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Bilbao sprints to first Tour de France stage win as Vingegaard keeps yellow jersey

Spain’s Pelle Bilbao crosses the finish line to win the tenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 167 kilometers (104 miles) with start in Vulcania and finish in Issoire, France, Tuesday, July 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Stage winner Spain’s Pelle Bilbao points at the hashtag #rideforGino, commemorating his deceased teammate Gino Maeder of Switzerland after the tenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 167 kilometers (104 miles) with start in Vulcania and finish in Issoire, France, Tuesday, July 11, 2023. (Gonzalo Fuentes/Pool Photo via AP)

Australia’s Ben O’Connor, France’s Warren Barguil, Colombia’s Esteban Chaves, Australia’s Nick Schultz, Spain’s Pelle Bilbao, from left, Germany’s Georg Zimmermann, rear left, and Denmark’s Mattias Skjelmose, rear right, ride breakaway during the tenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 167 kilometers (104 miles) with start in Vulcania and finish in Issoire, France, Tuesday, July 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Spain’s Pelle Bilbao crosses the finish line ahead of Germany’s Georg Zimmermann, left, to win the tenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 167 kilometers (104 miles) with start in Vulcania and finish in Issoire, France, Tuesday, July 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Stage winner Spain’s Pelle Bilbao looks up to the sky as he dedicates his victory to deceased teammate Gino Maeder of Switzerland on the podium after the tenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 167 kilometers (104 miles) with start in Vulcania and finish in Issoire, France, Tuesday, July 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Stage winner Spain’s Pelle Bilbao points up to the sky as he dedicates his victory to deceased teammate Gino Maeder of Switzerland on the podium after the tenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 167 kilometers (104 miles) with start in Vulcania and finish in Issoire, France, Tuesday, July 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Latvia’s Krists Neilands rides breakaway during the tenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 167 kilometers (104 miles) with start in Vulcania and finish in Issoire, France, Tuesday, July 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Stage winner Spain’s Pelle Bilbao, front, leads before Spain’s Antonio Pedrero, second position, and Colombia’s Esteban Chaves, left, during the tenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 167 kilometers (104 miles) with start in Vulcania and finish in Issoire, France, Tuesday, July 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard, wearing the overall leader’s yellow jersey, celebrates on the podium after the tenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 167 kilometers (104 miles) with start in Vulcania and finish in Issoire, France, Tuesday, July 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Slovenia’s Tadej Pogacar, wearing the best young rider’s white jersey, celebrates on the podium after the tenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 167 kilometers (104 miles) with start in Vulcania and finish in Issoire, France, Tuesday, July 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

The pack speeds downhill during the tenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 167 kilometers (104 miles) with start in Vulcania and finish in Issoire, France, Tuesday, July 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

The pack with Denmark’s Jonas Vingegaard, wearing the overall leader’s yellow jersey, left, rides during the tenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 167 kilometers (104 miles) with start in Vulcania and finish in Issoire, France, Tuesday, July 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Most combative rider of the day Latvia’s Krists Neilands celebrates on the podium after the tenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 167 kilometers (104 miles) with start in Vulcania and finish in Issoire, France, Tuesday, July 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

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ISSOIRE, France (AP) — It was an emotional — and costly — first win at the Tour de France for Pello Bilbao on Tuesday.

The Spanish cyclist sprinted to victory at the end of the tricky 10th stage and also gained significant time in the overall standings, which are still led by Jonas Vingegaard.

Bilbao raised his arms above his head in celebration at the end of one of the hardest stages of the Tour so far, finishing the undulating 167-kilometer (104-mile) route from Vulcania to Issoire just ahead of Georg Zimmermann and Ben O’Connor in the sweltering heat of central France.

The Bahrain-Victorious rider immediately dedicated his win to former teammate and friend Gino Mäder, who died last month from injuries suffered in a crash at the Tour de Suisse.

“I closed the gap with O’Connor first and then, with cold blood, let Zimmermann make his sprint, go on the wheel and just (went) full the last 200 meters without thinking of nothing,” Bilbao said. “And then I crossed the line and I just put out all the energy that I had inside and remembering the reason of this victory.

“A special one, for Gino.”

Bilbao had announced pre-Tour that he would be following in the actions of Mäder, by donating one Euro for every rider he beats on each stage toward funding to replant trees in areas of deforestation.

He beat 168 riders on Tuesday.

Most of the overall contenders finished just over three minutes further back and that saw Bilbao move up from 11th to fifth, less than two minutes off the podium.

Defending champion Vingegaard maintained his 17-second advantage over two-time winner Tadej Pogačar. Jai Hindley was in third place, 2 minutes, 40 seconds off the pace.

After the first rest day on Monday, the Tour kicked off the second week with a difficult stage featuring five categorized climbs and almost no flat sections. The soaring temperatures were made even more brutal by the heat reflecting off the roads.

It was relentless from the start and many riders were clearly suffering. But eventually a break of 14 formed.

Krists Neilands looked like one of the strongest of the 14 and he attacked on the final climb, crossing the Côte de la Chapelle-Marcousse with a 30-second advantage. However, he was chased down by Bilbao on the descent and caught with just over 3 kilometers remaining.

“Everybody was on the limit, Neilands did an impressive attack,” Bilbao said. “I think he was the strongest one, but he spent a lot of energy with the hot wind in the face.

