First, a correction to yesterday’s blog. Nate actually managed to take the polka-dot jersey from his teammate yesterday. Today he dedicated it to the USA for the 4th of July. Nate talked about how his pursuit of the polka-dot jersey wasn’t a strategy – the tactic was to try to make a break if it …
This 132-mile stage bounces across Belgium and into France. In cycling, they categorize the difficulty of the hills or mountains that the riders must go over. The harder climbs have lower numbers: this stage has three category 4 climbs and finishes with a category 3 climb. But no rain on this stage, so the roads …
Continue reading TDF Stage 3: Verviers, Belgium to Longwy, France
126 miles (200 KM) from Dusseldorf, Germany to Liege, Belgium Stage 2 is a sprinter’s stage. The top contenders were Mark Cavendish (who is suffering from Epstein Barr and has no business riding a 21-day race), Marcel Kittel (a German and on a Belgian team), Peter Sagan, and Andre Greipel (another German). On this first …
Saturday’s stage was the individual time trial, where you race one at a time, against the clock. The early riders departed with 1-minute time-gaps, the highest-ranked riders (who race last), with longer gaps. Only 8.7 miles (14 KM), in Dusseldorf, although it’s not what is called “a technical course” – meaning there aren’t a lot …
Well, it’s Tour de France (TDF) season again and I’m going to subject you to three weeks of columns about cycling because I love the Tour de France (all the grand tours, really, but this is the only one I can find on my basic cable). My husband – the reason my tiny little New …
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