quick step tour de france 2022

Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl to the Tour de France

The 109th edition takes place between 1-24 July.

In just a couple of days, Denmark will become the tenth different country to host the Grand Depart of the Tour de France. The bunch will get to spend three days in the Scandinavian country before traveling to France, where the peloton will tackle the rough cobblestones of the north, the Super Planche des Belles Filles, Col du Granon, Alpe d’Huez and Hautacam – to name just a few of the main climbs – and a 40km individual time trial ahead of the traditional Paris stage.

“Over 3300 kilometers and more than 55 000 meters of elevation promise to make for a tough race. After the first ITT, we have two other days in Denmark, which should be for the sprinters, that is if we won’t have any echelons. The cobblestones stage will be a very tricky stage, as everyone will want to be at the front, and after this we’ll have a lot of climbing, with many iconic ascents of the Tour de France. The climbers and the puncheurs will get plenty of opportunities at this edition, unlike the sprinters, who’ll have to fight in many of the stages against the time limit. Overall, the race has something for everyone, and that’s why we are going there with a balanced team”, said Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl sports director Tom Steels, who will lead the squad from the car together with Klaas Lodewyck and Wilfried Peeters.

The most successful sprinter of the year so far with ten victories to his name, Fabio Jakobsen is slated to make his first appearance at the Tour de France, where he’ll count on the experience of one of the peloton’s best lead-out men, Michael Mørkøv. The 25-year-old, who in his past seasons with the Wolfpack has won five Grand Tour stages, all at the Vuelta a España, won’t be the team’s only debutant at the race, with two other young riders, Andrea Bagioli and Mikkel Honoré, set to be on the start line in Copenhagen.

Kasper Asgreen makes it three Danes on Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl’s roster for the Grande Boucle, which will include also Mattia Cattaneo – 12th overall at last year’s edition – Tim Declercq and Yves Lampaert, who is returning at the Tour after three years.

“We have riders who can support Fabio, riders who can climb, but who can also do something in the breakaways. Kasper, Yves and Michael will form a solid lead-out train for Fabio, who has proved how fast and strong he is in the sprints and will now get to discover Le Tour. Tim will be the guy to help him not only on the flat, but also in the mountains, where he’ll take care that Fabio makes it inside the time limit. Mattia is very flexible, has more experience now and can go in some breakaways, where Andrea and Mikkel can support him. Mikkel has improved a lot since joining the team and deserves his place in the team, while Andrea is a winner and has shown he has the mentality to compete with the best”, said Tom Steels.

The team also has first-reserve riders – Florian Sénéchal and Mark Cavendish.

“Concerning our reserves, we must stress out that they showed a lot of professionalism, continued to train and remained focused in these past couple of weeks, and even brought two victories at the Nationals.”

Missing from the eight-man Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl team is Julian Alaphilippe. The World Champion, a stage winner at the past four editions, has just returned to racing last weekend at the National Championships, two months after his Liège–Bastogne–Liège crash.

“The decision to leave Julian home was a very difficult one, as he is one of the team’s most emblematic riders and we wrote so many great moments together at the Tour. Julian worked hard to get back into shape after what happened to him in Liège, but it is felt that for a rider like him it’s always important to be on top of his game and be able to compete with the best riders of the peloton in a race like Le Tour. That’s why we decided to give him more time to recover and build back his condition, so that he can be at 100% for the second part of the season”, added Tom Steels.

“I am disappointed to not be at the Tour de France this year. I have a natural affection for the race, from my days in the yellow jersey over the past three seasons, my stage victories and many other great memories with my teammates. To miss another opportunity to wear my beautiful rainbow jersey in my home country is very sad for me and I knew that this decision would be difficult for the team to take. At the same time, I completely understand this, because I too don’t want to be at the start if I can’t be at my best level. I want to wish the best of luck to my Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl teammates, I know they will do everything to try to have a great race. I will now focus on getting back to my best shape, because I am motivated to do a strong second part of the season”, said the 30-year-old Frenchman.

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Mark Cavendish will not ride in this year’s Tour de France after the British rider was named as a first-reserve rider by the Belgian team Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl on Monday.

Cavendish had made his case for Tour de France selection after winning his second British road race title on Sunday, saying he will win stages if selected. The 37-year-old equalled the all-time record for stage wins last year and was hopeful of breaking the record at July’s race, but will be on reserve along with Florian Senechal while Julian Alaphilippe is not in the eight-man team. The Dutchman Fabio Jakobsen, who has 10 victories this year, will be Quick-Step’s sprinter.

“We have riders who can support Fabio, riders who can climb, but who can also do something in the breakaways,” said the Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl sports director, Tom Steels. “Concerning our reserves, we must stress that they showed a lot of professionalism, continued to train and remained focused in these past couple of weeks, and even brought two victories at the Nationals.”

The world champion Alaphilippe said he was disappointed to miss out but understood he would not be at his best having only just returned to action after his crash at Liège-Bastogne-Liège.

“I have a natural affection for the race, from my days in the yellow jersey over the past three seasons, my stage victories and many other great memories with my teammates,” he said. “To miss another opportunity to wear my beautiful rainbow jersey in my home country is very sad for me and I knew that this decision would be difficult for the team to take.”

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Tour de france: quick-step alpha vinyl on ‘thin ice’ in race against covid-19, quick-step's lead sport director and media officer both went home saturday, and the team is racing with urgency..

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NYBORG, Denmark (VN) — Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl is trying to squeeze all it can out of the Tour de France , and fast.

Why? COVID-19 sent home the team’s lead sport director Tom Steels and its media officer Saturday. The team won Friday’s time trial with Yves Lampaert and delivered Fabio Jakobsen to the line Saturday.