“In the back group, we just collaborated in the right way and then in the last 3 kilometers I knew that (I) was the fastest man in the group, so I just took the control.”

Neilands eventually finished in fourth for Israel-Premier Tech.

“It was a really tough stage,” Neilands said. “It was hard, it was hot, but it was great to be there on the road and we did a really good race as a team and we were always there in the moves and I think we raced really good and we did the maximum we could do today and it just didn’t work out.”

O’Connor was the first to attack as he knew the sprint didn’t suit him but Bilbao was straight on him, with Zimmermann swiftly catching up. But Bilbao launched his sprint off Zimmermann’s wheel and held him and O’Connor off for the win.

“I hadn’t experienced such a day on a bike for a while,” O’Connor said. “The start of the stage was absolutely brutal. I’m really happy to have managed to get into the breakaway after such a battle.

“With the heat, you had to stay focused at all times and not crack mentally. Even if I was off the back a bit, I always believed in it. In the last kilometers, I tried to maneuver as well as possible to try to escape my breakaway companions and win the stage. I didn’t manage it so I’m definitely a little disappointed.”

Wednesday’s 11th stage features three lower-category climbs on the 180-kilometer (112-mile) route from Clermont-Ferrand to Moulins and is expected to end in a sprint finish.

The Tour ends in Paris on July 23.

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Danish rider Jonas Vingegaard wins the Tour de France for the 2nd straight year

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Tour de France winner Jonas Vingegaard, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, celebrates after the twenty-first stage of the Tour de France in Paris on Sunday. Thibault Camus/AP hide caption

Tour de France winner Jonas Vingegaard, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, celebrates after the twenty-first stage of the Tour de France in Paris on Sunday.

PARIS — Danish rider Jonas Vingegaard has won the Tour de France for a second straight year as cycling's most storied race finished Sunday on the famed Champs-Élysées.

With a huge lead built up over main rival Tadej Pogačar, the 2020 and 2021 winner, Vingegaard knew the victory was effectively his again before the largely ceremonial stage at the end of the 110th edition of the Tour.

Vingegaard drank champagne with his Jumbo-Visma teammates as they lined up together and posed for photos on the way to Paris.

It had been a three-week slog over 3,405 kilometers (2,116 miles) with eight mountain stages across five mountain ranges. Vingegaard seized control of the race over two stages in the Alps.

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Little had separated the two rivals until Vingegaard finished a time trial 1 minute, 38 seconds ahead of Pogačar on Tuesday, then followed up the next day by finishing the toughest mountain stage of the race almost 6 minutes ahead of his exhausted rival.

"I'm dead," Pogačar said.

The Slovenian rider responded by winning the penultimate stage on Saturday, but Vingegaard still had an insurmountable lead of 7 minutes, 29 seconds going into the final stage — a mostly ceremonial stage which is contested at the end by the sprinters.

"We have to be careful not to do anything stupid," Vingegaard warned Saturday, "but yeah, it's amazing to take my second victory in the Tour de France."

Belgian cyclist Jordi Meeus won the final stage in a photo finish between four riders on the line, just ahead of Jasper Philipsen, Dylan Groenewegen and Mads Pedersen.

"It was my first Tour. It was a super nice experience already so far, and to take the win today is an incredible feeling," Meeus said.

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Tour de France: Jasper Philipsen motors to win after late crashes on stage four – as it happened

A long, boring day on the Tour ended in high drama at the Nogaro racing circuit as Belgian sprinter Jasper Philipsen prevailed for the second day in a row

• Read our stage four race report
• 4 Jul 2023 Mark Cavendish speaks ...
• 4 Jul 2023 Top five on General Classification
• 4 Jul 2023 The top five in stage four
• 4 Jul 2023 It's another win for Jasper Philipsen!
• 4 Jul 2023 Jasper Philipsen wins stage four!!!
• 4 Jul 2023 Intermediate sprint result
• 4 Jul 2023 Finally, an attack!!!
• 4 Jul 2023 They're off and racing in stage four!
• 4 Jul 2023 General Classification: the top five
• 4 Jul 2023 Philipson survives sprint scrutiny to win in Bayonne
• 4 Jul 2023 Stage four: Dax to Nagaro (181.8km)

Mark Cavendish speaks ...

“Carnage it was,” says the Astana rider. “Every team will have had a plan for that final and I bet there wasn’t any that it went right for, apart from Jumbo getting their guys into that narrow road [at the entrance to the race circuit] early. It was a melting pot of riders in the final and I was constantly analysing who was there, who had other teammates and just jumping from train to train.

“Finally I seen that Mads [Pedersen] had [Jasper] Stuyven with him and they usually go early so I thought I’d use that, but it didn’t happen. In the end the rest of them got the jump on me and it was all about me getting the best finishing position for myself.”

It’s a remarkable bit of analysis, considering the chaos that was unfolding around him. He goes on to express his concern for the welfare of his teammate Luis Leon Sanchez, who was one of several riders to hit the deck in the final couple of kilometres of today’s race.

