Only a couple of years ago, Jonas Vingegaard worked in a fish market in Denmark. Today, however, Vingegaard soaked in the thunderous applause along the Champs-Elysees as he rode into Paris in the coveted yellow jersey as the 2022 Tour de France champion. Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) raced in his first Tour […]
Another day, another victory for Wout van Aert and Jumbo-Visma. Jumbo-Visma won three stages in a row and van Aert secured his third stage win at the 2022 Tour de France with another impressive victory in Stage 20 individual time trial. The next-to-last stage featured a 40.7 km individual time […]
Christophe Laporte (Jumbo-Visma) became the first rider from France to win a stage on Le Tour this year when he launched an unexpected counter-attack with less than one kilometer to the finish line at Cahors, and held off the premier sprinters in the world to win Stage 19 of the […]
Tadej Pogacar had one final chance to erase a 2:18 deficit on Jonas Vingegaard in the Pyrenees Mountains, but the two-time defending champion had an unfortunate crash on the descent of the Col de Spandelles, and then got dropped on the ascent of Hautacam. Vingegaard rode to a solo victory […]
Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) won his third stage of the 2022 Tour de France during a brutal ascent of Peyragudes, but the two-time defending champion only gained four seconds on Le Tour leader Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) in Stage 17 in the Pyrenees Mountains. Vingegaard defended his yellow jersey, and […]
Hugo Houle from Israel-Premier Tech held off a chase pack on the grueling ascent of Mur de Peguere, and on the ensuing windy descent, to win Stage 16 of the 2022 Tour de France. Houle became the first rider from Canada to take the top step on the podium since […]
The 2022 Tour de France has its final rest day today before heading into the rugged Pyrenees Mountains amidst a brutal heat wave, and Jonas Vingegaard saw his title odds slip from -360 to -225 after a disastrous Sunday for his team Jumbo-Visma. Vingegaard had a minor crash and two […]
Sprinter Jasper Philipsen from Alpecin-Deceuninck secured his first-ever stage victory in the Tour de France by edging out Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) at the finish line in Stage 15 at Carcassonne. Stage 15 featured the last 200-plus km stage during a flat route from Rodez to the walled city of […]
Australia’s Michael Matthews from BikeExchange-Jayco broke away from the breakaway group and then powered up a steep climb to cap off a solo victory in Stage 14 at Mende of the 2022 Tour de France. Matthews dusted Alberto Bettiol (EF Education-EasyPost) and Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ) on the final ascent and […]
Here come the Danes! For a third time in the last four stages, a rider from Denmark took the top step on the podium with a stage win. On Friday, Mads Pedersen from Trek-Segafredo secured his first stage victory in the 2022 Tour de France with a breakaway sprint finish […]
Tom Pidcock cemented his name in the history books when the British rider from Ineos Grenadiers completed an impressive breakaway victory in Stage 12 of the 2022 Tour de France at the iconic Alpe d’Huez. Pidcock — an Olympic gold medalist for England — has a bright future ahead of […]
After a gutsy performance in Stage 11 of the 2022 Tour de France, Jonas Vingegaard from Jumbo-Visma won his first-ever stage and secured first place in the overall general classification standings. Vingegaard is now the betting favorite to win the Tour de France, ahead of Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates), […]
Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) finally won his first stage on Le Tour while also seizing the yellow jersey away from Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) with dominating attack on Col du Granon in Stage 11 of the Tour de France. Pogacar cracked due to the heat and vicious ascent of Granon […]
It was anything but a dull day at the Tour de France after protestors disrupted and delayed Stage 10 in the middle of a 146 km ride from Morzine Les Portes du Soleil to Megeve in the Alps. After gendarmes dragged off the hippie protestors, Magnus Cort (EF Education-EasyPost) won […]
I recently moved from California to Colorado — or in betting terms — from a state where there’s no legalized online gambling to a state that legalized online gambling, including sports betting. As a sportswriter and so-called sports junkie, I had the rare and amazing opportunity to have a successful […]
Luxembourg’s Bob Jungels (AG2R Citroen) won his first-ever stage at Le Tour with an inspiring and dominating victory from Aigle to Chatel in the Swiss Alps during Stage 9 of the 2022 Tour de France. The bookies in Europe expected a rider in the breakaway would win Stage 9 of […]
Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) won a second stage in the 2022 Tour de France with an uphill sprint finish in Stage 8 Lausanne and held off Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) and prevented the defending champion from winning three stages in a row. The GC contenders in the peloton wiped […]
Another day, another stage victory for the Slovenian Wunderkind. One day after securing the yellow jersey with his first stage win at the 2022 Tour de France, Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) held off a final attack from Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) during a summit finish at the punishing La Super […]
Two-time Tour de France defending champion Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) secured the yellow jersey from Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma), who held on to it during the previous four stages. After six stages, Slovenia’s Pogacar is the clear betting favorite at -400 odds to win the 2022 Tour de France, […]
The longest stage of this year’s Le Tour hugged the border of France and Belgium. Two-time defending champion Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) secured his first stage win at the 2022 Tour de France with an impressive victory and an uphill finish in Stage 6 at Longwy. Poagcar also snatched […]
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