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“I really feel we are walking on a thin layer of ice,” said Quick-Step’s Michael Mørkøv of the COVID breakout. “We also agreed this morning we have to take it day by day. We don’t know how long we will be here. COVID is getting closer and closer.

“There is a fear. We already lost a lot team members, our main sport director, our media officers, some soigneurs and mechanics. We are already a bit on the limit, but we still have the fighting spirit on the bikes.”

Mørkøv steered Jakobsen through heavy traffic that included a late-stage crash, and the Dutchman fended out Wout van Aert to win the stage.

With Mark Cavendish left at home, there was a relief that the team could deliver in the sprints.

“It means that we have won five Tour de France stages in a row with the team, so I think that is pretty extraordinary,” said Mørkøv, referring to last year’s Tour with Mark Cavendish. “With Fabio, we all know his story from the Tour of Poland, and coming back. Winning again at the highest level, he is such a great guy. I really enjoy that he is winning a Tour de France stage today.”

Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl is having a near-perfect opening to the 2022 Tour.

Yves Lampaert won Friday’s opening time trial in the rain, and Jakobsen’s victory Saturday makes it two in a row for the Belgian powerhouse.

Though Lampaert lost the yellow jersey to Van Aert on bonus seconds, the team is intent on keeping the momentum going all the way back to France and the cobblestones in stage 5.

“We have won 12 times Paris-Roubaix, and most teams never have, so we know something about that,” said team boss Patrick Lefevere. “We hope to do well there, and before that, too. We have Fabio and we expect to win some more sprints.”

“Fabio is on great form and the whole team is sparkling,” Mørkøv said. “We’re going to go for another one tomorrow.”

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Quick-Step announce surprising Tour de France lineup - Alaphilippe, Cavendish and Sénéchal not selected

Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team have announced their lineup for the Tour de France and it contains some surprises, with notable absences and a team focused on stage wins but also the hilly stages.

Fabio Jakobsen will be the team leader as he makes his debut in the Tour de France, in search of stage wins and the green jersey. Michael Morkov and Yves Lampaert will be his main support crew, with Florian Sénéchal a notable absence after his current run of form, win at the national championships and traditional position in Jakobsen's leadout. Mark Cavendish has also been confirmed to not have been selected, something which he himself was expecting despite his win at the nationals.

UAE Team Emirates announces team for Tour de France - Tadej Pogacars lead the way

Perhaps most surprising of all though is the absence of the World champion Julian Alaphilippe. Het Nieuwsblad reported his morning the news, and it's now confirmed despite the Frenchman's very quick recovery from injuries sustained in the Ardennes classics. The team has not ignored the hilly stages though, as both Mikkel Honoré and Andrea Bagioli come as surprises in the lineup. Kasper Asgreen also comes as a surprise after his injuries sustained at the Tour de Suisse which do not ensure the Dane will be at his best form, but nevertheless he will be helping the leadout and hunting breakaways throughout the race.

Although having struggled in the mountains, Mattia Cattaneo has been showing a lot of prowess in the time-trials and finished 12th last year at the Tour, and he is likely to be targeting a Top10 place, with the assistance aswell of the two riders above. Tim Declercq concludes the squad, he who will be working long days at the head of the peloton in the flat stages, and guiding Jakobsen through the mountains.

FINAL | Tour de France 2022 Team Index - Follow lineup announcement of every team

Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team for Tour de France: Fabio Jakobsen, Kasper Asgreen, Mattia Cattaneo, Tim Declercq, Yves Lampaert, Mikkel Honoré, Michael Morkov and Andrea Bagioli.

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Results and Highlights From the 2022 Tour de France

Stage-by-stage updates, results, and highlights from this year’s race.

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Denmark's Jonas Vingegaard won the Tour de France on Sunday, ending the reign of two-time defending champion Tadej Pogacar after a gruelling three weeks and 3,350km of relentless struggle.

The 25-year-old former fish-market worker Vingegaard claimed his first Tour de France a year after his break-out performance when he came second to Pogacar in 2021.

Belgium's Jasper Philipsen won the dash for the line on the cobbled Champs Elysees to take the iconic final stage victory.

The ecstatic Philipsen lifted his bike aloft at the finish line after taking his second win of this Tour, turning the page on his embarrassment at mistakenly celebrating on stage four, when he had in fact finished second.

Vingegaard and his Jumbo-Visma teammates all crossed the line together in a line and cheering wildly.

His Dutch team produced a brilliant collective effort with six stage wins, the green sprint jersey and the red combativity jersey for van Aert and the polka dot mountains jersey for Vingegaard as well as the overall title and yellow jersey.

After a relentless struggle over peaks and plains in a crushing heatwave, Vingegaard assured his win on Saturday's time-trial having taken the lead in the Alps and extended it in the Pyrenees.

Defeated champion Pogacar finished second, won the best under-25s jersey for the third time and leaves this Tour with his reputation intact after attacking Vingegaard to the bitter end.

Geraint Thomas, the 2018 champion, was third after the veteran raced largely at his own pace, silencing doubters who thought that at 36, the affable Welshman was past his best.

Jonas Vingegaard survived a near fall on Saturday's individual time-trial to virtually wrap up the 2022 Tour de France title and now only needs to cross the Champs-Elysees finish line in Paris on Sunday to guarantee the champion's yellow jersey.

Team Jumbo's Vingegaard tops the overall standings 3min 34sec ahead of two-time defending champion Tadej Pogacar, while Geraint Thomas of Ineos Grenadiers, the 2018 winner, stands third at 8min 13sec.

