Wout van Aert and Laurens De Plus collide and fortunately avoid a massive wreck during Stage 2 of the 2024 Tour de France.

Van Aert, De Plus crash during Stage 2

Right see you all tomorrow for stage four as the race heads into the Alps and takes in the mighty Col du Galibier on the 139.6km route from Pinerolo - Valloire. We'll be following all of the action and a likely GC battle from 12:00 BST. General classification after stage...

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Romain Bardet won a thrilling stage one of the Tour de France in Rimini to take the yellow jersey as Sir Mark Cavendish’s pursuit of a record-breaking 35th stage victory got off to a gruelling start with intense heat leaving him vomiting on the bike.Bardet, riding his final Tour, attacked out of the peloton with 50 kilometres left of the 206km stage from Florence and, aided by his team-mate and Tour debutant Frank van den Broek out of the breakaway, did just enough to hold off the approaching pack by a matter of metres on the Adriatic seafront.But as Bardet,...

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Biniam Girmay made history as the first black African to win a Tour de France stage as Mark Cavendish was held up by a late crash on the run into Turin. In a reduced sprint finish, Eritrea's Girmay powered to victory, with Colombia's Fernando Gaviria and Belgium's Arnaud de Lie in second and third.

Girmay first black African to win Tour de France stage

 After the thrills and spills of the first two days came a more sedate stage three, as the peloton decided to ease off on the attacks and a breakaway failed to emerge. Instead the sprinters gathered themselves for a fight to the line in Turin, where Biniam Girmay produced a stunning kick to become the first black African to win a Tour de France stage.They took it easy partly with today’s stage in mind: the race finally leaves Italy (which has made for an even better starting destination than organisers could have hoped) and enters France, via a brutally...

Tour de France 2024 stage 4 preview: Map and profile of 140km route as GC riders battle on Col du Galibier

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Intermarche-Wanty's Biniam Girmay made history Monday by becoming the first black African to win a stage in the Tour de France. The achievement came just two years after he became the first black African to win any Grand Tour stage at the Giro d'Italia in 2022.
The first Black African rider to win a Tour de France stage.Biniam Girmay makes history for Eritrea. #TDF2024 pic.twitter.com/T1fpopKmcM— NBC Sports (@NBCSports) July 1, 2024
The Eritrean rider benefited from a messy finale on Stage 3 after Astana-Qazaqstan's Mark Cavendish's final sprint was held up due to a high-speed crash in the peloton within 1.3 miles...

Biniam Girmay makes history at Tour de France

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Tour de France 2024 stage four: Pogacar dominates opening GC battle

The man in yellow (again) You can read all about Tadej Pogacar's exploits up and down the descent of the Col du Galibier in our report....

Tour de France 2024 stage four: Pogacar dominates opening GC battle

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