The Sports Guru
Cycling
The first mountain finish of the Tour de France usually tells you who has come to race, and stage 3 to Les Angles said it plainly: Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard, again, with daylight to the rest. Pogacar…
Grand tour coverage from The Sports Guru: the Tour de France and the stage racing that decides it, the yellow jersey, and the riders who turn a mountain finish into the argument of the season.
Each piece stays with one stage or one decision and asks what it changes for the race, rather than reciting the classification. Results are taken from the race organisers and from BBC Sport.
The grid below is the full cycling archive on this site, newest first. Every article links on to other pieces about the same race.
Cycling
The Tour de France sells itself on the crowd: the roadside wall of noise, the painted tarmac, the fans who run alongside the riders on the hardest climbs. On stage 3 the race asked that crowd to stay at home.…