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July
21, 2019
Tour de France: Simon Yates takes
a second stage win on Prat d'Albis.
"Yates
takes the stage win comfortably. Pinot takes
second, 30 seconds down. Landa third. Bernal
and Buchmann 50 seconds down. 1:20 for Thomas,
Kruijswijk and Valverde. Alaphilippe and Poels
cross the line 1:50 down."
(cyclingnews.com) (Getty Images)
July
21, 2019
Tour de France: Stage 15 finish
line quotes.
"I'm
very proud of what I did today. It was an
extremely hard day, really from the start to
the finish. I raced the way I like to, try to
be aggressive, and I managed to pull it off.
I'm really happy."
(cyclingnews.com) (Bettini Photo)
July
21, 2019
Tour Stage 15 Preview: Albi
waiting for you.
"Four
tough climbs without any of them reaching the
scale of unmanageable. It looks a certain day
for the break."
(podiumcafe.com) Getty Images/iStockphoto
July
21, 2019
Top Banana: Tour de France stage
15 - Lennard Kämna.
"Today
we could have slung our banana in the
direction of Simon Geschke, the last rider to
whom Simon Yates said “see ya”. Instead we
chose Sunweb’s 22 year-old Lennard Kämna." (rouleur.cc)
Photographs: ASO / Pauline Ballet
July
21, 2019
100 years after the first yellow
jersey, what makes it one of sport’s most iconic
trophies?
"I
think one of the interesting things about the
yellow jersey is that it is emblematic of the
Tour and not necessarily of the winner,”
Michel Mathieu, director-general of jersey
sponsors LCL, told me."
(cyclingweekly.com) (Getty Images)
July
21, 2019
Tour de France 2019 Live
Dashboard.
"2019
Tour de France LIVE July 6-28.
Rest Day 2: Monday, July 22nd - Nimes Stage
16 start time: Tuesday 12:45 CET (3:45 AM
PDT).
Earliest live video: 12:45 CET (3:45 AM PDT). Approximate finish: 17:26 CET (8:26 AM PDT)." (cyclingfans.com) (steephill.tv) July
21, 2019
Column
Two
Van Aert rues Tour de France TT
crash: My goal was to reach Paris.
"Having
managed to win a stage - stage 10 - against
some of the world's best sprinters, heading
home early due to injury is unfortunately
foremost in the 24-year-old's mind right now." (cyclingnews.com)
(Getty Images)
July
21, 2019
Geraint Thomas ‘feeling like old
self again’.
"On
stage 15 the Welsh defending champion fought
with the top riders on the Prat d’Albis summit
finish and remains on top of a tight general
classification fight right behind a fading
Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck Quick Step)."
(cyclingweekly.com) (Justin Setterfield/Getty
Images Sport)
July
21, 2019
The Tour, Transformed: 10
kilometers on the Tourmalet.
"For
the first time in years, Ineos is not in
control. The team’s domestiques, Jonathan
Castroviejo and Dylan van Baarle, rode until
they couldn’t hold the pace any longer; soon
after, Wout Poels joined them off the back." (cyclingtips.com)
(Photo: Gruber)
July
21, 2019
A dramatic battle on Foix Prat
d’Albis.
"The
yellow jersey remains the same after stage 15,
but Julian Alaphilippe surrendered time to key
rivals in the scintillating finale. Now there
are three men with a deficit of less than two
minutes to the Frenchman."
(velonews.com) (Tim de Waele/Getty Images)
July
21, 2019
The Tour’s sprinters will battle
the time cut in the Alps with the Champs Elysees
in their sights.
"The
sprinters fight from the first climb of every
mountain stage to stay in the race as they
gamble on the chance for a sprint and seek the
prize of completing the biggest race of them
all."
(velonews.com) (Photo: Chris Graythen/Getty
Images)
July
21, 2019
Simon Yates says Alaphilippe is
going to win Tour de France 2019 as brother Adam
loses time.
