Stage: The pack faced four climbs including the Croix de Fer pass – one of the hardest ascents in cycling – and an uphill finish at the La Toussuire ski station in a 138-kilometer (86-mile) course from Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne. The rear wheel just jammed up.
Tonight the Hell of the North comes to the 2015 Tour de France, so join us from 9:30pm for live race updates and commentary as Stage 4 sees the peloton race over the legendary cobbled roads of Northern France. With the race moving from neighboring Netherlands into Belgium, Stage...
But Cavendish’s strategy of an early acceleration failed to pay off and the stage win went instead to sprint rival Andre Greipel of Germany. “The goal was to win a stage and we’ve already reached that”, Greipel told ITV4 following the presentation of the...