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Watching the Femmes at the Tour de France? Do you know what all the team sponsorsdo? If you ve ever wondered if Suez has something to do with water, or what Laboral Kutxa or VolkerWessels are about, here are some answers. Visma-Lease A Bike is obvious as it s the sister team to the men s World Tour ... Read more The post Women’s Pro Team Sponsors Explained first appeared on The Inner Ring .
A post-Tour look at the team standings to see who is up and who is down. Two changes at the top. First the UAE team is still in the lead but they ve pulled out a big lead after only having less than two thousand points on RedBull going into the Tour, now they re over five ... Read more The post UCI Team Rankings first appeared on The Inner Ring .
Years ago “revenue sharing” was all the rage with team managers making public calls for the major race organisers to pay them money. Only even if a race owner felt inclined, when you looked at the data the sums available were small. Today the calls remain but the sums have changed so time to look ... Read more The post Revenue Sharing Re-Revisited first appeared on The Inner Ring .
Tadej Pogačar attacked on the Tourmalet with 5km to go before summit and 43km left in Stage 6. In the picture above Jonas Vingegaard is out of the picture but only just, some 30 seconds behind at the top of the pass. But on the descent and then the valley road up to Gavarnie he ... Read more The post The Moment The Tour de France Was Won first appeared on The Inner Ring .
A final stage and abbreviated to Paris only but this won t alter the sport. A prestigious stage win awaits and potentially a duel between Tadej Pogačar and Mathieu van der Poel. Stage 20 Review: if a grand tour is an exercise in hierarchy to quote Antoine Blondin, or a Bayesian simulator to use science, then ... Read more The post Tour de France Stage 21 Preview first appeared on The Inner Ring .
The last day in the Alps and a ferocious stage with hardly a metre of flat road. If you want to watch it live, note the early finish. Pacman: a group of 42 riders were away with Lidl-Trek pulling for Mads Pedersen who d made the move and managed to get over the big Col du ... Read more The post Tour de France Stage 20 Preview first appeared on The Inner Ring .
Alpe d Huez awaits, the classic climb but this time with a more gentle approach. Can UAE keep a lid on things so that Tadej Pogačar gets a prestige win for his palmarès? Festival des Cannes: one of the enjoyable aspects of stage races is seeing multiple races happening at the same time. One saw Mads ... Read more The post Tour de France Stage 19 Preview first appeared on The Inner Ring .
Alps or Pyrenees? The two mountain ranges are often juxtaposed by the Tour de France. Do you prefer one over the other? If you do, chances are it s the Pyrenees. Many cyclists cite the wilder feel, the older buildings, the roads that feel more irregular to climb, while the Alps have big ski resorts, crowded ... Read more The post Postcard from the Champsaur first appeared on The Inner Ring .
The Tour heads into the Alps for a ski station summit finish. Tadej Pogačar got beaten the last time the race came here and he remembers it but this should be for the breakaways given the bigger Alpine stages to come. Classique du Dauphiné: the Tour de France is many things and among them a ... Read more The post Tour de France Stage 18 Preview first appeared on The Inner Ring .
Eight teams have a stage win, 14 don t and this should make for a lively start as this is the last stage open to half the peloton. Contre la montre: the stage win for Remco Evenepoel who blitzed the course, only Tadej Pogačar was within a minute of him and he seemed untouchable from the ... Read more The post Tour de France Stage 17 Preview first appeared on The Inner Ring .