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Pogacar storms to maillot jaune on stage 20 as Roglic's Tour de France bid collapses

Pogacar smashes time trial to overtake Jumbo-Visma rider, Porte moves onto podium

Tadej Pogačar ( UAE Team Emirates ) stunned the Tour de France to win the stage 20 time trial at La Planche des Belles Filles, taking the yellow jersey after one of the most shocking rides in recent memory to beat Primož Roglič ( Jumbo-Visma ) by 1:56 on the 36km course.

Heading into the penultimate stage, the 21-year-old had a 57-second gap to make up on his compatriot, though few predicted that the time trial specialist Roglič could actually cede the maillot jaune in a test against the clock.

However, Roglič shed time from the beginning, falling 13 seconds down at the first checkpoint of the day after 14km, and 36 seconds at the end of the flat 30km section of the course. Pogačar flew up the climb as Roglič's struggles continued with a less-than-ideal swap from his TT bike to a road bike.

He was still 20 seconds to the good at that point but seemed to collapse as he climbed the first category mountain, which was 6km long at an average of 8.3 per cent. In a matter of seconds, his virtual lead evaporated to a deficit, going into the red at the 3.9km mark and never looking like returning to green. He crossed the final checkpoint, 2.7km out, a devastating 1:22 down.

As Pogačar rode under the flamme rouge , he was in yellow by over 40 seconds, powering to the line as Roglič's teammates Tom Dumoulin and Wout van Aert watched what was unfolding on the big screen in stunned silence.

By the time Pogačar crossed the line in a time of 55:55 – 1:21 ahead of the previous fastest man Dumoulin, the race was already over with the UAE leader having surged up La Planche 22 seconds faster than anyone else, setting a new all-time climbing record in the process, despite changing his bike at the bottom.

Roglič battled through the final kilometres, but only kept losing time. His Tour de France dream had come to an end in the Vosges mountains as he collapsed after the finish, consoled by his waiting teammates.

"I think I’m dreaming. I don’t know what to say. It’s unbelievable," the new GC leader said at the finish line of stage 20. "My dream was just to be on the Tour de France [podium], now the dream is true. I’m here and now there’s only the last stage. This is unbelievable.

"I'm really proud of the team. They did such a big effort. To get the yellow jersey on the final day is what we dreamed from the start. We achieved that and it's amazing.

"It was not just me, it was all the team. We did a reconnaissance and I knew every corner, every pothole in the road, I knew when to accelerate and that's congrats to all the team. I pushed to the end and I made it."

Miguel Ángel López (Astana) was the last man to cross the line, having experienced a similar disintegration over the past hour. The Colombian clocked the 45th best time of the day – and only the 44th best on the climb – to finish over six minutes down on Pogačar. 

Richie Porte (Trek-Segafredo), who lay 1:39 back in the morning, eased into the final podium spot, finishing third on the stage with a time of 57:16.

After the astonishing events of the day, Pogačar heads to Paris with a 59-second advantage over Roglič, while Porte lies in third, 3:30 down. 

As well as the yellow jersey, Pogačar will take home the white jersey of best young rider, plus the polka dot jersey – the first rider to win all three at one Tour de France in history, since the white jersey didn't exist in the times of Eddy Merckx. Stage 12 winner Marc Hirschi (Team Sunweb), meanwhile, takes the combativity award while Movistar win the team classification once again.

How it unfolded

The penultimate stage of the Tour de France would take in the final mountain of the race, La Planche des Belles Filles, though at the end of a 36.2km time trial rather than a mammoth mountain stage.

The TT – which looked to decide the final podium spot, the makeup of the top ten, plus the destination of the polka dot jersey – took in 14km of flat roads to the first checkpoint. Then it was a long rise and shallow descent to the base of the climb at the second checkpoint, 30km in, before the 6km, 8.3 per cent climb to the line, which featured the third checkpoint at 2.7km from the line.

Deceuninck-QuickStep dominated the early proceedings, with Rémi Cavagna and Kasper Asgreen setting the quickest times of the early runners. Cavagna set off first but caught Asgreen, his 1:30 man, and blitzed the two checkpoints, becoming the first man to break the hour barrier with a time of 57:54. Asgreen crossed the line second fastest at 1:00:25.

Twenty minutes later, Alessandro De Marchi (CCC Team) came just one second away from breaking the hour mark, while UAE Team Emirates climber David De La Cruz was the second man to do so, setting a time of 17:40 up the climb to go second at 58:35.

Double-stage winner Søren Kragh Andersen (Team Sunweb) and Max Schachmann (Bora-Hansgrohe) both went well, setting times of 59:54, but Cavagna's mark stood strong as the top 20 on GC began their efforts.

Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) was the first man to beat Cavagna, almost three hours later. The Belgian all-rounder put in a time of 57:26 – including a new fastest time of 16:52 up the climb – to edge out the Frenchman by 28 seconds. Bahrain McLaren's Damiano Caruso put in an impressive ride, too, going third fastest at 58:24, as he overhauled Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) for 10th overall.

His teammate, former world time trial champion Tom Dumoulin, was flying on course, fastest at the second and third checkpoints, 51 and 27 seconds up on Van Aert, respectively. He crossed the line with a time of 57:16, 10 seconds up.

In the battle for the Tour's final podium spot, Miguel Ángel López (Astana Pro Team) was 41 seconds behind Trek-Segafredo's Richie Porte at the first checkpoint. A few minutes later, Roglič passed through, shedding 13 seconds to Pogačar.

Roglič lost more time at the second checkpoint, passing through 36 seconds down. At the top of the climb, the time for Richard Carapaz (Ineos Grenadiers) was only fourth fastest up the mountain, a fatal blow in his bid to retain the polka dot jersey against the two Slovenians.

After a less than ideal bike change on the climb 5.2km from the top (Pogačar changed 500 metres earlier) Roglič got underway again, a 20-second gap in the virtual GC to Pogačar, but over the early kilometres of the climb he looked to totally crumble, with the time gap ticking down from green into the red.

López was experiencing something similar, losing 2:34 to Porte at the second checkpoint and lost another 1:41 on the climb to fall down to sixth overall, as the Australian grabbed his first-ever Tour podium. Mikel Landa (Bahrain McLaren), who finished 14th at 59:22, and Enric Mas (Movistar), ninth at 58:40, were also beneficiaries of López's poor ride, moving up to fourth and fifth overall respectively, while Dumoulin's second-place finish at 57:16 saw him take sixth.

Meanwhile, at the final checkpoint 2.7km from the finish, Roglič passed the ailing López, but was a mammoth 1:22 down on Pogačar. By that point, any hope that he had been saving energy on the flat had evaporated, and all that remained was the final slog to the finish, his chances in tatters.

Pogačar had blitzed the course, putting time into every major GC rider, bar Dumoulin on the flat, before blowing them away on the climb. The stage victory, and the 2020 Tour de France, is his.

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Tadej Pogacar claimed three jerseys and Sam Bennett one on the final Tour de France podium Source: Getty

General Classification (Yellow jersey)

1. tadej pogačar (team uae-emirates), 2. primož roglič (team jumbo-visma), 3. richie porte (trek-segafredo), points classification (green jersey), 1. sam bennett (deceuninck–quick-step), king of the mountains (polkadot jersey), 1. tadej pogačar, young rider's classification (white jersey).

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Five talking points from stage 20 of the Tour de France 2020

The stage 20 time trial at the Tour de France 2020 would prove to be one of the most remarkable in decades

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The most thrilling end to a Tour de France in decades

No-one saw this coming. As much as we all hoped to see an exciting showdown for the yellow jersey on the decisive penultimate stage of the race, the 57-second lead yellow jersey wearer Primož Roglič (Jumbo-Visma) held over second-place Tadej Pogačar (UAE Emirates) appeared unbridgeable.

Roglič had been untouchable during the Alps, not showing even a hint of weakness, while the Pogačar had toned down some of the exuberance he displayed during the first half of the race, and appeared to be tiring as Paris approached.

>>> Tadej Pogačar snatches Tour de France 2020 victory from Primož Roglič in dramatic time trial

Maybe, if he was on a good day, Pogačar might be able to reduce the deficit a little, but making up nearly one whole minute against a time triallist as good as Roglič looked an impossible task.

But what seemed an impossible task gradually began to seem very possible out on the road. Pogačar began to put pressure on his compatriot at the first intermediate time check, cutting his advantage down to 13 seconds and that gap continued to close at a threatening rate over the next kilometres. With just 44 seconds left to close, the race was on.

Then, on the lower slopes of the Planche des Belles Filles, the advantage suddenly swung drastically towards Pogačar. Rather than slowing down from his earlier efforts, Pogačar appeared even stronger on this climb, as instead it was Roglič who started to seriously suffer. As 30 seconds became 20 seconds, 20 seconds became 10 seconds, and 10 seconds became a dead heat, and, with 4km to ride, Pogačar was the virtual yellow. The momentum was permanently with Pogačar, and it rapidly became clear that he was going to win the Tour de France .

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The stage evoked memories of 1989, when Greg LeMond famously took the yellow jersey from Laurant Fignon in a time trial on the Champs-Élysées by eight seconds — a margin that remains the smallest in Tour de France.

This stage may not have ended up being anywhere near as close, with Pogačar taking a huge 1-56 out of Roglič to win the overall by 59 seconds, but it will be similarly remembered as one of the most stunning moments in the history of the race.

