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• A pirate’s life: Tour de France sets sail for home of the great Marco Pantani

  29-06-2024 09:00
  
  The tragic rise and fall of the controversial Italian cycling legend will be celebrated in stage two start in CesenaticoThose who like their history black and white, with coherent moral conclusions and all loose ends tied up, would do well to avoid looking too closely at the Tour de France in any year, but particularly this year. On Sunday morning, all the contradictions and messiness inherent in the way the Tour treats its past will be raised for the umpteenth time, when the race’s second
  
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• Tour de France 2024: Groenewegen pips Philipsen in photo finish to win stage six – as it happened

  04-07-2024 18:12
  Dutch national champion Dylan Groenewegen won on the throw from Jasper Philippsen, while Mark Cavendish wasn’t in the top 10 of today’s sprint finishRead Jeremy Whittle’s stage six report from DijonThe roll-out has begun: The riders are making their way through the streets of Macon, still very much in the neutralised zone. Officially, they won’t start racing for another seven kilometres. Unofficially, they may not start for well over 140 kilometres, although today’s
  
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• Tour de France: Cavendish isolated as Groenewegen edges to stage six win

  04-07-2024 17:57
  Mark Cavendish blocked out in final stages of sprintCrash takes down several EF Education EasyPost ridersThe euphoria of Mark Cavendish’s record-breaking stage win on Wednesday’s fifth of the Tour de France proved short-lived, as 24 hours later Dylan Groenewegen reminded the world that other sprinters are also in the peloton.Cavendish, who took a record-breaking 35th stage win in the Tour, was blocked out in the 300 metres of the sprint on the Cours Général de Gaulle in
  
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• Tour de France 2024: stage six from Mâcon to Dijon – live

  04-07-2024 13:12
  Full team guide to the race | Full stage-by-stage guideAnd you can mail Barry with your thoughts on the raceTadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) 23hr 15min 24secRemco Evenepoel (Soudal Quick-Step) +45secJonas Vingegaard (Team Visma/Lease A BIke) + 50secJuan Ayuso (UAE Team Emirates) +1min 10secPrimoz Roglic (Red Bull Bora-Hansgrohe) +1min 14secChristian Prudhomme: “Fans of medieval architecture will be treated to aerial images of Cluny Abbey and much more,” says the race director of tod
  
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• ‘The best sprinter of all time’: cycling hails Mark Cavendish’s feat

  03-07-2024 21:30
  
  Cavendish breaks record for Tour de France stage winsPogacar, Brailsford and Thomas all laud achievementMark Cavendish’s record-breaking 35th stage win in the Tour de France was hailed by cycling’s great and good, especially as it came only days after he had almost been forced to quit this year’s race due to heatstroke.In eclipsing the five-time Tour winner Eddy Merckx’s record of 34 stage wins, at 39, Cavendish, riding for the Astana Qazaqstan team, has confirmed his sta
  
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• Stubborn, brave, brilliant: Cavendish defies age again to rewrite history | William Fotheringham

  03-07-2024 21:21
  
  To win a Tour stage at 39 is a stunning feat of endurance in a sport where many careers last less than two yearsIn 2007, when Mark Cavendish made his Tour de France debut, there was plenty of expectation that the youth from the Isle of Man would produce special things on his bike, but longevity was never mentioned. Professional cycling is a world where the average career is said to last two and half years, where most professionals don’t get past their initial two-year contract, and merely
  
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• Tour de France 2024: Mark Cavendish wins record-breaking 35th stage – as it happened

  03-07-2024 19:16
  
  The Manx Missile made history with a triumphant sprint finish to win stage five, a victory which left him ‘in disbelief’166km to go: It’s not ideal that the intermediate sprint is so late on this stage, in terms of giving us some early excitement and movement, as the peloton spreads out with Van de Poel at its front, a mere 12 seconds or so behind the front pair.Cav could do without this … Continue reading...
  
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• Mark Cavendish’s greatest Tour de France stage wins – in pictures

  03-07-2024 18:02
  Following the Manxman’s record-breaking 35th stage win at this year’s Tour, we look back at some of his outstanding victories Continue reading...
  
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• Tour de France 2024: Mark Cavendish wins record-breaking 35th stage – live

  03-07-2024 17:48
  
  Full team guide to the race | Full stage-by-stage guideAnd you can mail Gregg with your thoughts on the race166km to go: It’s not ideal that the intermediate sprint is so late on this stage, in terms of giving us some early excitement and movement, as the peloton spreads out with Van de Poel at its front, a mere 12 seconds or so behind the front pair.Cav could do without this … Continue reading...
  
