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2024 Tour de France: How to watch, schedule, odds for cycling's top race

The biggest cycling event of the year - the 111th Tour de France -- kicks off Saturday from Florence, Italy. The 2024 Tour de France's unusual route starts in Italy for the first time ever to honor 100 years since the first Italian victory in the Tour by Ottavio Bottecchia in 1924. Also, due to the 2024 Summer Olympics, the Tour de France will not finish in Paris for the first time in event history.

The 21 stages will cover more than 2,000 miles from Saturday through July 21. Two-time defending winner Jonas Vingegaard looks to become just the ninth cyclist to win at least three Tour de France races. Last year's runner-up, Tadej Pogačar, is looking to do the same. He won in 2020 and 2021 before finishing second to Vingegaard in 2022 and 2023.

Here's what you need to know about this year's race:

How to watch the 2024 Tour de France

NBC Sports will broadcast the 2024 Tour de France in the U.S. All stages will be available via streaming on Peacock and fuboTV with three stages - 8, 14, and 20 - broadcast on NBC as well.

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2024 Tour de France stage schedule, distance, characteristics

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2024 Tour de France odds

Pogačar holds a slight edge as the favorite for victory in the 2024 Tour de France, per BetMGM's latest cycling odds . Here's how the field looks:

Odds as of Tuesday afternoon.

• Tadej Pogačar (-165)
• Jonas Vingegaard (+200)
• Primož Roglič (+800)
• Remco Evenepoel (+1400)
• Juan Ayuso (+3300)
• Carlos Rodríguez (+3300)
• Adam Yates (+3300)
• João Almeida (+3300)
• Matteo Jorgenson (+3300)
• Egan Bernal (+6600)
• Simon Yates (+6600)
• Enric Mas (+10000)
• Tom Pidcock (+10000)
• Felix Gall (+10000)
• Richard Carapaz (+10000)
• Mikel Landa (+10000)
• Geraint Thomas (+10000)
• David Gaudu (+30000)
• Oscar Onley (+30000)
• Wout van Aert (+30000)
• Romain Bardet (+50000)
• Giulio Ciccone (+50000)
• Mathieu van der Poel (+100000)
• Mark Cavendish (+500000)

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The Tour de France, the most elite bike race in the world, kicks off this Saturday. 176 of the best cyclists in the world will race nearly 2,200 miles across 21 stages and climb over 170,000 feet of elevation into the clouds of the highest mountains in the Pyrenees and Alps. The effort involved can be mind-boggling. So can the business side of cycling.

The Regulator and the Promoter

There are numerous actors and entities involved in professional cycling and their complex interrelationships underlie races like the Tour.

The sport of cycling is regulated by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), a non-governmental, non-profit association, based in Switzerland, which is recognized by the International Olympic Committee as the governing body for cycling. The UCI, like all international governing bodies in sports, is governed by a complex hierarchy of committees and executives from around the world.

The UCI is responsible for organizing, regulating, and sanctioning cycling events of various kinds for both men and women of different ages all over the world. The WorldTour is the UCI’s elite professional men’s road cycling tour. Teams and riders participate in races on the WorldTour calendar and earn points and are ranked based on their performance. The Tour de France, as one would expect, is a major contributor to those rankings.

The Tour itself is put on by the Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO), a French sports marketing and event management organization. The ASO’s crown jewel is the Tour de France but it organizes 29 other cycling events, including several important preparatory races for the Tour (such as the Critérium du Dauphiné), the Vuelta a España (another Grand Tour), as well as the Paris Marathon. It also operates the week-long Tour de France Femmes for women in August.

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To be clear, the ASO and UCI are separate entities with sometimes divergent interests. The ASO organizes nine of the 35 races on the WorldTour calendar and understandably seeks to maximize interest and revenue associated with its events, most of which take place in France. Of particular note, the ASO controls and sells the broadcast rights to the Tour to networks around the world. While the specifics of those deals are not clear, they certainly bring in tens of millions of dollars a year to the ASO. Perhaps not surprisingly, the ASO and UCI have long-standing disputes over who controls the sport and reaps any related financial benefits.

Aside from the Tour, the remaining WorldTour events are organized by a variety of parties, including the UCI and organizers in the many countries where races take place.

The WorldTour calendar does not include any events in the United States. The Tour of Utah (2004-19), Tour of California (2006-19), and USA Pro Cycling Challenge in Colorado (2011-15) were former races that attracted some of the best riders in the world. Nevertheless, the organizers ultimately found them financially unsustainable.

The next group worth mentioning are the teams. To the uninitiated, it might be confusing that cycling has teams, since only a single rider can win a race. However, teams are just as essential to victory in cycling as they are in soccer, football, or any other team sport.

Professional cycling teams consist of approximately 30 riders, eight of whom are chosen to be a part of the Tour de France roster. The composition of that roster will depend on the team’s goals. A handful of teams will have a rider they believe capable of winning the Tour de France’s General Classification (GC), signified by the yellow jersey. So the roster will be constructed toward that goal, including by stocking the roster with elite climbers and other riders (collectively known as domestiques) who can support the leader in a variety of ways.

The best teams protect their elite riders by encircling them and keeping them near the front of the race to minimize the chances of crashes. Elite domestiques will lead their stars up the mountains, breaking the wind and chasing down any attacks from competitors.

Other teams are formed around sprinters who try to win flat stages and win the green (points) jersey. Here too the team is tremendously important. In the closing miles of flat stages, the teams with the best sprinters push to the front, often hitting speeds of 40-50 miles per hour. The team’s riders will “lead-out” the sprinter by giving their maximum effort before dropping off and unleashing the sprinter toward the finish line. The Manx sprinter Mark Cavendish has 34 all time Tour de France stage wins, tied for the most all time, in large part due to the incredible lead-out teams he has had in his career.

If your team has neither a GC rider or a sprinter, it might try to win the King of the Mountains polka dot jersey or to win individual stages via creative and aggressive racing strategies.

There are 18 WorldTour teams and 17 ProTour teams. ProTour teams have smaller budgets, staffs, and schedules than their WorldTour counterparts. Beginning with the 2022 season, every three years the two lowest performing WorldTour teams are relegated to the ProTour and the top two ProTour teams are promoted to the WorldTour.

The idea of a “team” though is often remarkably in flux. Teams are identified by their corporate sponsors, which fund the vast majority of a team’s budget, ranging from about $ 10 to $40 million . Sponsorship contracts with teams are often only one or two years and renewals are closely tied to team performance. Consequently, on an annual basis, some teams are desperately looking to retain or find new sponsors in order to keep the team going another year or to avoid being relegated. Inevitably, some teams fold or merge with other teams. Team finances have historically been so shaky that the UCI Regulations require each WorldTour team to obtain a guarantee from a bank to fund its operations.

Additionally, the teams conduct some joint efforts through an organization known as the Association Internationale des Groupes Cyclistes Professionnels (AIGCP), discussed further below. Nevertheless, the AIGCP has no role in organizing races and has minimal influence. Moreover, teams operate out of numerous countries and thus often have cultural differences of opinion on various issues (doping being a notable historical example).

Finally, we get to the riders. Cyclists are represented by the Cyclistes Professionnels Associés (CPA), a non-profit association, but not a labor union under the law of any country.

The CPA negotiates “ Joint Agreements ” with the AIGCP setting forth some minimum terms and conditions of employment, including various insurance coverages. Cycling is a physically grueling sport, where the term “ suffering ” is a point of pride. Unfortunately, most cyclists are not terribly well-paid for their efforts.

The current agreement sets the 2024 minimum salary for a WorldTeam rider at € 68,957 (about $74,300) for veterans and € 55,793 ($60,100) for rookies. ProTeam veterans and rookies are entitled to a minimum of € 55,279 ($59,600) and € 46,234 ($49,800), respectively.

Of course, the stars of the sport make considerably more. Two-time Tour de France winner Tadej Pogačar earns a reported € 6 million ($6.47 million) from his team, UAE Team Emirates.

