Tour de France 2022

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Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) is halfway through his ride as the Slovenian Roglic rolls down the ramp to get his push for yellow under way. Kung's Groupama-FDJ teammate David Gaudu has already come home 37 seconds down on Van der Poel - time the French climber will have to make up in the mountains. First down the ramp, Jeremy Lecroq is first to cross the finish. Bringing a 64-tooth chain ring to the opening time trial is fine if you can handle it but looks a bit silly if you crash out after a few corners... He rides it out but that's a reminder of the potential perils of this wet course. The Ineos Grenadier co-leader will be pleased with that effort - he didn't crash and he didn't concede too much time to Roglic. He's followed shortly after by teammate Dani Martinez, who is 31 seconds down on the top. He caught Covid during the Tour de Suisse and so it remains to be seen how he performs here at the Tour. Thomas seems to be taking things very gingerly - aware, perhaps, that there's no point messing up his chances with an early crash. It's three seconds faster than Ganna but two seconds slower than the man in the hot seat, Van Aert. Crucially, Pogacar's time is eight seconds quicker than Vingegaard and nine seconds quicker than Roglic, his two main GC rivals. Wout van Aert goes through the intermediate check just one second down on Van der Poel and Mollema - so, the knee injury that kept him out of the Belgian national championships ain't so bad then, eh? It's no doubt all part of his ploy to lose time before the mountains so he can put in a push for the polka dot jersey and the odd stage win. Meanwhile, Jonas Vingegaard seems to be taking some risks on this wet course - and he's being cheered with every pedal stroke by the partisan local crowd. That's some trio to go one after the other!

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Stage results; General Classification; Green jersey; Mountains classification; Young rider; Team classification. By Cycling Weekly. published in 16 hours.

In 2022, the young rider classification is open to riders born after January 1, 1997. On hilly stages, it's 30, whilst on mountain stages, it's 20. Race organisers ASO classify stages as either flat, hilly or mountainous and this impacts the points awarded, with more on offer for the flat stages to favour the sprinters. These are prizes of €5,000 and carry no extra points for the KoM jersey. Key riders at the Tour de France will be eyeing up a selection of brightly coloured jerseys. On HC climbs, first over the line gets 20 points, 1st Cat climbs it's 10, 3rd it's two, and 4th cat climbs earn just one point. Therefore, after stage one, the winner will pull in the yellow jersey for stage two - but it's quite likely to change hands after that. The 2022 Tour de France route opened with the short, and flat, time trial, and saw Yves Lampaert (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl) storm to victory. 2. Wout Van Aert (Bel) Jumbo-Visma, at 5s Elsewhere, Jumbo-Visma leads the team classification. 2. Wout Van Aert (Bel) Jumbo-Visma, at 5s There weren't any points on offer in the mountains classification, though, meaning no rider will be wearing the green or polka-dot jersey on stage two.

FIVE key riders in the 2022 Tour de France peloton to keep an eye on over the next 3 weeks and 21 stages of the famed race.

One of just four Australians to finish in a top five position at Le Tour, pure climber O’Connor has plenty of mountain on which to emulate compatriot Jai Hindley’s Giro win in May. “When I saw him win, I told myself I can do it too.” And he can if his win at Tignes last season is anything to go by. He emerged from Primoz Roglic’s shadow last season where he came second, and at 25 is now co-captain of the strongest team in the race. “Maybe a podium, a top five, or you never know,” he said of his chances at the team hotel in the Danish countryside this week, looking every inch a man relaxed and determined after missing the Tour last time out.

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Stefan Bissegger (EF Education-EasyPost) had a miserable opening day at the Tour de France as he crashed twice in treacherous conditions in Copenhagen.

Tour de Suisse Not once, but twice, he slips out again. “This is turning into a nightmare start, an absolute nightmare start.

The 2022 Tour de France begins in Copenhagen today with a time trial around the streets of the Danish capital.

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Tour de France 2022 Stage 1 Tour de France 2022 Stage 1 Mentally that was the toughest TT in a while.” “A shame about the start. The Welsh rider will lean on Ineos teammates to bolster his bid for a second yellow jersey, including Colombian climber Dani Martinez, as well as potential stage winners Adam Yates and Tom Pidcock.

After kicking off in Copenhagen, this year's Tour de France covers 3328km before coming to an end in Paris on Sunday 24 July.