Top five on General Classification

Adam Yates (UAE Emirates) 18hr 18min 01sec

Tadej Pogacar (UAE EMirates) +06sec

Simon Yates (Jayco AlUla) +06sec

Victor Lafay (Cofidis) +12sec

Wout van Aert +16sec

🏆 🇧🇪 @JasperPhilipsen wins in Nogaro! 🏆🇧🇪 @JasperPhilipsen double la mise à Nogaro ! #TDF2023 pic.twitter.com/X06zq1v7N2 — Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 4, 2023

The top five in stage four

Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) 4hr 25min 23sec

Caleb Ewan (Lotto–Dstny)

Phil Bauhaus (Bahrain Victorious)

Bryan Coquard (Cofidis)

Mark Cavendish (Astana)

Jasper Philipsen speaks: “It was a really easy stage,” says the stage winner. “I think everyone was trying to save some legs for the Pyrenees tomorrow. In the final kilomtre entering the circuit I heard several crashes around me so I hope everybody is OK and safe. It was a bit of a hectic final with the turns and I lost my team as well but in the ifnal straight I found Mathieu Van der Poel again and he did an amazing pull to get me to victory. My legs were cramping and Caleb was coming close.”

It's another win for Jasper Philipsen!

In chaotic scenes with riders strewn all over the road in the home straight, Mathieu Van der Poel provides another perfect lead-out for Philipsen, who wins by half a wheel from Caleb Ewan. Phil Bauhaus was third for Bahrain Victorious.

Jasper Philipsen wins stage four!!!

The Alpecin–Deceuninck sprinter looks to have won his second consecutive stage by inches from Caleb Ewan.

1km to go: Cofidis are doing a fine job for Bryan Coquard as the riders enter the 800m-long home straight. There’s another crash but Mark Cavendish is still upright.

1.6km to go: Fabio Jakobsen crashes! he won’t be winning today!

3.1km to go: Jumbo-Visma lead the peloton into the entrance of the Nogaro circuit with various riders near the front looking over their shoulders to see where their team-mates are.

4.6km to go: It’s getting more and more technical and the riders from various teams are getting separated from each other and starting to panic a little. Mark Cavendish is still in a good position about 12 riders from the front but Wout van Aert has lost about 30 places.

5km to go: Aussie sprinter Sam Welsford (DSM-Firmenich) elects to go the “wrong” side of a traffic island and drops to near the back of the bunch, having been riding third wheel and in a brilliant position.

8km to go: Some of the teams are riding in train formation, while others are grouped around their sprinter. Mark Cavendish is in the second row of the bunch, riding on the wheel of his teammate Luis Leon Sanchez.

9km to go: The peloton is tightly bunched with riders from eight different teams spread out across the front as we hit the final 10 klilometres of the race. The focus, obviously, is on the sprinters but everybody has his own particular job to do to help deliver their man to the front of the race near the finish line at the most opportune moment.

13km to go: Here, in no particular order, are the names to look out for in the final couple of hundred metres of today’s stage: Dylan Groenewegen (Jayco AlUla), Fabio Jakobsen (Soudal- Quick Step), Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Mark Cavendish (Astana), Phil Bauhaus (Bahrain Victorious), Wout van Aert (Jumbo Visma), Alexander Kristoff (Uno-X) and Sam Welsford (DSM-Firmenich).

17km to go: Having reeled in today’s somewhat half-hearted breakaway, the peloton continue to make their way towards the Nogaro racing circuit, where there’s something of a pinch-point at the entrance, three kilometres from the finish line. They’re riding seven abreast in the peloton at the moment at a speed of 57km per hour.

23km to go: The cycle in the washing machine has started and packed tightly across the road, the riders of Alpecin-Deceuninck, Jumbo Visma, Lotto Dstny, Bahrain Victorius and Bora-Hansgrohe are conspicous in their little groups near the front.

💚 70 years ago, the green jersey was first introduced on the Tour de France. The best sprinters in the history of cycling have fought for it since! 💚 Le maillot vert est né il y a 70 ans sur le Tour ! Depuis, les meilleurs sprinteurs du monde se sont battus pour. #TDF2023 pic.twitter.com/ioJyoMXY9e — Tour de France™ (@LeTour) July 4, 2023

27km to go: In the breakaway, Anthony Delaplace takes the solitary King of the Mountains point available on today’s stage. The gap to the bunch is down to 16 seconds.

28km to go: The riders are tackling today’s only categorised climb, the Cat 4 Cote de Dému, which is two kilometres long and 218m high.

3okm to go:

34km to go: Anthony Delapplace (Arkea Samsic) and Benoit Cosnefory (AG2R Citreon) remain in front of the chasing posse, with a lead of 35 seconds. At the back of that posses, Astana’s Luis Leon Sanchez has a problem with his chain and stops to fix the problem with the help of a passing Cofidis mechanic. He gets back on his back and sets off in pursuit of the bunch.

Peloton politics: “I’m fairly sure that back in the 80s and before, one of the grizzled elder statesmen of the Tour (think Bernard Hinault or Gilbert Duclos-Lasalle) would decide how hard the peloton would ride at any given point,” writes Thomas Atkins. “And if they decided that the peloton was going to have an easy day, then woe betide anyone who attacked and upped the tempo when they weren’t supposed to.”

“It might not be great for viewers and advertisers but it’s arguably no worse than it being dictated by directeurs sportives who have crunched the numbers before the start and decided on precisely the mix of riders who would be allowed to ride off the front until a controlled and entirely predictable catch in the last 20-30kms.”