Yet, like the AIGCP, the CPA has little control over the sport, with minimal leverage to negotiate with the ASO or UCI. Indeed, the height of rider authority has been the occasional instance in which the riders “ neutralize ” a race stage due to unsafe conditions, meaning that they collectively agree to ride to the finish line at a moderate pace without contest.

Pogačar is favored to win this year’s Tour, with steep competition expected from fellow Slovenian Primoz Roglic of Bora-Hansgrohe and Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard (also a two-time Tour winner) of Visma-Lease a Bike if he is able to overcome recent injuries. Otherwise, some of those involved in the Tour will win more than others.

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Preview: Your stage-by-stage guide to the 2024 Tour de France

An in-depth look at the profiles for all 21 stages of the 2024 Tour de France.

It often feels like the Tour de France really sneaks up on us right after we’re done with the Giro d’Italia, but that’s truer than ever this year with the Paris Olympics pushing the Tour start up by a week. The Tour peloton will roll out from Florence, Italy, on June 29, which means it’s high time to take a closer look at the route of this year’s race.

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The 2024 Tour route is all about balance, with two time trials, a variety of climbing stages ranging from some high-altitude beasts to punchier hills, plenty of opportunities for the sprinters, and even a little bit of gravel. It will be the sort of race where the GC battle will favor an all-around talent, and we don’t have long to wait now to see just who that talent might be.

Here is your stage-by-stage guide to the 2024 Tour de France, and stay tuned for a closer look at the top contenders for the race coming soon …

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Stage 1: Florence to Rimini – 203.6 km

Date : Saturday June 29, 2024 Stage type : Hilly Summary : A Tour start in Bella Italia! The profile has the look of a breakaway day, but will the peloton allow the escapees much breathing room on the very first day of the race? This stage could come down to either a big name with some punch getting clear on the final climb – or to a big name with some punch winning from a small group.

Stage 2: Cesenatico to Bologne – 199.2 km

Date : Sunday June 30, 2024 Stage type : Hilly Summary : The second stage of the Tour, much like the first, will favor the more versatile riders in the peloton. Two late trips up the steep (10.6%) Côte de San Luca on the run-in to Bologna will be too hard for the purer sprinters, but at just 1.9 km long it won’t favor the pure climbers either. In any case, the GC riders will be on alert.

Stage 3: Plaisance to Turin – 230.8 km

Date : Monday July 1, 2024 Stage type : Flat Summary : With nearly 50 km of flat to finish the stage, the sprinters will have their time to shine in Turin. There are two sharp bends in the final kilometers but then it’s a long straightaway to the line that will favor the most powerful riders in the bunch.

Stage 4: Pinerolo to Valloire – 139.6 km

Date : Tuesday July 2, 2024 Stage type : Mountains Summary : Yes, you are reading the profile correctly: That’s the Col du Galibier just four stages into the Tour. It’s the second highest point of the 2024 race, and the long slog to the top will help bring the GC riders to the fore at a refreshingly early stage in the Tour. The Galibier is not an especially steep mountain from the side the Tour climbs it this year, but it’s a real slog to the top, and then there’s a long downhill to the finish. Diesel climbers who don’t mind the altitude and strong descenders will like their chances.

Stage 5: Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne to Saint-Vulbas – 177.4 km

Date : Wednesday July 3, 2024 Stage type : Flat Summary : A day after the Galibier, the sprinters will get another shot on a day with a very flat run-in to the line. A late right-hand turn and then a few gentle curves are the main features of what will be a fast finish.

Stage 6: Mâcon to Dijon – 163.5 km

Date : Thursday July 4, 2024 Stage type : Flat Summary : Stock up on mustard and wine as the Tour heads to the Burgundian capital of Dijon on a flat-as-a-pancake parcours. There is a roundabout with just under kilometer to go, and then it’s a straight run to the line: another day for the high-octane sprinters.

Stage 7: Nuits-Saint-Georges to Gevrey-Chambertin – 25.3 km (ITT)

Date : Friday July 5, 2024 Stage type : Individual time trial Summary : Contre-la-montre! The stage 7 time trial should have a big impact on the GC battle, and it wouldn’t be a shock to see a GC rider win it either. It’s not an especially climber-y route, but that lump in the middle of the profile is not nothing (especially for heavier TT specialists), and on top of that, the GC favorites do tend to shine against the clock in three-week races when everything is riding on them.

Stage 8: Semur-en-Auxois to Colombey-les-Deux-Églises – 183.4 km

Date : Saturday July 6, 2024 Stage type : Flat Summary : There aren’t any individually hard climbs on the docket for stage 8 but the up-and-down route could give the break a chance. Look for the Classics specialists to try their luck up the road, and for the sprinters’ teams to try to bring it all back.

Stage 9: Troyes to Troyes – 199 km

Date : Sunday July 7, 2024 Stage type : Hilly Summary : Gravel! Stage 9 features 14 sectors of “chemin blanc” gravel, totalling 32 km in length, with a few small climbs on the docket for good measure. With the sectors sprinkled throughout and the last one 3.5 km long and coming just 10 km from the line, it should be a fun and unpredictable stage, and the winner can enjoy the champagne celebration all the more because the next day is the first rest day of the race.

Stage 10: Orléans to Saint-Amand-Montrond – 187.3 km

Date : Tuesday July 9, 2024 Stage type : Flat Summary : Stage 10 should give the sprinters another chance to shine, but that uncategorized climb near the finish could liven things up a bit. There will also be two big corners to get through with around a kilometer to go before a straight and flat run-in to the line, so there will be plenty of incentive in the last few minutes of the race for the fast finishers to be and stay near the front.

Stage 11: Évaux-Les-Bains to Le Lioran – 211 km

Date : Wednesday July 10, 2024 Stage type : Mountains Summary : Stage 11 takes the Tour into the Massif Central for a day that could have GC implications and that will likely go to a break. This finale is tough. The second-category Col de Neronne is officially only 3.8 km in length but its 9.1% gradient will be all the harder after after almost 20 km of gentler but sustained climbing that precedes it, and then the Puy Mary Pas de Peyrol and the Col de Pertus await before the Col de Font de Cère tops out just before the line. Some pretenders will be found out on these short but steep ascents.

Stage 12: Aurillac to Villeneuve-sur-Lot – 203.6 km

Date : Thursday July 11, 2024 Stage type : Flat Summary : It’s possible that this could end up being another 200+ km sprint stage, but the rolling hills and the distance could at least give the break a chance. If there is a fast finish, either from the bunch or from a smaller group, it will be a real drag race with a very straight final kilometer.

Stage 13: Agen to Pau – 165.3 km

Date : Friday July 12, 2024 Stage type : Flat Summary : The town with a long history of Tour stages is back in 2024 for not one but two days, as stage 13 finishes in Pau before the following day rolls out from the same place. With the Pyrenees looming, race organizers managed to design a route for stage 13 that gives the sprinters yet another chance in a Tour that will have already seen several days for the fast finishers.

Stage 14: Pau to Saint-Lary-Soulan Pla d’Adet – 151.9 km

Date : Saturday July 13, 2024 Stage type : Mountains Summary : After 70 flattish kilometers to start stage 14, it will be time for the GC favorites to prove themselves. First up is the legendary Col du Tourmalet, 19 km of nonstop ascending that finishes at a not-insignificant elevation of 2,115 meters. The second-category Hourquette d’Ancizan is a bit more forgiving but the hors categorie Saint-Lary-Soulan / Pla d’Adet finish should draw out the yellow jersey hopefuls, especially with a rest day to follow.

Stage 15: Loudenville to Plateau de Beille – 198 km

Date : Sunday July 14, 2024 Stage type : Mountains Summary : Stage 15 may have some lengthy stretches of flat in parts, but the climbs that punctuate the stage are not to be underestimated. Things start with the first-category Col de Peyresourde right from the flag drop and the next two climbs are very steep, which could make for a very long day for anyone dropped early. The Plateau de Beille finish will again see GC action.

