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Another local cyclist, Roger St Pierre, said: "They didn't come any tougher than this stocky man whose thighs seemed thicker than his legs were long. He effectively invented interval training for cyclists: sprinting between telephone poles, freewheeling to the next one, then sprinting again, the freewheeling stretches getting shorter and shorter.
This was the first Tour de France stage victory of his career. He defended his lead the following day which concluded with a mountaintop finish on Alpe d'Huez . Over the next few stages, Pogačar made a few attacks, which forced open small gaps with the other top-placed GC riders, but Vingegaard was able to respond to each of them. [ 42 ]
L'Étape du Tour (French for 'stage of the Tour') is an organised mass participation cyclosportive event that allows amateur cyclists to race over the same route as a Tour de France stage. First held in 1993, and now organised by the ASO, in conjunction with Vélo Magazine , it takes place each July, normally on a Tour rest day.
Pro cyclists racing the Tour de France or the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift put their bodies through a battle during every day, for three weeks straight (minus a couple of rest days). But ...
On Saturday morning, the first stage of the 2021 Tour de France kicked off and it didn’t take long for mayhem to ensue. Over the years, there have been many encounters where fans get a little ...
The 2023 Tour de France starts outside Bilbao’s iconic Guggenheim Museum, and winds north to the Bay of Biscay coastline before returning to the city where the stage winner will take the yellow ...
Victor Fontan (born Pau, France, 18 June 1892, [1] died Saint-Vincent 2 January 1982 [2]) was a French cyclist who led the 1929 Tour de France but dropped out after knocking at doors at night to ask for another bicycle. His plight led to a change of rules to prevent its happening again.
Overall Speed of the Tour de France. The 2022 edition was the fastest Tour de France in history. Jonas Vingegaard rode 3,349,8 km in 79h 33' 20", thus realising an overall speed of 42.102 km/h (26.161 mph). [17] The slowest Tour de France was the edition of 1919, when Firmin Lambot's average speed was 24.1 km/h. [18]