Frenchman David Gaudu of FDJ and Aleksandr Vlasov of Bora round out the top five ahead of Sunday's stage to Paris which is traditionally a ceremonial run.

"I'm still proud of myself, I did what I could, and at least I have the white jersey (best under-25s)," Pogacar said at the line.

Saturday's time-trial was won by Wout van Aert ahead of his Danish teammate Vingegaard, meaning Jumbo have six stage wins, the yellow jersey, the green sprint jersey and the polka dot climb jersey.

Van Aert will also be a favourite to win the final day dash around the Champs-Elysees before the jersey winners are crowned on a podium beneath the Arc de Triomphe.

Two years ago, Pogacar famously overturned a 57-second deficit on the penultimate day time-trial on La Planche des Belles Filles to snatch victory from Primoz Roglic.

But on Saturday, Vingegaard flew down the ramp last of the 139 surviving riders and set a relentlessly high pace through the baking country roads meaning a battle of nerves with Pogacar never really emerged.

He did, however, suffer a late wobble, losing his back wheel which slid over gravel into a gutter, but just managed to right himself.

The Dane was eight seconds faster than his great rival on the day, and Pogacar looked downhearted at the finish line.

His never-say-die attitude gave the 109th edition of the Tour a tense edge all the way to the line.

Christophe Laporte became the first Frenchman to win on this year's Tour de France, taking Stage 19 at Cahors on Friday as Jonas Vingegaard maintained the race lead over Tadej Pogacar with just two days left.

Laporte, of Jumbo Visma, managed to close a gap from the main peloton to a stubborn escape group around 1km from the line before edging ahead to easily win this largely flat stage.

This was a fifth stage win for Jumbo on the 2022 Tour, with Vingegaard and Wout van Aert winning two apiece.

Shortly after leaving the cooler high altitudes of the Pyrenees, an escape crept ahead of a weary peloton as it rolled towards Tarn, with the title pretenders keeping a low profile in the flatlands.

The escape was never allowed to build up a convincing lead, but just as the sprint teams looked to have them in their grasp, Laporte leapt across the divide and van Aert dropped behind.

Laporte then hammered over the final 800 meters, holding the closing sprint pack to a 1sec triumph, as Belgian ace Jasper Philipsen took second.

Vingegaard has a 3 minute, 21 second advantage over Pogacar , who clawed back five seconds Friday, ahead of Saturday’s key 41km individual time-trial, which will finally settle what has been an edge-of-the -seat struggle for the 2022 title.

Overall leader Jonas Vingegaard tightened his grip on the Tour de France by winning Stage 18 on the Hautacam mountain on Thursday after dropping defending champion Tadej Pogacar 4km from the finish.

The stage win leaves Denmark’s Vingegaard with an advantage that, barring disaster or a bad fall, should see him ride up the Champs Elysees to win the 2022 title on Sunday.

“I don’t want to talk about winning the Tour yet, let’s talk about it in Paris, there are three days to go,” Vingegaard said at the line.

The pair have been shadowing each other the entire race, with Pogacar winning three stages and taking the overall leader’s yellow jersey by Stage 7, before Vingegaard took it off him in the baking heatwave in the Alps.

Since then Pogacar has relentlessly attacked the Dane in a stubborn effort to close the gap. The loss of four of his UAE teammates to positive Covid tests and falls however hurt those chances.

On Thursday, Vingegaard's Jumbo teammate Wout van Aert acted as a sherpa for his team leader on the final climb, and it was at that moment that Pogacar finally cracked.

Earlier and likely equally as damaging, some 28km from home, Pogacar misjudged a corner and Vingegaard cut inside him, spooking the Slovenian who then wobbled and slipped off into a gutter.

The champion swiftly picked himself up, ignoring the gash on his left hand as he hammered the pedal down in pursuit.

Vingegaard, after at first attacking the opportunity, had a change of heart, waiting for his rival, before the two grasped each other's hand as Pogacar drew up alongside.

“We like each other, we get on and we respect each other,” said the Dane.

The gesture will likely serve Vingegaard's reputation well, within the cycling code of honor, and with the wider public. Vingegaard now leads Pogacar by 3 minutes and 26 seconds, while Ineos veteran Geraint Thomas is still third at 8 minutes back exactly.

Defending champion Tadej Pogacar won Stage 17 of the Tour de France in the Pyrenees on Wednesday, but was once again shadowed over the line by overall leader in Jumbo-Visma's Jonas Vingegaard.

With the bonus seconds for the win, UAE Team Emirates rider Pogacar now trails the Dane by 2 minutes and 18 seconds. Ineos leader Geraint Thomas dug deep to retain third place, zig-zagging over the final 16 percent incline and extending his lead on fourth-placed Nairo Quintana to almost three minutes.

This year’s Tour has entered its end-game with one mountain stage and one time-trial, the remaining real battle grounds to settle the debate for the yellow jersey.

The relentlessly attack-minded Pogacar, 23, was led up the final climb by his sherpa Brandon McNulty, while willowy 25-year-old Vingegaard remained stone-faced in his slipstream most of the day.

In the battle for third place veteran Thomas, 2018’s champion, again proved doubters wrong has he dug deep after being dropped by the younger leading pair as his teammates Adam Yates and Tom Pidcock dropped away badly.

The top three looks settled, but the order remains to be seen with Thursday's massive mountain slog to Hautacam and Saturday's 41km time-trial likely to wreak damage on someone.

Canadian rider Hugo Houle cried after winning Stage 16 of the Tour de France on Tuesday, dedicating the triumph to his brother who was killed a decade ago after being hit by a drunk driver while out running.

