Author: Henri Giroud

Profile Highlights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH-_zxN8cJQ Report It was a spectacular day for the EF Pro Cycling team today in France. Our riders showed unrivaled perseverance and teamwork, Dani Martínez took a breathtaking stage win, and the team moved back to the top position on the team classification. The stage set off from Châtel-Guyon, faced a whopping seven categorized climbs and ended at Puy Mary, a steep volcanic climb in the Massif Central. The total elevation gain of the day was 4400m (14,400ft); the most climbing of all 21 stages in the Tour this year. Before lining up at the start line this…

Without any actual race jerseys to award this past August due to the cancellation of its 2020 event, the Colorado Classic® presented by VF Corporation has launched a new campaign opening up its jersey competition to the public in an effort to inspire cyclists everywhere to ride with the spirit of the Colorado Classic throughout the fall and winter months. From athlete webinars to an inspirational speaker series and a fundraising ride on Zwift, the organizers behind the Colorado Classic have presented creative ways to keep the cycling world engaged during this unusual and trying year; while furthering their mission be…

Profile Highlights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bvmseh43Uio Report As the bunch rolled out for the longest stage of the race, it was expected that today’s stage would be one for the breakaway. As expected, a plethora of attacks flew from the bunch at the start of the day, with the team rotating turns and being incredibly active to follow any dangerous looking move. However, on a narrow bit of road a four rider group went clear before another duo bridged the gap to form a six rider group out front. With all Team Sunweb riders in the bunch, focus switched to the hilly finale…

Profile https://youtu.be/ZsZ9e7Ic0Fk Highlights Soon Report Stage 11 was always going to end in a sprint finish. As the sprinters hit the stage’s final few meters, Peter Sagan burst through the outside, close to the barriers, and used his head and shoulders to push Wout van Aert out of the way. Caleb Ewan was the winner of the close-fought four-way lunge for the line, and while Sagan was second across the line, he was relegated for misconduct. Results Stage 1Caleb Ewan (Aus) Lotto Soudal04:00:012Sam Bennett (Irl) Deceuninck-Quickstep3Wout van Aert (Bel) Team Jumbo-Visma4Bryan Coquard (Fra) B&B Hotels-Vital Concept5Clement Venturini (Fra) AG2R la…

Profile Highlights https://youtu.be/icN5tpVTpv4 Report Sam Bennett captured his maiden Tour de France win in emphatic fashion in Saint-Martin-de-Ré and immediately unleashed an uncontrollable outpouring of emotion as he slowly realised that he finally fulfilled a career-long dream of taking a stage victory at the biggest race in the world and thus following in the footsteps of Sean Kelly, the last Irishman to win a bunch sprint at the race, four decades ago. “I don’t think it has hit me yet, I still can’t believe I’m a Tour de France stage winner. I want to thank to the whole team for…

In accordance with the Tour de France health protocol, developed in the framework of the Union Cycliste Internationale’s (UCI) rules for the return of the road cycling season in the context of the coronavirus pandemic, the entire “race bubble” was tested on the 7th and 8th September. With all those with accreditations being tested within the 5 days preceding the Grand Départ in Nice and the “race bubble” once again being tested upon arriving on the Tour, this is the 3rd testing campaign since the beginning of the Tour. A 4th test campaign is scheduled, with the same conditions, for…

Profile Highlights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNxe8oT5k9s Report Twenty-one year old Tadej Pogačar added his first stage win at the Tour de France to his palmares, adding it to the trio of successes obtained in the Vuelta a Espana in 2019. The Slovenian from the Emirati squad won the 9th stage of the Grande Boucle, 153 km Pau-Lauruns, outsprinting the group containing the new yellow jersey Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma), Marc Hirschi (Sunweb), Egan Bernal (Ineos-Grenadiers) and Mikel Landa (Bahrain-McLaren).The UAE Team Emirates rider becomes the youngest Tour stage winner in the 21st century. Hirschi had led the race for 80 km, before being caught…

Profile Highlights https://youtu.be/CkB0rBHr9JQ Winner Interview “This is the best victory of my professional career. At the same time, I only have two! I went to look for it in my way, in a mountain stage, in front of everyone. It’s crazy. When we had a 12 minute lead, I knew we were going to play for the win. I thought to myself, “Focus on winning the stage! “. When I dropped Zakarin on the descent from Port de Bales, I thought I wouldn’t give up. I enjoyed it in the last 500 meters because I didn’t do that last year…