39km to go: We’re heading towards the business end of the stage, with the entrance to the Nogaro motor racing circuit where today’s race will be concluded approximately three kilometres from the finish.

Here’s Fabio Jakobsen on today’s finish: “Today looks good,” he told Eurosport this morning. “You’ve got a few corners but it’s wide. The last 750m is in as straight line so if you have the horses and the position then you can do it and at least [unlike yesterday] a straight line is a straight line, eh?”

46km to go: “On this slow news day, in Tour de France terms at least, I was wondering what your thoughts were regarding Jasper Philipsen having the ultimate cheat-code for the sprints with Mathieu Van der Poel as lead-out man extraordinaire?” asks Sam Huscroft. “I wonder if Cav’s best bet is to tag on to this ‘train’ and give it the beans?”

I’m not sure that a 38-year-old Cav no longer has the “beans” required to get near Philipsen in an out-and-out sprint. In terms Tory MPs Lee Andrews and Brendan Clarke-Smith might struggle to understand, Philipsen’s beans are of the Heinz variety, compared to the own brand version Cav is reduced to giving these days. The gap is down to 36 seconds.

53km to go: Messrs Cosnefroy and Delaplace are a minute clear of the bunch, which is being led by the riders of Alpecin-Deceuninck at a speed of 57km per hour.

Intermediate sprint result

With so much going on out on the road, it’s taken a while to cobble together the result of the intermediate sprint.

1. Jasper Philipsen (20pts) 2. Bryan Coquard (17) 3. Caleb Ewan (15) 4. Mads Pedersen (13) 5. Jordi Meeus (11) 6. Mark Cavendish (10) 7. Favio Jakobsen (9) 8. Peter Sagan (8) 9. Alexander Kristoff (7) 10. Biniam Girmay (6) 11. Corbin Strong (5) 12. Michal Kwiatkowski (4) 13. Cees Bol (3) 14. Mathieu Van der Poel (2) 15. Jonas Abrahamsen (1)

69km to go: “Belgian TV have just been on the phone with Eddy Merckx,” writes Franky Vlaeminck. “Apparently he’s totally cool with Cavendish potentially beating his record number of wins.”

On Eurosport, former sprinter Robbie McEwan gives Cavendish a “one per cent chance” of winning the stage he needs to beat Merckx’s record during this Tour.

71 km to go: It’s a highlight of the afternoon for the riders as they pass through the feed zone and collete their musttes full of grub.

73km to go: “I’m having a laugh over people’s complaints about the lack of pace and attacks on today’s stage,” writes Dave Hill from Indiana. “These riders, the most extreme athletes in the world, whittle their bodies down to nubs over the course of 2,200 miles at speeds we couldn’t achieve in our dreams, and we’re complaining because they take a few hours to brace themselves for the trials to come? If nothing else, let’s just enjoy the scenery. Or get outside yourself on a ride today. Some people are never satisfied!”

It’s a fair point, well made. After all, some of these riders have spent two whole days whittling their bodies down to nubs in this year’s Tour since it started way, way back last Saturday. The gap is 50 seconds.

81km to go: In an interview with Eurosport, AG2R Citreon team manager Vincent Lavenu says that French TV were complaining that nothing is happening today and want to see some French riders at the head of the race, so he gave Benoit Cosnefroy permission to launch an attack.

His fellow Normandy native, Anthony Delaplace either agreed or was ordered to go with him, although the Arkea Samsic rider looked far less enthused by the prospect of embarking on what will almost certainly be little more than an energy-sapping kamikaze mission.

Finally, an attack!!!

84km to go: Benoit Cosnefroy (AG2R Citreon) and Anthony Delaplace (Arkea Samsic) throw their chapeaux into the ring for today’s combativity award by jumping off the front of the bunch and attacking. It’s Cosnefroy who is in the box-seat for the race number encased in perspex, as he went first before looking over his shoulder to see if anyone might join him. They quickly open a gap of a minute.

88km to go: More excitement! At the front of the bunch, Quinn Simmons puts the hammer down to lead out Mads Pedersen for the intermediate sprint but it’s yesterday’s stage winner Jasper Philipsen who takes maximum points.

92km to go: “Historically, the Tour has been a force for fairness, non-cheating and following the spirt of cycling,” writes Ruaidhrí Groom. “But is there a chance that the peloton are taking it handy today to hand the stage to Cavendish? He should refuse to win such a stage!”

I can’t remember off the top of my head who it was but sone of our readers suggested yesterday that, given the paucity of talent in Cavendish’s team when it comes to leading out their sprinter, it’s not inconceivable that at some point later in the race, assorted mates of his from various teams might go rogue in order to form a train to help him win one of the later stages, much like happened in Rome at the Giro. On that occasion, Geraint Thomas put in a big shift to help deliver Cav to where he needed to be on the final day.

96km to go: Tell Franky (102km to go) that I am 62, have been cycling since I took the stablisers off and I am still bored,” writes Jem Lee. “Been telling mates how exciting the Tour is and what a spectacle it always is – they will think I have lost the plot watching this. I think even I could keep up with them at this rate.”

There are faint signs of life in the peloton as assorted teams start to get their ducks in a row ahead of the intermediate sprint in approxiamtely eight kilometres.

