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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: 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 via bbc.com
  
  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 via bbc.com
  
  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: 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 via bbc.com
  
  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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• Mark Cavendish fighting to stay in Tour de France already after brutal first stage

  29-06-2024 18:34
  
  Sprinter hit by heatstroke and suffered from first climbBardet wins stage but host of big names also strugglingMark Cavendish is fighting for survival in the Tour de France after suffering from apparent heatstroke and vomiting during the brutal opening stage of the race, from Florence to Rimini. The British sprinter, riding his last Tour, somehow made it through the stage, aided by four of his teammates, but finished nearly 40 minutes down on stage winner, Romain Bardet, of France.The highly-reg
  
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• Tour de France 2024: Bardet wins brutal first stage as Cavendish struggles in heat– live

  29-06-2024 17:55
  
  Updates from the 206km opening stageCavendish relishing one final tilt at stage recordTeam-by-team guide | Get in touch! Email Tom188km 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
  
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• ‘I don’t remember any of it’ – Yates on ‘nasty’ crash

  29-06-2024 15:20 via bbc.com
  
  Adam Yates hopes to guide Tadej Pogacar to a historic Tour de France victory. But it has been a difficult journey to get there.
  
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• Tour de France 2024: Mark Cavendish struggling on gruelling first stage – live

  29-06-2024 14:32
  
  Updates from the 206km opening stageCavendish relishing one final tilt at stage recordTeam-by-team guide | Get in touch! Email Tom188km 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
  
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• Tour de France 2024: stage one from Florence to Rimini – live

  29-06-2024 11:40
  
  Updates from the 206km opening stageCavendish relishing one final tilt at stage recordTeam-by-team guide | Get in touch! Email TomHere’s a look at today’s stage, Saturday 29 June: Florence to Rimini, 206km, with William Fotheringham’s preview.A first Grand Départ in Italy, ironically when cycling talent in this traditional heartland is vanishingly scarce. There will be barely any Italians on the start list and there is zero prospect of a repeat of Italy’s last over
  
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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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• Mark Cavendish relishing one final tilt at new Tour de France stage win record

  28-06-2024 17:52
  
  Manxman currently shares record with Eddy Merckx‘I’m more ready now, than I was last year’Mark Cavendish’s final tilt at claiming a record-breaking 35th stage win at the Tour de France begins in earnest on Monday when he targets victory in the longest day of this year’s race, the 230km haul from Piacenza to Turin.“I think I’m more ready now, than I was last year,” Cavendish, who currently shares the record of 34 stage wins with the great Eddy Merck
  
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• Cavendish show backdrop to huge battle for Tour de France yellow

  28-06-2024 16:54 via bbc.com
  
  A thrilling battle for yellow will not take the shine off Mark Cavendish's attempt to break the Tour de France stage win record.
  
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• Italy prepares to host start of Tour de France for first time

  28-06-2024 16:11
  
  First stage highlights contribution to the sport by legendary Italian cyclists such as Gino Bartali and Marco PantaniThe Tuscan capital of Florence is no stranger to tourists, but they are usually more interested in frescoes and Michelangelo than yellow jerseys and Tadej Pogačar.On Saturday, however, an estimated 800,000 cycling fans are expected to gather in the city for the Grand Départ of the Tour de France, the first time Italy has hosted the start of the world’s most famou
  
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• A grand departure: Italy gears up to host start of Tour de France for first time

  28-06-2024 16:11
  
  First stage highlights contribution to the sport by legendary Italian cyclists such as Gino Bartali and Marco PantaniThe Tuscan capital of Florence is no stranger to tourists, but they are usually more interested in frescoes and Michelangelo than yellow jerseys and Tadej Pogačar.On Saturday, however, an estimated 800,000 cycling fans are expected to gather in the city for the Grand Départ of the Tour de France, the first time Italy has hosted the start of the world’s most famou
  
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• A grand departure: Italy gearing up to open Tour de France for first time

  28-06-2024 16:11
  
  First stage highlights contribution to the sport by legendary Italian cyclists such as Gino Bartali and Marco PantaniThe Tuscan capital of Florence is no stranger to tourists, but they are usually more interested in frescoes and Michelangelo than yellow jerseys and Tadej Pogačar.On Saturday, however, an estimated 800,000 cycling fans are expected to gather in the city for the Grand Départ of the Tour de France, the first time Italy has hosted the start of the world’s most famou
  
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• Every young cyclist dreams of Tour de France - Stewart

  28-06-2024 13:20 via bbc.com
  
  Coventry's Jake Stewart is proud to ride in his first Tour de France, 15 years after watching the race on TV as a child sparked his ambition.
  
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