Jonas Vingegaard of Jumbo retained the overall lead from defending champion Tadej Pogacar and Geraint Thomas of Ineos as the Tour entered the Pyrenees.

As he had promised, the 23-year-old Slovenian Pogacar attacked relentlessly, but the Dane Vingegaard skipped up and rode on his tailwind every time.

It was a great day for Colombian veteran Nairo Quintana, who climbed to fourth. Conversely French rider Romain Bardet wilted, as did Ineos rider Adam Yates three years after his twin brother won a stage ending at Foix.

Shortly after leaving the baking stone citadel at Carcassonne, the 149 remaining riders from the 172 that embarked from Copenhagen began to climb into cooler territory with the stage reaching an altitude of 1,600m.

A group of eight riders broke away, passing a Canadian Mountie in full dress uniform, boding well for IST rider Houle, who slipped his rivals on the 25km swoop downhill to a baking finish line at Foix on the banks of the Ariege river.

“It sounds incredible, but I know my brother helped me,” said Houle. “I went full gas. I was supposed to open the way for Michael Woods,” he said of his teammate and compatriot.

Belgium’s Jasper Philipsen edged a mass bunch sprint to win Stage 15 of the Tour de France on Sunday as Jonas Vingegaard kept hold of the yellow jersey but lost two key teammates.

Vingegaard still leads defending champion Tadej Pogacar by more than two minutes, as Primoz Roglic pulled out of the stage while Steven Kruijswijk fell during the proceedings at the same moment as protesters briefly blocked the road.

Overall leader Jonas Vingegaard tracked Tadej Pogacar’s attack all the way to the Tour de France Stage 14 finish line as the defending champion tried but failed to put time into his Danish rival.

Australia’s Michael Matthews won the stage on a sizzling 192km run from Saint-Etienne after a seesaw struggle with Italian rider Alberto Bettiol up the final hill in the heatwave.

Earlier, Pogacar had tried an attack near the start of the stage before Vingegaard’s Jumbo team reeled the Slovenian UAE rider.

After the peloton settled down as it raced along narrow, roads packed with rowdy fans in otherwise empty countryside, Matthews and 20 other riders broke away.

The first time the 31-year-old Matthews tried to shake off his companions, he was reeled in and overtaken by Bettiol. The Australian rallied and left Bettiol trailing to take a fourth Tour de France stage win.

Some 10 minutes back down the road, Pogacar went again with his trademark kick on a steep climb 5km from the finish, but Vingegaard skipped up behind with ease and held on all the way to the line at the Mende Aerodrome.

Ineos pair Geraint Thomas and Adam Yates both dropped 20 seconds but remain third and fifth respectively. Frenchman Romain Bardet ended the day fourth overall in his home region, where banners bearing his name hung from buildings, walls and trees.

Mads Pedersen became the third Dane to win a stage on this year’s Tour de France when an escape group beat the peloton to Saint-Etienne on a baking dash across the Rhone Valley to clinch Stage 13.

His countryman Jonas Vingegaard retained the overall lead, which he claimed by winning Stage 11, while Magnus Cort Nielsen won Stage 10 in a Tour de France that started with three days in Denmark.

A bunch sprint had been expected on this 193km Stage 13 run from the foot of the Alps, but as the heavier built riders, who dominate the sprints, began to struggle in the searing temperatures, a seven-rider break began to dream of a stage win.

Australian sprinter Caleb Ewan fell when he appeared to lose focus and braked hard into a corner, tumbling alone near the head of the peloton. Quick-Step sprinter Fabio Jakobsen was also dropped as the pack chased the escape.

The peloton then gave up the game 25km from Saint-Etienne.

Pedersen is clearly a man for the extremes as he won the 2019 world championship road race in freezing Yorkshire rain. On Friday, he dealt with a heatwave, whipping his rivals Hugo Houle and Fred Wright in the home straight.

Vingegaard, Tadej Pogacar and Geraint Thomas, the top three in the overall standings, all cruised over the line together.

British rookie Tom Pidcock, riding for Ineos, showed world class skills as he won Stage 12 of the Tour de France on the Bastille Day holiday on Thursday.

A daredevil descent lit the fuse for the 22-year-old’s win while an explosive acceleration on the final ascent of the Alpe d’Huez finished the job.

Jonas Vingegaard maintained his overall lead with defending champion Tadej Pogacar on his wheel.

Jonas Vingegaard climbed into the Tour de France overall lead in a mountain stage for the ages Wednesday as defending champion Tadej Pogacar wilted and then cracked in the heat and the heights.

Vingegaard, 25, finished 59 seconds ahead of Colombian climber Nairo Quintana as Frenchman Romain Bardet was third atop the Col du Granon, at 2,413 meters in altitude.

An exhausted Pogacar looked broken as he crossed the line seventh, nearly 3 minutes adrift at the summit of the 9.2 percent, 11.5km final climb in the southern Alps.

Vingegaard leads Bardet by 2 minutes, 16 seconds in the overall standings, while UAE Team Emirates’s Pogacar dropped to third at 2 minutes, 22 seconds.

The 2018 champion Geraint Thomas also flew past Pogacar ,and the Welshman is fourth in the overall standings just four seconds off the Slovenian while Quintana is fifth.

Vingegaard began a series of lacerating attacks on two-time defending champion Pogacar on the penultimate mountain Col du Galibier, but it was not until the final ascent that he cracked.

To witness this epic stage there were camper vans galore, flaming barbecues, and countless amateur cyclists who had taken on the legendary ascent in the morning, giving the action packed stage the audience it deserved with the Alps providing a stunning panorama.