97km to go: With more than half of the stage to go, nothing continues to happen at quite a sedate pace. Good luck to the jury who have to pick the most combative rider from today’s stage. I’ve seen far more aggressive efforts when the traffic lights outside Stockwell Tube station turn green during a morning rush hour.

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Adam yates beats twin brother for tour de france stage 1 win, yellow jersey.

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Adam Yates outdueled his twin brother, Simon, to win the Tour de France’s first stage, taking the yellow jersey to start the three-week event.

Adam Yates, 30, pulled away from Simon in the last kilometer in Bilbao, Spain, for his first Tour stage win as the Basque Country hosts the first three stages before the Tour enters France.

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Adam Yates won by four seconds over Simon after more than four hours in the saddle. Tadej Pogacar of Slovenia, the Tour winner in 2020 and 2021, took third in a sprint, 12 seconds behind the winner, getting the same time as defending Tour champ Jonas Vingegaard of Denmark.

Pogacar gained four seconds on Vingegaard in the overall standings due to his third-place time bonus.

Adam Yates placed fourth in the Tour in 2016 and is on UAE Team Emirates as a high-profile support rider for Pogacar.

Enric Mas of Spain, considered an overall podium contender, crashed late in the stage and withdrew from the race. Mas placed second in the Vuelta a Espana the last two years.

Richard Carapaz of Ecuador, a podium finisher in all three Grand Tours and the Olympic road race champion, was involved in the same crash and fell 15:34 behind in the overall standings, denting his hopes. Carapaz’s team later announced his withdrawal from the Tour due to a small fracture in his left kneecap.

The Tour continues Sunday with another hilly stage with five climbs before a flat finish. Live Peacock coverage starts with a pre-race show at 6 a.m. ET.

Heartbreaking crash for two contenders. Enric Mas has abandoned and Richard Carapaz is far behind the peloton. #TDF2023 📺: Peacock pic.twitter.com/10jnwFZOvw — NBC Sports Cycling (@NBCSCycling) July 1, 2023

Mark Cavendish’s Final Tour de France Might Be His Most Relatable Yet

The 39-year-old sprinter, set to retire after this season, faces a tough battle. With eight flat stages ripe for sprint finishes and a supporting Astana Qazaqstan, hopes remain high.

After a training camp in Sierra Nevada, a high-altitude town in Spain, the Astana Qazaqstan Team is ready to take on the 2024 Tour de France, largely in support of delivering Cavendish to the front of the sprint stages. (Their nickname this year is ‘Team Cav.’) But the season so far has been somewhat lackluster for Cavendish compared to past years, with only two stage wins—at the Tour of Columbia and Tour de Hongrie —to his name thus far. He struggled with illness in the early season, though at least he missed out on some of the terrible crashes that have taken out many of the most talented racers in the peloton. Still, he wasn’t starting the season looking for big results ahead of the Tour.

His coach, Vasilis Anastopoulos, in an interview with Velo , said that Cavendish is back on form, and the team is feeling confident that the 35th win is possible. “If the next few weeks go as planned, everything is possible at the Tour de France. The confidence is there for Mark and the whole team,” Vasilis said.

In probably the funniest quote about a pro rider this season, Anastopoulos followed up by adding, “OK, Mark is old now, he’s 39.”

He recovered gracefully, adding that with age comes experience, and no one has as much of that as Cavendish, who’s been winning stages at the Tour since 2008.

Of the 21 stages in this year’s Tour, eight are flat and likely to end in sprints that Cavendish could contest. There are four hilly stages that could come down to a sprint, as well as three mountain stages that will finish on a flat. Four stages end at a mountain summit, and it will be nearly impossible for Cavendish to contend, and he’s not likely to secure a time trial win on either of those stages.

As to whether or not this will actually be his last shot at glory, it’s hard to say: Last year, he announced that he would retire at the end of the season, but after he crashed out of the Tour before he was able to secure a 35th win, he decided to come back for one more season. It’s hard to say if he’d do the same if this year’s race doesn’t go according to plan.

Right now, Cavendish and team are racing at the Tour de Suisse , and he’s finishing far down in the results. Still, races like this are often used as tune-ups for the Tour, and after their recent training camp, this race is likely serving to get their legs ready, and tactics dialed in ahead of the big show—so don’t count him out yet.

Molly writes about cycling, nutrition and training with an emphasis on bringing more women into sport. She's the author of nine books including the Shred Girls series and is the founder of Strong Girl Publishing . She co-hosts The Consummate Athlete Podcast and spends most of her free time biking and running on trails, occasionally joined by her mini-dachshund.

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2024 Tour de Suisse: Yves Lampaert wins stage 1 time trial

Yves Lampaert (Soudal-QuickStep) blasted to the opening victory in the Tour de Suisse, a short, ultra-fast individual time trial through the streets of Vaduz.

Second was Stefan Bissegger (EF Education-Easy Post), three seconds back, with Ethan Hayter (Ineos Grenadiers) in third.

Averaging a speed of over 56kmh, the flying Lampaert established an early best time of 5:05 for the technical, flat 4.77 km course, held over a mixture of bike paths, rural lanes and city streets.

The former Belgian National TT champion held on throughout the afternoon of variable weather conditions to take his first win since the 2022 Tour de France opening TT on the streets of Denmark.

Lampaert will now lead the Tour de Suisse into its second rolling stage from Vaduz to Regensdorf, likely to end in a reduced bunch sprint.

