Tim Merlier out-sprinted Jonathan Milan to victory on stage nine of the Tour de France after Mathieu van der Poel almost pulled off an audacious win in Chateauroux.Van der Poel had rolled off the front of the peloton alongside teammate Jonas Rickaert at the start of the 174km stage from Chinon in what looked like a certain suicide mission,

In the battle of the “shadow leaders” at this Tour de France, Visma | Lease a Bike landed an important blow on Friday in Mur-de-Bretagne – although perhaps not exactly in the way they had hoped. While Joao Almeida (UAE) crashed hard and lost ten minutes,

Tadej Pogacar and Matteo Jorgenson had an incident involving water bottles during the seventh stage of the Tour de France. Race officials and both cyclists shared their thoughts on what happened and who was at fault.

"We were expecting a stage like this one in Châteauroux. The heat made it harder, and having Mathieu Van der Poel up the road didn’t help either. It turned out

Remco Evenepoel took the expected stage win on Wednesday in the Tour de France time trial in Caen, and that was part one of the story of this chrono. The other main topic was Jonas Vingegaard’s time loss compared to Tadej Pogacar,