In another nod to Lemond and Hinault, this replicates the stage on which they crossed the line hand in hand 36 years ago. These might not be on the scale of the mountains to come, but the Mur de Peguere finishes with gradients of 13 and 18 per cent during the final kilometre. The battle for the yellow jersey will be settled with a penultimate day time trial, and a long and challenging one at that. It’s a mini Paris-Roubaix in reverse as the feared cobbles return to the race on stage five. A Tour stage has not finished here since 1986, on the day Greg Lemond famously took yellow from Bernard Hinault. From there the stage heads into Switzerland where a punchy finish awaits. After the first proper rest day (the transfer day from Denmark notwithstanding), more Alpine challenges await, though relatively sedate. In the decade since it made its debut on the Tour, La Planche des Belles Filles has become a favourite and for good reason. The Storebaelsbroen is the 18km-long bridge across the Great Belt linking eastern and western Denmark. The possibility of gusting winds on this exposed bridge is high, so teams will have to be on high alert for splits on the road into Nyborg. It’s one for the stronger sprinters, but wind could again be a factor in determining how this one plays out. The opening time trial around Copenhagen is pretty much pan flat, but there are plenty of tight corners to make it a technical challenge as well as a measure of pure power. Short and extended highlights packages are also available on GCN+. You can see the full breakdown of Eurosport’s coveragehereand the GCN+ coverage here.

Stage 2 will likely be a day for the sprinters with the day starting in Roskilde and ending in Nyborg, Denmark.

Belgium’s Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma), who’s just 5 seconds behind Lampaert’s yellow jersey and out for revenge following his upset defeat on Stage 1, is the other top favorite. The Netherlands’ Fabio Jakobsen (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl) is a top favorite as he rides for a team that’s perfected the art of mastering echelons and winning Tour de France field sprints. Things might get interesting as the race hits the Intermediate Sprint in Kalundborg as the race takes a 180-degree turn and begins heading south along Zealand’s western coast.

Alongside the Tour de France, Alice0 starts a journey through many video games on many bicycles, starting with the official TDF game.

This is the problem: the real Tour De France is long and largely slow. I like to look ahead and watch my shadow. It doesn't feel riding a bike as a cyclist, nor does it feel like watching the Tour De France as a spectator. One of the best stories in last year's Tour was the return of Mark Cavendish. The Manx sprinter had struggled with his physical and mental health for several years, missing the 2019 and 2020 Tours, and he came close to retiring. I like to look down and watch the chainset turn with my feet. For the next three weeks, I'll have the Tour De France playing on my second monitor, mostly acting as 'slow TV'. It passes beautiful landscapes, from quaint villages and gentle summer countryside to rolling rivers and dizzying mountain passes. Much of the real TDF is saving energy for key moments, and in the video game too. He wasn't even due to ride in 2021's race until an injured teammate dropped out and he was drafted as a replacement days before the start. Tour De France 2022, the video game, is strange. Let's start in the obvious place: the official Tour De France video game. It gives you the option to hold X to automatically keep pace with the rider ahead, or even set the race to fast-forward and have AI fully take control until you want back in. The Tour De France, the grandest race in professional cycling, started today.

Behind him, the GC battle has already commenced, with 2021 winner Tadej Pogačar making a clear statement of intent with a third place finish - only two seconds ...

Ben O’Connor (AG2R Citroën) was a minute down on Lampaert, and perhaps the worst placed amongst the major favourites. Tadej Pogačar sits in first place in the young riders classification - the white jersey - with Tom Pidcock in second place, 17 seconds down. Of Ineos’ trio, Daniel Martínez was the last finisher - 44 seconds behind Lampaert and 39 seconds off Pogacar.

Find out what happened in the 13.4km time trial on the roads of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Italy's time trial world champion Filippo Ganna (Ineos Grenadiers) sits in fourth. Friday 22 July: Stage 19 – Castelnau-Magnoac – Cahors (188.5km) Sun 3 July: Stage 3 – Vejle-Sonderborg (182 km) Slovenia's Tadej Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) is seven seconds behind in third. Sat 2 July: Stage 2 – Roskilde-Nyborg (202.5 km) I'm just a farmer's son from Belgium. I never expected it."

Belgian Yves Lampaert shocked the favourites to pull on the leader's yellow jersey after the rain-drenched first stage of the Tour de France, an individual ...

I’m so happy with this victory and honoured to wear the yellow jersey." Somehow I managed to beat the best riders in the world. "I beat the big guys. French sports minister Amelie Oudea-Castera was in Copenhagen for the race and said up to 600,000 fans had turned up for what she described as "a lovely course in a magnificent city". Belgian Yves Lampaert shocked the favourites to pull on the leader's yellow jersey after the rain-drenched first stage of the Tour de France, an individual time-trial in the Danish capital on Friday. Belgian Yves Lampaert shocked the favourites to pull on the leader's yellow jersey after the rain-drenched first stage of the Tour de France, an individual time-trial in the Danish capital on Friday.

Belgian Yves Lampaert shocked the favourites to pull on the leader's yellow jersey after the rain-drenched first stage of the Tour de France, an individual ...

“That was the worst first half of a time trial I’ve ever done,” Thomas said. “It’s wonderful to share these events with our European partners,” she said. “Then it was in my head. Somehow I managed to beat the best riders in the world. I’m so happy with this victory and honoured to wear the yellow jersey.” “I beat the big guys.

