In the latest episode of the Cyclingnews Tour de France podcast – brought to you by Sportful, Pinarello and Floyd's of Leadville – we ask whether Geraint Thomas (Team Ineos) has established himself as the favourite after his impressive performance on stage 6 of the Tour de France.
Missed the dirty 30? There’s now even more fun to be had along the course: Yummier numby is open and the trail crew have spent the whole week working in Comfortably numb (golden door to Jeff’s) patching holes and upgrading bridges so there’s even more cedar to smell in there!
Tejay van Garderen (EF Education First) will not start stage 8 at the 2019 Tour de France after fracturing his thumb in a crash early during stage 7 on Friday. The American went down just 7km into the 230km stage from Belfort to Chalon-Sur-Saone...
The sight of Annemiek van Vleuten (Mitchelton-Scott) going on the attack over a mid-race climb and then sprinting for bonus seconds on stage 8 at the Giro d'Italia Femminile might have put a question mark in everyone's minds.
Giulio Ciccone (Trek-Segafredo) savoured his first day in the Tour de France leader's yellow jersey on the stage 7 road to Chalon-sur-Saone and made it clear he was ready for any attacks from Julian Alaphilippe during Saturday's hilly stage to Saint-Etienne.