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Stage 15 TDF 2023 Blog: Wout vs Wout On the Cote des Amerands, Wout Poels attacked the last of his breakaway companions, Wout van Aert. The Dutch Wout rode away from the Belgian Wout, and extended his lead on the

Stage 14 TDF 2023 Blog: Best Descender Wins Carlos Rodriguez (promoting oil and SUVs) won Stage 14 by closing the gap on Vingegaard and Pogacar after the top of the climb of the Joux Plane, and being the fastest on

Stage 13 TDF 2023 Blog: Pole Position Michal Kwiatskowski (promoting oil and SUVs) registered an impressive win on the top of the Grand Colombier on Stage 13. He was part of a 20-man breakaway that also included James Shaw, Quentin

Stage 11 TDF 2023 Blog: Boring, but not for JP Stage 11 was a sprinters’ stage, with a doomed breakaway and a massed peloton. Dylan Groenewegen was well-placed for the sprint, but had to settle for second as Jasper Philipsen

Stage 10 TDF 2023 Blog: the Heat is On Stage 10 was raced on a very hot day, and there were lots of climbs as the riders made their way through the Massif Central. That made for a hard and

Stage 9 TDF 2023 Blog: Woods’ Mountain Michael Woods was the fastest of the 14 breakaway riders up the Puy de Dome, and won his first Tour de France stage. He had been left behind on the flat by some

Stage 8 TDF 2023 Blog: Tough Uphill Sprint in Limoges In a hard, uphill finale, Mads Pedersen of Lidl Trek went early and kept sprinting all the way to a well-deserved win. Philipsen had the advantage of a Mathieu van

Stage 7 TDF 2023 Blog: Cav 2nd, Philipsen Wins Again Mark Cavendish came very close to Tour de France win no. 35 today, but Jasper Philipsen won again. Mathieu van der Poel started a lead-out for Philipsen early, and it