Stage 16: Gruissan to Nîmes – 188.6 km

Date : Tuesday July 16, 2024 Stage type : Flat Summary : Stage 16 finishes in Nîmes, which means that it could be pretty hot, and you will hear puns likening the riders to gladiators in homage to the Roman arena in town. This particular clash will favor the sprinters.

Stage 17: Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux to Superdévoluy – 177.8 km

Date : Wednesday July 17, 2024 Stage type : Mountain Summary : The breakaway specialists will be all over this stage, where the peloton will probably let them get a big gap early and then might not show much interest in setting a high tempo on the medium-difficulty ascents at the end of the day. That said, it will be someone who can climb that takes the win with the one-two-three punch of the Col Bayard, the Col du Noye, and the Superdévoluy climbs to finish things off.

Stage 18: Gap to Barcelonnette – 179.5 km

Date : Thursday July 18, 2024 Stage type : Hilly Summary : Any of the breakaway specialists who missed out on stage 17 will be happy to see that the stage 18 profile again favors their skillset. It’s a stage that is geared a bit more to the Ardennes Classics types and without any huge climbs near the finish, it could come down to a reduced sprint too.

Stage 19: Embrun to Isola 2000 – 144.6 km

Date : Friday July 19, 2024 Stage type : Mountains Summary : Three hard climbs at high altitude will make stage 19 a key battleground for the GC riders. The first two ascents are grinders, and then it’s a 7.1 percent average gradient to the Isola 2000 ski station at the finish. The gaps will be substantial on this stage.

Stage 20: Nice to Col de la Couillole – 132.8 km

Date : Saturday July 20, 2024 Stage type : Mountains Summary : With four solid climbs spread across just 132.8 km of racing, stage 20 should be an entertaining finale for the climbers – and the descenders too. There is not a whole lot of flat on the profile, and the break – which could form on the slopes of the Col de Braus and thus be full of climbers – has a great chance of going the distance.

Stage 21: Monaco to Nice – 33.7 km (ITT)

Date : Sunday July 21, 2024 Stage type : Individual time trial Summary : Ah, the sprint finish on the Champs-Èlys— wait a minute, that’s not Paris! Just in case you haven’t already heard, thanks to final preparations for the Olympics, the 2024 Tour de France ends not with the classic sprint stage on the Champs, but instead with a time trial on the Mediterranean coast in Nice. It’s a hilly one too, with two tough climbs in the first half of the stage that will make pacing tricky. In all likelihood, the GC standings will be pretty decided by this point, but just in case it’s close, this will be a thrilling TT battle where the GC favorites will also be the stage favorites.

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Steven Wilson announces 2025 UK and European headline tour

'The Overview Tour' will mark the singer and multi-instrumentalist's first solo shows in seven years

Steven Wilson has announced a 2025 UK and European headline tour. Find all the details below.

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The Porcupine Tree singer and multi-instrumentalist will be bringing ‘The Overview Tour’ to 11 countries next spring, marking his first solo shows in seven years.

The European leg will kick off at Cirkus in Stockholm on May 1, before making stops in Oslo, Dusseldorf, Brussels and more.

The UK leg will then begin on May 10 with a show at Beacon in Bristol, which will be followed by two nights at the London Palladium on May 12 and 13. From there, Wilson will make stops in Newcastle, Glasgow and Salford before returning to mainland Europe.

Ticket pre-sale starts at 9am BST this Tuesday (June 25), before general sale on Friday (June 28) at 10am BST. You’ll be able to purchase your tickets here .

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“I’m thrilled to be able to announce a Steven Wilson tour for 2025, my first for 7 years,” said Wilson in a press statement. “‘The Overview Tour’ will be an audio-visual experience based around a forthcoming new release of the same name: a space themed album that features just two very long pieces.

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“I’ll also be playing music from ‘The Harmony Codex’ for the first time as well as songs from all of my previous records. I’m incredibly happy to be performing again with my inspirational solo band, and we have a lot of lost time to make up. I look forward to seeing you at what will be an epic evening!”

The upcoming shows will mark Wilson’s first full band, solo shows since 2018, when he performed a 145-date tour in 30 countries following the release of his 2017 album ‘To The Bone’.

Steve Wilson’s 2025 UK and European ‘The Overview Tour’ dates are:

MAY 1 – Cirkus, Stockholm (Sweden) 2 – Konserthaus, Oslo (Norway)        4 – KB-Hallen, Copenhagen (Denmark) 6 – Mitsubishi Electric Hall, Dusseldorf (Germany) 7 – Cirque Royal, Brussels (Belgium) 9 – Symphony Hall, Birmingham(UK 10 – Beacon, Bristol (UK) 12 – Palladium, London(UK) 13 – Palladium, London (UK) 15 – O2 City Hall, Newcastle (UK) 16 – Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow (UK) 18 – The Lowry, Salford (UK) 22 – AFAS Live, Amsterdam (Holland) 24 – Salle Pleyel, Paris (France) 25 – Salle Pleyel, Paris (France) 28 – Bourse Du Travail, Lyon (France) 30 – Porshe Arena, Stuttgart (Germany) 31 – Zenith, Munich (Germany)

2 – Friedrichspalast, Berlin (Germany) 3 – Sporthalle, Hamburg (Germany) 4 – Torwar, Warsaw (Poland) 5 – Prezero, Gliwice (Poland) 7 – Teatro Degli Archimboldi, Milan (Italy) 8 – Auditorium Parco Della Musica, Rome (Italy) 10 – The Hall, Zurich (Switzerland) 11 – Cepac Silo, Marseille (France) 12 – Para-Lel 62, Barcelona (Spain) 13 – Riviera, Madrid (Spain)

Wilson released his seventh solo album, ‘The Harmony Codex’, last year, following the reunion tour of his ’90s-formed band Porcupine Tree, who went on hiatus in 2010. He released his first full-length studio album ‘Insurgentes’ the year prior.

Speaking to NME about the reunion last year , Wilson said: “I really enjoyed it. It was fun and joyous to get back with the guys without the pressure of feeling like it was my day-job. ‘The Harmony Codex’ was already in the can and I knew this was my main focus going forward.”

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Can pogačar do the double these 5 stages will decide who wins the tour de france, where will the yellow jersey be won a stupid-hard opener, some gravel, and the most explosive tour de france finale in decades will decide..

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Can Tadej Pogačar follow Marco Pantani’s pedal strokes and win both the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France in one season?

Jonas Vingegaard , Primož Roglič , Remco Evenepoel , and one of the most fiendishly tricky Tour de France routes in decades will decide.

A stupidly hard opening stage, 32km of dirt roads, an extended trip to high altitude, and a wild rollercoaster TT ride around Nice stand between uber-favorite “Pogi” and his place in history.

So cancel work, lock your family out of the house, and stock up on snacks.

These are the five must-watch stages that will decide the 2024 Tour de France:

Stage 1: Firenze-Rimini

• Saturday June 29
• 206km/3,800m+

The Florence grand départ will be the rudest slap in the face imaginable for the “Big 4″ of the Tour de France.

Seven categorized climbs – yes, seven – over a 200km+ course makes this the hilliest first stage of the Tour in history.

It’s an Italian mini-classic out of the Lombardia and Liège playbook that will show who’s hot and who’s not in what will be a wild opening day for a tightly wound, nerve-riddled peloton.

None of the Tuscan climbs on the stage 1 menu are huge, but they’re relentlessly stacked back-to-back-to-back. Former Liège-Bastogne-Liège champions Pogačar and Evenepoel would be licking their chops with delight if this was a one-day race.

The “Big 4” could end up butting heads after just 100 or so clicks of the 80+ hour Tour de France on a course like this.

Pogačar will likely be playing the Tour a lot cooler than his flamethrower approach to the Giro d’Italia. But if he’s feeling fresh and recovered just 31 days after his rampage through Italy, don’t be surprised to see the supreme Slovene burning up Le Tour from day one.

For defending champion Vingegaard, there will be no room for post-injury cobwebs .

Stage 9: Troyes-Troyes

• Sunday July 7
• 199km/2,000m+

Expect gravel beefs aplenty in the opening week of the Tour.

