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Julian Alaphilippe on stage 18 of the Tour de France 2019 (Photo by Jean Catuffe/Getty Images)The Frenchman's soigneur, however, was fined for the incident

How tough was stage 18 of the Tour de France? (Photo by Tim de Waele/Getty Images)The 2019 Tour de France is still balanced on a knife edge with just two more mountain stages left before Paris.

Romain Bardet riding to second place over the Galibier (Photo: Yuzuru SUNADA)Romain Bardet says defending his lead in the climber’s classification is his only remaining goal of the Tour de France 2019.

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 […]

Egan Bernal on stage 18 of the 2019 Tour de France (Sunada)The Colombian moved into second overall after gaining time on stage 18 of the Tour de France