Oddsmakers continue to post Primoz Roglic as the consensus favorite to win the 2020 Tour de France at -400 odds as the 21-stage race heads into the final week of action. Roglic holds a 40-second lead after 15 stages. After last year’s champion, Egan Bernal, cracked on the ascent of […]
Tadej Pogacar loves riding in the Tour de France on Sundays. The Slovenian won two stages of Le Tour 2020 on a Sunday. Last Sunday, Pogacar took first in Stage 9 at Le Runs. This Sunday, Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) reached the steep Mount Colombier first, edging out overall leader […]
Team Sunweb wins another stage! Denmark’s Soren Kragh Andersen (Team Sunweb) reached the finish line first in the Tour de France Stage 14, during a flat stage with a hilly lead-up into Lyon. Andersen finished in third place two days earlier in Stage 12, but finally won his first stage […]
Daniel Martinez (EF Pro Cycling) rode to a victory in Stage 13 of the Tour de France following a gutsy cat-and-mouse game against Lennard Kamna (Bora-Hansgrohe) during the steep ascent of Pas de Peyrol to the finish line at Puy Mary. Overall leader Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) padded his lead as […]
The 218 km ride in Stage 12 of the 2020 Tour de France began in Chauvigny and started smoothly before gradually increasing in difficulty as the race reached Sarran. Marc Hirschi (Sunweb), who came close to winning two other stages, finally broke through with a victory in Stage 12 as […]
On a day for sprinters at Le Tour, four of them barreled toward the finish line at Poitiers. A photo finish revealed that Australian rider Caleb Ewan (Lotto Soudal) finished Stage 11 of the Tour de France by a sliver of a wheel, ahead of Sam Bennett (Deceuninck-QuickStep), Wout Van […]
Stage 10 of the 2020 Tour de France began on one island and ended on another during the island-hopping segment of Le Tour, with Sam Bennett (Deceuninck-Quickstep) winning a final sprint at the finish line at Ile de Re. Ireland’s Bennett held off Caleb Ewan and Peter Sagan to secure […]
Here come the Slovenians! Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) and Tadej Pogacar (UAE) are the top two favorites to win the 2020 Tour de France, according to DraftKings, with Roglic at -137 odds. He’s followed by Pogacar at +275 to win Le Tour. Pogacar won Stage 9 at Le Runs in the […]
The Tour de France continued with another punishing mountain stage in the Pyrenees. Slovenia’s Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) won his first-ever Tour de France stage with a victory in Stage 9 by a half-wheel at Le Runs. Fellow Slovenian Primoz Roglic (Jumbo-Visma) finished second and seized the yellow jersey […]
Nans Peters (ALM) led for the majority of Tour de France Stage 8 during a short, yet difficult mountain stage from Cazeres-sur-Garonne to Loudenvielle that included a pair of Category 1 climbs and an HC ascent to the summit of Port de Bales in the Pyrenees mountains. “It’s fitting that […]
Another day, another victory for Jumbo-Visma. For the second time in the last three days, Wout Van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) won a sprint stage. Van Aert rode to victory in Stage 5 at Privas and he emerged victorious once again during a short and flat ride from Millau to Lavaur in […]
Alexey Lutsenko (Astama), the top cyclist from Kazakhstan, won Stage 6 of the 2020 Tour de France when he arrived at the finish line at Mont Aigoual nearly a minute ahead of the chase pack. Lutsenko, who began the day in 37th place, collected his first-career stage win at Le […]
During a flat, but punchy 183 km ride from Gap to Privas, Wout Van Aert sprinted to victory in Stage 5 of the Tour de France to secure consecutive stage victories for Team Jumbo-Visma. After the first five stages, Adam Yates (Mitchelton-Scott) moved into the overall lead in the general […]
Primoz Roglic, the consensus Tour de France favorite from Holland’s Team Jumbo-Visma, rode to a victory in Stage 4’s summit finish following a hellacious power climb up to Orcieres-Merlett. Roglic quickly recovered from a nasty crash at the Criterium du Dauphine two weeks earlier to win his first stage at […]
Fighting a brutal head wind, Australia’s Caleb Ewan (Lotto Soudal) waited until the last possible second to accelerate and make his move to win Stage 3 (Nice > Sisteron) of the Tour de France. Julian Alaphilippe (DQS) retained the yellow jersey and overall lead during the third day of the […]
Norway’s Alexander Kristoff (UAE) won the first stage of the 2020 Tour de France on Saturday during a rainy day in Nice that included numerous crashes. Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-Quick-Step) crashed during Stage 1, but won the yellow jersey with a victory in Stage 2 (Nice Haut Pays > Nice) during […]
Primoz Roglic from Jumbo-Visma is the new favorite to win the 2020 Tour de France after last year’s champion, Egan Bernal, left the Criterium du Dauphine race early due to a back problem. Bernal’s team, Ineos Grenadiers, also announced they dropped two former champions – Chris Froome and Geraint Thomas […]
Egan Bernal, the Team Ineos rider who became the youngest Tour de France champion since World War II, comes into the postponed version of the 2020 Tour de France at +255 odds to win back-to-back yellow jerseys. According to the most recent update by DraftKings, four-time champion Chris Froome is […]
Oddsmakers at the Westgate SuperBook in Las Vegas list defending champion Egan Bernal as the favorite at 11/4 odds to win his second consecutive Tour de France. Bernal became the first rider from Colombia to win the Tour de France. He was also the youngest rider (22 at the time) […]
Before he could become the first American to win the Tour de France, Greg LeMond had to defeat his mentor and teammate, Bernard Hinault. LeMond and Hinault were best friends who developed an intense and bitter rivalry that inspired the book, “Slaying the Badger” by Richard Moore, which in turn […]
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