Tadej Pogačar set to become the second youngest winner of the Tour de France

When a 22-year-old Egan Bernal won the Tour de France last year, it felt like we were bearing witness to a once-in-a-generation talent.

Little did we know that, just one year later, an even younger rider would win the Tour de France in an even more impressive manner.

>>> 'I think I'm dreaming': Tadej Pogačar reacts to winning the Tour de France 2020

With his 22nd birthday still a couple of days away, Tadej Pogačar becomes the second youngest winner of the yellow jersey of all-time, bettered only by Frenchman Henri Cornet way back in 1922.

His climbing had impressed throughout the race, and earned him a virtually guaranteed spot on the podium, but no-one was prepared for what he could do in the time trial. Not only did he put a whopping 1-56 into Roglič, he even made a mockery of the specialists against the clock who had themselves been on great days and were in the hunt for the stage win. Tom Dumoulin (Jumbo-Visma) and Richie Porte (Trek-Segafredo) finished second and third with exceptional rides, but still found themesmelves both losing 1-21 to Pogačar.

His time up the Planche des Belles Filles was even enough to take the mountains classification ahead of Richard Carapaz (Ineos Grenadiers), meaning the Slovenian wins the yellow, white and polka-dot- jersey, all on his first ever Tour de France. This is Eddy Merckx levels of domination, and Pogačar’s talent is one of the few worthy of mentioning in the same breath as the great Belgian.

Defeated Primož Roglič is left shellshocked

What happened to Primož Roglič? A rider who has looked so comfortable these past three weeks, and so immune to any kind of pressure, suddenly fell apart on the last hurdle between him and glory in Paris.

What had meant to be a glorious coronation turned into a horrible nightmare, as his two-week stranglehold of the yellow jersey came to an abrupt end.

>>>  Primož Roglič: 'I didn't have the power I needed' as he loses Tour de France lead at the final hurdle

He never quite looked himself on the bike. Usually he is a rider perfectly attuned to the needs of time trialling, able to mould himself into a smooth, streamlined position. But here he looked ragged, coming out of the saddle far more than usual and seemingly unable to get into rhythm.

As extraordinary as Pogačar’s ride was, Roglič may still have been able to hold on to the overall lead were he at his very best, but clearly didn’t have the legs.

His vacant expression after he crossed the line and his monotonous comments in the post-race interview suggests that he is still in shock, and that what had just happened was yet to sink in. A rider who had seemed almost robotic in his efficiency over the course of the race all of a sudden looked very human, and it was devastating to watch.

Jumbo-Visma’s flawless Tour de France ends in failure

Before Pogačar’s heroics, today’s stage appeared on course to be another triumph for the most impressive team of the race, Jumbo-Visma.

One-by-one, all of their star riders bettered the time set by the day’s early leader, Rémi Cavagna (Deceuninck-Quick-Step). First Wout van Aert put in another impressive display by going 28 seconds faster, then Tom Dumoulin put another 10 seconds into his team-mate’s time in the most clear demonstration yet that the Dutchman is back to his best.

>>> Tom Dumoulin and Wout van Aert left in shock as Jumbo-Visma's Tour de France victory evaporates

With Roglič himself finishing fifth, that meant the team placed three riders in the top five, and yet still this will be a day remembered as one of horrible trauma rather than joyful glory. The images of Dumoulin and Van Aert looking on as Pogačar stormed his way to the finish line, with expressions somewhere between shock and crestfallen, summed it up.

Could the team have ridden the race any differently? In hindsight they would have been wise to capitalise on the relative weakness of Pogačar’s team by isolating him more, and have tried to give themselves a bigger buffer going into the time trial. But could they really have been expected to anticipate what Pogačar did today?

With three stage wins and a second overall for Roglič, it’s still been a successful Tour de France by most measures, especially for a team who has not been as historically successful as, say, Ineos Grenadiers. Yet they will be left lamenting what could have been.

Richie Porte, at long last, makes the podium

Amid all the drama unfolding for the race for the top spot of the podium, it was easy to lose track of the other race happening just up the road for a place on the third spot on the podium.

Richie Porte (Trek-Segafredo) needed to take 1-39 out of Miguel Ángel López (Astana) to rise into third overall, and set about getting that time with a huge ride, and one that was ultimately the third fastest of the day.

López has an erratic record in time trials over his career, and this was one of his bad days. Not only did he end up nowhere Porte, he lost enough time on Mikel Landa (Bahrain-McLaren) and Enric Mas (Movistar) to slip all the day to sixth overall.

This was arguably the biggest day of Richie Porte’s long, illustrious career. The Australian has enjoyed all kinds of success, winning multiple overall classifications at high-profile races like Paris-Nice and the Tour de Suisse, not to mention all the work he has done in service of the likes of Chris Froome as a deluxe super-domestique during his time at Team Sky.

But a podium finish at the Tour de France was the result he’s always wanted, and to finally achieve it, aged 35-year-old and written off by many, is one of the Tour’s most heart-warming stories.

That he will now come home to see his new daughter, newly-born a couple of weeks ago, only adds to the fairytale.

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Le Tour’20 Final Stage 21: Stunning Sam, Triumphant Tadej!

Stage Report: The last stage of the 2020 Tour de France in Paris went to the Irishman in the green jersey, Sam Bennett (Deceuninck – Quick-Step). But the day was always going to be Slovenian as Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) confirmed his overall win.

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Stage 21 Route: Tour director, Christian Prudhomme describes the stage: “Emotions run high on the final stage of the Tour. Light hearted in the first part of the race when time has come to celebrate and congratulate one another with sometimes a sip of champagne. Then comes the pleasure of re-discovering every year the Île-de-France area and Paris of course. Finally there are the shivers, the flower bouquet on the Champs-Ẻlysées indeed remains one of the most coveted on the sprinting planet. Unless…”

Sam Bennett won the last stage of the Tour de France. In a bunch sprint on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, he was the first to cross the line. Yellow jersey Tadej Pogačar crossed the finish line without any problems and wrote history in several ways with his overall victory.

The last stage traditionally started with the photo shots, congratulations and jokes. With yellow jersey wearer Tadej Pogačar and his five remaining UAE Emirates team-mates at the front of the peloton to set course for Paris. Via the iconic square near the Louvre, the riders reached the local circuit on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, where eight laps awaited the riders.

The attacks started as soon as the peloton hit the circuit. Jens Keukeleire was the first man in action. Forty kilometres before the finish, a group of four escaped: Greg Van Avermaet (CCC) with Maximilian Schachmann (BORA-hansgrohe), Connor Swift (Arkéa-Samsic) and Pierre-Luc Périchon (Cofidis). They took a lead of 20 seconds.

Deceuninck – Quick-Step put themselves at the head of the peloton in the service of green jersey Sam Bennett, who took some points in the intermediate sprint and secured his victory in the points classification. Bryan Coquard’s B&B Hotels-Vital Concept also joined in with some work. The four escapees held out for a long time.

In the penultimate lap through the heart of Paris, where only 5,000 spectators were welcome due to the “code red” for the capital, the difference kept fluctuating around 15 seconds. Jumbo-Visma decided to take the lead for Wout van Aert, while NTT Pro Cycling came forward.

Swift lost contact with Van Avermaet, Schachmann and Périchon 7 kilometres from the finish. Those three went into the final lap with a lead of 13 seconds, but the attempt was doomed to fail. Schachmann was the last attacker to be caught, 3.5 kilometres from the finish line, after which the sprinter teams put their trains on the front.

Sunweb, Trek-Segafredo, Deceuninck – Quick-Step and Lotto Soudal led their sprinters to the front, and it was Sam Bennett who got the best lead-out. The green jersey managed to take his second stage victory of this Tour de France. World champion Mads Pedersen, who will probably lose his title next week, was in second, Peter Sagan third.

The top riders on GC had no problems on the Champs-Élysées. Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) becomes the first Slovenian ever to take the overall victory in the Tour de France. The 21-year-old Pogačar, Primož Roglič (Jumbo-Visma) and Richie Porte (Trek-Segafredo) took their places on the final podium.

Sam Bennett (Deceuninck – Quick-Step) broke the reign of Peter Sagan as winner of the points classification, and the Irishman took home the green jersey. The mountains classification and the young rider classification also belonged to Pogačar. Marc Hirschi (Sunweb) was rewarded for his Super Fighting Spirit, while Movistar won the team classification.

Stage and green jersey winner, Sam Bennett (Deceuninck – Quick-Step): “I can’t tell you how I feel, standing here as a winner with the green jersey on the Champs-Elysées. This is the world championship of the sprinters. I never thought I’d win this stage, so to win it in the green jersey, it’s fantastic! I’m part of a dream team. It’s just such an amazing feeling. The suffering in the mountains was worth it. It took me so long to get here, I’m going to enjoy every moment of this victory. It was a really fast and technical finale. I’ve been nervous when we went back to the front. Then the boys destroyed the race, they were first after the tunnel and I thought it was too early. Trek came but we had each side covered. There was a bit of a head wind, we let them go first, then I opened up. Stuyven came to the front for Pedersen. I thought somebody would pass me. I can’t believe I’ve won it.”