The race’s opening phase finishes with a stage stacked with dirt road sectors that will have old-school directors fuming and tarmac aficionados wailing.

A total of 14 chemins blancs , or white roads, line the course of this tricky, technical stage through Troyes.

Sure, a total of 32km of dirt means this is no Strade Bianche, but there’s three times more sterrato than what we saw on stage 6 of this year’s Giro d’Italia, and the most off-road Le Tour has seen in some time.

The “dirtiness” of the chemins blanc is unknown – it could be a stone-packed puncturefest or it could be hard clay that’s a cruise for any adept pro.

Yet any surface that’s not smooth asphalt comes laden with risk. Remember how Vingegaard and Jumbo-Visma nearly unraveled during a wild and wacky day on the pavé in 2022?

Punctures, crashes, and potentially slow support from team cars could do a lot of damage to a peloton starting to run on fumes after nine days of racing.

Pogačar isn’t going to be pulling any sort of Strade Bianche redux with an 80km solo raid on the Tour’s ninth stage. But he’s undoubtedly the multi-surface master of the GC pack and could be poised to profit.

Some of the classification contenders could be heading into the Tour’s first rest day after stage 9 with some serious grumbles about gravel in grand tours.

Stage 14: Pau-Pla d’Adet

• Saturday July 13
• 152km / 4000m+

“4,000 meters of climbing in 80km? Yes please,” said nobody in the peloton when they looked at the course for stage 14.

This first of two days in the French Pyrénées is an interval session of ascents that won’t take any prisoners. Expect mountain trains and lots of pain in what could work out the most explosive climbing stage of the Tour.

Three high passes including the Tourmalet in little more than two hours of racing will provide the teams of the “Big 4” a true amphitheater opportunity to put the hurt on their rivals.

Teams with depth and ambition like UAE Emirates and its armada of top Pogi-supporting climbers could turn the Tour upside down on a stage short enough to be steamrollered with both feet on the accelerator.

If Pogačar still has gas in his fifth week of 2024 grand tour racing, early attacks and ambushes could be options for UAE Emirates instead of a traditional “train” approach.

If there aren’t race-shifting time gaps on GC after this short ‘n’ severe Saturday, there certainly will be 24 hours later. The under recovered peloton will be slapped with a traditional “queen stage” mountain procession through the Ariège Pyrénées the next day on stage 15.

One of the “Big 4” is sure to explode during beastly back-to-back.

Stage 19: Embrun-Isola 2000

• Friday July 19
• 145km/4,500m+

Stage 19 packs 58km – that right, FIFTY-EIGHT KILOMETERS – of uphill into just 145km. It’s a killer.

And as if the total 4,500m of total gain isn’t enough, a chunk of the elevation loaded into this 19th stage of the Tour de France is in the strength-sapping thin air of high altitude.

Each of the day’s three climbs is mind-bendingly long and crosses the lethal 2,000m elevation mark, and the Cime de la Bonnette is one of the highest paved roads in Europe.

It used to be said Pogačar had a chink in his armor when a race went this high.

The doubters thought again this May when the Slovenian slayed all his GC rivals by three minutes during the Giro’s high-altitude stage to Livigno. Roglič, Vingegaard, and Evenepoel will pray they’re similarly well adapted after their torpedoed 2024 training programs.

If “Pogi” is running on fumes, if Vingegaard is undertrained, or if Roglič and Evenepoel didn’t do the work after the Critérium du Dauphiné, the GC favorites could be scattered all through the French Alps in this decisive mountain stage.

Half the peloton stayed atop Isola during their final pre-Tour training camps. Many of them won’t enjoy going back.

Stage 21: Monaco-Nice

• Sunday July 21

Will stage 21 of this year’s Tour de France the best grand tour finale in decades? Quite possibly.

This year’s closing TT marks the first time in history that Le Tour has finished outside of Paris, and ASO designed a stunner to mark the historic occasion.

Rolling out of Pogačar’s European hometown Monaco and straight up popular test climbs La Turbie and Col d’Èze, stage 21 is a rollercoaster ride through the spectacular training roads of half the pro peloton.

La Turbie and Col d’Èze aren’t super hard, but they will be tough enough to cause consternation as Pogačar and Co. click through their turbo trainer warm-ups ahead of the stage.

If the GC is still close ahead of this final Sunday, the Tour will see it’s first competitive final since that time trial in 1989 when Greg LeMond usurped Laurent Fignon at the very last.

A twisting, high-speed descent from the Èze and into Nice means nerves could be jangling for every inch of the final 17km of this Tour de France.

All of the “Big 4” are monsters on a time trial bike, and if they’re on form the margins could be tight.

Pogačar will be hoping the race is a done deal by this point.

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Bauer 'proud' of Houle's first Canadian Tour de France win in 34 years

Hugo Houle's solo win in Foix the first since Bauer's own back in 1988

It has been a long wait for Canadian cycling but on Tuesday in Foix, Hugo Houle broke a 34-year stage winner's duck at the Tour de France , soloing home from the breakaway after attacking up the steep slopes of the Mur de Péguère.

The Québécois had two Canadian time trial titles to his name before going solo almost 40km from the finish line but stole away from the remains of a large breakaway group just four days after coming close to the win in Saint-Etienne.

It's not since 1988 that a Canadian has won a stage of the Tour , with Steve Bauer the man having held that honour for over three decades since his opening stage triumph in Machecoul.

Bauer is now a directeur sportif at the Israel-Premier Tech team and was in the car behind Houle as he got away to take that historic victory, with compatriot Michael Woods taking third place.

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After the stage, Cyclingnews spoke to Bauer to get his perspective on seeing another Canadian win a Tour stage after all these years.

"That's what they tell me. I think it's probably correct. It's been a long time – too long," Bauer said at the Israel-Premier Tech bus in Foix.

"It's incredible to see. What a top pro Hugo has been. He's always been the top team man for his leaders, doing his job day in, day out. He's a top professional.

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"He studies the plan, he organises himself well, and to have such a performance like that today is superb. He had a chance to go for the win and he was super strong. He rode smart, he rode strong, and deserves it all."

Bauer, a new DS at the team for 2022, was in the team car with Zak Dempster as the two directors advised Houle and Woods on the 178.5km stage, with the end result being a second stage win at the race following Simon Clarke's triumph at Arenberg back on stage 5, and a third place for Woods.

"I was with Zak," Bauer said. "I'm super happy I got the chance to follow the break without two Canucks. They trust my voice over the radio, and I gave them the best information I could.

"It's always emotional coming into the last kilometre after such an effort and after such a brilliant day that Hugo had. I feel proud of him and what he's accomplished.

"To win one is great," he added. "I only won one in the Tour and I know that it feels great. It's been a long time coming for Hugo and I always knew he could do it. Today was his day."

Bauer admitted that the team had been riding for Woods, who might have been expected to be the top contender from the break on the hard gradients towards the top of the Mur de Péguère. However, it was Houle who took advantage of the situation in the break to get away on the run to the climb soon after coming back to the group after dropping away on the Port de Lers.

"When he was a little bit behind on the descent of the Port de Lers, he was asking 'should I go? Should I bridge?' because Woods was in front," Bauer explained.

"I said 'well, you know, let the guys do most of the work but come back' and he bridged across. I'm not sure how he did it, but he was very smart to attack immediately to put everybody on the back foot.

"Michael was in there and with the final climbs on the stage, we were gaming for him in particular because of the final steep Mur. Hugo was strong and the other day was in the break and he’s in top shape. That's what it takes and then he can do great things."

Stage winner Houle said that it was "crazy" to be the first Canadian to win a Tour stage in so long. He added that he hoped that his team – which is owned by Canadian-born Sylvan Adams, co-sponsored by Canadian company Premier Tech, and employs several Canadian backroom staff – can build the next generation of Canadian cyclists.

"It's quite crazy," Houle said. "We have more and more Canadians on the WorldTour thanks to our team and Premier Tech, and Premier Tech development team. We're working to have the next generation.

"I think what I achieved today can be an inspiration of what is possible. For myself it was David Veilleux who was in the yellow jersey in the 2013 Critérium du Dauphiné a few years ago that showed the way.