“I didn’t expect to beat the Swiss specialists like Bissegger and [Stefan] Kung,” Lampaert said afterwards. “I’m really proud to do it, I know this distance suits me well.”

With his previous win now nearly two years distant, Lampaert said that he was delighted to be able to add a second stage victory in Suisse to the time trial triumph he captured back in the 2019 edition of the race.

“Yes, absolutely, nowadays the level is so high in cycling, at one moment I started to doubt myself. But I never gave up believing and kept training as well as possible. So it gives me a lot of satisfaction that I could take the victory today.”

How it unfolded

Racing started at just after 2 pm, with plenty of the top names opting for an early time to try and beat the difficult weather conditions forecast for later in the day. Of the 162 riders taking part, Jan Sommer (Switzerland National Team) was the first to go down the start ramp, but double Portuguese TT national champion Joao Almeida (UAE Team Emirates) quickly went top of the leader’s board with a time of 5:12.

With riders off at minute intervals the changes to the provisional ranking looked set to come thick and fast. The first surprise, though, was that local TT star Stefan Küng (Groupama-FDJ) failed to oust Almeida from the top spot, the former European Time Trial Champion falling four seconds short. An even bigger one came when after beginning his race just over half an hour after the first starter, Lampaert put no less than seven seconds into the Portuguese racer’s time, consequently gaining a spot in the hot seat the 33-year-old Belgian was destined to keep for the rest of the day.

The strength of Lampaert’s top provisional time of 5:05 became steadily clearer as riders of the calibre of Ethan Hayter (Ineos Grenadiers) and reigning Swiss TT champ Stefan Bissegger (EF Education-EasyPost)  were unable to topple it. Try as they might on a course which featured a little of everything in four kilometres, from city roads to country back lanes to a segment of bike path running alongside a river, Lampaert continued to rule the rankings.

The rain that set in with around an hour’s racing left certainly played in Lampaert’s favour, just as the change in weather from dry to wet had done in Copenhagen two years ago. But the fact of the matter was that he had set a very impressive time and regardless of the favourable circumstances, that was the bar that had to be broken. 

In fact none of the final wave of riders came close to troubling Lampaert with former Tour de France stage winner Søren Kragh Andersen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) the only late starter who broke into the top ten.

Barring disasters, such a short course was never going to have a huge impact on the GC. So although Almeida now goes into the remainder of the eight-day course as the best-placed overall favourite, last year’s overall winner Mattias Skjelmose (Lidl-Trek) at 11 seconds,  Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates) is at 15 seconds, Egan Bernal (Ineos Grenadiers) at 19 seconds, and none of the other favourites is too far distanced.

What is certain is the four summit finishes to come in the second half of the race, as well as an uphill time trial on the final day that still await the 2024 Tour de Suisse peloton will surely establish far bigger differences.

Prior to the feast of Alpine climbing on offer in Suisse this year, stage 2  from Vaduz to Regensdorf will be finely balanced between favouring the breakaways and the sprinters, with two cat.2 climbs early on and a cat.3, the Regensberg, peaking out just 12 kilometres from the finish. 

“I think tomorrow [Monday] is a really nice stage, probably a lot of the sprinters can make it also,” Lampaert observed. “Let’s hope it’s a sprint stage with a small group and I can try to keep the jersey.”

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With the euros upon, let's pick every game from the group stage to the final to find our winner.

Euro 2024 is nearly upon us. Friday brings us the first game of the tournament as hosts Germany face Scotland in Munich. Prior to that my wife's office sweepstakes required me to offer what might be termed some generous guidance as to what results to expect in the tournament -- it seemed a shame to let such content go to waste. So here we go, every game of the Euros, plotted out for your entertainment. 

Considering I tried this before the 2022 World Cup and had Brazil winning the lot, the USA crashing out at the group stages and Germany getting through theirs, I wouldn't rush to place big money bets on anything I'm saying here. Then again I did say Morocco would top their group and Argentina would beat France. Stopped clocks and all that. Let's get into it:

Group stages

Matchday 1 picks Germany 3, Scotland 0 Hungary 1, Switzerland 2

Matchday 2 picks Germany 2, Hungary 0 Scotland 2, Switzerland 2

Matchday 3 picks Switzerland 1, Germany 3 Scotland 1, Hungary 2

There are two types of big name hosts at major tournaments, the sort that get crushed by the weight of expectations or those who are raised up by a home crowd that falls head over heels for them. A bright start against Scotland in Munich ensures that Germany are the latter while Scotland never recover from a tough start to the tournament. They give Switzerland a few headaches but Murat Yakin's men know what it takes to reach the knockout rounds -- they ultimately discover they did just that by overcoming Hungary early on day two.

Matchday 1 picks Spain 1, Croatia 0 Italy 1, Albania 1

Matchday 2 picks Croatia 1, Albania 0 Spain 2, Italy 0

Matchday 3 picks Croatia 1, Italy 1 Albania 0, Spain 2

The Group of Death claims its prize as the defending champions fail to escape, paying the price for a misfiring attack that couldn't overcome an Albania side who reached the tournament off the back of their defensive qualities. Spain begin the tournament in customary fashion, not necessarily turning their possession into the goals you might expect, but both they and Croatia showcase an innate ability to do just enough. 