Overall winner, KOM and Best Young Rider, Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates): “It’s unbelievable. It’s really crazy to be the winner of the Tour de France. Even if I’d come second or further in the ranking, it would still be nice to be here. This is just the top of the top. I can’t describe it with words. Today was a very special day with my team-mates. Finally I had some time to talk with them on the bike. The other days, it was just racing full gas. I think every rider from the peloton congratulated me today. This sport is amazing!”

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Tour de France Stage 21 Result: 1. Sam Bennett (Irl) Deceuninck – Quick-Step in 2:53:32 2. Mads Pedersen (Den) Trek-Segafredo 3. Peter Sagan (Slo) BORA-hansgrohe 4. Alexander Kristoff (Nor) UAETeam Emirates 5. Elia Viviani (Ita) Cofidis 6. Wout van Aert (Bel) Jumbo-Visma 7. Caleb Ewan (Aus) Lotto Soudal 8. Hugo Hofstetter (Fra) Israel Start-Up Nation 9. Bryan Coquard (Fra) B&B Hotels – Vital Concept p/b KTM 10. Max Walscheid (Ger) NTT Pro Cycling 11. Sonny Colbrelli (Ita) Bahrain-McLaren 12. Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) NTT Pro Cycling 13. Luka Mezgec (Slo) Mitchelton-Scott 14. Niccolò Bonifazio (Ita) Total Direct Energie 15. Clément Russo (Fra) Arkea-Samsic 16. Clement Venturini (Fra) AG2R-La Mondiale 17. Matteo Trentin (Ita) CCC 18. Cees Bol (Ned) Sunweb 19. Jasper Stuyven (Bel) Trek-Segafredo 20. Tom Van Asbroeck (Bel) Israel Start-Up Nation 21. Kevin Reza (Fra) B&B Hotels-Vital Concept 22. Marco Haller (Aut) Bahrain-McLaren 23. Jack Bauer (NZ) Mitchelton-Scott 24. Oliver Naesen (Bel) AG2R-La Mondiale 25. Anthony Turgis (Fra) Total Direct Energie.

Tour de France Final Overall Result: 1. Tadej Pogačar (Slov) UAE Team Emirates in 87:20:05 2. Primož Roglič (Slov) Jumbo-Visma at 0:59 3. Richie Porte (Aus) Trek-Segafredo at 3:30 4. Mikel Landa (Spa) Bahrain-McLaren at 5:58 5. Enric Mas (Spa) Movistar at 6:07 6. Miguel Ángel López (Col) Astana at 6:47 7. Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Jumbo-Visma at 7:48 8. Rigoberto Urán (Col) EF Pro Cycling at 8:02 9. Adam Yates (GB) Mitchelton-Scott at 9:25 10. Damiano Caruso (Ita) Bahrain-McLaren at 14:03 11. Guillaume Martin (Fra) Cofidis at 16:58 12. Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar at 17:41 13. Richard Carapaz (Ecu) INEOS Grenadiers at 25:53 14. Warren Barguil (Fra) Arkea-Samsic at 31:04 15. Sepp Kuss (USA) Jumbo-Visma at 42:20 16. Pello Bilbao (Spa) Bahrain-McLaren at 55:56 17. Nairo Quintana (Col) Arkea-Samsic at 1:03:07 18. Pierre Rolland (Fra) B&B Hotels-Vital Concept at 1:08:26 19. Carlos Verona Quintanilla (Spa) Movistar at 1:19:54 20. Wout van Aert (Bel) Jumbo-Visma at 1:20:31 21. Marc Soler (Spa) Movistar at 1:31:53 22. Gorka Izagirre Insausti (Spa) Astana at 1:36:12 23. Esteban Chaves (Col) Mitchelton-Scott at 1:38:45 24. Sébastien Reichenbach (Swi) Groupama-FDJ at 1:39:27 25. Kenny Elissonde (Fra) Trek-Segafredo at 1:40:06.

Alastair Hamilton has been a pro team mechanic on the road, track and mountain bike and worked for the Great Britain team at the World championships in all disciplines. Since moving to Spain and finding out how to use a computer, he has gone from contributor of Daily Distractions at the 2002 Vuelta a España to editor at PezCyclingNews.

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2020 Tour de France Stage 17 Results — Podium Shake-Up, Roglic Extends Lead

Colombia’s Miguel Angel Lopez won stage 17 of the Tour de France on Wednesday to climb third in the overall standings as race leader Primoz Roglic extended his advantage. The race climbed to 2,304m altitude atop the Col de La Loze where Slovenian rookie Tadej Pogacar lost a handful of seconds to his compatriot Roglic in the race for the yellow jersey on a day the 2019 champion Egan Bernal withdrew.

Richard Carapaz produced a doomed solo bid for Ineos as the Giro champion was caught on the ever-changing gradient of the final 7km above 2,000m as the top 10 experienced a slight shake-up. A day after the race was cleared of Covid-19 to run all the way to Paris on Sunday, French President Emmanuel Macron was present as the peloton struggled through villages full of ubiquitous baskets of flowers hanging from Swiss-style ski chalets.

In the rarefied air that suits the men from the Andes, the 26-year-old Lopez leapfrogged compatriot Rigoberto Uran and extended his lead over Adam Yates and Richie Porte. Roglic now leads his young compatriot Pogacar by 54 seconds with just three real races left before the Tour gets to Paris.

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Richie Porte within reach of podium finish as Tour de France finale looms

After years of misfortune at the Tour de France, the veteran Australian is showing signs of turning the corner

D ating back to 1930, the Tour of Tasmania has long been a proving ground for Australia’s best cyclists. The first-ever edition was won by Sir Hubert Opperman, after whom Cycling Australia’s prestigious “Oppy medal” – for the best cyclist each year – is named today. Cadel Evans, the only Australian to win the Tour de France yellow jersey, claimed the Tasmanian equivalent twice in the late 1990s.

In October 2008, 23-year-old Richie Porte was sitting well back in the overall classification at the Tour of Tasmania after six stages. A Launceston local, Porte had come to cycling late after initially pursuing triathlon. He certainly had promise – Porte had spent the prior season racing the amateur circuit in Italy, which he later described as “cycling’s school of hard knocks” – but remained largely unheralded. Working odd jobs as an AFL boundary umpire, courier and lifeguard, the glamour of cycling’s major professional races was a world away.

But on a stage from Ulverstone to Penguin in the state’s north, Porte showed the climbing ability that would ultimately send him to the Tour de France . As a breakaway approached the bottom of the fearsome Gunns Plains climb, Porte attacked. The chasers grimaced, but Porte soared up the category 1 ascent to finish the stage solo with a 95-second advantage. It was a remarkable win, and sent Porte into the leader’s jersey. At the time, CyclingNews described him as “a man on a mission”. A day later, Porte won again on his home-town Poatina climb, to secure the overall race victory.

“He was a star in the making,” Porte’s team manager that day, Andrew Christie-Johnston, says now. “You just don’t see a win like that very often. It was incredibly impressive. From then on, we knew he had a future in Europe.”

Since that day in Penguin, the Australian cycling fraternity have speculated about Porte’s full potential. When Evans won the Tour de France two years later, Porte was touted as a potential yellow jersey successor. When he joined upstart Team Sky in 2012, the sky seemed the limit for him. The Alpine climbs of the Tour de France might be more exotic than their Tasmanian counterparts, but Porte quickly proved he could stay with the best riders on either side of the world.

Yet it has been misfortune rather than triumph that has followed Porte ever since. First, it was the success of Sky teammates Sir Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome, whom Porte dutifully rode in support of at big races. Then, in 2014, a mid-race injury to Froome gave Porte his first general classification opportunity at the Tour de France. Pneumonia hit , and he finished a disappointing 23rd.

A year later Froome was back as team leader and Porte helped his close friend to another yellow jersey. A switch to BMC Racing Team in 2016 offered the prospect of his own time in the sun, but a puncture on one stage and a collision with a motorbike on another hampered his ambitions. While Porte’s fifth place overall was his best performance at the race, it was not enough. “I wanted more,” he later told Guardian Australia .

2017 was even more painful. Porte was in career best-form , but a sickening crash on stage nine left him in hospital with fractures to his shoulder and pelvis. Twelve months later, Porte broke his collarbone during a more innocuous pile-up, again on stage nine. It seemed Porte had walked over a black cat. Australian broadcaster SBS began referring to the ninth stage as 8B, in the hope of breaking the jinx. While Porte managed to complete the 2019 edition, his 11th-place finish was nothing spectacular.

This year has been different. Porte has kept his head down, followed the moves and looked comfortable on even the steepest ascents. On Sunday, Porte finished third on the mountainous 15th stage to move into sixth place overall with one week remaining. Has his time finally come? “Richie is showing great signs going into the last week,” says Christie-Johnston. “Sunday was very promising.”

Time lost due to a cross-winds mishap earlier in the race, and the dominant form of current leader Primož Roglič, mean that the yellow jersey is an unlikely ultimate outcome for Porte. He is currently 2min 13s behind the Slovenian. But with three consecutive days of mountains ahead, and a hilly time trial on Saturday (a discipline where Porte thrives), anything is possible. A repeat of his 2008 Tour of Tasmania solo heroics could see Porte become only the second Australian to win the Tour de France.

Even if Porte does not follow in Evans’ footsteps this week, a spot on the podium is firmly within his grasp. After years of Tour torment, that will be a long overdue result for this determined Tasmanian.

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July 4 - july 19, 2020.

