Mark Cavendish has postponed his retirement plans and will race on in 2024 so has one last opportunity to break the record for the most Tour de France stage wins. The Manxman currently shares the record with Eddy Merckx after crashing out of the 2023 race on stage eight and here we assess how the records of the two great riders compare.
Emotions will be running high for Mark Cavendish over the next three weeks whatever happens on the long road from Bilbao to Paris. Over the course of the past two decades, the Manxman has earned a reputation as the greatest sprinter cycling has seen, and nowhere has he done more to burnish that reputation than at the Tour de France.
The 2023 Tour de France starts in Bilbao, with the Basque Country Grand Depart making for a route which is difficult from the very start. After some tough opening stages, the Pyrenees come as early as stage five, with no time for anybody to ease into three weeks of punishing racing which will climax in the Alps in the third week.
We’re posting our sports quiz of the year for 2022 to test your knowledge of what happened in some of the key events over the past 12 months. There were tears of joy at thrilling victories – and also a few shed over the near miss of what might have been.
Virtual sports betting is becoming more and more popular as the quality of products available grows ever stronger. Here we take a look at the different options on offer from bwin and provide hints on how to bet on virtual sports.
This year sees the two Canadian Grands Prix return to the UCI World Tour schedule for the first time since 2019. The Grand Prix Cycliste de Quebec and Grand Prix Cycliste de Montreal were added to the schedule in 2010 but were cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to the Covid pandemic.
With stage one set to start in Copenhagen on July 1, we’ve picked out our Tour de France 2022 predictions for the leading betting market on this iconic contest. The 109th edition of cycling’s blue riband event will finish on the Champs-Elysees in Paris on July 24.
With the athletics in full flow and the action in other sports hotting up, we’re taking a daily look at the latest Olympics betting odds available to punters. There have already been lots of emotional triumphs in Tokyo but the best could be yet to come as track stars go for gold.
For most cyclists and fans alike, Tour de France is the highlight of the year and the biggest cycling event in the world. In 2020, the Tour will be the first of the Grand Tours with Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a España following later in the year.
We’ve put together an interactive stage guide for the Tour de France 2019 which not only gives you all the information you’d expect but also includes an analysis of each stage’s importance to the riders challenging for the yellow jersey. We’ve done this by breaking down the performance of the last 10 yellow jersey winners on each type of stage and at each point in the Tour de France, which we’ve used to rank each of this year’s stages based on their importance.