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Wout Van Aert was second at 05" and two-time champion Tadej Pogacar third at 07". Long stage, but it is presumed to be calm and favorable for the sprinters. The old Roskilde circuit also hosted three Formula 1 Grand Prix between 1960 and 1962.

Adam Yates and Tour debutant Tom Pidcock impressed on their return from Covid-19, with the Ineos Grenadiers pair 13th and 15th respectively. Their teammate, ...

He’s won a Tour stage in 2018, and has six stage wins at the Vuelta a Espana on his palmarès. He gets it sorted quickly and rejoins the back of the pelaton. Stage 2 could be defined by the wind. A note on the weather. Contenders Primoz Roglic and Jonas Vingegaard also safely negotiated the treacherous conditions and attention switches to another stage which could be defined by weather. Their teammate, Geraint Thomas, was one second further back after completing the ride in a gilet, forgetting to take it off before the start.

Updates as the peloton make its way from Roskilde to Nyborg over 202.5 km. Join Luke McLaughlin for the latest.

The chase is on from the peloton, and the gap to the break has fallen to 1’34”. You would think, however, that the sprint teams will be happy with the make-up and size of this breakaway. All that should add up to stress, nervousness and potential chaos in the peloton, but wonderful entertainment for all of us having a nice cup of tea and a sit down. That was Yves Lampaert’s tearful reaction in Copenhagen yesterday after he shocked the world’s top time-triallists to win the 13.2km opening stage and claim the yellow jersey. 182km to go: The “final” is shaping up to be exciting today. “The mistake we made is probably we should have said: “OK, at 14km to go, we attack.” Because if you don’t do it, another team is going to do it to you. They have too much riding on this to let the breakaway have any chance at all. Rolland and Cort are the guys in this break who have been there, done that at the biggest races. The average speed of the peloton is 44.4km/h which is pretty fierce. 139km to go: Barthe leads it out on the climb. Looks like a fantastic atmosphere, and it’s nice to see the sun shining for (one of) Denmark’s big days. The first of them, the Côte d’Asnæs Indelukke, is coming up shortly. 134km to go: The B&B Hotel riders, Rolland and Barthe, have been dropped by Bystrom and Cort up front.

Yves Lampaert defends yellow jersey after time trial win. Sprint finish expected on flat stage in Denmark. Break: Magnus Cort (EF Education-EasyPost), ...

I didn't have it the past two-and-a-half years, so to have it now in the coming days it would really be a pity." It's difficult to understand that I took the jersey. "It's a pity because also Tom Steels was one of the victims.

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It appears they aren't, as we pass the road marker and the red Skoda is still to speed away. ...To the first road stage of the Tour de France 2022. Are the B&B riders going to try and "work Magnus Cort over" as Sean Kelly thinks they will? His assault on the same competition at the Dauphine was relentless and his team really worked to help him secure it. Cort is too strong for him too, coming round to take the lead in the King of the Mountains competition. Cort is alive to the move, diving on to Barthe's wheel.

Stage-by-stage updates, results, and highlights from this year's race.

Two-time defending champion Pogacar pulled on the white jersey as the fastest under-25 rider. His face creased in pain from the relentless effort and stress of the rain slick-road van Aert took the lead ahead of his arch-rival, world champion Filippo Ganna, who suffered a puncture along the way. Quick-Step rider Lampaert suffered less from the rain with his later start than prerace favorites Wout van Aert and Filippo Ganna, while defending champion Tadej Pogacar produced a technical masterclass timing faster than his overall title rivals.

Jakobsen edged Jumbo-Visma's Wout van Aert, who took the overall leader's yellow jersey after the 202.2km run from Roskilde to Nyborg in Denmark that ...

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Stage 3 of the Tour de France will take the riders from Vejle to Sønderborg in what will likely be another day for the sprinters.

The forecast calls for temperatures in the 70s and partly cloudy skies, but wind will again be a factor. The riders will then follow a counterclockwise loop around the outside of the city center and up toward the finishing straight. The race comes into the center of town from the west, looping around and under itself just after crossing a bridge onto the island about 6km from the finish line.

Find out what happened in the 202.2km-stage from Roskilde to Nyborg in Denmark on the second day in the saddle for riders at the men's Grand Tour event.

Friday 22 July: Stage 19 – Castelnau-Magnoac – Cahors (188.5km) Thursday 21 July: Stage 18 – Lourdes-Hautacam (143.5km) Wednesday 20 July: Stage 17 – Saint-Gaudens-Peyragudes (130km) Tuesday 19 July: Stage 16 – Carcassonne-Foix (178,5km) Sun 3 July: Stage 3 – Vejle-Sonderborg (182 km) Sunday 17 July: Stage 15 – Rodez-Carcassonne (202.5km)