Tour de France 2018 – Overall Preview

By David Hunter It’s here, there really is nothing quite like the Tour de France. Delayed by a week, due to some little football tournament, we are in for three weeks of incredible racing. Key Stages The TTT is on the third day and with a distance of 35.5km, we are bound to see big gaps….

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Tour de France 2014 – The Polka Dot Jersey

By David Hunter After breakaway specialists dominated the jersey for many years, the change of points, in 2012, has seen this jersey return to the shoulders of the GC riders. Nairo Quintana won in 2013, but won’t be back to defend his jersey. Different points are awarded, depending on the categorisation of the climb:- HC –…

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Tour de France 2014 – The Green Jersey

By David Hunter The Battle of the Sprinters Can anyone stop Peter Sagan? The brilliant Slovak returns, trying to win his 3rd consecutive green jersey. He will have the same strategy as in previous years, finish in the top 5 of the bunch sprints, win some intermediate sprints and win some very hard stages. If this…

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Tejay Van Garderen: “The plan is to help Cadel Evans at the Tour de France”

By  @pmpalermo Tejay Van Garderen is one of the best cyclists in the world, rank he earned with brilliant performances, such as the Tour de France 2012, in which he finished fifth overall and was the Best Young rider. Van Garderen has grown steadily since its debut in Rabobank, always working for others and learning…

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Mathias Frank: “The race has built a very good reputation within the cycling world”

By @pmpalermo One team that decided to try at  this year Tour de San Luis, as Marco Pinotti  anticipated in this website, is the BMC  and although the Italian did not compete in Argentina, the formation of John Lelangue will align very good runners such as Tejay  Vangarderen, Thor Hushovd and Mathias Frank. Frank is a mix…

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Jurgen van den Broeck: “Winning the Tour de France is almost impossible”

by @pmpalermo Jurgen Van den Broeck needs no presentation. Fourth in the last Tour de France is one of the best riders in the present and absolute lider of Lotto-Belisol Team. Tall and thin, really good climber, this Belgium improved aganist the clock but he still knows that winning la Grande Bouclé is almost impossible because…

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