Month: June 2022

By @EchelonsHub The Route The Tour de France starts here, in Copenhagen. The Grand Depart will this year be in Denmark, and the opening day will see a short but explosive 13.2 kilometers in the streets of the Scandinavian capital.  A pan-flat route, however one that will present some challenges to the riders. It will feature…

By @EchelonsHub The big one! July is Tour de France month, and the Grand Boucle is right on the doorstep – perhaps the most popular, the most reported and the most iconic of all pro cycling races. Three weeks of racing on our hands which will include furious sprints, technical time-trials, explosive hilly stages, colossal mountain…

By @EchelonsHub Thibaut Pinot has won the final mountain stage at the Tour de Suisse. The day saw the breakaway once again succeed, as the stage was battled in the final ascent to Malbun. Pinot managed to reel in early attacker Ion Izagirre and soloed to a strong stage win, beating Oscar Rodríguez and Alexey Lutsenko…

By @EchelonsHub The sixth stage saw an incredible amount of drama before the start, with 30 riders missing to take to the start. On the road the peloton remained relatively calm, with the GC riders arriving at the finale with no gaps, as the breakaway fought for the stage win. Nico Denz took the win, winning…

By @EchelonsHub The heat kept pushing on today’s stage, as many suffered and some differences were made. Aleksandr Vlasov took the win at the top of the complicated day, beating Neilson Powless and Jakob Fuglsang in the final sprint between late attackers, and jumped into the race lead aswell.  

By @EchelonsHub The fourth stage of the Tour de Suisse has finished in a reduced group sprint, after the day’s breakaway didn’t succeed and the final climb didn’t see any meaningful differences created. A sprint decided the stage, with Daryl Impey taking a surprising victory, ahead of Michael Matthews and Soren Kragh Andersen.

By @EchelonsHub A day where the breakaway was very dangerous, however the peloton could organize itself well enough to bring in the riders who were in front. A bunch sprint surprisingly came to be, with Peter Sagan taking a very important win ahead of the Tour de France. The former World champion took the first win…

By @EchelonsHub The second day of the race already saw the breakaway succeed, as the peloton couldn’t get organized well enough to bring one of the escapee group’s riders back, and that was Andreas Leknessund who took the biggest win of his career after a 19-kilometer long solo move. Alberto Bettiol sprinted to second in the…