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Sunday, July 19: 6th & Final Stage, Champs Elysees, 42.8 km

Stage 6 profile

Will Clarke wins the final men's stage.

The race: Here is the organizer's summary.

The 6th and final stage of the Virtual Tour de France has seen victories from Will Clarke (Trek-Segafredo) and the wearer of the yellow jersey Lauren Stephens (TIBCO-Silicon Valley Bank). The Australian rider, Clarke outsprinted Filippo Ganna (Ineos) and the men's yellow jersey Ryan Gibbons, whose team NTT Pro Cycling dominates the overall standings at the end of this first edition. In the women's race, the American team TIBCO-Silicon Valley Bank sealed the overall victory.

Hello Paris! The sixth and final stage of the virtual Tour de France brings together 147 riders (63 women and 84 men) for six circuit laps (6.6 km) on the famous Champs-Élysées course, reproduced on the roads of Zwift as part of operations Solidarity Tour de France to raise funds for charitable organizations. Among the participants, Marianne Vos (CCC-Liv) has already had success in Paris by winning La Course by Le Tour in 2014.

The women's peloton quickly entered the Parisian roads and immediately imposed great intensity thanks to the intermediate sprints disputed on each lap. Already seen the day before on the slopes of Mont Ventoux, Dani Christmas (Lotto Soudal) is also showing its advantage on completely different terrain: the British impose a tempo at more than 5 watts / kg from the first kilometers. It is still there, with a power of more than 8 watts / kg, to lead the last two intermediate sprints.

A group of 23 contenders appears in the last lap, with the prospect of a royal sprint on the Champs. And in this great game, Lauren Stephens (Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank) does honor to her yellow jersey by winning a prestigious victory, with a peak at 13.1 watts / kg in the final sprint!

This stage victory confirms the domination of the Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank in the general classification. The American team wins the first edition of the virtual Tour de France with 499 points, ahead of Team Twenty20 (306 pts) and Drops Cycling (292 pts).

The men's race follows a similar format, with an increasingly intense rhythm over the laps. The yellow jersey Ryan Gibbons finds himself at the head of the peloton at mid-race, with an average power of 5.4 watts / kg in the first 25 kilometers.

While the quadruple winner of the Tour de France Chris Froome (Ineos) takes part from the heights of the Teide volcano, on the Canary Islands, the Belgian Gijs van Hoecke (CCC Pro Team) stands out in the intermediate sprints. The intensity of the efforts gradually reduces the peloton: they are 34 runners for the last lap.

Bruno Armirail and Benjamin Thomas (Groupama-FDJ) are trying to get out 1km from the line to surprise the sprinters. They are finally taken up by Edvald Boasson Hagen (NTT Pro Cycling Team), regularly placed in the top 5 of the last stage of the Tour de France on the Champs-Élysées. But the Norwegian must once again bow, with the victory of Will Clarke (Trek-Segafredo) ahead of Filippo Ganna (Ineos) and Gibbons.

NTT won the men's race.

NTT Pro Cycling Team largely dominates the general classification of this first edition with 500 points. Rally Cycling follows with 267 points and Trek-Segafredo completes the podium (232 points).

Men's race:

Final GC after stage 6:

Women's race:

Lauren Stephens wins the final stage.

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Saturday, July 18: Stage 5, Chalet Reynard, 22.9 km

Stage 5 profile

Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio won the fifth stage.

The race: Here's the organizer's stage five summary.

The queen-stage of the Virtual Tour de France has seen Michael Woods (EF Pro Cycling) and Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio (CCC-Liv) claim summit victories on Saturday. NTT Pro Cycling placed all four of their riders in the top 7 of the stage to increase their lead on the general classification. In the women’s race, Moolman-Pasio took the win ahead of the wearer of the yellow jersey Sarah Gigante, followed by her teammate Lauren Stephens. Their team TIBCO-Silicon Valley Bank opens a massive overall gap on the eve of the final stage, on the Champs-Élysées circuit.

French star Julian Alaphilippe (Deceuninck-Quick Step), American climber Katie Hall (Boels Dolmans Cycling Team), Australian ITT World champion Rohan Dennis (Team Ineos)… 150 riders (88 males and 62 females) are part of the pelotons riding stage 5 of the Virtual Tour de France on Saturday, as part of the solidarity events aiming to raise funds for charity partners. They take on 22.9km with a massive climb replicating on Zwift the slopes of the infamous Mont Ventoux.

The women go first and Kirsten Wild (Ceratizit-WNT Pro Cycling Team) enjoys the opening flat stretch to show her power, already pushing 628 watts in the intermediate sprint. The Dutch rider then lets the pure climbers steal the show in the final 14 uphill kilometres. The pace is hard from the bottom and the British rider Dani Christmas (Lotto-Soudal) momentarily opens a gap before Sarah Gigante’s Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank and Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio’s CCC-Liv reel her in.

With the support of her husband Carl Pasio (a renowned mountain-biker) to hydrate herself, Moolman-Pasio makes a move inside the last 6km and only Gigante manages to follow her with the yellow jersey on her shoulders. Keeping up with the solid reputation she built on Zwift in the recent weeks, Moolman-Pasio eventually takes the win with a 23” gap to Gigante. Lauren Stephens (Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank) finishes 3rd, trailing by 1’53”.

With two riders on the podium, Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank tops the overall standings with 409 points on the eve of the final stage. Drops Cycling have 252 points and Canyon//SRAM Racing are third with 247.

Woods vs NTT The men’s race is also up to a flying start. Benoît Cosnefroy (AG2R-La Mondiale) dominates the intermediate sprint. Then it’s up to the best climbers as Michael Woods (EF Pro Cycling Team) tears the race into pieces. Riding from their team’s headquarters in Lucca (Italy), Domenico Pozzovivo and Louis Meintjes (NTT Pro Cycling) are the last ones to follow the Canadian rider. Their teammates Stefan De Bod and Ben O’Connor are also in the front positions, alongside Eddie Dunbar (Ineos).

Woods keeps going and his consistant effort around 7 watts/kg is too much for every one. He goes solo in the last 3km to take victory ahead of three NTT riders: Pozzovivo, Meintjes and the youngster Stefan De Bod. Ben O’Connor completes this collective performance with a place of 7th.

NTT’s efforts are rewarded with a strong lead on the general classification: 391 points for the African team, while Rally Cycling have 219. EF Pro Cycling are third with 175 points on the eve of the Champs-Élysées parade.

Michael Woods on his way to winning stage five.

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Profile of the final 12.12 kilometers

Sunday, July 12: Stage 4, Casse-Pattes, 45.8 km

Stage 4 profile

April Tacey wins Women's Stage 4

The race: Here is the organizer's stage 4 summary.

Stage 4 of the Virtual Tour de France has seen Zwift experts claim more glory as Freddy Ovett (Israel Start-Up Nation) went one better than his second place on Stage 2, while April Tacey (Drops Cycling) won again after her victory on the opening weekend. The Australian rider outsprinted Nick Schultz (Mitchelton-Scott) and the wearer of the yellow jersey Michael Valgren, whose team NTT Pro Cycling still lead the overall standings. In the women’s race, Lauren Stephens (3rd) and Leah Dixon (4th) increased Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank’s lead ahead of the final weekend of competition.

Cycling stars join from all around the world for stage 4 of the Virtual Tour de France. Dutch rider Chantal Blaak (Boels Dolmans), South-Africa’s Ashleigh Moolman (CCC-Liv) and America’s hot prospect Quinn Simmons (Trek-Segafredo) are among the biggest names to watch in the virtual pelotons (64 women and 92 men) lining up for 2 laps of a 22.9km circuit, as part of the solidarity Tour de France events aiming to raise funds for charity partners.

The women tackle the stage first and Jossy Lowden (Drops Cycling) shines with her Polka-dot jersey, summiting ahead of everyone the first two climbs of the day. The pace remains high after the climb and a group of 18 riders manages to slip away. American favorites Alexis Ryan (Canyon//SRAM Racing) and Coryn Rivera (Sunweb) are among the main dropped riders, with a 20” delay as the race enters the last 15km.

Sarah Gigante (Tibco-Silicon Valley) accelerates at the bottom of the final climb but Jossy Lowden uses her feather lightweight power-up to move past everyone. Riders from Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank maintain the pressure after the summit but a small group comes back together in the final downhill towards the finish. Already winner of the 1st stage, April Tacey (Drops Cycling) repeats victory ahead of Anna Henderson (Sunweb).

Lauren Stephens (3rd) and Leah Dixon (4th) increase Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank’s overall lead with 277 points ahead of the final weekend of competition. Drops Cycling follow with 219, just ahead of Canyon//Sram Racing (206 points).

All eyes on Israel Start-Up Nation: Daniel Turek (Israel Start-Up Nation) is the most aggressive rider in the first part of the men’s stage. Two strong accelerations see him claim the most KOM points in the first two climbs of the day as he defends the polka-dot jersey worn by his teammate Freddy Ovett. Turek even hits 897 watts to fend off Nathan Haas (Cofidis).

Ryan Mullen (Trek-Segafredo) makes a brave solo move to make the most of the flatter sections of road to break away from the bunch in the last 20km. But NTT Pro Cycling Team, once again riding from the team headquarters in Lucca (Italy), brings things back under control for the wearer of the yellow jersey Michael Valgren.