"The
Mitchelton-Scott rider, supporting his twin
brother Adam at this year’s Tour de France,
said he has thought Alaphilippe could win
since his stage six ride on La Planche des
Belles Filles."
(cyclingweekly.com) (Marco
Bertorello/AFP/Getty Images)
July
21, 2019
Pinot goes from despair to
elation...
"Pinot,
by his own admission, has not always been the
best at dealing with adversity, especially on
the roads of France in July. Yet, he has
channeled his disappointment perfectly in the
past few days."
(cyclingnews.com) (Bettini Photo)
July
21, 2019
Roundup: Tasty new recovery treats
from Skratch Labs, Floyds of Leadville &
B-Line.
"In
our never-ending quest for delicious new ways
to fuel and recover, we’ve found three more
new options for rebuilding your muscles after
a hard ride."
(bikerumor.com) (Tyler Benedict)
July
21, 2019
Column
Three
Diego Ulissi wins Tokyo Olympic
test event.
"Diego
Ulissi wins while Davide Formolo, Nans Peters
round out podium."
(cyclingnews.com) (Getty Images)
July
21, 2019
July
21, 2019
Simon Yates says he’s riding Tour
de France with ‘different mentality’ after
disappointing Giro.
"The
Mitchelton Scott rider deliberately lost time
in the first week of the Tour, freeing him up
to fight for stages while also supporting his
brother Adam’s overall ambitions."
(cyclingweekly.com) (Photo: Yuzuru Sunada)
July
21, 2019
Pinot surges back into contention
with stunning attacks.
"After
putting costly time losses behind him, Pinot
is a riding a wave of momentum after three
stellar days across the Pyrénées to surge back
into contention for the yellow jersey." (velonews.com)
(Getty Images)
July
21, 2019
The haunted man and the home team.
"In
front of the anti-doping van, perched
precariously on the edge of an
unwalkably-sheer drop-off, Geraint Thomas spun
slowly on a trainer. A team staffer handed him
a black towel and he wiped his face, still
covered in sweat. He looked haggard, and a bit
haunted. Like he’d seen some things he didn’t
want to see."
(cyclingtips.com) Caley Fretz
July
21, 2019
Tim Wellens expects challenge from
Vincenzo Nibali for polka dot jersey.
"The
Belgian has held the polka dot jersey since
stage three, after getting in the day’s break
and sweeping up KoM points during his time off
the front."
(cyclingweekly.com) (Justin Setterfield/Getty
Images Sport)
July
21, 2019
Tour de France dream over for Adam
Yates after Tourmalet stage.
"Yates's
hopes of a podium place are over, with the
27-year-old now down in 26th place overall and
over ten minutes down on race leader Julian
Alaphilippe (Deceuninck Quick Step)." (cyclingnews.com)
(Getty Images)
July
21, 2019
Column
One
July
20, 2019
Tour de France: Pinot wins stage
14 atop Tourmalet.
"Pinot
wins on the Tourmalet!
Alaphilippe beats Kruijswijk for second. Bernal, Buchmann and Landa follow." (cyclingnews.com) (Getty Images) July
20, 2019
Five talking points from stage 14.
"And
so the story continues. Once more Julian
Alaphilippe (Deceuninck Quick Step) defied
expectations to survive the Tourmalet,
producing the best climbing performance of his
career to finish second on the stage, and once
again extended his lead in the overall
classification."
(cyclingweekly.com) (Justin Setterfield/Getty
Images Sport)
July
20, 2019
Geraint Thomas left disappointed
after losing time on Col du Tourmalet.
"Thomas
slipped behind in the closing kilometer of the
19km summit finish on the Col du Tourmalet and
lost 36 seconds to rivals Thibaut Pinot
(Groupama FDJ) and Julian Alaphilippe
(Deceuninck Quick Step)."
(cyclingweekly.com) (Photo: Yuzuru Sunada)
July
20, 2019
Tour Stage Fourteen Preview:
Nowhere to Hide.