"It's been a year since I've seen my parents, my family, because I have to be in Europe to race. To win a stage in the Tour is what motivated me. I'm happy I can win for the Canadians and also, I had Steve Bauer in the car on the radio telling us to 'enjoy, boys, enjoy'. I was still going full gas and he said 'you've got this take it easy man'.

"It was nice to have the time to enjoy. I hope there will be more Canadians to win faster than 34 years."

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The Transcendent Thrill of Watching the Tour de France

By Bill McKibben

I live in the mountains of the Northeast, and normally the last thing I want in the spacious days of summer is something to watch on TV. But this year we’ve had one flooding rain after another, and when the skies have cleared they really haven’t––the plume of smoke from Canada’s wildfires has hovered day after day, and many mornings, like this one, the roadside sign that usually offers up warnings about construction ahead has instead flashed this grim warning: “Air Quality Alert/Limit Outdoor Activity.” So I’ve been grateful for the daily distraction from climate dread provided by the Tour de France, arguably the world’s biggest annual sporting spectacle.

And in this case I come to praise not mainly the noble rivals Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogačar (more on them later) but the broadcast crew assembled by Peacock, the NBC streaming service, to cover the contest’s twenty-one days of racing. Since each broadcast lasts five or six hours (the daily stages are hundreds of kilometres long, and even at the astonishing pace of these cyclists it takes a while), that’s more than a hundred hours of coverage in a month—maybe equivalent to an N.F.L. season’s worth of broadcasting time. And yet it is a steady pleasure.

The coverage begins each morning in a Connecticut studio where a trio—Paul Burmeister, Sam Bewley, and Brent Bookwalter—stand quite formally behind a lectern, wearing suits, ties, and pocket squares. (I have no idea why—perhaps a contract with some haberdasher.) Burmeister is a TV guy—his smooth patter has graced everything from Notre Dame football to ski jumping. But his two partners are bike guys—Bewley, a former Olympic bronze medallist for New Zealand, and Bookwalter, a Michigan native and a veteran of the Grand Tour, in Europe. They begin by forecasting the day ahead, which is a more complicated task than you might think.

The Tour de France is famous for the yellow jersey that its over-all leader wears—when the race finally ends up on the Champs-Élysées, on Sunday, the Danish cyclist Vingegaard will almost certainly wear the maillot jaune for having made the 3,405-kilometre trip in the shortest elapsed time. But his duel with the Slovene Pogačar has been only part of the story. The race also features the polka-dot jersey, awarded to the man who wins the most summit climbs in the mountains of the Alps and Pyrenees, and the green jersey, which goes to the fastest of the sprinters. On “flat stages,” which avoid the mountains, those sprinters usually wind up in a chaotic dash to the line; on mountainous stages, the sprinters gather far behind the main peloton, willing their bodies slowly up the hills to meet the daily time cutoff and stay in the race. Meanwhile, each day’s stage is a race of its own, with glory to whoever manages to win; each rider, in turn, is a member of an eight-man team, and they can and do work together, breaking the headwinds for their stars. All in all, there’s plenty to talk about.

And the talk, after half an hour of studio preliminaries, moves to France, and the persons of Phil Liggett and Bob Roll, as natural a TV pair as I’ve ever seen. Liggett, an Englishman who will turn eighty shortly after this Tour concludes, has covered the Tour for more than fifty years, which is very nearly half of its hundred and ten renditions. Roll is merely in his sixties, and declares his youth by pre-riding many of the hill climbs on the morning of the stage, the better to describe the pain the racers are about to endure. He is, I think, the actual heart of the coverage. Liggett talks more, chattering happily away with many useful references to the long history of the race. But sometimes he gets a name or a team or a time wrong. (He occasionally conflates young riders with their fathers or even grandfathers, who raced before them.) Roll, like the patient wife of an endearingly addled older husband, offers a gentle correction, but mostly he provides strategic insight that comes from his own long career in the saddle; he has an almost preternatural instinct for the glorious moment each day when one of the leaders will launch a superhuman uphill “attack” to open a gap on his rivals.

When that happens, the other key member of the team—another former pro cyclist, Christian Vande Velde—is often on hand to commentate. He spends each race day on the back of a motorcycle, watching the action up close and chatting through car windows with the directors of the various teams who will share bits of strategy. This sounds like an easy enough job, until you remember that, much of the time, he’s whipping downhill at sixty miles per hour or more, following the racers through the harrowing descents. (In the Tour de Suisse, a warmup race for this year’s Tour, one rider died after a high-speed crash.) Oh, and then there’s also Steve Porino, a dead ringer in look and affect for the late Fred Willard in his role as the broadcaster in “Best in Show”; Porino ranges ahead of the riders, looking for people along the road to interview, often managing to find the stars’ parents, whom he coaxes from their camper vans to offer anecdotes about the athletic precociousness of their sons as small boys.

Even with all these voices, there’s a lot of air to fill, and so Roll often serves as tour guide: the broadcast feed, provided to TV channels around the world by the Tour organizers, features many long helicopter shots, and when nothing much is happening in the race the camera tends to linger on châteaux and churches, and so there’s an ongoing impromptu lesson in medieval history. All in all, a low-key way to pass the day, a gentle frame for the eventual injections of high drama.

And, oh, that drama! This year’s two stars are so evenly matched that two weeks into the race only ten seconds separated them. (Vingegaard finally surged ahead on Tuesday’s time trial.) Many of the stages end with massive ascents into the lunar landscape of high and treeless mountains, and sooner or later one of the two tries to shake the other with a massive acceleration; the tension hinges on whether his foe will be able to match the pace or will watch his rival disappear up the mountain. The commentators are fully up to the task of capturing the nobility of these painful assaults, coming after hours of fast pedalling. (Oh, how one hopes these two are not doping.) That catharsis—it often lasts just seconds—is the centerpiece of these long broadcasts, and a daily reminder of why sports are, in some way, a serious part of our lives: there are few other venues for such public displays of courage and resolve, and the resulting joy or despair.

That’s a point, perhaps, that’s less obvious now than it once was. The Times announced earlier this month that it was disbanding its sports department. It will now send its readers to a subscription service that it recently acquired, the Athletic. I read it, and it occasionally offers long and engaging features in the lineage of Sports Illustrated . But mainly it provides acres of words about the main team sports in the U.S., often to do with contracts and statistics. It is sports as business—the comments sections are filled with disgruntled fans moaning about the general managers of their local teams. (One suspects that its most devoted readers are the ever-growing ranks of sports gamblers.) Transcendence is rare, unless you find it in a spreadsheet.

Endurance sports such as the Tour de France, which traditionally receive little coverage in the U.S., are perhaps a more reliable vehicle for that transcendence, and Peacock deserves credit for covering them—Liggett and Roll have also worked the Grand Tours of Spain and Italy, and the network also offers up coverage of swimming and track and field. Doubtless this has something to do with NBC owning the rights to the Olympics; we are always on the Road to Someplace (at the moment Paris, next summer). And my plaudits have limits: the network recently stopped covering Nordic skiing, which means that the winter TV sports scene features very little long-distance agony.

