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When the most craziest TDF edition since years visits the place of the most crazies TDF stage of the recent decade. Mont Ventoux is coming, not one, but twice today.Read More »Tour de France visits Mont Ventoux (TDF2021 Stage 11)
Charly Gaul won the 21 km moutain time trial up to the top of Mont Ventoux at the Tour de France 1958 Although nowadays Mont… Read More »Charly Gaul on the Mont Ventoux (Tour de France 1958)
1 Tadej Pogacar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates 38:25:17 2 Ben O’Connor (Aus) AG2R Citroën Team 0:02:01 3 Rigoberto Uran (Col) EF Education-Nippo 0:05:18 4 Jonas… Read More »Tour de France 2021 General Classification after Stage 10
1 Tadej Pogacar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates 34:11:10 2 Ben O’Connor (Aus) AG2R Citroën Team 0:02:01 3 Rigoberto Uran (Col) EF Education-Nippo 0:05:18 4 Jonas… Read More »Tour de France 2021 – General Classification after Stage 9
PLEASE, SUPPORT PELOTONTALES! If you like PelotonTales blog and want to help me a little to continue the work on this website, please consider a… Read More »André Leducq and Nicolas Frantz at Tour de France 1928
Henri Pelissier, Bartolomeo Aymo and Ottavio Bottecchia on the Aubisque, Tour de France 1925, Stage 8 (Bayonne-Luchon 326 km, 1st July, 1925) Top 10 riders… Read More »Henri Pelissier, Bartolomeo Aymo and Ottavio Bottecchia
Although smaller climbs were parts of the program since the beginning, and both the Pyrenees (1910) and the Alps (1911) were intruduced to the race… Read More »The first hilltop finish of Tour de France
The 20th edition of the Tour de France (held between 20th June and 18th July 1926) is best known for its 10th stage, which is labelled as the toughest one of the race ever. Read More »Tour de France 1926
As I mentioned before in several posts (like here ), I think, that this Giro d’Italia was the race, which made Egan Bernal (INEOS Grenadiers)… Read More »Giro d’Italia 2021 – Where the race was won – 6 moments of Egan Bernal