"Stage
fourteen and we finally have a proper Pyrenean
stage. La Planche was a fun day but this year
exists solely as setup; it gave only minute
time gaps as opposed to this stage where we
could possibly see well, sixty-second time
gaps."
PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Images
(podiumcafe.com)
July
20, 2019
Column
Two
Where now for the Tour de France?
"Suddenly
the Tour de France has torn up its own
longstanding script with a vengeance. And who
knows where we’re heading?"
(cyclingnews.com) (Getty Images)
July
20, 2019
Julian Alaphilippe 'pushed to the
limit' to stay with Tour de France contenders on
Tourmalet.
"I
pushed my limits to remain in the front group.
When Pinot attacked [for the stage win] I
maybe could have jumped on his wheel, but not
only by myself… At the end, I am happy that
Thibaut won the stage and that I retain the
yellow jersey."
(cyclingweekly.com) (Justin Setterfield/Getty
Images Sport)
July
20, 2019
Pyrenees: The ancient and the
modern.
"It's
an interesting blend of the ancient and modern
elements for the Tour's Pyrenean weekend,
with, first up, a very short stage culminating
in a summit finish on the Col du Tourmalet on
Saturday."
(cyclingnews.com) (Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
July
20, 2019
Tour de France 2019 stage 14
finish line quotes.
""I
just [felt] quite weak. At the end I knew I
had to try to pace it. I didn't really attempt
to follow when they kicked. I just felt it was
better to ride at my own pace and try to limit
my losses that way, rather than stay with them
and blow up on the steepest bit at the end." (cyclingnews.com)
(Bettini Photo)
July
20, 2019
Top Banana: Tour de France stage
14 - David Gaudu.
"If
Thibaut Pinot took the plaudits at the end of
a tremendous stage finish atop the Tourmalet,
then it was his young team-mate and
second-year Tour rider David Gaudu who really
caught the eye."
(rouleur.cc) Photographs: ASO / Pauline Ballet
July
20, 2019
Schachmann out of Tour de France
with broken hand after TT crash.
"German
road race champion Maximilian Schachmann (Bora
Hansgrohe) has been forced to abandon the Tour
de France after breaking his hand in a crash
during the individual time trial around Pau on
stage 13 on Friday."
(cyclingnews.com) (Bettini Photo)
July
20, 2019
Women’s WorldTour Pro Teams: The
Trainers, Power Meters, and Other Tidbits.
"I
try and profile the women if I’m at an
event - for example at the Tour Down Under,
but technically in terms of the women’s races
- that wasn’t technically a WorldTour event,
so the classification and associated
teams/equipment/etc tends to be a bit lower." (dcrainmaker.com)
July
20, 2019
Column
Three
Richie Porte 'explodes' on the
Tourmalet but limits losses.
"The
Trek Segafredo leader would hold his own on
the climb until roughly five kilometers from
the summit, before he cracked under the
relentless pace set by Groupama FDJ." (cyclingnews.com)
(Bettini Photo)
July
20, 2019
Winners and losers from the battle
on the Tourmalet.
"Did
Saturday's battle on the Col du Tourmalet live
up to the hype? Which GC riders excelled and
fell back in the Tour's first summit finish? " (velonews.com)
(Getty Images)
July
20, 2019
July
20, 2019
Wout van Aert's road season is
over: Jumbo Visma to Belgian media.
"Sports director
Nico Verhoeven confirmed that the road season
of the rider is over. "It is still uncertain
when he can start his cyclocross season," he
commented. "Although we are not focusing on
that at the moment. Let us hope that he
recovers at 100%."
(cyclingpub.com)
July
20, 2019
Bardet slips into irrelevance
after another torrid time trial.
"Romain
Bardet (AG2R La Mondiale) didn't stop at the
finish line on stage 13 of the Tour de France,
nor at his team's camper van 200 meters down
the road. He kept going, deeper and deeper
into Pau, disappearing into the distance." (cyclingnews.com)
(Getty Images)
July
20, 2019
10 cycling stories you might have
missed this week.
