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Iconic vintage image of the day: the start of the first Tour de France

There is a café  in the Parisian suburb Mortgeon, that witnessed cycling history in 1903. Cafés played an important role in the early years of Tour de France helping to organise the races. On the afternoon of 1 July 1903, people gathered on the street in front of the café Au Reveil Matin‘s building: the first Tour de France was ready to start. Originally 78 riders signed up to the race, and 60 of them appeared at the startline. Some of them used pseudonyms, like the Belgian Julien Lootens, who signed up as “Samson”. The first stage of the Tour de France started at 3:16 pm.  It was 467 km long and finished in Lyon. Stage winner… Read More »Iconic vintage image of the day: the start of the first Tour de France

Lucien Buysee in the Pyrenees on the 20th stage of Tour de France 1926

5 iconic vintage Tour de France images showing cycling was different in the 1920s

The one and a half century long history of road cycling races witnessed plenty of changes in material circumstances and lifestyle. Being a sport event organized at the places of the everday life, road cycling has also a unique connection to the world outside the competitions. The smoking cyclists  Smoking is unhealthy and uncool, right? It’s a good trend to ban it at public places. However, what is history, what happened in the past, couldn’t and shouldn’t be changed. We shouldn’t deny, that photos from the 1920s are existing of cyclists having fun while smoking. ( To learn more about the protagonist of the picture just click the link above.) Beer drinking cyclists  Also, alkohol… Read More »5 iconic vintage Tour de France images showing cycling was different in the 1920s

Primoz Roglic leads the general classification after stage 4 at Vuleta a España 2022

Primoz Roglic takes the lead (Vuelta a España Stage 4 results)

TOP25 OF THE STAGE 1 1 ROGLIC Primoz TJV SLO B:13″ 00″ 2 167 PEDERSEN Mads TFS DEN B:06″ ‘ ‘ 3 124 MAS Enric MOV ESP B:04″ ‘ ‘ 4 75 PACHER Quentin GFC FRA ‘ ‘ 5 87 SIVAKOV Pavel IGD FRA ‘ ‘ 6 11 O’CONNOR Ben ACT AUS ‘ ‘ 7 84 HAYTER Ethan IGD GBR ‘ ‘ 8 134 EVENEPOEL Remco QST BEL ‘ ‘ 9 45 KELDERMAN Wilco BOH NED ‘ ‘ 10 44 HINDLEY Jai BOH AUS ‘ ‘ 11 83 GEOGHEGAN HART Tao IGD GBR ‘ ‘ 12 6 KUSS Sepp TJV USA ‘ ‘ 13 141 YATES Simon Philip BEX GBR 07″ 14 107 HAGEN Carl… Read More »Primoz Roglic takes the lead (Vuelta a España Stage 4 results)

Sam Bennett wins the 3rd stage of La Vuelta 2022

Sam Bennett did it again (La Vuelta 2022 Stage 3 results)

Top 25 riders of the stage: 1 41 BENNETT Sam BOH IRL 4h05’53” B:10″ 2 167 PEDERSEN Mads TFS DEN B:06″ ‘ ‘ 3 225 McLAY Daniel ARK GBR B:04″ ‘ ‘ 4 52 COQUARD Bryan COF FRA ‘ ‘ 5 73 LIENHARD Fabian GFC SUI ‘ ‘ 6 181 MERLIER Tim ADC BEL ‘ ‘ 7 144 GROVES Kaden BEX AUS ‘ ‘ 8 112 BEULLENS Cedric LTS BEL ‘ ‘ 9 172 ACKERMANN Pascal UAD GER ‘ ‘ 10 48 van POPPEL Danny BOH NED ‘ ‘ 11 186 TAMINIAUX Lionel ADC BEL ‘ ‘ 12 78 STEWART Jake GFC GBR ‘ ‘ 13 84 HAYTER Ethan IGD GBR ‘ ‘ 14 104… Read More »Sam Bennett did it again (La Vuelta 2022 Stage 3 results)

Sam Bennett wins the 2nd stage of Vuelta a Espana

Sam Bennett’s victory on the 2nd stage of Vuelta a España

Mike Teunissen (Jumbo-Visma) is the new rider is the red jersey. TOP 25 RIDERS OF THE STAGE 1 SAM BENNETT BORA – HANSGROHE 2 MADS PEDERSEN TREK – SEGAFREDO 3 TIM MERLIER ALPECIN – DECEUNINCK 4 MIKE TEUNISSEN JUMBO – VISMA 5 PASCAL ACKERMANN UAE TEAM EMIRATES 6 DANIEL MCLAY TEAM ARKEA – SAMSIC 7 ITAMAR EINHORN ISRAEL-PREMIER TECH 8 JAKE STEWART GROUPAMA – FDJ 9 JOHN DEGENKOLB TEAM DSM 10 KADEN GROVES TEAM BIKEEXCHANGE-JAYCO 11 CARLOS CANAL BLANCO EUSKALTEL-EUSKADI 12 CEDRIC BEULLENS LOTTO SOUDAL 13 DANNY VAN POPPEL BORA – HANSGROHE 14 REMCO EVENEPOEL QUICK-STEP ALPHA VINYL TEAM 15 GOTZON MARTIN SANZ EUSKALTEL-EUSKADI 16 ALEX KIRSCH TREK – SEGAFREDO 17 HARRISON SWEENY LOTTO SOUDAL… Read More »Sam Bennett’s victory on the 2nd stage of Vuelta a España

Jumbo - Visma wins the team time trial of La Vuelta

Jumbo-Visma wins the team time trial of La Vuelta

On Friday, the 19th August 2022 La Vuelta 2022 started with a 23 km long team time trial in Utrecht. Jumbo-Visma won the stage, and his rider Robert Gesingk is the first red jersey wearer of the race. Results of the first stage: 1 JUMBO – VISMA TJV NED 24’40″29 56,676 km/h 2 INEOS GRENADIERS IGD GBR 13″ 3 QUICK-STEP ALPHA VINYL TEAM QST BEL 14″ 4 TEAM BIKEEXCHANGE-JAYCO BEX AUS 31″ 5 UAE TEAM EMIRATES UAD UAE 33″ 6 GROUPAMA – FDJ GFC FRA 38″ 7 BORA – HANSGROHE BOH GER 41″ 8 TREK – SEGAFREDO TFS USA 42″ 9 BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS TBV BRN 42″ 10 MOVISTAR TEAM MOV ESP 43″ 11 ASTANA QAZAQSTAN… Read More »Jumbo-Visma wins the team time trial of La Vuelta