Magnus Cort Nielsen won Stage 10 of the Tour de France on Tuesday, after a nail-biting cat-and-mouse struggle up the final section of the culminating 20km climb.

Nick Schultz of Bike Exchange was second and Luis Leon Sanchez was third after the 148km run through sinuous Haut Savoie roads that avoided the major mountains in the region.

Nielsen, a Dane who rides for EF, wore the polka dot mountain points jersey for several days after claiming it on stage two.

Tadej Pogacar led the main peloton across the line almost nine minutes later.

German Lennard Kamna leapt from 21st to second after escaping with the breakaway. Although he could not keep up on the final climb, the Bora rider still gained more than eight minutes on the race leaders and is just 11 seconds adrift of Pogacar.

Pogacar earlier lost a second teammate to COVID, while his key lieutenant Rafal Majka also tested positive but was cleared to race by the UCI as he is considered not infectious.

Luxembourg’s Bob Jungels powered to victory in Stage 9 of the Tour de France on Sunday, holding off Thibaut Pinot to cross the line alone after a 192km race through Switzerland to the French border.

Slovenian Tadej Pogacar of UAE Team Emirates made a late burst for the line to gain a few seconds on some rivals as the two-time defending champion further tightened his grip on the overall lead with a fifth-place finish.

“This is one of the most beautiful days of my career,” said Jungels a day after one of his AG2R teammates pulled out with COVID-19. “I went down that last hill at top speed, and that made the difference.”

Andy Schleck was the last man from Luxembourg to win a Tour de France stage 11 years ago.

On a hot day with over 40km ascent as the peloton rolled into the Alps, past Charlie Chaplin’s long-time residence at Vevey on the north shore of Lake Geneva, the stage was a prelude for three up-coming mountain slogs.

Jungels raced a full 62km on his own after going solo from an early breakaway as the riders rolled out of Aigle over three relatively challenging climbs.

Some 20km from the finish line at the ski resort of La Port de Soleil on the French border, Frenchman Pinot chased after him, gradually eating into a two-minute lead but never getting closer than 20 seconds adrift before giving up.

Ineos Grenadiers’s Jonathan Castroviejo eventually finished second with Carlos Verona of Movistar third and Pinot fourth.

Belgian rider Wout van Aert sprinted to victory in Stage 8 of the Tour de France at Lausanne on Saturday with defending champion Tadej Pogacar holding the leader’s yellow jersey.

Van Aert, of the Jumbo team, won on a late incline ahead of Australia’s prestage favorite Michael Matthews, with Slovenian Pogacar finishing in third position.

This was a second stage win for van Aert, who also came second three times during the opening stages in Denmark, and extends his lead in the sprint points standings.

Already wearing the overall leader’s yellow jersey, defending champion Tadej Pogacar overtook the last of a breakaway and his key rival Jonas Vingegaard in a last gasp burst atop a steep mountain ascent on Friday .

Pogacar punished all his key rivals except Vingegaard, with Geraint Thomas losing 14 seconds and Adam Yates losing 29, as some riders dismounted and pushed up the punishing finale.

Having taken the lead Thursday, Pogacar had warned his adversaries of his intention to win this stage, and the 23-year-old led the peloton in the hunt to reel in the escapees.

The 7km-long, 9-percent gradient up La Super Planche des Belles Filles in the Vosges was the first mountain on the Tour and provided a pulsating finish. Vingegaard attacked first, overtaking Lennard Kamna within 50 meters of the line as Pogacar followed, timing his final kick to perfection.

The finish line was also the scene of Pogacar’s first Tour de France triumph where he beat Primoz Roglic on the final-day time trial.

Pogacar’s family and girlfriend were waiting at the finish line as stewards attended to the exhausted Vingegaard, guiding his bike out of the way of the following riders.

Defending champion Tadej Pogacar of the UAE Emirates team launched a blistering attack on a late climb to win Stage 6 of the Tour de France and reclaim the overall leader’s yellow jersey on Thursday.

Pogacar attacked on a steep climb 500 meters from the finish and was a class above his key rivals Jonas Vingegaard and Adam Yates.

“It feels like the first time I had it, I wasn’t expecting it today, it was a real battle,” Pogacar said.

The Slovenian took the yellow ahead of EF’s American rider Neilson Powless thanks to the 10 bonus seconds on offer for the stage winner. The 23-year-old celebrated by repeatedly punching the air and is in prime position in his bid to win a third consecutive Tour de France.

He beat Australian Michael Matthews into second on the day while David Gaudu of FDJ was third and Briton Tom Pidcock took fourth.

Simon Clarke of Israel Premier Tech won Stage 5 of the Tour de France on Wednesday in a photo finish after a 157km run from Lille to Arenberg featuring 20km of cobbled mining roads.

Belgium's Wout van Aert of Jumbo retained his overall leader’s yellow jersey despite a nasty fall, but his teammate Primoz Roglic lost around two minutes to defending champion and fellow Slovenian Tadej Pogacar.

Clarke used a bike throw on the line in a razor thin victory over Taco van der Hoorn after American Neilson Powless launched a sprint in a bid for the yellow jersey but fell just short.

Van Aert fell early and hurt a shoulder and was almost run over by his own team car, but rallied to cling on to his overall lead by 13 seconds.

Defending champion Pogacar did the best of the pretenders to the 2022 title when he finished seventh, 51 seconds off the lead.

Ineos trio Adam Yates, Tom Pidcock, and Geraint Thomas all hung in and trail Pogacar by 28, 29 and 30 seconds, respectively.