"Colnago
has launched the new V3Rs, the successor to
the bike first launched in 2014, designed with
input from Ferrari, and updated in 2017." (rouleur.cc)
(Jack Sexty)
July
20, 2019
Anatomy of a Tour de France race
bike - Everything you need to know about a pros
bike.
"Tour
de France bicycles are designed to be fast,
light and stiff, and intended to give riders
every possible competitive benefit to help
them win stages and the yellow jersey." (road.cc) (David
Arthur)
July
20, 2019
Column
One
July
19, 2019
Tour de France: Alaphilippe wins
stage 13 time trial.
"Frenchman
tops Thomas, De Gendt in Pau.
1. Julian Alaphilippe 2. Geraint Thomas 3. Thomas De Gendt 4. Rigoberto Urán 5. Richie Porte." (cyclingnews.com) (Getty Images) July
19, 2019
Van Aert injured in time trial
crash.
"Belgian
time trial champion Wout van Aert's Tour de
France looks to be over after the Jumbo Visma
rider was injured after brushing against a
barrier in a turn during the stage 13
individual time trial in Pau."
(cyclingnews.com) (Getty Images)
July
19, 2019
Tour Stage Thirteen Preview: Time
to Find Out Where we Stand.
"I’d
describe the twenty-seven kilometer course as
“flat enough.” It’s rolling but there’s not
enough in it to make this anything but a pure
time-trial. It’s of a length that a GC
contender on a bad day will lose about two
minutes to his best rival."
(podiumcafe.com) Icon Sport/Icon Sport via
Getty Images
July
19, 2019
Same as it ever was, Ineos slowly
strangling the Tour.
"Despite
a promising first week, hopes of a tightly
bound GC battle have succumbed to the
suffocating dominance of Team Ineos." (velonews.com)
(Justin Setterfield/Getty Images Sport)
July
19, 2019
Tour de France 2019 Live
Dashboard.
"2019
Tour de France LIVE July 6-28.
Stage
14 start time: Saturday 13:30 CET (4:30 AM
PDT).
Earliest live video: 13:30 CET (4:30 AM PDT). Approximate finish: 17:02 CET (8:02 AM PDT)." (cyclingfans.com) (steephill.tv) July
19, 2019
Tour Stage Fourteen Preview:
Nowhere to Hide.
"Stage
fourteen and we finally have a proper Pyrenean
stage. La Planche was a fun day but this year
exists solely as setup; it gave only minute
time gaps as opposed to this stage where we
could possibly see well, sixty-second time
gaps."PHILIPPE
LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Images (podiumcafe.com)
July
19, 2019
Column Two Vos wins La Course by Le Tour de
France.
"Marianne
Vos (CCC Liv) caught passed Amanda Spratt
(Mitchelton Scott) at the top of the climb
after Spratt had been on a solo attack for the
last of the five 27km laps."
(cyclingnews.com) (Doug Pensinger/Getty Images
Sport)
July
19, 2019
Top Banana: La Course by Le Tour
2019 - Amanda Spratt.
"Poor
Amanda Spratt,” as someone in the Rouleur
office said just after a whirlwind called
Marianne Vos blew past her, 300 meters from
the finish of La Course by Le Tour de France." (rouleur.cc)
Photographs: Simon Wilkinson/Alex
Whitehead/SWpix.com
July
19, 2019
ASO looking to launch women’s race
akin to the Tour de France.
"A
senior Amaury Sport Organization (ASO)
official has said that the group is looking to
set up a delegate cell with the purpose of
developing women’s cycling."
(cyclingweekly.com) (Justin Setterfield/Getty
Images Sport)
July
19, 2019
Tour de France 2019 stage 13
finish line quotes.
"I
knew that I really could do a good performance
on this parcours. I just gave everything,
especially in the first part was really good
for me. I went full gas and I see what I can
go to the line. At the end, my sport director
said I was first time, 10 seconds or whatever.
I gave everything I have and I won the stage." (cyclingnews.com)
(Getty Images)
July
19, 2019
Top Banana: Tour de France stage
13 - Enric Mas.