Heading into the last 300m, William Clarke (Trek-Segafredo) tries to anticipate the final sprint but his move is covered inside the last 50 meters. Michael Valgren appears to be in a perfect position, but Freddy Ovett surges at the last moment to edge everyone. Nick Schultz (Mitchelton-Scott) takes 2nd place ahead of Valgren.

Freddy Ovett wins stage 4

NTT Pro Cycling Team still lead the overall standings with 263 points ahead of the two final stages, next week-end. Rally Cycling are second (188 points), ahead of Trek-Segafredo (162).

GC after stage 4:

Stage 4 profile:

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Saturday, July 11: Stage 3, R.G.V., 48 km

Stage 3 profile

Matteo Dal-Cin takes the third stage of the men's Tour

The race: Here's the organizer's stage 3 summary

Matteo Dal-Cin (Rally Cycling), a true Zwift enthusiast, has won stage 3 of the Virtual Tour de France as he outsprinted Jake Stewart (Groupama-FDJ) on Saturday. NTT Pro Cycling Team maintain the overall lead thanks to Ryan Gibbons (5th) and Rasmus Tiller (6th). Earlier in the afternoon, another Zwift expert dominated the women’s race: Tanja Erath (Canyon//Sram Racing), winner of the 2017 Zwift Academy, outsprinted the time-trial World champion Chloe Dygert (Twenty20). Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank maintains the overall lead ahead of Canyon//Sram Racing.

From Zipaquira, Colombian home of the 2019 Tour de France winner Egan Bernal (Ineos), to Italy, where NTT Pro Cycling riders set their home-trainers side by side, passing by the Netherlands of the leader of the UCI World ranking leader Lorena Wiebes (Sunweb), 156 riders (64 women and 92 men) participate in stage 3 of the Virtual Tour de France on Saturday. They face two laps of a 24km circuit and offer two thrilling races as part of the solidarity events aiming to raise funds for charity partners

The young British rider April Tacey (Drops Cycling Team) comes back at it a week after her victory in stage 1. She quickly displays her ambitions, pushing above 600 watts in the first intermediate sprint and the first QOM of the day. Her heartrate gets as high as 212 beats per minute during these massive efforts! Poland’s Marta Lach (CCC-Liv) edges her on the second sprint of the day.

About 30 riders are still at the front for the last lap, with CCC-Liv and Drops Cycling Team maintaining a high pressure at the front. With a fast finish lining up after 1 hour of intense racing, Tanja Erath (Canyon//Sram Racing), winner of the 2017 Zwift Academy, musters her experience on the platform to dominate the time-trial World champion Chloe Dygert (Twenty20) and April Tacey in the final sprint.

Tanja Erath takes the women's race.

Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank maintain the overall leadership with 197 points but Canyon//Sram Racing move closer : 174 points. And Drops Cycling is also in the mix with 150 points.

Dal-Cin's skills and NTT's collective efforts With the support of a proper staff in their team’s headquarters in Lucca (Italy), riders from NTT Pro Cycling are very aggressive from the start of the stage. Alpecin Fenix riders still manage to dominate the climbs, as Alexander Krieger takes the first KOM and Jimmy Janssens the seconds.

A pack of 39 riders tackle the final 5km bunched despite a late attempt from Alex Kirsch (Trek-Segafredo). Thanks to his personal experience on Zwift, the Canadian rider Matteo Dal-Cin (Rally Cycling) uses his aero power-up at the perfect moment, with 300m to go, and finds an opening to snatch the victory just ahead of Jake Stewart (Groupama-FDJ).

NTT Pro Cycling Team still lead the overall standings thanks to their collective performances (5th place for Ryan Gibbons and 6th for Rasmus Tiller). They have 193 points while Rally Cycling follow with 156. Trek-Segafredo are 3rd with 127 points.

The 4th stage, on Sunday, offers more climbing challenges to suit the most explosive riders.

Men's GC after stage 3:

Women's GC after stage 3:

Stage 3 profile:

Sunday, July 5: Stage 2, Mountain, 29.5 km

Stage 2 profile

The race: Here's the organizer's stage two summary.

The uphill challenges of stage 2 of the Virtual Tour de France offered more thrilling racing as Julien Bernard (Trek-Segafredo) and Lauren Stephens (TIBCO-Silicon Valley Bank) dominated their rivals on Sunday. The Frenchman powered to victory ahead of Freddy Ovett (Israel Startup Nation) in the final sprint. NTT Pro Cycling maintain the overall lead with 130 points, ahead of Rally Cycling (90). Earlier in the afternoon, Lauren Stephens outsprinted her rivals in a 5-woman group also featuring her teammate Kristen Faulkner. With a total of 170 points, TIBCO-Silicon Valley Bank will defend the yellow jersey on stage 3, next Saturday.

Stage 2 of the Virtual Tour de France brings together some 149 riders (89 men and 60 women) on Sunday afternoon as part of the solidarity events aiming to raise funds for charity partners. The 29.8km course features the Epic QKOM ascent for two thrilling races.

The women go first. Ellen Van Dijk sets a high tempo for Trek-Segafredo at the bottom of the climb and Elise Olsen, wearing the Maillot Jaune for Drops Cycling Team, is quickly struggling off the back. Erica Magnaldi (Ceratizit-WNT) accelerates in the climb to take the QOM points at the summit ahead of the Polka-dot Jersey Jossy Lowden (Drops Cycling Team). Magnaldi keeps going and opens a gap with Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope) inside the last 10 kilometres.

A group of five riders gets together for the final run-in, as Lowden and two riders from TIBCO-Silicon Valley Bank get back: Kristen Faulkner and Lauren Stephens. The latter enjoyed a perfectly timed aero power-up to dominate the sprint with an average speed of 51.4km/h in the final 500m. Lowden was second for Drops, ahead of Magnaldi.

TIBCO-Silicon Valley Bank lead the overall classification with 170 points. Drops Cycling Team are second with 111.

The winner of the 2018 Tour de France Geraint Thomas (Team Ineos) gets in action from the beginning of the men’s stage. With the Yellow Jersey on his shoulders, Louis Meintjes (NTT Pro Cycling Team) is at the front in the first climb, dominated by James Piccoli (Israel Startup Nation). Riders from EF Education First keep pushing after the summit of the Epic KOM but a strong group gets back together in the downhill, including Trek-Segafredo’s Julien Bernard.

Patrick Bevin (CCC Team) tries to get away with his “burrito” power-up in the last 500m. He quickly opens a gap but Freddy Ovett (Israel Startup Nation) closes on him and looks set to take the win until Bernard edges him right on the line.

NTT Pro Cycling retain the overall leadership with 130 points. Rally Cycling are second with 92. The battle returns on July 11 with stage 3 of the Virtual Tour de France.

Men's race results:

Winning Julien Bernard

GC after stage 2:

• NTT Pro Cycling: 130 points
• Rally Cycling: 92 points
• Alpecin-Fenis: 89 points

Women's race results:

• Tibco-Silicon Valley Bank: 170 points
• Drops: 111 points
• Canyon-SRAM

Stage 2 profile:

Saturday, July 4: Stage 1, Watopia, 36.4 km Stage 1 profile

The race: Here's the organizer's stage 1 summary:

Ryan Gibbons (NTT Pro Cycling Team) claimed victory in the men’s race of the opening stage of the inaugural Virtual Tour de France on Saturday. The South-African rider made the most of his sprinting abilities and Zwift’s power-ups to edge Pier-André Coté (Rally Cycling). NTT lead the general classification. Earlier in the afternoon, the young British rider, April Tacey outpowered Kristen Faulkner (TIBCO-Silicon Valley Bank) in the final sprint to earn her team, Drops Cycling, the overall lead ahead of Stage 2 tomorrow. Drops Cycling leads Tibco-Silicon Valley Banks by 71 points to 70.

A virtual pack of 144 riders took on stage 1 of the Virtual Tour de France on Saturday. Men and women were to cover 4 laps on a 9.1km circuit emulating the outskirts of Nice, where the Tour de France will start on August 29. A perfect ground for intense and thrilling racing as part of the solidarity events aiming to raise funds for charity partners.

Ladies ride first and Erica Magnaldi (Ceratizit-WNT) quickly shows her ambitions with an early move on this hilly route. She scores the first points for the Queen of the Mountain in the first lap. But Joscelin Lowden (Drops) outpowers her in the next two ascents. The two riders battle it out in the final ascent of the day, and Magnaldi pushes 11 watts/kg to edge Lowden right at the summit.

A small group gets back around them in the final 2km, setting a fast and furious run in to the line. The time-trial World champion Chloé Dygert (Twenty20) gets in the mix but she fades while the young British April Tacey (Drops) perfectly times her aero power-up to take victory on the line ahead of Kristen Faulkner (TIBCO-Silicon Valley Bank).

With Lowden also finishing inside the top 10 (8th), Drops lead the general classification with 71 points, just ahead of TIBCO-Silicon Valley Bank (70 pts).

The men’s race starts right afterwards and Daryl Impey (Mitchelton-Scott) immediately puts the hammer down to lead the way to the first intermediate sprint. Dan McLay (Arkéa Samsic) and Reinardt Janse van Rensburg (NTT Pro Cycling) try to break away one after the other but the bunch doesn’t let anyone go until the final showdown.

