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Tour de France 2020 – GC after Stage 14

1 Primož Roglic (Slo) Team Jumbo – Visma 61:03:00 2 Tadej Pogacar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates 0:00:44 3 Egan Bernal (Col) Ineos Grenadiers 0:00:59 4 Rigoberto Uran (Col) EF Pro Cycling 0:01:10 5 Nairo Quintana (Col) Team Arkéa – Samsic 0:01:12 6 Miguel Angel Lopez (Col) Astana Pro Team 0:01:31 7 Adam Yates (GBr) Mitchelton – Scott 0:01:42 8 Mikel Landa (Esp) Bahrain – McLaren 0:01:55 9 Richie Porte (Aus) Trek – Segafredo 0:02:06 10 Enric Mas (Esp) Movistar Team 0:02:54 11 Guillaume Martin (Fra) Cofidis 0:03:14 12 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Jumbo – Visma 0:04:32 13 Richard Carapaz (Ecu) Ineos Grenadiers 0:05:11 14 Alejandro Valverde (Esp) Movistar Team 0:06:22 15 Damiano Caruso (Ita) Bahrain… Read More »Tour de France 2020 – GC after Stage 14

Maurice Garin the winner of the first Tour de France

Mini Cycling Who’s Who: Maurice Garin

Maurice Garin, the winner of the first Tour de France was born on the 3rd of marc 1871 in Arvier, Aosta Valley, Italy. Garin became a professional rider by chance. He was already racing as an amateur (he won his first race in 1893) when he decided to ride a race nearby his home. He learned only at the start, that this event was only for professionals. He waited until the official participants departed and rode after them. Although he fell twice, he passed all the professional riders and won the race. But organisers refused to pay him the prize for the victory, so the spectators raised money (twice as much as the original prize… Read More »Mini Cycling Who’s Who: Maurice Garin

Cycling Who’s Who: Jean Robic

Tour de France winner Jean Robic was born on the 10th of June in 1921 in Vouziers, France. His professional career started in the middle of the  2nd World War in 1943. In 1944 he finished Paris-Roubaix with a fractured skull. After this event, he started wearing a leather helmet which became later something like his trademark.  Journalists gave him several nicknames during his almost two-decade-long career, one of them was “Tête de cuir” ( a. k. a “leather-head”) Due to his shortness and skinny body type (160 cm /60 kg) he was underestimated in his early active years, especially before the Tour de France in 1947. He was selected only for a regional team,… Read More »Cycling Who’s Who: Jean Robic

Tour de France 1951 Tourmalet Fausto Coppi Hugo Koblet,

Tour de France 1951

The 38th Tour de France between 4th and 29th July 1951 was the first edition which visited the interior of France, most importantly the Massif Central and the Mont Ventoux.Read More »Tour de France 1951

Fausto Coppi & Andrea Carrera

The humble domestique gets in trouble

The Tour de France in 1952 was all about Fausto Coppi. The Campionissimo dominated the race to such an extent, that the organizers had to double the prize money for the second place to make the competition less boring. But Coppi took the yellow jersey only after his triumph on Alpe d’Huez.  On the day, when the peloton climbed the famous ascent for the very first time, another Italian wore the famous dress. Andrea Carrea (1924-2013) was a professional cyclist between 1948 and 1958. He was Fausto Coppi’s domestique,  of whom he was famously in awe.  This situation led to one of the most curious moments in the history of the Tour de France. Carrea… Read More »The humble domestique gets in trouble

Anita Pethő Peloton&Tales author of the blog

Author of Peloton&Tales

Welcome to Peloton&Tales! I’m Anita Pethő, 41 year old Hungarian born literary historian and critic, journalist, blogger. I started to write on road cycling in 2009 on my Hungarian blog TOURázzunk együtt. It was a sudden idea (after following the races for more than a decade on television), which evolved into something bigger very soon. In 2017 I published my first book “Változások kora” [Time of Changes]. This is a long-term project, I intend to update the content of the book every 4-5 years, because, well, there are always a lot of changes in the world of international professional road cycling. There is a huge possibility, that the next edition(s) of the book will be… Read More »Author of Peloton&Tales

An unpleasant day in the saddle

TOUR DE FRANCE IN THE ALPS Miguel Angel Lopez conquers Col de la Loze (Tour de France retrospective -TDF 2020) Col de la Loze was introduced to Tour de France in the 17th stage in 2020. The day delivered a Pog&Rog Show, a Lopez solo and a suddenly disappearing Bahrain-McLaren “suicide squad”. The 2 minutes gap between the three breakaway riders (Julian Alaphilippe, Richard Carapaz, Gorka Izagirre) and the peloton at foot of the 21 km long Col de la Loze indicated that the winner of the stage would come from the main bunch.   Although Primoz Roglic was the cyclist in yellow, and according to tradition, his team, Jumbo-Visma was ment to lead the… Read More »An unpleasant day in the saddle

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Famous cycling images: who is who on the iconic pictures?

There are plenty of famous cycling imagaes shared (mostly) on social media daily. We all know them very well. But do you know who are those cyclists on the picture? It’s a more trickier question, isn’t it. Many (but of course not all) of them weren’t successful or famous in their own days, only our strange time made them kind of cycling celebrities. Léon Valloton and Alfons Lauwers Robert Jacquinot Eating pasta at Giro d’Italia 1966 Of course , the cyclists on this picture aren’t  no name riders. All four men were Giro d’Itali winners a least once. Gianni Motta (1966), Vittorio Adorni (1965), Jacques Anquetil (1960, 1964) and Felice Gimondi (1967, 1969, 1976)  … Read More »Famous cycling images: who is who on the iconic pictures?

Antonin Magne Tour de France winner 1931 and 1934

Mini Cycling Who’s Who: Antonin Magne

Antonin Magne, the two-time winner of the Tour de France was born on the 15th of February 1904 in Ytrac, France. He attended the Tour de France first in 1927. In 1931 André Leducq, the defending champion was the team leader of the French squad, but he was out of shape, so Magne became the first man of the team and won his first Tour de France. He repeated his success in 1934, when René Vietto, his 20 years old teammate sacrificed his chance to win the race for him. This edition was the first which included an individual time trial. The 90 km long stage was won also by Magne. He rode the Tour… Read More »Mini Cycling Who’s Who: Antonin Magne