"There
are few better examples of how Twitter is a
terrible barometer of a person’s
talent/intelligence/value than Patrick
Lefevere. That the man who regularly posts
things like “We have balls” has nevertheless
steered multiple teams through multiple eras
to extraordinary success is testament to
that."
(rouleur.cc) Photographs: Offside / l'Equipe
July
19, 2019
Tour de France time trial to set
the scene for the high mountains.
"The
summit finishes on the Col du Tourmalet and
Prat d'Albis, looming large on the weekend
horizon, surely contributed to the detente,
but Friday's individual time trial in Pau was
perhaps at the very forefront of everyone's
minds."
(cyclingnews.com) (Bettini Photo)
July
19, 2019
Daring to dream: How Jumbo Visma
built their Tour challenge.
"From
one of the least successful teams in the race,
to winning for fun. Jumbo Visma have turned
their team around in the last two years, and
done it off the back of the humble time
trial."
(cyclingweekly.com) (Jeff Pachoud/AFP/Getty
Images)
July
19, 2019
Floyd’s of Leadville Introduces
CBD Recovery Bars.
"Each
Floyd’s CBD Recovery Bar contains 25mg of
Floyd’s THC-free CBD isolate. The bars are
also formulated to optimize recovery,
according to Floyd’s of Leadville. They are
made from non-GMO ingredients, including
organic honey, chocolate and gluten-free
rolled oats."
(capovelo.com)
July
19, 2019
Colnago V3Rs: An all-round racer
that’s amusingly on-trend for 2020.
"Just
as we’ve seen with Wilier, Scott and
Cannondale in recent weeks, the new V3Rs
offers stealthy cable integration, dropped
seatstays, increased tire clearance and an
overhauled geometry to boot."
(cyclingtips.com) Photography by Colnago
July
19, 2019
Column
Three
Rohan Dennis says it was the
‘right decision to withdraw’ from Tour de France
but doesn’t give explanation.
"In
a statement released late on Thursday (July
18), the 29-year-old said: “I am very
disappointed to leave the race at this point.
Obviously the individual time trial tomorrow
had been a big goal for me and the team, but
given my current feeling it was the right
decision to withdraw earlier today."
(cyclingweekly.com) (Tim de Waele/Getty
Images)
July
19, 2019
July
19, 2019
Tour de France: Will Geraint
Thomas be worried by Alaphilippe's phenomenal
form?
"Julian
Alaphilippe's personality, his track record
and the fact that he has raced this year's
Tour de France as though it were a collage of
back-to-back one-day races all indicate that
he is not a genuine contender for yellow in
Paris."
(cyclingnews.com) (Getty Images)
July
19, 2019
Teams divided over use and risks
of ketones at Tour de France.
"The
confirmation that several of the most
successful teams at this year's Tour de France
are using ketones has sparked debate among
teams, and even a call for the revolutionary
dietary aid to be banned to ensure that riders
are competing on a level playing field." (cyclingnews.com)
July
19, 2019
Feel-good story of the Tour: Stig
is back and Stig is beautiful.
"At
the 2016 Tour of Belgium, Stig Broeckx was
involved in a crash with two race motorcycles
and nearly lost his life. The then-26-year-old
Belgian was taken to hospital with serious
head injuries."
(cyclingtips.com) Photography by Cor Vos,
Kristof Ramon
July
19, 2019
Muc-Off Waterless Wash review.
"The
way it works is simple. Spray it on your bike,
wipe it off (preferably using a microfiber
cloth to pick up any dirt), and then give it a
buff to leave a polished finish." (cyclist.co.uk)
(Joe Robinson)
July
19, 2019
LOOK E-765 Optimum adds removable
e-bike system developed with Bernard Hinault.
"LOOK
announced their addition to the rapidly
growing e-road segment, the E-765 Optimum.
Developed with the help of cycling legend
Bernard Hinault."
(bikerumor.com) Greg Kopecky
July
19, 2019
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