She is a professional presenter with a fitness and motivational speaking background. No competition cycling experience whatsoever but that is the norm now for many of the televised sports. Andy
Yeah Benji. I seem to recall that Lantern is a qualified lawyer, not that we should hold that against him...... He gave it all up to concentrate on his cycling passion. I watch some of his stuff my Son watches a lot more of LR, loves his insightful commentary. An acquaintance of mine rode in the tour in the early 80's, one of the few English riders to have done so in that era.
What a stage shame it came so early. Kudos to Paris paintre for going again as he did in the giro 70k to go, got some balls on him. UAE are a team above obv, six of them sat at the front for the slog part of the day with pogi at the back, Yates in front of him and swapping bottles and icing each other all day. No other team like it depth or organisation wise imo. Pidcock getting dropped with 9k of the tourmalet left, disappointing. Remco *head butting Seixas, bizarre.
When Pogi went today he closed down Carapaz’s 40 second lead in 700 metres on a 1 in 9 gradient. lol. And the slightly shit thing was no one even attempted to go with him they know they’re already fighting for second and absolutely no point blowing a gasket with just under two weeks to go. Kudos to Remco for getting back on and taking second. Del Torro
I was getting flashbacks from the horrible white lime they spray on the roads after our recent ride over Puy Mary at the EMM. Not sure if it contributed to Pidcock’s crash, after the initial shock of seeing the crap all over the road as you went into a corner we realised it wasn’t actually slippery. It was however a bastard to clean off the bike when I got home. Pog was incredible again closing Carapaz
It will never not blow my mind that a sport like uci world cycling/tdf has teams named after night street shops. If only woolys had held on until the www era.
Decent day at le tour if your names Tom Pidcock https://www.domestiquecycling.com/en/cycling-races/tour-de-france/2026/standings/
Who saw that coming then? https://www.domestiquecycling.com/e...n-as-vingegaard-crashes-out-on-tour-stage-15/
Vingegaard out of Tour after spectator crash as Evenepoel wins https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/articles/c0jl84wp50wo Questions will be asked in the paddock about the concentration levels of Vingegaard and his unusual mistake on such a straightforward piece of road after he was awoken at 2am local time on Sunday to undertake an anti-doping test by the International Testing Agency. Pogacar was also woken to test at 5am, and while the ITA is permitted to take night-time tests, it was seen as an unusual move, with both riders saying it disrupted their sleep. The ITA told BBC Sport: "The ITA can confirm that anti-doping controls were conducted overnight involving riders participating in the Tour de France. "The ITA is conscious that night-time testing may be disruptive to riders' rest and recovery. Due consideration has therefore been given to minimise as much as possible the impact testing activities have on riders. "However, the ITA, on behalf of the UCI, has the responsibility to ensure the effectiveness of the cycling anti-doping program and the integrity of cycling races. "As such, effective testing must, in limited and justified circumstances, be capable to occur outside standard daytime hours." Is this really necessary?