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• Mark Cavendish powers to record-breaking 35th Tour de France stage win

  03-07-2024 17:40
  Cavendish victorious on stage five of this year’s race39-year-old overtakes Eddy Merckx in history booksMark Cavendish has created history, overtaking Eddy Merckx as the record-holder for Tour de France stage victories after securing his 35th win when triumphing on stage five of this year’s race.Cavendish outpaced his rivals on the 177.5km stage from Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne to Saint-Vulbas and duly sealed the milestone in an incredible career. Cavendish came off the wheel of Fabio Ja
  
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• Tour de France 2024: Cavendish and sprinters aiming for victory on stage five – live

  03-07-2024 17:05
  Full team guide to the race | Full stage-by-stage guideAnd you can mail Gregg with your thoughts on the race166km to go: It’s not ideal that the intermediate sprint is so late on this stage, in terms of giving us some early excitement and movement, as the peloton spreads out with Van de Poel at its front, a mere 12 seconds or so behind the front pair.Cav could do without this … Continue reading...
  
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• Tour de France 2024: stage five heads out of the Alps to Saint-Vulbas – live

  03-07-2024 13:15
  
  Full team guide to the race | Full stage-by-stage guideAnd you can mail Tom with your thoughts on the raceAnd as we emerge from the mountains, those polka dot jersey standings:A recap on what happened yesterday, and Pogacar’s assumption of that yellow jersey. Continue reading...
  
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• Tour de France 2024: Pogacar powers back into yellow with stage four victory – as it happened

  02-07-2024 17:59
  
  Tadej Pogacar surged up the Col du Galibier to put 50 seconds between himself and Jonas Vingegaard111km to go … Up the valley they go and the front quartet aren’t able to pull out much of a gap. The group comprises Alexey Lutsenko, Christopher Juul-Jensen, Oier Lazkano and Tobias Halland Johannessen, but it doesn’t look like they’ll hold out for long.114km to go … Another kick off the front and four riders go clear. Continue reading...
  
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• Tour de France: Pogacar outmuscles Vingegaard on stage four to take yellow

  02-07-2024 17:50
  
  UAE Team Emirates rider stars on climbs and descentsPogacar leads Evanepoel by 45sec; Vingegaard is thirdTadej Pogacar took victory in the first mountain stage of the 2024 Tour de France, from Pinerolo to Valloire, after out-climbing defending Tour champion, Jonas Vingegaard, at stage four’s summit of the Col du Galibier.The two rivals locked horns once more, but this time, UAE Team Emirates leader Pogacar had the upper hand, climbing and descending faster than the Dane, to open up a 35-se
  
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• Tour de France 2024: Pogacar powers back into yellow with victory on stage four – live

  02-07-2024 17:17
  
  Full team guide to the race | Full stage-by-stage guideGirmay makes Tour history | And you can mail Michael111km to go … Up the valley they go and the front quartet aren’t able to pull out much of a gap. The group comprises Alexey Lutsenko, Christopher Juul-Jensen, Oier Lazkano and Tobias Halland Johannessen, but it doesn’t look like they’ll hold out for long.114km to go … Another kick off the front and four riders go clear. Continue reading...
  
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• Tour de France 2024: stage four hits the mountains on road to Valloire – live

  02-07-2024 13:28
  
  Full team guide to the race | Full stage-by-stage guideGirmay becomes first black African to win Tour stage132km to go … It’s been a ferocious opening to the stage as the elevation gradually winds up for the riders, with Mads Pedersen going clear early to take the solitary sprint point for the day.Some pre-stage imagery from Pinerolo: Continue reading...
  
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• As cycling boomed in 19th-century America, its Black stars shone bright

  02-07-2024 11:00
  
  Cyclists such as sprint world champion Marshall ‘Major’ Taylor were early stars of the sport in the US. But many felt compelled to move abroadWhen cycling first took the US by storm in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Black Americans joined in the new pastime. One Black cyclist, Marshall “Major” Taylor, became a world champion in 1899. Yet American cycling installed a color line in professional racing. Opportunities became so limited that Black competitors had to t
  
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• Tour de France 2024: Biniam Girmay sprints to win in Turin on race’s longest stage – as it happened

  01-07-2024 17:49
  
  Mark Cavendish never got into the final sprint as the Eritrean became the first black African stage winnerReport: Girmay becomes first black African to win Tour stage160km to go: A reminder of today’s easy stage. Jen Voight, on the Eurosport bike, says it’s the easiest beginning of any stage he can remember for the last 20 years. The intermediate sprint will come 94km or so into the stage. They’re currently on a road named after Coppi, for a climb of 1.1km, and all the teams ar
  
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• Biniam Girmay becomes first black African to win Tour de France stage

  01-07-2024 17:43
  
  Mark Cavendish unable to break record for stage winsRichard Carapaz took yellow jersey from Tadej PogacarThe Eritrean Biniam Girmay won the third stage of the Tour de France in a sprint finish on Monday as Mark Cavendish missed out on his first opportunity to break Eddy Merckx’s record for career stage victories.Biniam, who became the first black African rider to win a stage on the Tour de France, timed his effort to perfection to beat the Colombian Fernando Gaviria and the Belgian Arnaud
  
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• Tour de France 2024: Biniam Girmay sprints to win in Turin on race’s longest stage – live

