Yates: A family affair on Col du Platzerwasel
It's going to be a fun time around the Yates family dinner table in Bury, England. The pro cycling twins put together an almost identical finish in this year's Tour de France. Adam will finish third on the general classification while Simon climbed into fourth on the final mountain stage. The final standings were a total effort from both riders [...]
Vingegaard and Pogacar. The gloves are off.
Vingegaard throws down the glove. One word has now changed the relationship between the Dane and Tadej Pogacar Up until this quote from Vingegaard a few days ago, the two superstars were cordial and respectful of one another. That's officially dead. Buried, never to be remembered except by pro cycling historians twenty years from now. We're not in Lemond - [...]
Asgreen and break foil the sprinters
A stage marked for the sprinters that wasn't. It's stage 18 and there are 20 kilometers left as a break of four riders race to the finish in Bourg-en-Bresse Forty seconds behind, the sprinter teams take turns trying to shut down the escape. It's a math and manpower equation. The day is supposed to belong to the fastmen like Dylan [...]
Pogacar’s Tour hopes dead and gone.
Much was said today about the sudden demise of Tadej Pogacar on the steep gradients of the Col de la Loze climb. Pogacar was perhaps the most eloquent, summing up his debacle in four short words. "I'm gone, I'm dead" That covered his loss of 5:45 to Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo Visma) and the end of his hopes of winning a [...]
Vingegaard: super alien destroys alien.
Jonas Vingegaard's time trial victory was stunning, massive, extraordinary, amazing, devastating, smashing, shocking and crushing. Yes, it created an adjective crisis in the pro cycling media. At the beginning of this Tour de France, the competitors were divided into two camps: the normal riders and two aliens who were on an otherworldly level. That was Vingegaard and his rival Tadej [...]
Vingegaard’s rest day email to Roglic
Twisted Spoke has obtained an email from Jumbo-Visma's Jonas Vingegaard to teammate Primoz Roglic, sent on the second rest day of the Tour de France. In the email, he discusses his epic battle with Tadej Pogacar and suggests he and Roglic join foces next year. WARNING: Humorous content, NOT REAL "Dear Primoz, Greeting from the Tour de France! It's the [...]