Edvald Boasson Hagen (NTT Pro Cycling Team), who had already displayed aggressive intents in the climbs, tries to anticipate the sprint but a raging bunch gets back to him… And his teammate Ryan Gibbons flies to victory, emulating April Tacey with a perfect use of the aero power-up. Nick Schultz (Mitchelton-Scott) finishes third ahead of Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Fenix).

With Edvald Boasson Hagen holding on to 6th place, NTT lead the general classification with 80 points, just one more than Rally Cycling. Alpecin-Fenix are third with 72 points.

NTT's Ryan Gibbons wins men's stage one.

April Tacey wins the first stage.

Stage 1 profile:

About the 2020 Virtual Tour de France:

In the context of a completely unprecedented health crisis in which most cycling events have been cancelled or postponed, Zwift and Amaury Sport Organisation have decided to do something useful together and create the very first virtual Tour de France. It will be the starting point for a strong solidarity campaign around cycling.

During the first three weekends of July 2020, men’s and women’s professional races will be organised as part of virtual stages of the Tour de France. Continuing on from the major increase in cycling at home in recent months, cycling lovers from all over the world will also have a chance to ride the Virtual l’Étape du Tour de France on the same weekends.

All events are organized in aid of five global charity partners.

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The Tour de France will do away with its traditional pair of podium hostesses, Tour director Christian Prudhomme announced at a press conference Wednesday. Instead, the Tour will have a male host on one side of the podium and a hostess on the other side.

“You used to see the champion surrounded by two hostesses, with five elected officials on one side and five representatives of the partners on the other,” Prudhomme said. “Now, it will be different, with only one elected official and one representative of the partner of the yellow jersey, as well as a hostess and a host for the first time.”

“Yes, it’s new but we have already been doing it in other races for 20 years, like in Liege-Bastogne-Liege,” Prudhomme said.

In 2019, a petition stating that “women are not objects nor rewards” called for an end the sexist practice. It gathered 38,000 signatures. Other sports have eliminated similar roles within podium ceremonies and elsewhere. In 2018, F1 stopped the practice of using “grid girls,” who had been a longtime presence at the start of races.

The question of podium kisses remains unanswered, and Prudhomme did not address the topic. Coronavirus will eliminate the practice for now, at least.

Tour organizer ASO announced a series of additional health-related requirements at the press conference.

Prudhomme noted that roadside spectators at the Tour will be expected to wear masks, regardless of the rules set forth in any particular region. France, at this time, does not have a nationwide mask requirement.

The team presentation in Nice on August 27 will allow 1,750 people to attend, a figure that may be revised downward. A COVID “cell” of 15 people will work throughout the race, in conjunction with local health authorities, and a mobile screening laboratory will be present throughout the Tour, with test results available within two hours.

The racers will undergo two tests ahead of the race and one on each rest day, and will exist within “bubbles,” which forbid contact with outsiders.

The total number of people at the race will decrease as well. Normally, the entire Tour entourage includes about 5,000 people, from organization staff to media to sponsors. This year, that will be closer to 3,000. All TV commentators will be off the race, most in Paris. Access to the team busses will be prohibited to media.

And, finally, the Tour is considering a ban on selfies. Which would be fine.

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Why Primož Roglic’s Tour de France Defeat Was So Damn Soul-Crushing

“It’s hard not to get emotionally invested in these flawed human beings who begin to resemble so much more than just some guys on a bicycle.”

Over the course of the past few days, I have tried to pinpoint exactly why Roglič’s defeat, which has a handful of historical precedents in cycling, seems so acutely devastating. There are upsets in the Tour de France every single year, and the laundry list of tragedies ranges from doping scandals to simple misfortune. In fact, the inevitability of tragedy is part of the unique Romanticism of cycling, a sport that combines every single literary conflict—man vs. himself vs. nature vs. machine vs. man—into a cocktail of the profane and the sublime.

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While there is the more obvious comparison to the 1989 Tour de France LeMond-Fignon scenario (in which Laurent Fignon agonizingly loses the Tour to LeMond by eight seconds in the final time trial), I actually think, emotionally speaking, the closest parallel to what happened in this year’s Tour is the infamous battle between teammates Greg LeMond and Bernard Hinault in 1986. By the end of Stage 20, LeMond had made up an over four minute time deficit to unseat Hinault, a five-time Tour winner who was the overwhelming favorite in the court of public opinion (especially in France). Despite the odds that Hinault could come back by way of an aggressive effort in the final time trial, his fate was sealed. It was Hinault’s final Tour before retirement, and at the same time, the much younger LeMond’s victory made him the first American to win the yellow jersey.

This story is famous, partly because it has many of the same elements present in the Roglič-Pogačar conflict: a much younger rider unseating a heavily favored compatriot (in the LeMond case, from the same team rather than from the same nation) in the twilight hours of the Tour, with world-historic consequences in terms of inaugurating a specific country’s legacy within the sport. And yet, as much as the French public wanted Hinault to win, as much as Hinault wanted to win the Tour in his final effort before he threw in the towel, this story is still so much less heartbreaking than the one we experienced on Saturday, September 19th, 2020, not because of what happened but because of who was involved.

It’s incredibly difficult to not use sport as some kind of metaphor for one’s own life or as a synecdoche for a particular place such as one’s nation, college, or hometown and all of the experiences and identities encompassed within. It’s hard not to see oneself in the struggles of others. It’s hard not to get emotionally invested in these flawed human beings who begin to resemble so much more than just some guys on a bicycle. In many ways, Primož Roglič is such a special cyclist because his story, which is unique among professional racers, straddles many different axes of human experience including desire, failure, redemption, and resilience.

The story is well known . Roglič, born to average parents in Kisovec, a small coal mining town in the post-Communist country of Slovenia, started out as a ski jumper. By all means, he was talented: He won several Slovenian youth titles and later medals in bigger events such as the World Junior Championships. A devastating crash in 2007 marked a significant shift in his skiing career, and by the time he was 21, the young skier could not, despite years of dedicated effort after emerging as a talent early in adolescence, secure a spot at the top of the sport.

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At the age of 22, he bought his first racing bike and decided to take up cycling. He won a number of small gran fondos and amateur races before reaching out to the UCI Continental team Adria Mobil, who took a chance on him. Roglič began to more publicly display his emerging talent, and after several strong performances (including winning the Tour of Slovenia in 2015), he was noticed by a recruiter who got in touch with staff at the Dutch UCI WorldTour team Jumbo-Visma. (For those of you in the know, Jumbo-Visma is the latest iteration of Rabobank, which for decades had been considered one of cycling’s strongest teams.) The rest is history.

If you watch interviews of Roglič, you will see a soft-spoken man who keeps to himself, displaying little of the self-assured cockiness natural to cyclists at the pro level. At 30, he is still somewhat early in his career compared to those of similar age, partially because he started out relatively late. Despite his four years of success as a WorldTour professional, one gets the sense that Roglič is continuously, quietly surprised by where he’s at in life. All of these things make him a unique figure in contemporary cycling, which has revolved around training a select few teenagers in intensive development schools to race grand tours by the time they are 21.

We want to believe in Roglič because we want to believe that one can fail—utterly, abjectly—at what one chooses to do as a young person and still go on to succeed at the highest possible level in something else, something previously unexpected. We want to believe that, despite being from humble circumstances, we too can ascend the ranks and achieve great things—that there is still a chance we can realize our deepest desires, our hidden potential. We want to believe that the greatest victories of our lives can come after we turn 30; that a lack of precociousness (whether real or as perceived by others) in our youth or adolescence—the time during which adults intervene to cultivate our talent into a budding career—does not stop us from fighting our way into the recognition we deserve. We want to believe that an outsider, completely isolated from the connections and machinations and politics of a given field, can become that field’s greatest champion.

At once, we realize that we see sport as some kind of grand narrative that allows us to believe in miracles.

It is a bit unfair to say that what we are talking about strictly follows the same, tired narratives of meritocracy because the victory of Tadej Pogačar better embodies that specific construct. Pogačar’s success fits a familiar meritocratic pattern of sports triumph: his talent being recognized, cultivated, after which—through sheer strength of will and despite his youth and lackluster team—he achieves his glory against all odds. The core of the emotional investment in Roglič’s story lies not in his success by way of sheer effort due to some kind of superhuman talent—but in his redemption, as a man no longer young, from failure. The desire to see Roglič win doesn’t come from wanting to see him overpower his competition in spite of a past that defies cycling’s norms (though that is a part of it), but rather from our need to believe that we live in a world that allows us the security and opportunity to do something else with our lives when what we’ve originally chosen doesn’t pan out. This is why the narrative’s emphasis is placed on Roglič’s past as a skier rather than his humble beginnings to working-class parents in a developing country.

Roglič’s loss exposes us to reality: like the myth of meritocracy, the idea that we have the opportunity in our contemporary capitalist society, with all of its entrenched racism, classism, sexism, ableism, ageism—a number of ever-depressing isms—to reach our full potential or follow our dreams at all, much less later in life, is exactly that—a myth. It especially touches on our existing anxieties about age: that the further away from youth we get, the less relevant we are, the less competent we are able to become, the less special our achievements seem.

