The Rising Star in association with Zwift is the award for home-grown talent bound for the big leagues.Last year’s Rising Star winner, Ethan Hayter has already had an outstanding 2019, winning the A Travers les Hauts stage race in France, two stages and the points jersey in the Baby Giro, and the U23 British national road title. Zwift is the perfect partner for this award as they already have their own focus […]
Bike race organisers have always struggled to bring more information to the viewer as filming on the go limits their options. But Japanese data company NTT are about to come in to the sport and change all of that. Tour de France fan parkMmmmmwaaagh!” screams Star Wars’s resident walking carpet Chewbacca as he loses a game of holographic monster-chess to droid R2-D2. Watching the 1977 classic, it’s unlikely anyone thought, “but what would the 7ft Wookiee make of a bike race being played out in front of him in the same way?” At the time that seemed impossibly […]
With three summit finishes above 2,000 metres in this year’s race, Paul Knott looks at how the peloton have prepared for the heady heights of this year’s TourRiding high on the Tourmalet, the Tour de France passes through the fans near the top of the icon climbThe high-altitude aspect of the race is going to be a significant factor,” four-time champion Chris Froome replied when asked his thoughts about the 2019 Tour de France route. Alas the four-time winner never made it to the Grand Départ in Belgium this year, let alone the mountain ranges, due to his crash at the […]
The GC favourites on stage 15 of the Tour de France (Photo: Yuzuru SUNADA) The Tour de France now heads Alps and it’s now survival of the fittest among the overall contenders.
From one of the least successful teams in the race, to winning for fun. Jumbo Visma have turned their team around in the last two years, and done it off the back of the humble time trial. James Shrubsall found out how.Jumbo-Visma on the podium after winning the team time trial on stage two of the Tour de France 2019 (Jeff Pachoud/AFP/Getty Images)The yellow team became the team in yellow. When Mike Teunissen gurned and wrestled his way to the first victory of this year’s Tour de France, there can’t be many who failed to notice the happy synchronicity between Jumbo-Visma’s in-house colour scheme and the Tour’s maillot jaune. How fortuitous that everything from the riders’ helmets […]
