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Wout van Aert won the hilly fourth stage of the Tour de France and extended his overall lead after attacking strongly on the day’s final climb on Tuesday.

Belgian rider Wout van Aert won the hilly fourth stage of the Tour de France and extended his overall lead after attacking strongly on the day's final climb on Tuesday. Van Aert shook up the peloton when he surged ahead up the last of the five climbs — a 900-meter ascent up Cote du Cap Blanc-Nez at a gradient of 7.5 % — about 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the end. The 27-year-old Van Aert is considered one of the best multi-skilled riders in the world and is a former three-time cyclo-cross world champion and a one-day classics specialist.

Why, it's only the 109th edition of the Tour de France, one of the three grand tours, the others being the Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España.

The Tour de France gets back underway Tuesday after a successful three days in Denmark with a series of testing stages that will shape the destiny of the 2022 yellow jersey.

Dylan Groenewegen won the third stage of the Tour de France on Sunday.

Dylan Groenewegen won the Tour de France's third stage in a sprint finish. Wout van Aert remains in the yellow jersey.

Groenewegen got behind record seven-time Tour sprint champion Sagan's wheel when he was battling with Van Aert, and found a gap to squeeze through and nudge his wheel over the line to win for the BikeExchange–Jayco team. “I took a lot of wind and my legs were tired but I still had enough to sprint to the line,” Groenewegen said.

Dutch sprinter Dylan Groenewegen snatched victory in the third stage of the Tour de France on Sunday, edging Wout van Aert on the line although the Belgian retained the overall race leader's yellow jersey.

Why, it's only the 109th edition of the Tour de France, one of the three grand tours, the others being the Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España.

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Two years after a near fatal cycling crash Fabio Jakobsen won stage two of the Tour de France on Saturday vindicating his Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl team's decision to select him ahead of veteran Mark Cavendish.

Fabio Jakobsen, a Dutchman who less than two years ago was in a medically induced coma after a race crash, won the second stage of his debut Tour de France.

Sprinter Fabio Jakobsen won stage two of the Tour de France on Saturday vindicating his Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl team's decision to select him ahead of experienced Mark Cavendish.

The WorldTour, the top tier of professional men's road cycling, comprises 18 teams from 12 different countries and five continents.

Belgian Yves Lampaert shocked the favourites to pull on the leader's yellow jersey after the rain-drenched first stage of the Tour de France, an individual time-trial in the Danish capital on Friday.

As fans again fill stadiums this summer, a string of Covid-19 cases in major events suggest it is too early to cheer pandemic-free sport.

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Belgian Yves Lampaert won the first stage of the Tour de France on Friday, gate-crashing the opening day individual time-trial as crowds defied the rain along the 13.2km route in downtown Copenhagen.

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Fans braved the rain and packed downtown Copenhagen as the Tour de France got underway Friday, with Denmark's Crown Prince Frederik watching from in front of the royal palace as riders set off gingerly on the rain-slick roads.

Fans packed downtown Copenhagen ahead of the Tour de France's Grand Depart Friday where Denmark's Crown Prince Frederik had promised to watch from in front of the royal palace, while over a billion television viewers are expected to tune in over the three weeks.

Heres a guide on how to watch the Tour de France 2022 plus details on the schedule, start times, start location, route length, American cyclers and more.

As with all WorldTour races, each team from the top-flight of professional cycling receive an invitation and in the case of the Tour de France, all are contracted to compete in the grand tour.

With one day remaining ahead of the Tour de France's 'Grand Depart' in Denmark, Tadej Pogacar sounded a warning to those hoping to dethrone the double champion.

Tadej Pogacar leads the Tour de France field that includes several more star cyclists with Tour and international medal success.

STORY: As race director Christian Prudhomme explained, the city will be the most northern ever to host the race start."It's very far from France, because it's really very far from France. And it's the most northern continent, ever. But I think Denmark deserves it," he said."Why? Because all the population is on bikes and because you love the Tour."Celebrations in Denmark are everywhere, with both people and cities decorating buildings and putting up tributes in race jersey colors.The mayor of Copenhagen, Sophie Haestorp Andersen, hopes that the city can inspire people to take up cycling to help with both health and the environment."My hope is that when the Tour de France, when they leave, they have seen a Copenhagen that is yellow, that is happy, that is inviting people in, not only for professional cyclists but also for everyday cyclists. And we hope to inspire the rest of the world and to go more in this direction, because it is a carbon neutral way of living and is also a healthy way of living," she said.