Still, the Tour de France redeems much else. There’s no escaping reality entirely—the weather has been heating up in Europe as the Tour proceeds, and this is easy to see as the racers warm up in ice-filled vests. But, when the race finishes, the commentators help viewers wind down their heart rates with another half hour of commentary—Roll is even able to translate from most of the European languages that the racers use to offer their post-race clichés. England was wise enough to award Liggett an M.B.E. (Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire), some years ago; we have no such way to honor our broadcasters save devoting a few hours each day to listening and appreciating. ♦

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Defending champ Jonas Vingegaard fit to compete at Tour de France

FILE -Tour de France winner Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard, wearing the overall leader’s yellow jersey, lifts his bicycle after the twenty-first stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 115 kilometers (71.5 miles) with start in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines and finish on the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris, France, Sunday, July 23, 2023. Two-time Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard has recovered in time to defend his title next week although there are still doubts about his ability to be competitive. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

FILE - Sepp Kuss of the U.S. rides during the sixteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race, an individual time trial over 22.5 kilometers (14 miles) with start in Passy and finish in Combloux, France, Tuesday, July 18, 2023. Two-time Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard has recovered in time to defend his title next week although there are still doubts about his ability to be competitive. Matteo Jorgenson of the U.S. is also part of the squad alongside countryman Sepp Kuss, Christophe Laporte, Tiesj Benoot, Wilco Kelderman and Jan Tratnik. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole, File)

FILE - Matteo Jorgenson of the U.S. rides the last kilometers of the ninth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 182.5 kilometers (113.5 miles) with start in Saint-Leonard-de-Noblat and finish in Puy de Dome, France, Sunday, July 9, 2023. Two-time Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard has recovered in time to defend his title next week although there are still doubts about his ability to be competitive. Matteo Jorgenson of the U.S. is also part of the squad alongside countryman Sepp Kuss, Christophe Laporte, Tiesj Benoot, Wilco Kelderman and Jan Tratnik. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole, File)

FILE - Belgium’s Wout Van Aert rides during the sixteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race, in Combloux, France, on July 18, 2023. Two-time Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard has recovered in time to defend his title next week although there are still doubts about his ability to be competitive. His trusted teammate Wout van Aert, who broke his collarbone and several ribs in March in another crash, will also race in support of Vingegaard. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole, File)

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BRUSSELS (AP) — Two-time Tour de France champion Jonas Vingegaard has recovered in time to defend his title next week although there are still doubts about his ability to be competitive.

Vingegaard was seriously injured in a crash in April but will be on the starting line next week when the race kicks off from Italy, the Danish rider’s Visma-Lease a Bike team said on Thursday.

His trusted teammate Wout van Aert, who broke his collarbone and several ribs in March in another crash, will also race in support of Vingegaard.

The three-week Tour starts on June 29 in Florence.

“I am excited to start the Tour. The last few months have not always been easy,” Vingegaard said. “We have worked together to get to this moment and, of course, I am very excited to see where I stand. I feel good and very motivated.”

Vingegaard was hospitalized for nearly two weeks in Spain in April following the multi-rider, high-speed crash in the Tour of the Basque Country. He sustained a broken collarbone and ribs and a collapsed lung.

Before the crash, Vingegaard was considered one of the Tour de France favorites alongside Tadej Pogacar, who won the Giro d’Italia and is aiming for a rare double next month.

“I am very proud of Jonas and the coaching team,” his team sporting director Merijn Zeeman said. “He is coming back from a serious injury. In the last few weeks, he has shown what a champion he is, both mentally and physically. Of course, we don’t know how far he can go yet. We are being cautious because he has not been able to race, and his preparation has been less than ideal, to say the least. But he will be there, healthy and motivated.”

Van Aert crashed during the Dwars door Vlaanderen in Belgium. He has been training at altitude in the French ski resort of Tignes with Vingegaard.

“Of course, this was not the plan initially, but after my development in the last weeks, I really wanted it, and the team agreed,” the Van Aert said. “Our main goal is, of course, to ride a top classification with Jonas. I want to contribute to that with an excellent team.”

Van Aert is widely considered one of the world’s best and most versatile riders. The three-time cyclocross world champion is also the winner of nine Tour stages and the points classification. He’s major race wins include Milan-San Remo, Strade Bianche, Gent-Wevelgem and the Amstel Gold Race.

Matteo Jorgenson of the U.S. is also part of the squad alongside countryman Sepp Kuss, Christophe Laporte, Tiesj Benoot, Wilco Kelderman and Jan Tratnik.

“Matteo Jorgenson has already become one of the strongest riders in the team this year, with wins in Paris-Nice and Dwars door Vlaanderen, and his second place in the Dauphiné,” Zeeman said. “Sepp Kuss proved last year that he is a great climber, an important domestique, and a leader in his own right with a victory in the Vuelta a España.”

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Steve-O (a.k.a. Stephen Glover) was willing to do whatever it took to become famous, even if it meant stapling his ball sack to his leg. After failing miserably at the University of Miami and couch-surfing with friends, he decided that in order to further his goal of becoming a stuntman he would enroll in Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College. But it was his relentless attention whoring that ultimately led to working with Johnny Knoxville on a new stunt-based reality show called Jackass.

In 2000, MTV aired the first season and the rest, as they say, is history. Since then, he's had continued success, as a New York Times best-selling author with the release of his memoir, 'Professional Idiot', as well as establishing himself in the world of stand-up comedy. With fourteen years of sobriety under his belt, Steve-O shows no signs of slowing down. He can currently be found selling out theatres across the U.S. and Canada on The Bucket List tour, a multimedia stand-up comedy show like no other. In 2022, he rejoined Knoxville and the rest of the Jackass crew for the film 'Jackass Forever', which opened #1 at the box office, and will be releasing his second book A Hard Kick In The Nuts: What I Learned From A Lifetime Of Terrible Decisions.

Steve-O regularly produces content for his YouTube channel which routinely racks up millions of views, and his 'Wild Ride with Steve-O' podcast has proven to be a fan favorite with guests like Post Malone, Demi Lovato, Shaq, Tom Delonge from Blink 182, and more.

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Announcing The Overview Tour 2025!

I’m thrilled to be able to announce a Steven Wilson tour for 2025, my first for 7 years. The Overview Tour will be an audio-visual experience based around a forthcoming new release of the same name: a space themed album that features just two long pieces. I’ll also be playing music from The Harmony Codex for the first time as well as songs from all of my previous records. I’m incredibly happy to be performing again with my inspirational solo band, and we have a lot of lost time to make up. I look forward to seeing you at what will be an epic evening!

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In April 2024, Peter Frampton finally received a long overdue Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction.

To celebrate, he’s hitting the road.

This September, the “Show Me The Way” singer will play nine shows at theaters, performing arts centers, casinos and opera houses all over North America as part of his ‘The Positively Thankful Tour.’

That includes stops at New York City’s Beacon Theatre on Thursday, Sept. 12, Albany’s Palace Theatre on Friday, Sept. 13 and Niagara Falls’ Seneca Casino and Hotel on Saturday, Sept. 21.

“It’s been an incredible year for me and my band so far,” the 74-year-old shared on Instagram . “First the nomination, then you guys voted like crazy and got me into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Come September, we’ll be back out for nine more shows on ‘The Positively Thankful Tour’! Can’t wait to see you then!”

If you want to see the rock legend deliver the hits you know and love live like “Baby I Love Your Way,” “Do You Feel Like We Do,” “Breaking All The Rules” and so many more from his Humble Pie and Hole days, tickets are available for nine concerts as soon as today.

Fans can purchase tickets for all upcoming ‘Positively Thankful’ shows on sites like Vivid Seats ; the official on-sale is Friday, June 28.

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A complete calendar including all tour dates, venues and links to buy tickets can be found below.

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The legendary icon wrapped his 2023 tour in Nashville last November.

For a sneak peek at what he played that evening, you can take a look at all the songs that made the cut that evening, courtesy of  Set List FM .

01.) “Lying” 02.) “Shine On” (Humble Pie song) 03.) “I Got My Eyes on You” 04.) “Lines on My Face” 05.) “Show Me the Way” 06.) “Georgia On My Mind” (Hoagy Carmichael cover)

07.) “The Crying Clown” 08.) “Nassau” 09.) “Baby I Love Your Way” 10.) “Tennessee Whiskey” (Chris Stapleton cover) 11.) “All I Wanna Be (Is by Your Side)” 12.) “Can’t Take That Away” 13.) “Black Hole Sun” (Soundgarden cover) 14.) “(I’ll Give You) Money” 15.) “Do You Feel Like We Do” 16.) “I Want You to Love Me” (Humble Pie song) 17.) “I Don’t Need No Doctor” (Humble Pie song) 18.) “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” (The Beatles cover)

Classic rockers on tour in 2024

It’s the ’70s all over again this year.

Many of the biggest names from the Nixon and Carter era are touring all over the U.S. these next few months.