The treacherous stage raced over cobbles that sent clouds of dust billowing making it tough to breath and easy to slip. Eleven cobbled sections totaling almost 20km of bone shaking mining roads caused much of the chaos, but not all of it.

Belgian Wout van Aert made a late solo break to win Stage 4 of the Tour de France and extend his overall lead on Tuesday.

After coming second on each of the first three stages in Denmark, the Jumbo-Visma rider crossed the finish line in Calais eight seconds ahead of the fast-closing peloton.

Van Aert’s feat was a rare act of brilliance that will live long in the memory, and makes up for the disappointment of his three narrow misses. After 160km dominated by two escapees, Van Aert’s Jumbo team and Adam Yates’s INEOS launched a blistering attack on a short, steep climb.

Van Aert crossed the summit first and then powered over the final 8km at over 55km/h, waving his arms in mock flight at the finish line.

Behind him, Alpecin rider Jasper Philipsen won a bunch sprint for second and celebrated, apparently believing he had won the stage.

Dane Magnus Cort Nielsen showed his ability on the first day in France after he emerged as the hero of the Danish Grand Depart taking the climb points jersey. He again won most of the climbing points and stays top of the King of the Mountains standings.

Dutch sprinter Dylan Groenewegen snatched victory in Stage 3 of the Tour de France on Sunday, edging Wout van Aert on the line—but the Belgian retained the overall race leader’s yellow jersey.

BikeExchange rider Groenewegen ensured Jumbo’s van Aert finished second for the third time after the 182km stage, the last in Denmark before the race returns to France, with large crowds lining the route in the Jutland region.

Sprinter Fabio Jakobsen won stage two of the Tour de France on Saturday, vindicating his Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl team’s decision to select him ahead of Mark Cavendish.

Jakobsen edged Jumbo-Visma's Wout van Aert, who took the overall leader’s yellow jersey after the 202.2km run from Roskilde to Nyborg in Denmark that included a treacherous crossing of the 18km-long Great Belt Bridge.

Dutch rider Jakobsen’s win means Quick-Step have two victories in as many days, after they chose against picking veteran Cavendish , a 34-time stage winner on the race.

Denmark’s Mads Pederson was third to give local fans double reason to celebrate as another Dane, Magnus Cort Nielsen, sporting a handlebar mustache, won the climber’s points jersey along the way.

Fans braved the rain and packed downtown Copenhagen as the Tour de France got underway Friday, with Denmark’s Crown Prince Frederik watching from in front of the royal palace as riders set off gingerly on the rain-slick roads.

Belgian Yves Lampaert won the first stage time trial, gate-crashing the opening day in the rain along the 13.2km route in downtown Copenhagen.

Quick-Step rider Lampaert suffered less from the rain with his later start than prerace favorites Wout van Aert and Filippo Ganna, while defending champion Tadej Pogacar produced a technical masterclass timing faster than his overall title rivals.

Lampaert was overwhelmed with emotion when he realized he will wear the overall leader’s yellow jersey on Saturday's second stage.

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Tour de France pro bikes: check out Quick-Step's Specialized S-Works SL7

Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl made the bold decision to leave an in-form Mark Cavendish at home. The British National Champion could have broken the record for most ever stage wins in the famous race, but his Quick-Step team will be hoping their decision to take Fabio Jakobsen will pay off with the Dutchman aiming for victory in the first road stage.

Their one bike for every road stage of this year’s Tour is the Specialized S-Works Tarmac SL7. The Tarmac SL7 famously killed off the Venge and Specialized doesn’t market its lightweight Aethos model as a race bike, so that leaves the riders with just one choice in the morning.

Not that it is a bad choice, we have to say. The team bike is decked out with the latest Shimano Dura-Ace Di2 groupset and Roval’s fastest wheels.

> Review: Specialized S-Works Tarmac SL7 Dura-Ace Di2

The wheels are the only change compared to the bikes raced at last year’s Tour de France. These are the Roval Rapide CLX II, which added a tubeless rim bed to a very successful design. Roval says that the design is its fastest ever (of course) and the Quick-Step riders will certainly hope so, given that they’ve got to try to get Fabio Jakobsen up to speed on the race’s first road stage.

Mounted to these wheels are a set of unreleased Specialized tyres. Specialized runs a development programme called ‘Project Black’ which they use to test products with the help of the pros. We saw Project Black in action before the launch of the Specialized S-Works Torch shoes, so we’d expect these tyres to be released in the coming months.

The frameset uses Specialized’s Fact 12r carbon, its highest grade, and this is formed into what are supposedly very aero tube shapes. The brake hoses run internally, entering through the upper headset bearing via a special spacer. As Shimano’s Di2 is now wireless, no cabling runs from the shifters to the derailleurs.

Being a race bike, you probably won’t be surprised to find that the gearing here is huge. The standard chainrings are now a 54/40T combination and most Quick-Step riders pair this with an 11-30T cassette. While these gears might make you light-headed, we’d actually expect the sprinters to go even bigger for the opening stages of the race as they will be flat, open and very exposed to the wind.

> Review: Shimano Dura-Ace R9200 Groupset

At the front of the bike, the team uses the SL7’s purpose-built stem which fits very neatly with the spacers. Interestingly, this bike has a 5mm spacer above the stem and the team, for ease of access to the stem and top-cap bolts, foregoes the sleek cover in favour of a potentially less aero design. Then again, we doubt that there is much in it.

The Quick-Step riders also have the choice between handlebars from Pro or Roval. This bike features a round Pro Vibe Superlight model, but we’d expect the likes of Jakobsen to opt for the more aero Roval bar. Finishing the front end is a ‘Wolfpack’ K-Edge out-front computer mount.