  01-07-2024 17:09
  
  Full team guide to the race | Full stage-by-stage guideAnd you can drop John an email about this year’s race 160km to go: A reminder of today’s easy stage. Jen Voight, on the Eurosport bike, says it’s the easiest beginning of any stage he can remember for the last 20 years. The intermediate sprint will come 94km or so into the stage. They’re currently on a road named after Coppi, for a climb of 1.1km, and all the teams are in formation. They’re in Tortona, final res
  
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• Tour de France 2024: Mark Cavendish and sprinters battle on stage three in Turin – live

  01-07-2024 16:50
  
  Full team guide to the race | Full stage-by-stage guideAnd you can drop John an email about this year’s race 160km to go: A reminder of today’s easy stage. Jen Voight, on the Eurosport bike, says it’s the easiest beginning of any stage he can remember for the last 20 years. The intermediate sprint will come 94km or so into the stage. They’re currently on a road named after Coppi, for a climb of 1.1km, and all the teams are in formation. They’re in Tortona, final res
  
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• Tour de France 2024: stage three from Piacenza to Turin – live

  01-07-2024 11:30
  
  Full team guide to the race | Full stage-by-stage guideAnd you can drop John an email about this year’s race Jeremy Whittle’s report from Sunday, a great race into Bologna.We’re under 5km from the départ réel, as they idle through the streets of Piacenza. Turin, an underrated city, awaits. Continue reading...
  
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• Versatile Vernon dreams of Paris pursuit success

  01-07-2024 07:22
  
  Ethan Vernon is a professional road racer these days, but is ready to take on any role to help Team GB win the team pursuit at the Paris Olympics.
  
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• Tour de France 2024: Vauquelin wins stage two as Pogacar takes yellow jersey – as it happened

  30-06-2024 18:27
  
  A second successive French victory was secured in Bologna on a day the two favourites went toe to toe in a late climbVauquelin wins stage two as Pogacar takes yellow jersey125km to go: Here we go, a climb, the first of the day, all 2km of it, at a 7.5% incline. Jonas Abrahamsen, who began the day in polka dot, takes to the front with very little chasing going on, and takes the two points. What will that climb do to the peloton?130km to go: At least it’s not one of those soggy tours so far.
  
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• Tour de France: Vauquelin wins stage two as Tadej Pogacar takes yellow jersey

  30-06-2024 18:19
  
  Jonas Vingegaard responds to late Tadej Pogacar attackKévin Vauquelin follows Bardet as French stage winnerTadej Pogacar of UAE Team Emirates threw down the gauntlet to defending Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaardon the hills ringing Bologna, taking over the race lead after stage two of the 2024 race.Any doubts over Vingegaard’s race fitness were dispelled when the Visma-Lease a Bike rider responded with aplomb to Pogacar’s violent acceleration, 11 kilometres from the fi
  
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• Pogacar takes yellow jersey as Vauquelin wins stage two

  30-06-2024 17:56
  
  Tadej Pogacar moves into the leader's yellow jersey as France's Kevin Vauquelin wins stage two of the Tour de France.
  
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• Tour de France 2024: Vauquelin wins stage two as Pogacar takes yellow jersey – live reaction

  30-06-2024 17:39
  
  A second successive French victory was secured in Bologna on a day the two favourites went toe to toe in a late climb125km to go: Here we go, a climb, the first of the day, all 2km of it, at a 7.5% incline. Jonas Abrahamsen, who began the day in polka dot, takes to the front with very little chasing going on, and takes the two points. What will that climb do to the peloton?130km to go: At least it’s not one of those soggy tours so far. Emilia-Romagna looks a beautiful spot, and on towards
  
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• Tour de France 2024: stage two – live

  30-06-2024 12:00
  
  Updates from the 199.2km Cesenatico to Bologne stageTeam-by-team guide | Get in touch! Email JohnThe Tour is the Tour, even if Saturday’s stage resembled a rather difficult edition of the Giro. Especially for poor Mark Cavendish, who spent the day being hauled along feeling sick as a dog. It did provide a classic breakaway and an emotional winner in Romain Bardet. So, super Sunday, where we remain in Italy for 199km. And it’s going to be hilly, too.Per William Fotheringham.Today&rsqu
  
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• Cavendish struggles as Bardet wins first Tour stage

  29-06-2024 18:48
  
  Britain’s Mark Cavendish struggles on stage one of the Tour de France, finishing 39 minutes behind the peloton as Romain Bardet wins the Grand Depart.
  
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• Tour de France 2024: Bardet wins brutal first stage as Cavendish struggles in heat – as it happened

  29-06-2024 18:47
  
  Bardet makes break for victory and first yellow jerseyCavendish struggles in heat but finishes inside cutoff188km to go: We have a breakaway, at last. Sandy Dujardin, Mateo Vercher (TotalEnergies), Frank Van Den Broek (DSM-Firmenich PostNL), Clement Champoussin (Arkea-B&B), Ion Izagirre (Cofidis), Valentin Madouas (Groupama-FDJ), and Matej Mohoric (Bahrain Victorious). Uno-X Mobility have missed this and are desperately chasing but to little avail so far.192km to go: We have another group tr
  
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