Primoz Roglic must find a way to stop his Slovenian rival Tadej Pogacar from winning the Tour de France for the third straight time. Pogacar is firm favorite to win the three-week race, which starts in Denmark on Friday and ends in Paris on July 24. Pogacar won Tirreno-Adriatico and the UAE Tour this year, and showed his class with an unprecedented long-distance solo attack to win the Strade Bianche in March — despite being involved in a crash early on in the one-day race.

The 2022 Tour de France will begin on Friday, as so often, under a cloud of suspicion, with one of the 22 teams, Bahrain Victorious, subjected to dawn raids on the eve of the race. It is the second time this week the team have been subjected to police raids.

Why, it's only the 109th edition of the Tour de France, one of the three grand tours, the others being the Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España.

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A stage-by-stage look at the 2022 Tour de France route with profiles, previews and estimated start and finish times.

Raucous crowds at the Copenhagen Tivoli theme park gave the Tour de France the kind of reception organisers could only have dreamed of on Wednesday.

Dutch cyclist Annemiek van Vleuten, who had a horrific crash at the 2016 Olympics, then won gold in Tokyo, said she will retire after the 2023 season.

Tour de France title challengers Primoz Roglic and Jonas Vingegaard of Jumbo Visma believe their team's two-leader strategy can finally deliver cycling's most treasured title after consecutive narrow defeats.

The entire industry is guilty of leering at competitors. This happens especially at early-season races, like the Tour Down Under, when a rider’s physique is callously judged in whispers and sideways glances on a scale of ‘Watch out!’ to ‘That fat f--- has no chance of winning the Tour de France.’

Champion Tadej Pogacar is the hot favourite and Covid-19 continues to provide a troubling background but the tension and expectations for this year's Tour de France, which gets underway on Friday, are as high as ever.

They are known for their colourful pink kit but EF Education-Easypost have put a new spin on their jerseys for this year’s Tour de France, with their eight riders set to wear tops emblazoned with a female gender symbol to raise awareness ahead of the return of the women’s Tour de France later this summer.

Eager to welcome the start of the Tour de France which embarks from the Danish capital on Friday, Copenhagen senses an opportunity to promote its deep cycling culture in a land where bikes, not cars, rule the roads.

Sir Bradley Wiggins believes Ineos Grenadiers should throw their full support behind Geraint Thomas at the Tour de France, though conceded it is unlikely his former team-mate can win a second yellow jersey.

Every stage of the 109th Tour de France airs live among NBC, USA and Peacock.

Mark Cavendish has missed out on selection for this year’s Tour de France despite his success in Sunday’s national road race championships, although the Manxman has been named as one of two “first reserves” for Belgian squad Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl.

STORY: The race will start with a 13km individual time trial in Copenhagen before the second stage takes the peloton over the 18km Great Belt bridge. The third and final stage in Denmark will see riders cover 182km between Vejle and Sonderborg.Excitement is high in Copenhagen, a city where cycling is very popular, and Denmark will become the 10th country to hold a Tour de France Grand Depart."I think it is going to be really, really awesome," said cycling fan Max Hellen-Hegelund."It's going to be great weather, it's going to be awesome that the Tour de France finally arrives in Copenhagen and the rest of Denmark of course."The 109th edition of the race will continue through France, ending in Paris on July 24.

Mark Cavendish was not named to the Tour de France roster by his team and will miss a shot at breaking his tie with Eddy Merckx for the most stage wins.

Britain's Mark Cavendish and France's Julian Alaphilippe have both missed out on a place in the upcoming Tour de France, their Quick-Step team announced Monday.

It's the inaugural edition of the Tour de France Femmes, the women's edition of the Tour de France.

Tadej Pogacar will begin his bid for a third straight Tour de France title later this week alongside four of the same teammates who helped him to last year's yellow jersey.