BILBAO (AFP) -- The 2023 Tour de France embarks from the Basque port of Bilbao on Saturday, July 1, with safety in the spotlight, a route featuring 30 peaks, and a roster with two clear overall favourites in champion Jonas Vingegaard and Slovenian star Tadej Pogacar. *Jumbo-Visma's Danish rider...
BILBAO (AFP) -- Cycling's Tour de France, with its caravan of teams, media, publicity and security, was visible everywhere around Bilbao on Thursday, June 29, as champion Jonas Vingegaard prepared to start the defence of his title. *Jumbo-Visma's Danish rider Jonas Vingegaard cycles to the stage...
BILBAO (AFP) -- Cycling's Tour de France, with its vast caravan of teams, media, publicity and security, was visible everywhere around the Spanish city of Bilbao on Thursday, June 29, with riders poised to embark on the epic 21-day race to Paris. *(From Left), Jumbo-Visma's Belgian rider Wout Van...
BILBAO (AFP) -- Defending champion Jonas Vingegaard leads the Tour de France out of the Basque port of Bilbao on Saturday, June 24, on a 21-day adventure crammed with peaks, postcard panoramas and an eye-catching showdown on a massive dormant volcano on the 3,404km route to Paris. *Jonas...
Denmark's Jonas Vingegaard won the Tour de France on Sunday, ending the reign of two-time defending champion Tadej Pogacar after a gruelling three weeks and 3,350km of relentless struggle. The 25-year-old former fish-market worker claimed his first Tour de France title, a year after his break-out...
Jonas Vingegaard insists he will not take any risks and that his "best should be enough" on Saturday's key time-trial as he stands on the verge of being crowned Tour de France champion. Jumbo-Visma team's Danish rider Jonas Vingegaard holds his daughter Frida as he celebrates with the overall...
Winner Team UAE Emirates' Tadej Pogacar of Slovenia celebrates his overall leader yellow jersey on the podium at the end of the 21th and last stage of the 108th edition of the Tour de France cycling race, 108 km between Chatou and Paris Champs-Elysees, on July 18, 2021. (Photo by Anne-Christine...
Team UAE Emirates' Tadej Pogacar of Slovenia wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey crosses the finish line during the 20th stage of the 108th edition of the Tour de France cycling race, a 30 km time trial between Libourne and Saint-Emilion, on July 17, 2021. (Photo by Anne-Christine POUJOULAT...
Team Bahrain's Matej Mohoric of Slovenia celebrates as he crosses the finish line of during the 19th stage of the 108th edition of the Tour de France cycling race, 207 km between Mourenx and Libourne, on July 16, 2021. (Photo by Thomas SAMSON / AFP) Bahrain Victorious' Slovenian rider Matej Mohoric...
Team UAE Emirates' Tadej Pogacar of Slovenia wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey celebrates as he crosses the finish line during the 18th stage of the 108th edition of the Tour de France cycling race, 129 km between Pau and Luz Ardiden, on July 15, 2021. (Photo by Philippe LOPEZ / AFP)...
Team UAE Emirates' Tadej Pogacar of Slovenia wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey rides ahead of Team Jumbo Visma's Jonas Vingegaard of Denmark wearing the best young's white jersey and Team Ineos Grenadiers' Richard Carapaz of Ecuador during the 17th stage of the 108th edition of the Tour de...
Team Bora Hansgrohe's Patrick Konrad of Austria rides ahead during the 16th stage of the 108th edition of the Tour de France cycling race, 169 km between Pas De La Case and Saint-Gaudens, on July 13, 2021. (Photo by Anne-Christine POUJOULAT / AFP) Austrian Patrick Konrad won a hilly stage 16 of the...