The team has the choice of any Specialized saddle and this rider is a fan of the S-Works Romin Mirror, a 3D-printed design.

> Specialized brings 3D printed Mirror tech to the £390 S-Works Romin saddle

And if you’re still wondering about what the pink thing on the fork is, that is a latex sleeve into which the mechanics slot the race’s timing chips. 

Are you a fan of this design? Let us know in the comments below.

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Fabio Jakobsen selected as team's sprinter for the race which begins on Friday in Copenhagen

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There is no room for Mark Cavendish or Julian Alaphilippe in Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl's Tour de France squad, with Fabio Jakobsen preferred as the sprinting option over the former.

The eight-man team was announced on Monday afternoon, four days before the Tour starts in Copenhagen on Friday. It means no record-breaking for Cavendish, with the 37-year-old stuck on 34 stage victories at the race, tied with Eddy Merckx.

It had already been reported that Alaphilippe would miss out , due to injuries sustained in a horror crash at Liège-Bastogne-Liège in April. However, there was still hope for Cavendish, after the Manxman took his  second British National Road victory on Sunday.

Despite this, Dutchman Jakobsen has been preferred to Cavendish, with his superior sprinting record this season - 10 wins to five - likely to be part of the reason.

The other seven riders to be lining up on the start line in Copenhagen on Friday are Kasper Asgreen, Andrea Bagioli, Mattia Cattaneo, Tim Declercq, Mikkel Honoré, Yves Lampaert, and Michael Mørkøv.

Cavendish and Florian Sénéchal have been named as "first-reserve" riders.

This will be Jakobsen's first Tour de France, after two successful editions of the Vuelta a España , where he has won five stages. The 25-year-old was seriously injured in a life-threatening crash two years ago at the Tour of Poland, but has now successfully returned to the top of the sport.

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“We have riders who can support Fabio, riders who can climb, but who can also do something in the breakaways." Quick-Step directeur sportif Tom Steels said in a statement. "Kasper, Yves and Michael will form a solid lead-out train for Fabio, who has proved how fast and strong he is in the sprints and will now get to discover Le Tour. 

"Tim will be the guy to help him not only on the flat, but also in the mountains, where he’ll take care that Fabio makes it inside the time limit. Mattia is very flexible, has more experience now and can go in some breakaways, where Andrea and Mikkel can support him. 

"Mikkel has improved a lot since joining the team and deserves his place in the team, while Andrea is a winner and has shown he has the mentality to compete with the best."

Both Cavendish and Sénéchal won their respect national championship road races at the weekend. “Concerning our reserves, we must stress out that they showed a lot of professionalism, continued to train and remained focused in these past couple of weeks, and even brought two victories at the Nationals," Steels said.

As for Alaphilippe, Quick-Step said that the Frenchman was not yet back at 100% following his crash. The 30-year-old said he was disappointed not to be there,

"I have a natural affection for the race, from my days in the yellow jersey over the past three seasons, my stage victories and many other great memories with my teammates," he said in a statement. 

"To miss another opportunity to wear my beautiful rainbow jersey in my home country is very sad for me and I knew that this decision would be difficult for the team to take," Alaphilippe continued. "At the same time, I completely understand this, because I too don’t want to be at the start if I can’t be at my best level. 

"I want to wish the best of luck to my Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl teammates, I know they will do everything to try to have a great race. I will now focus on getting back to my best shape, because I am motivated to do a strong second part of the season."

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This Story at the Back of the Tour de France Will Make You Cry: The Remarkable Comeback of Fabio Jakobsen

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Team Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl team sprinter Fabio Jakobsen almost lost his life 2 years ago in the Tour of Poland. This year at Le Tour, he survived an altogether different challenge.

Jakobsen was sprinting for the win on a very high-speed downhill finish in 2020 when another rider forced him into the right-side barriers. The former Dutch National Champion burst through the metal fencing at 50+ mph. He then collided with a race official, breaking the bystander’s ribs but potentially saving his own life.

The video shows the explosive impact and is harrowing to watch, especially for anyone who’s crashed in a road sprint.

A “Wolfpack” teammate, Florian Sénéchal, was one of the first to attend to the fallen sprinter, lifting his head to clear his airway of the accumulating blood. On-scene TV coverage showed Sénéchal crying, fearing the worst for his friend. Another team’s doctor coordinated trauma care until a helicopter arrived.

The Aftermath

Jakobsen had incurred significant brain trauma, and doctors placed him in an induced coma at the local ICU to spare his brain further contusion-induced damage. The horrific crash also produced hairline fractures to his skull, damage to the nerves servicing his vocal cords, a broken palate, loss of parts of his upper and lower jaw, a fractured thumb, bruised shoulder, and significant cuts to the face. Jakobsen would lose 10 teeth.

In late 2020, Jakobsen told the Dutch newspaper AD  he felt like he was dying in the hospital bed, struggling to breathe, fearful of choking on the trachea tube.

“I kept losing consciousness, slipping in and out. Every time I thought, ‘this is it, now I am going to die.’ This happened 50 maybe, 100 times. I didn’t die, but it felt like that. These were the longest days of my life. I’d rather ride three Vueltas a España (the tour of Spain) in a row than spending one more day in the ICU.”

Jakobsen underwent multiple surgeries to repair the massive damage to his face, which included bone transplants to his jaw.

The most pressing injury was the damage to the nerves innervating his vocal cords. Jakobsen would require a complete recovery in this area to breathe with enough efficiency to return to professional cycling.

