Back in 2020, Primoz Roglic entered the Tour de France as the main favourite for overall victory. With defending champion Egan Bernal fighting through intense back pain (and eventually abandoning the race in third week), the 2019 Vuelta a Espanachampion seemed to be well on his way to the big Grand...

Mathieu van der Poel went to theTour de Francewith the ambition to win a stage himself and contribute to the success of his Alpecin-Deceuninck teammate Jasper Philipsen in the bunch finishes. While the latter goal goes relatively well with two stages to Philipsen's name, Van der Poel himself is st...

Shorter stages be damned. What the Tour needs is more suffering