Matchday 1 picks Slovenia 0, Denmark 1 Serbia 1, England 3

Matchday 2 picks Slovenia 0, Serbia 1 Denmark 1, England 1

Matchday 3 picks England 4, Slovenia 0 Denmark 3, Serbia 2

A hard fought draw against Denmark is enough to send tremors across England, but the Three Lions respond with an impressive win over Slovenia that ensures they pick up top spot in what is one of the more stratified groups. For all their attacking firepower Serbia are perhaps guilty of being a little too gung-ho, even 

Matchday 1 picks Poland 1, Netherlands 2 Austria 1, France 3

Matchday 2 picks Poland 1, Austria 2 Netherlands 0, France 2

Matchday 3 picks Netherlands 3, Austria 1 France 3, Poland 0

How different might this group have been were it not for injuries to Robert Lewandowski and the Dutch midfield pair of Frenkie De Jong and Teun Koopmeiners? Without their talismanic forward for the opener, Poland never really got going in this competition while the Netherlands' hopes of blowing France off cause were significantly hampered, resulting in Les Bleus breezing to top spot. Their case to be champions in waiting seems hard to dispute.

Matchday 1 picks Romania 0, Ukraine 0 Belgium 2, Slovakia 0

Matchday 2 picks Slovakia 1, Ukraine 2 Belgium 1, Romania 0

Matchday 3 picks Slovakia 0, Romania 1 Ukraine 1, Belgium 1

The last vestiges of Belgium's Golden Generation get the job done in a supremely favorable Group E but they are hardly setting the tournament alight early on and labor to a draw against Ukraine that means Serhiy Rebrov's side pick up an automatic qualification spot. Romania, meanwhile, prove to be obdurate if uninspired, holding out for more than enough points to book their spot in the knockout rounds thanks to a late winner against Slovakia.

Matchday 1 picks Turkey 0, Georgia 1 Portugal 3, Czech Republic 0

Matchday 2 picks Georgia 1, Czech Republic 2 Turkey 0, Portugal 1

Matchday 3 picks Czech Republic 0, Turkey 2 Georgia 1, Portugal 2

With Portugal cruising to top spot, Group F delivers plenty of drama elsewhere. Tournament debutants Georgia pull off one of the upsets of the group stages as Khvicha Kvarastkhelia inspires them to victory over Turkey, who rally in dramatic fashion in their final game to snatch second place for themselves.

Third placed rankings

The top four advance to the round of 16

Round of 16

Spain 1, Romania 0 Germany 2, Denmark 0 Portugal 3, Hungary 1 Netherlands 2, Ukraine 1 (a.e.t.) Belgium 2, Serbia 3 France 2, Turkey 0 England 2, Georgia 0 Switzerland 1, Croatia 1 (Switzerland win on penalties)

Though a 24 team European Championships does open the door to the big leagues for teams who might never otherwise have got close, it does have some fairly sizeable drawbacks. Not only does it take nearly two weeks to eliminate eight teams, but when the competition arrives at its last 16 there are precious few contests that promise to be tightly fought.

Serbia achieve the biggest surprise of the round, edging a high scoring thriller with Belgium, their first win of a knockout game since they competed as part of Yugoslavia. The only other result that perhaps goes against the grain is Switzerland dragging Croatia to penalties, where for once Luka Modric and company come up short in a penalty shootout, Gregor Kobel the hero for the Nati.

Quarterfinals

Spain 1, Germany 3 Portugal 2, Netherlands 0 Serbia 0, France 1 England 1, Switzerland 0 (a.e.t.)

Now Europe moves into the big games, high quality ones at that. Germany fly out of the blocks to score the first and second goals Spain have conceded in the tournament, holding off a fightback to book a semifinal spot against another opponent with a 100% record. Portugal's star men have stayed fit, the Netherlands' haven't. On the other side of the bracket, France emerge victorious after a profligate but commanding win over Serbia. England are not quite so dominant but the quality of their bench shines through against a Swiss opponent drained from their battles with Croatia earlier in the competition. Everything is set for a collision course between the four pre-tournament favorites.

Germany 1, Portugal 0 France 3, England 2

Much of Germany's quality on the way to the semifinal has been apparent in their possession and attacking display but this time the hosts do just enough to repel the pressure that comes from Bruno Fernandes, Bernardo Silva and Cristiano Ronaldo. The other semifinal, meanwhile, is a stone cold classic. Harry Kane and Jude Bellingham excel for England but even the defensive nous of Kyle Walker is not enough to quell Kylian Mbappe, yet again a man for the biggest stage as the now Real Madrid forward fires Les Bleus to a fourth final in their last five major tournaments.

Germany 1, France 1 (Germany win on penalties)

As is usually the case at major tournaments, the best game is not the last one, this meeting between the Germans and French replete with more tension than quality. The hosts get out in front in the first half but are pegged back late on, setting the stage for half an hour where neither of these exhausted sides are quite prepared to risk defeat in pursuit of victory. Ultimately Euro 2024 is settled from 12 yards out, Toni Kroos' final action in professional football the winning penalty that brings him the only major honor he was missing.

It's a nice story. Will it actually work out like that? Almost certainly not, that's the joy of the Euros. It rarely goes anything like the way you expect. 

