Tour de France 2022 : Stage 10 – Magnus Cort: mountain man of Megeve

Holy moly! WHAT a mind boggling day of racing on Stage 10 of the Tour de France. It started with the EF Education-Easypost bus getting stuck and ended with EF Pinkies mountain supremo, Magnus Cort, pipping Nick Schultz (Bike-Exchage-Jacvo) in a breathless sprint at Megeve. In between we had a swathe of positive covid tests, the mother of all battles to get the break of the day away, Lennard Kamna (BORA-hangrohe) moving to second on GC after it appeared race leader Tadej Pogacar didn’t want to let the yellow jersey go after all, oh – and a protest by climate change activists that held the race up for several minutes. The day after rest day is NEVER short on drama!

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Tour Tweets of the Week : Chamois and poupees, Wout and Pog, Bob and Tibo

The first full week of racing at the Tour de France and it was glorious! We have Wout v Pog, Pog v Vingegaard, Chaos v Jumbo, Rog v Haybale, Pinot v Musette, Pinot v Jungels Plus we have Gruber Galleries, Poupees, and #RookieRacingRecap. It’s all here. HERE!

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