https://www.bbc.com/sport/cycling/57850494
Bahrain-Victorious team hotel and bus were searched in investigation into the possible "acquisition, transport, possession, import of a prohibited substance or prohibited method for use by an athlete without medical justification".
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July 18
Utterly incredible!
What a sprint to finish of this year's Tour de France...
Wout van Aert really shows he can do it all. A mountain win, a time trial win, and now a bunch sprint win, and this all in one Tour. And we all know he could definitely win a breakaway stage if he was in one. Great lead out by Mike Teunissen too.
To me it looked like Cav had space to pass on the left. No #35, will he be back next year?
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Tour de France 2021
How it works
Predict who is going to win each stage of the Tour.
Stages
This table/chart is RaChart™ compatible and was created with Giveaways Table/Chart Creator
Preview
Due to lack of time on my part and lack of interest on here I will probably keep things smaller than previous years. Right now I've got all the stages set up but there's no analysis of the stages nor a Tour Touristique. I might add them, we'll have to wait and see. Same thing goes for the further preview below, probably gonna keep it short.
It seems the Tour de France has finally embraced the future; they uploaded a whole raft of explainer videos to their YouTube account yesterday. I'll link a few in the sections below.
After 2020 the Tour is back in it's normal time slot, well, almost... Due to the Olympic Games we start and end a week early.
This Tour could be titled as Pogačar - Roglič: The Rematch, but INEOS Grenadiers probably has other plans. Interestingly, both of the contenders have done very few course kilometres since spring, a very different approach compared to the past. We have a different time of time trial on the second to last day this year but it might again be decisive.
Other than the previous few years the sprinters should get more chances; there's about 7 or 8 stages that could well end in a bunch sprint. However... the Giro this year surprised everyone with a number of those stages going to a breakaway, could we see the same here?
Also see the PEZ Preview.
The Tour Touristique bits are mostly from the Tour site (recognizable by the appalling command of the English language) and Wikipedia.
Sites
Official Site
Wikipedia
A better list of riders than the official site, with thanks to bartwu
General Classification (abbreviated as GC)
This is the one it's all about, who will bring the maillot jaune (yellow jersey) to Paris? #TD2021 - The Yellow Jersey
King of the Mountain (often abbreviated as KoM)
The maillot a pois (polka dot jersey) goes to the best climber; who will it be this year? Obviously the GC riders will all feature in this classification but there are some others... #TDF2021 - Polka Dot Jersey
Due to time skipping the favorites here.
Sprinters
As mentioned above, quite a few possible stages for the sprinters this year. YouTube - #TDF2021 - Sprinters
Feel free to leave your predictions for jersey winners and other speculations in the comments below.
Man of the Tour
Mathieu van der Poel is riding his first Tour de France this year. Though his main goal this year is the Olympics I fully expect him to do some incredulous stuff in the first week. Not to mention that he has a unique chance to grab the yellow jersey on day one. A jersey which his father has worn but his grandfather, Raymond Poulidor, The Eternal Second, never got to wear.
Tour Trivia
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