Tag: Greg Van Avermaet

Cav in Green… Again

Today’s Tour de France stage was another boring one. The breakaway of Jan Barta (Bora-Argon 18) and Yukiya Arashiro (Lampre-Merida) was established on km 3. The exciting bits were the intermediate sprints for minor placings. The stage was so uneventful that apart from the castles and stately homes we were even shown contrails of airplanes. And…




Can Van Avermaet Keep the Yellow Jersey?

Stage 5 of the 2016 version of the Tour de France was the first climbing stage at the Massif Central. We were expecting the  climbers to flex the muscles to show each other how ready they are but the breakaway had a different idea. Nine riders jumped ahead on 21 km after the start but…