The Saving Grace

One positive thing about Jakobsen’s brain injuries is that he cannot remember the crash. In the 2020 AD interview, he stated, “My luck is that I don’t remember the crash. I have no nightmares about [it], and I am not afraid of crashing [because of it]. I will only know whether I won’t be afraid to sprint again when I am back in that bunch. I know that if I want to come back, I can’t sprint with fear. A scared rider hits the brakes.”

Having worked in motorsports for over a decade, I have heard similar from athletes suffering concussions while motorcycle racing. It’s the only positive I can take from this kind of trauma.

Fabio Jakobsen Returns to the Tour de France

Jakobsen recovered to return to the pro peloton, and this year marks his first participation in the Tour de France. Remarkably, he won stage 2 in Denmark, narrowly besting Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) and Mads Pederson (Trek-Segafredo).

If riding in the fast, roiling pack scared him, he didn’t show it.

Instead, Jakobsen showed his physical recovery from his accident and his mental return to the high-stakes game of professional road sprinting. The emphatic win would cap any athlete’s return to sport, but Jakobsen and the Wolfpack would deliver more feel-good results 2 weeks later when the Tour de France hit the Pyrenees.

Time Cuts in the Tour de France

Jakobsen is a pure sprinter, lightning fast at the end of flat stages but possessing the polar opposite physical attributes of most climbing specialists. Climbers tend to be the lightest team members, hired on to hide in the pack until the roads head skyward.

In a climb, sprinters often relegate themselves to the back of the group with the goal of making the stage’s time cut. Missing this cut results in omission from the remainder of the race.

The Tour de France has the harshest time cuts of all , calculated by a predetermined difficulty rating between 1 and 6 (called the “coefficient”) of the stage and the stage winner’s average speed. These two values produce a percentage, which is then applied to the stage winner’s time. This final calculation determines a time outside the stage winner’s time that all racers must finish within to continue to the next day.

Remember, this time cut is based on the winning time of the best climbers in the world. Jakobsen floundered at the back on climbs with other sprinters preceding this week’s foray into the Pyrenees.

He made each day’s time cut with the help of his team. But the Pyrenees climbs would be a much steeper task.

Stage 17 of the 2022 Tour de France

Riders and teams feared this day — 81 miles from Saint-Gaudens to Peyragudes, ascending three intermediate climbs before attacking the final 5-mile climb at a 7.8% grade, with the last 500 m at an utterly savage 13%.

Jakobsen would have to survive the time cut to continue to contest one of the tour’s most coveted prizes — the final sprint on the Champs-Élysées on Sunday. Jakobsen is undoubtedly a contender.

Stage 17 proved brutal for everyone, particularly for the sprinters. Jakobsen found himself alone on the final climb at the very back of the race. Team bosses ordered his teammates to leave him so they wouldn’t miss the time cut.

Race footage shows a lone figure, obviously struggling to turn the pedals. The infamous “broom wagon,” which “sweeps” riders who abandon the course, looms behind him. A Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl team car creeps on his heels, team directors willing the sprinter to wring every ounce of energy from his body to beat the ticking countdown clock at the finish line.

His progress is painfully slow. Fans cheer at the top of their lungs, sending all their energy to the underdog. TV announcers state that he sadly won’t make it despite his heroic effort on display — d espite how far he’d come already.

I’m Not Crying; You’re Crying

But the Wolfpack was waiting for him. The same team at the crash, the same person that held his head while he lay on the ground at the Tour of Poland, struggling to breathe.

Jakobsen made the time cut by the narrowest of margins: 15 seconds.

#TDF2022 , Stage 17. Fabio Jakobsen kept himself within time limit by 15 seconds. He did a sprint on runway to stage finish. (link to video via @RenaudB31 ) pic.twitter.com/NOl8HJGUXK — ammattipyöräily (@ammattipyoraily) July 20, 2022

Watch and listen to the play-by-play. It didn’t look like Jakobsen would make it. Although his effort was evident, his forward progress seemed eternally slow. But what the announcers could not see or call was heart.

The crash. The painful therapy. Overcoming doubt and fear. And the power of the team. The Wolfpack ushered Jakobsen over the other climbs; they led him out on his winning sprint. Now it was his turn. And he delivered.

Why We Love Sports

Stage 17 ended with a sprint between Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) and Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma), with Pogačar surging to win by a slim margin. It’s a compelling story on its own: the two top dogs mano a mano at the finish of one of the most challenging days in this year’s Tour de France. An easy headline.

But I’ll argue that the stories at the very back of the Tour de France are often better. And not just in that moment or on that day. Lurking below the surface and beyond the results are storylines that can cast humans in a light that I find rare these days.

And they can remind us that we can be noble and sacrifice for others for the good of a team — and make those efforts for reasons other than results.

This is the post-race interview with a tearful Sénéchal, the Wolfpack member at Jakobsen’s side after the fearful 2020 crash.

“Chapeau, he is my friend.” No further commentary is required.

Over vriendschap gesproken ???? https://t.co/M3EKcY8UC9 — Steven Dalebout (@stevendalebout) July 20, 2022

Jakobsen must make the time cut today to continue his fantastic story and contest the final Tour de France sprint in Paris. I don’t know if he will do it. But I do know he’s a winner, along with his Wolfpack. Long live sport.

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Seiji Ishii is Editor at Large at the AllGear network and the Climbing and Cycling editor at GearJunkie.

He has been writing about cycling, climbing, outdoor endeavors, motorsports, and the gear and training for those pursuits for 20+ years.

Before AllGear, Ishii was a freelance contributor to print and web publications related to his interests and professional experiences. He continues to pursue climbing and cycling objectives seriously.

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