcompany-Ineos) finished eight seconds slower, while defending champion Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) was third, coming in 12 seconds behind Denmark’s Vingegaard, who claimed the yellow jersey for the first time since 2023.
Pogacar is undeniable favourite, says Tour de France director
BARCELONA, July 3 : Slovenia's Tadej Pogacar is the "undeniable favourite" for this year's Tour de France, which begins in Barcelona on Saturday, according to Tour director Christian Prudhomme.
Pogacar expects Vingegaard Tour de France battle to last ‘years’
BARCELONA: Tour de France champion Tadej Pogacar said on Thursday that his rivalry with Jonas Vingegaard is pushing both riders “to new heights.” The pair have won the last six editions of the Tour de France between them, and have finished first and second in each of the last five — something which had never happened before. Slovenian Pogacar has four Tour wins to Vingegaard’s two but the Dane has won all three of cycling’s Grand Tours following his Giro d’Italia victory in May. World champion Pogacar has yet to win the Vuelta a Espana, where he finished third in his only appearance in 2019. And the 27-year-old insisted that the Tour is not going to be a straight fight between him and Vingegaard, 29, pointing to his own UEA Team Emirates team-mate Isaac del Toro as a potential challenger. “I don’t think that he’s the only one that can come close,” Pogacar said about Vingegaard. “I think that there are quite a few guys here that can aim for the victory, right next to me,” he added at Thursday’s pre-Tour press conference, indicating Mexican Del Toro. “But the competition between me and Jonas, of course, the last few years was spectacular. “And I think it will continue for a few more years, I hope. We will see. “I think we push each other to the new heights every year. So we will see how far we go this year.”