A three-week Grand Tour will always contain natural ebbs and flows, and, for much of Monday’s stage between Valenciennes and Dunkirk, it looked as if the peloton had declared an unofficial rest day, with the riders happy to cruise back towards the coast after a weekend of wind, rain and intensity.

Sprinters Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) and Biniam Girmay (Intermarché-Wanty) appeared to have put tensions aside after an angry moment between the pair arose during stage 2 of the Tour de France on Sunday.

Crashes are a part of the Tour de France and Durango’s Sepp Kuss experienced that on ... in a domestique role for team leader Mattias Skjelmose and sprinter Jonathan Milan. The Tour kicked off on Saturday with the 184.9 km Stage 1, which started and ...

The 11 Look bikes that were stolen from Cofidis during the Tour de France Grand Départ have now been returned, the team confirmed on Monday. In the early hours of Sunday morning, ahead of stage 2, 11 bikes worth €13,000 each were stolen from the Cofidis hotel in Bondues, in what the team assumed was the work of an organised gang.