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Need a little more? Check out our list of 52 biggest classic rockers on tour in 2024 to find the show for you.

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Steve Bauer and Canada’s greatest Tour de France

30 years ago, the rider from fenwick, ont., made cycling history.

In a way, the first yellow jersey that Steve Bauer won at the 1988 Tour de France was set up two years prior. In 1986, fellow Canadian Alex Stieda broke away during the first part of a split stage. Because of the time bonuses Stieda had gained, he became the first North American to wear yellow. He had gone so hard on Stage 1a that on Stage 1b, a team time trial, both he and his 7-Eleven team struggled and he lost yellow. “Alex, he was proud he started that first stage in a skinsuit. He just went for it from the gun,” Bauer remembered with a laugh. Bauer himself was in that peloton riding for La Vie Claire with Greg LeMond and Bernard Hinault. In 1988, Bauer was on a new squad, Weinmann – La Suisse. “The stage was similar with a team time trial in the afternoon. No team would ever take full control of the early stage to save their energy for the team time trial. It gives an advantage to the breakaway, which Alex used. I was looking for a similar oppor- tunity in 1988.” Bauer and I spoke at the Grupetto Café in Dundas, Ont., surrounded by cycling memorabilia, some of it Bauer’s. It wasn’t too long ago, during one of Bauer’s seemingly rare stays in Southern Ontario. The St. Catharines, Ont., native spends months at a time in Europe working as director of VIP services for BMC Racing Team. The events we discussed, which had happened almost 30 years ago, he remembered surprisingly well.

“That stage was a bit broken,” he said of the morning race. “There was a union protest along the way, so the stage got stopped. The weather was crap. Nobody was really committed to the race. It was bizarre: not many attacks. It was almost like the peloton was rolling toward the finish. I decided, at about 7 km from the finish, to attack and open up the race. I got a bit of a draft from the vehicles in front – motorcycles and official cars. It gave me a good gap on the field. The peloton didn’t really commit until it was too late. I managed to hold of the peloton and win that stage and get the yellow jersey. It was a bit of luck, a bit of initiative and some solid fitness that carried me to that first Tour de France stage win.”

Before the French Grand Tour, Bauer’s year had gone well. In April, he was eighth at Paris-Roubaix. In early June, he won a mountain stage in the Tour de Suisse. “It finished on a descent,” Bauer was quick to add. He was second overall in that 10-day event. Next was the perennial TdF tune-up race, the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré. Bauer won the 93.2-km Stage 1b. Before heading to la Grande Boucle, the 29-year-old Bauer was likely in the best condition of his career.

He was on a new team in ’88, Weinmann – La Suisse. It, however, had familiar riders and staff. Paul Köchli, who had worked with Bauer on La Vie Claire, started the squad. The group that went to the Tour included Niki Rüttimann, a strong Suisse climber, who was also from Bauer’s previous team. Jean-Claude Leclercq was good in the mountains, too. Michael Wilson from Australia brought his skills as a solid domestique and time triallist. “We had a really good balance of talented individuals, maybe not one standout that people could say was a Tour de France winner. But collectively, we proved we were a really solid group of professional bike racers who could challenge the race,” Bauer said.

Favourites who lined up at the Tour that year included two-time winner Laurent Fignon and U.S. rider Andy Hampsten, who had won the Giro d’Italia less than a month before. Third-place TdF finisher Jean-François Bernard carried French hopes with him. Pedro Delgado had ridden against Stephen Roche in ’87 and lost out to Roche by 40 seconds. The first Irish rider to win the Tour didn’t return in 1988 because of chronic knee problems, but Delgado was back. Bauer’s former teammate Greg LeMond missed the Tour in ’88 as he still wasn’t in top shape following his hunting accident the year before.

“Going into the race, I wasn’t really thinking about who I’d have to beat to do well,” Bauer said. “I think I was more focused on the team and how we could ride to the best of our abilities.” Bauer felt that that outlook allowed him to achieve one of the best performances of his career.

After Bauer won yellow, Weinmann – La Suisse had to ride the team time trial later that day. He figures the presence of the jersey inspired the squad to ride harder than they might have otherwise. They couldn’t beat the powerhouse Panasonic team, whose ride put Teun van Vliet at the lead of the general classification. Still, Weinmann – La Suisse was second, 24 seconds behind Panasonic. While Bauer had fallen to ninth overall, the team’s work had set the foundation for the Canadian’s return to yellow.

Bauer had to be shrewd during that first week of the Tour. “When you are close to the lead, the key is looking for opportunities,” Bauer said. “You can’t really force it, unless you strong-arm the race on a stage that is particularly suited to you. For example, now in the Tour, it would be a mountaintop stage for a climber. It seems obvious there. But in the first week of the Tour, it’s not obvious. There’s rolling terrain with different types of finishes. You cannot lose time. And you look for those spots, like maybe a breakaway, that could get you that jersey back.”

On Stage 6, a 52-km individual time trial, Bauer put in an impressive ride, which got him within one second of the new leader, Jelle Nijdam of Superconfex. The next day, Bauer slipped a bit in the GC to nine seconds back. Of Stage 8, he remembered a short climb before the finishing city of Nancy, then a descent ahead of the final sprint. About 10 km from the finish, Bauer attacked. He pushed the pace. Nijdam got dropped from the main group. In the sprint, Rolf Gölz took the stage, but it was Bauer who pulled on the yellow jersey once again.

Next, Weinmann – La Suisse had to defend its lead. Bauer had more work to do both on and off the bike. “When you’re leading the Tour de France, there are other demands: anti-doping, media, attention from the to expend than if you weren’t in the jersey. I think the added pressure did not necessarily affect my performance.” Although the maillot jaune can bring extra work for a rider, it can also boost his abilities. The psychological term for this phenomenon is the audience effect. With people watching, with the responsibility to lead the team and defend the jersey, an athlete digs deeper and performs better than ever before. The yellow jersey gave Bauer a boost, a boost that far surpassed the extra duties that affected the race leader.

After Nancy, the stages started to feature more and more climbing, which wasn’t Bauer’s strength. Stage 11 from Besançon to Morzine included Pas de Morgins, Col du Corbier and high temperatures. “I love the heat,” said the rider from the great white north. “Everybody else was cracking.” Fignon finished 19 minutes off of the stage winner Fabio Parra. The French rider’s Tour was ruined. Bernard had a bad day, too. Both Sean Kelly and Robert Millar lost a lot of time. Bauer rode well and finished with the favourites, 23 seconds behind Parra.

The Canadian started the next day, which would finish on Alpe d’Huez, in yellow. He would face the Col de la Madeleine and Col du Glandon before the iconic climb. For Bauer, the final kilometres before the summit of Glandon were the toughest, tougher than even d’Huez. A large group of top riders where ahead, including Hampsten and his teammate Raúl Alcalá. Colombians Fabio Parra and Luis “Lucho” Herrera, and Charly Mottet and Peter Winnen. Farther ahead, Steven Rooks and Pedro Delgado were driving for Alpe d’Huez. After passing the summit of Glandon, Bauer blasted down toward the group at speeds he doesn’t think he’s matched since. “When you have the yellow jersey, you have to do what you have to do,” he said. Riding solo, he caught up with the Hampsten group.

Once they hit Alpe d’Huez, the initial steep inclines affected Bauer. He fell off from much of the group. He then rode his own pace. His team director, Köchli, kept giving him the times. Bauer knew he was still close to the jersey. He passed a shattered Hampsten and kept riding. Rooks took the stage, while Delgado rode into the lead. Bauer finished seventh, 2:34 behind Rooks and 25 seconds off of the yellow jersey. “It’s probably the best mountain stage I did in my career. I think the jersey helped as well as being in top shape,” he said.

After d’Huez, Bauer focused on a podium spot. He was third overall after Stages 13 and 14. He then kept fourth all the way to Paris. He had yellow for five stages and a stage win, the first for a Canadian. In 1990, he’d get the yellow jersey for nine stages. His fourth place finish in ’88, however, still stands as the best result for a Canadian at le Grande Boucle.

