Jasper Philipsen of the Alpecin – Deceuninck squad won stage 3 of the 2023 Tour de France in Bayonne in a bunch sprint finish ahead of Phil Bauhaus and Caleb Ewan. It’s the third Tour de France stage victory and the 30th career win for the 25 year old Belgian as well as the fifth Tour de France win for Alpecin-Deceuninck. Adam Yates retained the overall lead.
174 riders rolled out front the start…
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The Tour de France introduced a Mountains classification in 1933, but it wasn’t until 1975 that the distinctive maillot à pois rouge (“polka dot jersey”) was first awarded to the rider leading the competition. Riders score points toward in the competition by being among the first to the summit of categorized climbs, with points awarded in accordance with each climb’s rating.
The leader at the end of each stage wears the jersey the next day, and the rider with the highest point total by the end of the Tour is dubbed the Tour’s King of the Mountains.
I made an Hall of the mountain king edit in honor of this batshit insane post (for which i may or may not be partially responsible, too) by @one-time-i-dreamt, enjoy :)
incidentally for the people who aren’t zedaph watchers I have to express just HOW MUCH the crevasse is a step forward for zedaph building. season six he. didn’t have a base really if I recall correctly. in season seven he had an undecorated cave he put silly machines in. season eight he at least DECORATED but it was sure still a hole in a mountain. season nine it was a base he did a BUILD with! still a hole in a mountain. season ten is a STEP UP it’s a hole with NO MOUNTAIN REQUIRED,
I was thinking of captioning this with like “the one bet Wukong doesn’t mind losing”(like they bet who the baby monkeys would like more) but realistically after Wukong quit making heart eyes at Mac he would be SOOO pouty and huffy that HIS subjects who HE is the king of all like Macaque over HIM
Geraint Thomas to lead INEOS Grenadiers at the 2023 Vuelta
2018 Tour de France winner, Geraint Thomas, will spearhead the INEOS Grenadiers eight-man line-up for this year’s Vuelta a España.
The race gets underway on Saturday 26 August in Barcelona, kicking off with a 14.8km team time trial before heading into the mountains, and finishes on Sunday 17 September in Madrid.
The highly experienced and hugely popular Welshman, who has already finished as…
Le Tour '22 Stages 1-3 - A farmers son from Belgium
Le Tour ’22 Stages 1-3 – A farmers son from Belgium
As with the previous couple of years, I will write a post grouping key stages together (rather than doing each one on its own as I did the summer I was out of work!).
It feels right to cluster the whole of the Grand Depart together and to talk Denmark in totality with the massive pile of positives (experiences not doping tests) to take out of it.
Whilst on the subject of doping there was a lot…