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Team BikeExchange 1 BOOKWALTER Brent 2 GRMAY Tsgabu 3 COLLEONI Kevin 4 SMITH Dion 5 HEPBURN Michael 6 KANGERT Tanel Deceuninck – Quick Step 11 ALAPHILIPPE Julian 12 BALLERINI Davide 13 CATTANEO Mattia 14 DECLERCQ Tim 15 GARRISON Ian 16 HONORÉ Mikkel Frølich 17 SERRY Pieter Lotto Soudal 21 CONCA Filippo 22 GOOSSENS Kobe 23 GRIGNARD Sébastien 24 MAŁECKI Kamil 25 OLDANI Stefano 26 VERVLOESEM Xandres 27 MARCZYŃSKI Tomasz 4 AG2R Citroën Team 31 COSNEFROY Benoît 32 GALLOPIN Tony 33 GODON Dorian 34 GOUGEARD Alexis 35 PARET-PEINTRE Aurélien 36 VENDRAME Andrea 37 WARBASSE Larry Team Jumbo-Visma 41 DEKKER David 42 EENKHOORN Pascal 43 HARPER Chris 44 LEEMREIZE Gijs 45 PFINGSTEN Christoph 46 VINGEGAARD Jonas 47… Read More »Bretagne Classic 2021 – Startlist

As the winner of the Tour de France in 1959, Federico Bahamontes attended the race also next year. Unfortunatelly he became ill and had to leave after two stages.  

Most stage victories in the history of Vuelta a Espana: 1 Delio Rodríguez ESP 39 2 Alessandro Petacchi ITA 20 3 Laurent Jalabert FRA 18 Rik Van Looy BEL 18 5 Sean Kelly IRL 16 6 Gerben Karstens NED 14 7 Freddy Maertens BEL 13 Alejandro Valverde ESP 13 9 Marcel Wüst GER 12 Tony Rominger SUI 12 11 Domingo Perurena ESP 11 Julián Berrendero ESP 11 Augustin Tamames ESP 11 14 John Degenkolb GER 10 Roberto Heras ESP 10 Eddy Planckaert BEL 10

“I thought I was dead, I thought it was the time.” -said Bernard Hinault after the 4th stage of Dauphine Libere is 1977. Hinault basically just rode off the road on the descent of Col de Porte and fell into a ravine. The photo shows the moment he climbs back to the road. He seems OK on this picture (he was even able to continue and later win the race, it was one of his first triumphs), but if you take a look at the video, that captured the fall, you might say Hinault was very very lucky to be able to come out of the ravine on his own feet.  

Although Louison Bobet is remembered mostly by his three consecutive Tour de France victories (1953, 1954, 1955), he also had some success in the world of one day races. Actually, Louison Bobet won four of the five monuments, he missed only the triumph at Liège-Bastogne-Liège. Nevertheless, he attended La Doyenne three times, his best result was a 4th place in 1952. But he won Milano-Sanremo and Giro di Lombardia in 1951, Ronde van Vlaanderen in 1955 and Paris-Roubaix in 1956. Bobet rode Giro di Lombardia seven times during his career, he had other top10 results besides his victory in 1951. That year was a good one for him, he already won the other Italian monument… Read More »Louison Bobet’s Giro di Lombardia Victory (1951)

The jersey of the leader of the general classification wans’t always red. Actually, this is a very new invention at the Vuelta a Espana. Colors of the leader jersey at the Vuelta a Espana 1935-36, 1942, 1977     orange 1941                               white 1946-50                         white with a red stripe 1955-1988                    yellow 1989-2009                     gold 2010-                              red

1 Tadej Pogacar (Slo) UAE Team Emirates 62:07:18 2 Rigoberto Uran (Col) EF Education-Nippo 00:05:18 3 Jonas Vingegaard (Den) Jumbo-Visma 00:05:32 4 Richard Carapaz (Ecu) Ineos Grenadiers 00:05:33 5 Ben O’Connor (Aus) AG2R Citroën Team 00:05:58 6 Wilco Kelderman (Ned) Bora-Hansgrohe 00:06:16 7 Alexey Lutsenko (Kaz) Astana-Premier Tech 00:07:01 8 Enric Mas Nicolau (Spa) Movistar Team 00:07:11 9 Guillaume Martin (Fra) Cofidis 00:07:58 10 Pello Bilbao Lopez De Armentia (Spa) Bahrain Victorious 00:10:59 11 Mattia Cattaneo (Ita) Deceuninck-QuickStep 00:14:45 12 Aurélien Paret Peintre (Fra) AG2R Citroën Team 00:21:15 13 Esteban Chaves Rubio (Col) Team BikeExchange 00:22:51 14 David Gaudu (Fra) Groupama-FDJ 00:27:15 15 Louis Meintjes (RSA) Intermarché-Wanty-Gobert Matériaux 00:29:16 16 Wout Van Aert (Bel) Jumbo-Visma… Read More »Tour de France 2021 – General Classification after Stage 15

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 Ventoux is usually known by its legendary mountain top finishes, on its first three appearances (1951, 1952, 1955) at the Tour de France the peloton crossed the summit only during mid-race. The first time a stage to finish at the top happened in 1958. It was a 21 km long individual mountain time trial. Charly Gaul, the “Angel of the Mountains” was the fastest rider, who jumped from 6th to 3rd position in the GC. He claimed the yellow jersey a few days later and won the Tour de France… Read More »Charly Gaul on the Mont Ventoux (Tour de France 1958)