Asked to assess the damage to his Tour de France hopes of another breathless stage in which he shipped almost a minute to his great rival Tadej Pogacar, Jonas Vingegaard smiled. And then, like Emma Raducanu at Wimbledon on Monday, he reached for a footballing analogy. “We’re 1-0 down,” the Dane admitted to reporters outside his team bus in the Alpine resort of Valloire half an hour or so after the stage ended. “But we expected to be 3-0 behind by now. So I think that’s a small win. We know what
The UAE Team Emirates team leader Tadej Pogacar impressed on climbs and descents and now leads Remco Evenepoel by 45 seconds, with Jonas Vingegaard in third
Pogacar launched a devastating attack near the summit of the Galibier to leave his rivals trailing.
The 111th edition of the Tour de France is under way. The race is one of the three grand tours – the others being the Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a España – that form the backbone around which the cycling season is structured.