The strength of his team and how they dominated the race reminds us that no matter how secure we feel—regardless of the fact that we’ve done everything right—we will never be able to fully insure against all possibilities, make the future any less frighteningly enigmatic, or, quite simply, prevent bad things from happening to us. At once, we realize that we see sport as some kind of grand narrative that allows us to believe in miracles, in romantic ideals of individual or collective triumph over the body and the mind and society; in role models whose struggles offer us the sublimation of our deepest desires and transport us—for a little while—away from the quotidian bullshit of our lives.

Even in defeat, figures like Bernard Hinault, Laurent Fignon, Thibaut Pinot, and now Primož Roglič are transformed from mortal men into literary figures, albeit of a more tragic, existential nature. This literary element in cycling has meant its history is written in captivating, fascinating ways, often focusing more on grand, poetic narratives rather than records of individual wins and losses. In a cruel irony, it still remains to be seen whether or not we will remember Tadej Pogačar 50 years from now. Indeed, one must also ask the same question of Roglič, had he won. However, it is all but inevitable that the story of Primož Roglič’s last-second abdication of the 2020 Tour de France, one of the purest examples of cycling’s taste for dramatic cruelty and poetic injustice, will never be forgotten.

Kate Wagner is an architectural and cultural critic whose writing can be found in a variety of publications including The New Republic , The Baffler , and The Atlantic . She rides, with utter devotion, a 2000 Bianchi Volpe.

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Where was ‘anyone but you’ filmed all the stunning locations from the rom-com.

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Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell in "Anyone But You."

Anyone But You finally made its Netflix streaming debut, which is exciting news for rom-com fans everywhere. As you watch the movie, you might be wondering where Anyone But You was filmed and if you can visit the breathtaking beaches, cliffs, and other locations in real life.

Loosely adapted from Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing,” Anyone But You stars Glen Powell as Ben, a finance bro who has an incredible first date with Bea (Sydney Sweeney), a law student uncertain about her career. After spending the night, Bea panics and leaves without telling him. When she realizes she made a mistake and returns to his apartment, she overhears Ben saying that she is a “nothing” to him.

Years later, they unexpectedly reunite at a destination wedding in Australia for Bea’s sister, who is marrying Ben’s friend. When their exes show up, they pretend to be a couple—and the rest is history. The film was directed and co-written by Will Gluck, the filmmaker behind rom-coms like Easy A and Friends with Benefits . It was released in December and had an impressive run at the box office, surpassing $88 million domestically and $219 million worldwide, according to Box Office Mojo .

After its release, the movie went viral on TikTok as audience goers reacted to the film’s credit sequence, which features the cast dancing and singing to Natasha Bedingfield’s nostalgic 2004 hit “Unwritten,” a song highlighted throughout the film. There were also rumors of an off-screen romance between Powell and Sweeney that helped promote the film, as well as the actors’ flirty publicity tour and Sydney Sweeney’s SNL monologue .

Now, Anyone But You is back in the limelight after the film was released on Netflix on April 23, quickly becoming the No. 1 movie on the platform in the U.S. after just one day.

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Anyone But You was filmed in parts of Australia around New South Wales and Sydney. Director Will Gluck told The Hollywood Reporter that he wanted the film set in Sydney because he had “really fallen in love with the city” and liked it so much he moved his family there.

“Almost every time you shoot a movie in Sydney, you have to pretend it’s somewhere else and frame out the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge. For Anyone But You , I thought, “Why do that?” We actually wrote this movie 100 percent for Sydney — very specific to the destination,” Gluck wrote.

The director continued, “We flew helicopters all over — seeing the city from that vantage point is stunning — and landed one at the Opera House, shut down the Harbour Bridge, filmed at the Queen Victoria Building, and shot for two weeks overlooking Bondi Beach,” he said. “We spent a week on a boat in Sydney Harbour shooting a scene where they’re stranded on a buoy, but you can’t have humans in the water without a shark cage, so we had to have one the whole time. You pinch yourself. It’s so unbelievable we were actually doing these things.”

Here are a few specific Anyone But You filming locations you can visit in person.

Sydney Opera House

The Sydney Opera House is a focal point in Anyone But You. The 20th-century architectural landmark serves as a gorgeous backdrop for big moments, including the end scene when Ben passionately kisses Bea, who is standing at the top of the steps. You can visit the performing arts center for special events and tours.

Marks Park, Bondi

Located in Sydney's northern suburbs, the wedding scene in Anyone But You was filmed at Marks Park overlooking Bondi Beach and the Pacific Ocean. The cliff-top park is open to the public and has fitness stations, a playground, and some shaded areas.

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Many of Anyone But You ’s breathtaking beach scenes were filmed around Palm Beach. Director Will Gluck told THR that one of the best parts of filming was on location in Palm Beach, a suburb in the Northern Beaches.

“Our caravans were parked right on the water, and Glen and Sydney and I decided to live there the whole time. We’d shoot all day and all the crew would go home, then we’d jump in the water and have a swim, go to our trailers and have dinner sitting outside,” he said. “It’s one of the most beautiful places in the world, and you normally wouldn’t be allowed to sleep there. It was probably the most fun I’ve ever had filming.”

Jones Bay Wharf

Jones Bay Wharf in Sydney Harbour's Pyrmont.

The historic Jones Bay Wharf is another familiar filming location in Anyone But You. The hidden gem in the Pyrmont district is home to fine dining restaurants, charming cafes, and beautiful views the of the city and Harbour Bridge.

Queen Victoria Building

Queen Victoria Building in Sydney, Australia.

While on their way to collect flowers for the wedding, Ben and his friend Pete are seen walking alongside the Queen Victoria Building. The Romanesque 19th-century building is actually a five-level shopping center with fashion boutiques, jewelry stores, cafes, and restaurants.

Anyone But You is now streaming on Netflix.

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Porter Robinson Announces “SMILE! :D World Tour” 70+ Dates In 2024-2025

Grammy-nominated artist Porter Robinson announces a 5-continent world tour including stops in 30+ North American cities, Europe, and Asia in support of his highly anticipated third studio album SMILE! 😀 , releasing July 26th via MOM+POP. [Pre-order here ]

Robinson will debut a completely new live production including a full live band during his SMILE! 😀 World Tour, after first experimenting with the band format at his own sold-out Second Sky festival and again in 2023 at Coachella’s main stage. Fans can expect opening acts ericdoa in North America, underscores in Europe and Galileo Galilei in Japan.

The SMILE! 😀 World Tour will kick off on August 29 in Boston and hit notable stops along the way including Forrest Hills in New York on August 31 and Hollywood Bowl on October 11, before heading onto an Asian run which spans 9 cities beginning November 2024. Porter concludes the tour by traversing across 8 countries in Europe throughout February and March 2025, including a stop at London’s prestigious Brixton Academy . Dates in Australia and Latin America will also be announced soon. Full routing is available below.

Pre-sale commences Tuesday, April 30 at 10am local time —fans can register for early access to tickets at porterrobinson.com . Various presales will take place throughout the week including a CITI presale in the U.S. (details below) ahead of the general on sale on Friday, May 3 at 10am local time. For more information on the tour and tickets, visit porterrobinson.com .

The tour will also offer a variety of different VIP packages and experiences for fans. VIP Packages may include premium tickets, exclusive access to the pre-show VIP lounge, access to a VIP bar, early entry into the venue, pre-show merchandise shopping opportunity, specially designed gift item, and more. VIP package contents vary based on offer selected. For more information, visit vipnation.com (N. America) or vipnation.eu (Europe).

CITI is the official card of Porter Robinson presents SMILE! 😀 World Tour. CITI Card Members will have access to presale tickets for the U.S. dates beginning Monday, April 29 at 10AM local time until Thursday, May 2 at 10PM local time through the CITI Entertainment program.

For complete presale details visit www.citientertainment.com .

For the Hollywood Bowl show, American Express® Card Members can purchase tickets before the general public beginning Monday, April 29 at 10:00am PST through Thursday, May 2 at 10:00pm PST.

SMILE! 😀 World Tour Dates:

August 29, 2024 – Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall at Fenway

August 30, 2024 – Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall at Fenway

August 31, 2024 – New York, NY – Forest Hills Stadium

September 5, 2024 – Atlanta, GA – Coca-Cola Roxy

September 6, 2024 – Orlando, FL – Addition Financial Arena

September 7, 2024 – Miami, FL – FPL Solar Amphitheater at Bayfront Park

September 10, 2024 – Nashville, TN – Municipal Auditorium

September  11, 2024 – Charlotte, NC – Skyla Credit Union Amphitheatre

September 13, 2024 – Philadelphia, PA – TD Pavilion at the Mann

September 14, 2024 – Washington, DC – Merriweather Post Pavilion

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Kyle Rittenhouse, deadly shooter, college speaker? A campus gun-rights tour sparks outrage

Kyle Rittenhouse is not a typical college campus speaker.

In 2020, at the age of 17, he took an AR-15-style rifle to a Black Lives Matter demonstration and fired it, killing two people and injuring a third. Rittenhouse said he pulled the trigger in self-defense and was acquitted of wrongdoing .

He has since penned a book, “Acquitted,” and has set out on a series of college speaking events dubbed the " Rittenhouse Recap ." He is slated to appear Thursday at Clemson University in South Carolina.

Rittenhouse is selling books, and ostensibly promoting the right to bear arms on campus, but he’s also trying to persuade young people to join the conservative movement. The key group behind the appearances, Turning Point USA, is led by the self-described “youth director” of President Donald Trump’s first campaign and a key ally rallying votes for Trump this year.

