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Egan Bernal, Team Ineos’s prodigious young Colombian, all but secured his first Tour de France victory in Val Thorens as he crossed the finish line of stage 20 hand in hand with his team-mate Geraint Thomas. Thomas finished second overall, with the Dutchman Steven Kruijswijk third after Julian Alaphilippe cracked …

Egan Bernal, champion in waiting. That is the culmination of one of the more bizarre days in modern Tour de France history, and the 22-year-old from Colombia is one day’s ride from sealing his first yellow jersey. On the evidence of the past three weeks, It is unlikely to be his last. …

After another gripping instalment of this Tour de France, perhaps the strangest part is that we are still no closer to learning who might actually win it. Instead we were simply reminded of one of cycling’s golden rules: when the road climbs high into the sky and the air thins …

There is rarely a quiet day in the Tour de France. Not this Tour de France, anyway. On the final flat day before Paris, in blistering Mediterranean heat reaching 40 degrees, the reigning champion Geraint Thomas crashed on the road and the year’s form rider Jakob Fuglsang crashed out of the race, …

There is rarely a quiet day in the Tour de France. Not this Tour de France, anyway. On the final flat day before Paris, in blistering Mediterranean heat reaching 40 degrees, the reigning champion Geraint Thomas crashed on the road and the year’s form rider Jakob Fuglsang crashed out of the race, …

It’s late morning in Nimes and it’s already hot. So hot. The kind of heat that makes you skip from shady patch to shady patch, and the trees become your chaperone. On one side of Team Ineos’s hotel, a man hoses down a team car as another stands gloriously in the …

On the steep climb to the finish here in Foix, Thibaut Pinot picked off his rivals one by one like a sniper. First Geraint Thomas and Steven Kruijswijk cracked as the Frenchman launched his attack. Then the yellow jersey of Julian Alaphilippe was left behind, before the gutsy Emanuel Buchmann also released his …

On the steep climb to the finish here in Foix, Thibaut Pinot picked off his rivals one by one like a sniper. First Geraint Thomas and Steven Kruijswijk cracked as the Frenchman launched his attack. Then the yellow jersey of Julian Alaphilippe was left behind, before the gutsy Emanuel Buchmann also released his …

The Frenchman faces a fight to keep hold of the yellow jersey as the race climbs more than 2,000m above sea level Source link

Geraint Thomas admitted he felt “weak” as his Tour de France hopes suffered a blow on the brutal slopes of the Tourmalet. The defending champion lost contact with the main contenders for with one kilometre to go of Saturday’s 117.5km stage 14 from Tarbes as Thibaut Pinot took victory and …