Author: Henri Giroud

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…

Profile Highlights https://youtu.be/wEXS7oJ4n_c Report Wout van Aert has claimed his second stage victory in this Tour de France. The Belgian won the tumultuous seventh stage, a stage with crosswinds to Lavaur, in a superb way. Van Aert positioned himself well in the slipstream of Stuyven and Sagan, after which he finished it off in a dominant way once again. For Van Aert it is already his third stage victory in the Tour de France in his second participation. It is his sixth victory of the season and Team Jumbo-Visma’s seventeenth. “I am very proud of this victory”, Van Aert said.…

Profile Highlights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbI0BGLDXJA Report It was a day of glory for the Kazakh cycling as the national champion of Kazakhstan Alexey Lutsenko took a great solo win atop Mont Aigoual at the 6th stage of the biggest race in the world the Tour de France. Lutsenko made a decisive attack from the daily breakaway with some 17 km to go on the final climb of the day. The Kazakh Champion was able to drop all the rivals and to go solo. Taking over 50 seconds on the chasers, Lutsenko finished alone atop Mont Aigoual, taking his biggest success in career. …

Profile Highlights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7JgmAzVjbI Report Wout van Aert has impressively won the fifth stage of the Tour de France. A day after Primoz Roglic’s victory, the winner of Milan-Sanremo on the sloping finish lane in Privas was the fastest in the bunch sprint. Van Aert positioned himself well in the wheel of Cees Bol, after which he finished sovereignly. After his victory in Albi last year, it is his second stage victory in the Tour de France and his fifth victory of the season. Earlier this year, in addition to Milan-Sanremo, he also won Strade Bianche, the Belgian time trial championships and a stage…

Profile Highlights https://youtu.be/Zju4ixNmCMI Report Primoz Roglic has won the fourth stage of the Tour de France in an impressive way. The Slovenian champion completed fantastic teamwork from his teammates in the first uphill finish. He is now third in the classification with Tom Dumoulin just behind him in seventh place. It is the fifteenth victory of the season for Team Jumbo-Visma. The peloton maintained a tight pace in the stage from Sisteron to Orcières-Merlette, which made the gap with the breakaway never grow larger than five minutes. Team Jumbo-Visma was always at the front of the peloton and kept the…