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Another summer of football action will see the likes of England, Spain, France and hosts Germany all go head to head across the course of a month, each hoping to be the country which displaces Italy as reigning continental champions.

Here is the full schedule for Euro 2024, plus below you can see day-by-day fixtures and times (BST) in text form, with the knockout games and reports to be included as the tournament progresses.

Friday, June 14

Group A, Munich: Germany v Scotland (2000)

Group A, Cologne: Hungary v Switzerland (1400)

Group B, Berlin: Spain v Croatia (1700)

Group B, Dortmund: Italy v Albania (2000)

Group D, Hamburg: Poland v Netherlands (1400)

Group C, Stuttgart: Slovenia v Denmark (1700)

Group C, Gelsenkirchen: Serbia v England (2000)

Group E, Munich: Romania v Ukraine (1400)

Group E, Frankfurt: Belgium v Slovakia (1700)

Group D, Dusseldorf: Austria v France (2000)

Group F, Dortmund: Turkey v Georgia (1700)

Group F, Leipzig: Portugal v Czechia (2000)

Group B, Hamburg: Croatia v Albania (1400)

Group A, Stuttgart: Germany v Hungary (1700)

Group A, Cologne: Scotland v Switzerland (2000)

Group C, Munich: Slovenia v Serbia (1400)

Group C, Frankfurt: Denmark v England (1700)

Group B, Gelsenkirchen: Spain v Italy (2000)

Group E, Dusseldorf: Slovakia v Ukraine (1400)

Group D, Berlin: Poland v Austria (1700)

Group D, Leipzig: Netherlands v France (2000)

Group F, Hamburg: Georgia v Czechia (1400)

Group F, Dortmund: Turkey v Portugal (1700)

Group E, Cologne: Belgium v Romania (2000)

Group A, Frankfurt: Switzerland v Germany (2000)

Group A, Stuttgart: Scotland v Hungary (2000)

Group B, Leipzig: Croatia v Italy (2000)

Group B, Dusseldorf: Albania v Spain (2000)

Group D, Berlin: Netherlands v Austria (1700)

Group D, Dortmund: France v Poland (1700)

Group C, Cologne: England v Slovenia (2000)

Group C, Munich: Denmark v Serbia (2000)

Group E. Frankfurt: Slovakia v Romania (1700)

Group E, Stuttgart: Ukraine v Belgium (1700)

Group F, Hamburg: Czechia v Turkey (2000)

Group F, Gelsenkirchen: Georgia v Portugal (2000)

Round of 16, Berlin: runner-up Group A v runner-up Group B (1700)

Round of 16, Dortmund: winner Group A v runner-up Group C (2000)

Round of 16, Gelsenkirchen: winner Group C v third place Group D/E/F (1700)

Round of 16, Cologne: runner-up Group B v third place Group A/D/E/F (2000)

Round of 16, Dusseldorf: runner-up Group D v runner-up Group E (1700)

Round of 16, Frankfurt: winner Group F v third place Group A/B/C (2000)

Round of 16, Munich: winner Group E v third place Group A/B/C/D (1700)

Round of 16, Leipzig: winner Group D v runner-up Group F (2000)

Quarter-final, Stuttgart: winner round-of-16 match 3 v winner round-of-16 match 1 (1700)

Quarter-final, Hamburg: winner round-of-16 match 5 v winner round-of-16 match 6 (2000)

Quarter-final, Dusseldorf: winner round-of-16 match 4 v winner round-of-16 match 2 (1700)

Quarter-final, Berlin: winner round-of-16 match 7 v winner round-of-16 match 8 (2000)

Semi-final, Munich: winner QF1 v winner QF2 (2000)

Semi-final Dortmund: winner QF3 v winner QF4 (2000)

Final, Berlin (2000)

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Tyler Stites (Project Echelon) claimed the first win of the Tour de Beauce on Wednesday, capturing stage 1 of the UCI 2.2 ranked Canadian five-day race with a late attack.

After an aggressive opening day of racing, where the peloton allowed little room to the many riders who tried to break away, it was the American's move in the final three kilometres that won the day with Stites finishing solo. He was six seconds ahead of fellow US rider Ross Kent (Expeditors Elite CT) and in third it was Gregory Santiago Zapata (Québec), with the 22-year-old also claiming the lead in the youth classification.

Stites last year finished second overall at the Tour de Beauce behind Luke Valenti, winning two stages along the way and on top of that he entered the race this year on a strong run of form. 

So far this season Stites has won the Rhodes Grand Prix, the Redlands Classic overall, while also picking up two stages along the way, and he also claimed the Tour of the Gila overall and a stage. On top of that, he came second to Brandon McNulty (UAE Team Emirates) at the time trial at the USA Cycling National Championships and the 26-year-old is not long returned from a short European block where he delivered a top ten finish in the stage 4 sprint at the 2.Pro-ranked Tour of Norway.

Claiming the 198km opening stage which started and finished in Saint-Gédéon may have been the ideal start for Stites as he looks to move up to the top step at this year's five stage 725 kilometre Tour de Beauce, but it was a tough beginning to the 36th edition of the race for many others. There were several falls, one involving around 20 riders, and eleven riders were marked down as DNF (did not finish) at the end of the opening stage.

The race continues on Thursday with a rugged 164km stage from Saint-Odilon-de-Cranbourne which will take the peloton to the north side of the Massif du Sud.

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