Four-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome announces retirement
Four-time Tour de France winner Chris Froome has called time on his professional cycling career.
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Former Tour de France champion Froome calls time on career
July 3 : Four-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome has retired from professional cycling, bringing the curtain down on a glittering career spanning over two decades in the sport.
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.”
Zigart suffers fractured jaw in Tour de Suisse crash
June 19 : Slovenian cyclist Urska Zigart suffered a fractured jaw following a crash in the final kilometre of stage two of the Tour de Suisse Femmes in Locarno on Thursday, her team AG Insurance-Soudal said.
Dversnes keeps sprinters at bay to win Giro stage 15, Vingegaard retains pink
May 24 : Norway's Fredrik Dversnes outsprinted rivals in a breakaway group and kept the peloton at bay to win stage 15 of Giro d'Italia on Sunday, with Denmark's Jonas Vingegaard retaining the pink jersey after the stage was shortened for safety reasons.
Vingegaard looks to join exclusive club with win on Giro debut
May 7 : Jonas Vingegaard is targeting a victory on his Giro d'Italia debut that would see him join an exclusive club of cyclists to have won all three Grand Tours.
Pogacar outlasts debutant Seixas to claim third straight Liege title
LIEGE, Belgium, April 26 : World champion Tadej Pogacar pulled ahead of 19-year-old French debutant Paul Seixas in the final climb to secure his third straight Liege-Bastogne-Liege title on Sunday, his fourth overall victory in the race.
Van Aert breaks jinx to win Paris-Roubaix ahead of Pogacar
PARIS, April 12 : Belgian Wout van Aert shattered a decade-old jinx to win Paris-Roubaix on Sunday, outduelling world champion Tadej Pogacar in a brutal classic race across the cobbles.