So many cycling performances from that time, unfortunately, come with asterisks. Questions about Delgados’ performance were raised before he had even finished the 1988 Tour. Probenecid, a drug that can be used to flush the residue of steroids from the kidneys, was found in Delgados’ urine. At the time, the drug was banned by the IOC, but it was still about a month away from being on the UCI’s list. Lucky for Delgado, it was the UCI’s list that took precedence. He raced on to win the ’88 Tour. In late 1999, the runner-up in 1988, Rooks, admitted in a television documentary that he had taken testosterone and amphetamines throughout his career. Bauer doesn’t seem to dwell on these injustices. He seems to bear them with the same stoicism that got him through the nine Tours de France he completed throughout his career.

When I asked him about the effect of his fourth place in ’88, he joked a bit about how there was no social media to bring the news to Canada quickly. But, he added that the media coverage at the time did inspire people to take up cycling or follow the sport. He’d heard that first-hand from many riders throughout the years. I think the effect grew as Bauer continued to race beyond ’88. In 2015, at the induction ceremony for the Canadian Cycling Hall of Fame , Lori-Ann Muenzer, Alison Sydor and Curt Harnett all cited Bauer as an influence. Riders too young to have seen Bauer race in the ’80s, such as Astana’s Hugo Houle and Milton, Ont., track rider Michael Foley, have benefited from Bauer’s experience and cycling wisdom gained abroad. Even the cycling-themed Grupetto Café in which Bauer and I spoke, about 80 km away from where the cyclist grew up, likely owes part of its existence to Bauer’s accomplishments. The influence of Bauer’s 1988 Tour on those younger athletes and the café may not be direct, but they do take from the glow of five days in yellow that happened 30 years ago.

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The 2021 Tour de France is finally here and viewers from around the world could not be more excited to watch the 108th edition of this celebrated 21-stage cycling race!

Tadej Pogačar of team UAE Team Emirates secured the win at last year’s event, the first time a Slovenian has ever won the tour. Many will be looking to see if Team Ineos Grenadiers can pull past Primož Roglič and Pogačar to take home the trophy. Stage 1 of the bicycle race will start in Brest and ends in Landerneau for a total of 197.8 hilly km. Those watching will get to see who claims the first yellow jersey of the Tour.

Which team will achieve Tour de France glory? Only time will tell. Here’s how to watch the 2021 Tour de France on TV and when it scheduled to start.

WHEN IS THE 2021 TOUR DE FRANCE?

All the action takes place starting Saturday, June 26, 2021. The Tour will officially end on Sunday, July 18 and you can catch each stage of the event through the same channels.

NBC Sports has been gracious enough to put together a stage-by-stage look at the 2021 Tour de France route with profiles, previews, distances, dates and estimated start times.

WHAT TIME DOES THE 2021 TOUR DE FRANCE START?

NBC’s Tour de France coverage begins Saturday, June 26 from 6:00 a.m. ET. The race is scheduled to begin at 10:05 a.m. ET. Peacock , NBC Sports Network, NBCSports.com , and the  NBC Sports app  will  also air coverage of the event .

NBC Sports will also air coverage (live racing, insider previews, and expert commentary) featuring Phil Liggett, who is known by many as the “voice of cycling,” who will call play-by-play race action. Bob Roll—a cycling analyst — will join Liggett on the call and Steve Porino will serve as the reporter on the ground in France.

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If you have a valid cable login, you can live stream the 2021 Tour de France on NBCSports.com , the  NBC website,  or  NBC Sports app .

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Luckily the 2021 Tour de France will be live on Peacock , NBC’s affordable streaming platform. You can sign up for a premium subscription (which includes live sports) today for as low as $4.99 per month.

You can also find a 2021 Tour de France live stream with an active subscription to an over-the-top streaming service that offers NBC. Thankfully, there are a variety of options, including YouTube TV ,  Hulu + Live TV ,  fuboTV ,  Sling TV (in select markets) , or  AT&T TV NOW . Fubotv offers  a seven-day free trial  for eligible subscribers.

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An NBC live stream is also available  via an active subscription to Hulu + Live TV . The streaming service offers a seven-day free trial for eligible subscribers.

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“I’m just determined to enjoy myself and explore the freedom I’ve got to do what I want to do on this tour, and let’s see where it ends up,” the Who frontman says via Zoom from his home in England.

He’s certainly earned that right.

Daltrey is a 60-plus years into a career that has, of course, been dominated by the Who — most recently in 2022, when he and guitarist Pete Townshend, the band’s two remaining members, toured with an orchestra. On his own, meanwhile, Daltrey has recorded and acted (“Tommy,” “Lisztomania,” “McVicar,” “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation”). He also wrote a memoir in 2018 and started the Teenage Cancer rust charity in the U.K. as well as Teen Cancer America.

He’s constantly asked about future Who endeavors, but right now, having turned 80 in March, Daltrey is more interested in marching to the beat of his literal own drummer.

“As far as I’m concerned, do we need another Who tour?” he asks. “We were a great group and two of our members died, and it’s been different since. We did as much as I could ever have wished for, and more. I thought it ended on the ultimate presentation of Pete Townshend’s music, which is out with the orchestra while maintaining the thunder of a rock band. That’s what the music deserved.”

But after myriad farewell tours and reunions, Daltrey knows better than to ever write the Who off completely. “There’s chemistry between Pete and I,” he acknowledges. “I love him dearly. There’s something special there, but it needs us both to be on fire and both wanting to be there. So if he really, really wants to do it I’m gonna turn up even with a broken leg, and I’ll deliver for you.”

Daltrey and his own band — including Who musicians Simon Townshend (Pete’s younger brother) on guitar, violinist Katie Jacoby and Billy Nicholls on mandolin and vocals — are certainly celebrating the band in their shows, not the same way the Who would. “I just want to branch out and do something different,” Daltrey explains, “where I’ve got different instrumentation and I can stop using tape loops. It just creates a whole new sound and allows me the freedom as a singer.”

It’s allowed him to dig deep, too, and play songs like…well, if we told you, he might have to kill us.

“I’m not gonna talk about songs,” says Daltrey, who’s also answering questions that fans submit prior to the concerts. “There’s no surprises left with concerts these days, ’cause everybody wants to see the setlist. I’m… sick of it. The Internet’s ruined the live shows for me. Who wants to know what’s coming next? People forget about surprises. I can’t stand it.”

He is, however, playing the Who’s epic “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” but taking a different act with that, too.

“I’m gonna get the…audience to do the scream,” he says of the song’s signature. “I’ve done that scream for 55 years, and I’ve had enough of it. I don’t even want to try it now; it’s brutal on the vocal chords. They can do the scream, and I’ll do everything else.

“I’m more into singing these days. At the age of 80, I think I deserve to be.”

The tour also coincides with the upcoming 55th anniversary of the first Woodstock festival, where the Who’s wee-hours set included the whole of its rock opera “Tommy,” and where Townshend famously booted activist Abbie Hoffman off the stage when he invaded to protest the imprisonment of the late John Sinclair back in Michigan. Daltrey recalls the experience as “muddy, smelly, but great to see old friends.”

And he knows who deserves the credit for the festival’s enduring legend.

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"I always felt that the stars of Woodstock were the audience, never the bands," says Daltrey, whose future projects include a biopic about the late Who drummer Keith Moon that he's been working on for years and possibly a second book focusing on overcoming the insecurities he felt during the early days of the Who. He also played harmonica on an all-star version of Mark Knopfler's "Going Home (Theme From Local Hero)" to benefit the cancer charities.

"To me it was the beginning of the end of the Vietnam war," Daltrey continues, "though casualty-wise it got worse. But it was the audience that created the wave that made the government realize they're gonna have to get to grips with this, 'cause they're gonna have a rebellion on their hands. The Woodstock audience did that, not the bands."

Roger Daltrey and Dan Bern perform at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 25 at the Meadow Brook Music Festival on the campus of Oakland University, Rochester Hills. 313-471-7000 or 313Presents.com .

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