The group told USA TODAY that it isn’t a nationally organized tour – that its chapters independently requested Rittenhouse. Student chapter leaders told USA TODAY that Rittenhouse is an important conversation starter. “I think sometimes you have to be kind of polarizing to pull a crowd," said Brady Seymour, president of Turning Point USA's chapter at Kent State University in Ohio.

The provocative choice of backing the Rittenhouse tour is par for the course for Turning Point and its local affiliates, which have hosted controversial figures like Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist and Holocaust denier . But it has stirred up devastating pain and disdain in a man he almost killed.

"He has used every moment to gloat and to make light of taking life," Paul Prediger said, speaking publicly for the first time about what happened in protest of a Rittenhouse speech last week at Kent State. "As if that were not enough, Kyle has embraced and been embraced by those who peddle hateful rhetoric, who believe in nationalism that excludes those who do not look like or think like them, and who have sought to amplify a troubling desire for violence against supposed political, cultural, and religious enemies."

Rittenhouse's message on his campus tour – that students should be allowed to take up arms, including to fend off "these Hamas, Palestinian terrorists" if they invade dormitories – has sparked protests and raised questions about free speech and just how far it should be allowed to go. A similar question helped lead to the resignations of the presidents of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University , who stepped down amid fierce criticism for equivocating when asked if calls for the genocide of Jews would be allowed on campus.

Rittenhouse, in a statement provided by spokesperson Jillian Anderson, said his campus appearances are not part of an official tour or book-selling venture, and he is reminding students of their rights. "Every American has a constitutional right to bear arms," he said, "and it should not be infringed by a college campus."

Experts say context matters. Tom Ginsburg, a law professor at the University of Chicago and faculty director of the forum on free inquiry and expression, told USA TODAY that federal regulations require colleges and universities to ensure their learning environment is not hostile. Within that framework, some incendiary language could be permitted in a general public space but prohibited if directed at an individual or group.

"That's a key distinction," he said. "Is it said in general, as part of a general demonstration, or is it shouted at a particular group of people who might then reasonably perceive it as being a threat of some kind? And if it's the latter, then it could be punished."

Kyle Rittenhouse says students should carry guns on campus

On the evening of Aug. 25, 2020 , Rittenhouse brought a rifle to the site of intense protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, sparked by the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man. Amid a scuffle with protesters, Rittenhouse fatally shot Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber and wounded Prediger.

In a trial that drew national attention in 2021, Rittenhouse said he shot the men in self-defense after Rosenbaum threatened his life and Prediger pointed a gun at him. Prediger said he thought Rittenhouse was an active shooter. Critics said Rittenhouse had no right to fire his weapon and was illegally acting as a vigilante militia. A jury acquitted him of all five charges he faced, including intentional homicide.

Rittenhouse soon took on celebrity status in right-wing circles where the right to bear arms and use them to defend life and property is sacrosanct. The weekend after his trial, he flew to Florida to visit Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort and to appear on Fox News for an interview with conservative host Tucker Carlson.

At Kent State, Rittenhouse implored students to fight to be allowed to carry guns at school.

"We have these blue boxes that are on the campus – we've all seen them, you push a button, it calls the police, and you get connected to a dispatcher," he said. "How long does it take a cop to show up, though? When somebody is trying to kidnap you or somebody is threatening your life, is that the quickest option to be able to protect yourself?"

He encouraged students to join conservative groups like Turning Point USA and said elected officials don't care about them.

"What makes me really scared, and I get really upset that people, especially young campus students, aren't allowed to carry firearms, just because I'm scared that what happens if these Hamas, Palestinian terrorists come to the U.S. and try to attack us?" Rittenhouse said. "Are we supposed to be left defenseless? Are you supposed to be left defenseless because you're not allowed to have a gun in your dormitory?"

After Prediger – formerly known as Gaige Grosskreutz – criticized his speaking tour, Rittenhouse posted a video clip on X, formerly Twitter. It showed Prediger admitting he pointed a gun in Rittenhouse's direction before being shot. Rittenhouse did not include text in the post.

Students accuse Turning Point of 'hateful actions'

In the days leading up to his arrival at Kent State, demonstrators staged a walkout, organized a vigil, and spray painted "Welcome, killer" on a free-speech landmark. A Change.org petition urging the university and Turning Point USA to cancel Rittenhouse's visit gathered more than 3,700 signatures. The event spurred Prediger to speak out. Hundreds showed up to protest.

"I stand with the students of Kent State University who have had enough," Prediger said.

Students said it was particularly insensitive for the campus to host Rittenhouse and his message about guns on campus given the school's history. On May 4, 1970, four students were gunned down at Kent State when the Ohio National Guard fired into a crowd gathered to protest the invasion of Cambodia during the Vietnam War.

Aimée Flores, a representative from the university's Spanish and Latine Student Association, said the organization encouraged students "to learn more about Turning Point USA.... their hateful actions on campus and throughout this whole year, why we don't agree with their actions."

Seymour, the school's Turning Point chapter president, said the event was about "creating conversation." It had no relation to the 1970 killing of protestors, he said.

"In his speech, he talked mostly about having the right to carry on campus, considering students aren't allowed to at Kent State," Seymour said.

"These two stories are completely different and 50 years apart," he said.

Protests at every campus on 'Rittenhouse Recap' tour

Other “Rittenhouse Recap” appearances prompted vocal opposition and protest.

At Western Kentucky University , protesters held a sit-in and march last month. His appearance at East Tennessee State University in February also sparked demonstrations – local press reports show one protester wielding a sign accusing Turning Point of empowering "stochastic terrorism" – the incitement of violence through public demonization of a person or group.

In the days leading up to Rittenhouse's appearance at The University of Memphis in March, the school fielded a barrage of complaints from students, faculty, and community members. Protesters held signs with messages like, “Put Rittenhouse behind bars, not a podium.” Rittenhouse abruptly left the stage after about 30 minutes as protesters shouted him down.

Universities said allowing the events – and the protests – upholds key tenets of American democracy and academic tradition: Free speech and freedom of assembly. Turning Point USA’s chapter at The University of Memphis is a registered student organization, the school said.

"We cannot ban speech because it would go against a core value and because of well-established laws governing free speech on public university campuses,” Kent State said in a statement provided to USA TODAY. “Upholding the First Amendment rights of free speech and peaceful assembly for all, the university has a long history of allowing peaceful dialogue from all points of view, including those whom some may feel are offering different and/or sometimes controversial opinions."

Turning Point has history of booking controversial speakers

Turning Point USA has a track record of booking controversial and provocative figures, placing it at the center of debates over First Amendment rights on college campuses, where it says it has grown to more than 800 chapters since its founding in 2012.

In late 2016 and early 2017, the group was behind a nationwide campus speaking tour by Milo Yiannopoulos – a former Breitbart writer banned from Twitter for harassment and dropped from the agenda at a Conservative Political Action Conference after videos surfaced of him defending sexual relationships between 13-year-old boys and grown men. Yiannopoulos said he was joking and may have used "imprecise language."

In 2019, Turning Point’s Iowa State University chapter claimed partial responsibility for extending a speaking invitation to Fuentes, a white nationalist who has said he wants a "total Aryan victory" and self-identified as a "sexist man," according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Last year, representatives of the group confronted, criticized and assaulted an LGBTQ+ instructor at Arizona State University in Tempe.

Turning Point has taken action against members for promoting hate speech. In 2019, the group expelled a member at the University of Nevada Las Vegas after a video surfaced of the student shouting "white power" and using a white supremacist hand sign.

Andrew Kolvet, a spokesperson for Turning Point USA, said the Fuentes event was not sanctioned, and a local chapter official was tricked into arranging the appearance. He said that Turning Points has repeatedly denounced white nationalism . Kolvet said that in general, students should be able to hear from controversial speakers. "We do our best to make sure that there's going to be enriching discussion, that the speaker is going to be, I would say, uplifting, inspiring, productive."

He said Turning Point chapters chose Rittenhouse as a speaker. "There just happened to be schools that asked for Kyle because he came out with a book and he made himself available, essentially."

Turning Point touts itself as a key player in conservative politics , as does its founder and president, Charlie Kirk , who told conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh 's show in 2019 that he “traveled the country for about 70 days straight carrying Donald Trump Jr.’s bags and getting his Diet Cokes.” In addition to becoming Trump Jr.'s "body man," he took on the role of "youth director of the campaign," Kirk said. Speaking at the Republican National Convention in 2020, he called President Trump the "bodyguard of Western civilization."

Kirk also speaks on college campuses, where his fiery rhetoric has sparked controversy. At a speech last fall at Missouri State University , he said all immigration to the U.S. should be halted, called global warming an "academic distraction," and speculated about how many Hamas sleeper cells might be active in the U.S.

Expert says universities grappling with non-academic provocateurs

Ginsburg stressed that colleges and universities must allow free speech. "It’s pretty clear that their obligation is to make sure that event goes forward and to make sure it's not disrupted," he said. "At the same time, peaceful protest also has a long tradition on campus."  

Ginsburg said an added dimension to their challenges is the more recent phenomenon of campus speakers who intentionally draw negative attention.

"What we're now seeing is that people are sometimes getting invited to campus who aren't necessarily academics. They're not articulating a truly academic point of view," Ginsburg said. "In some cases, we have provocateurs, including some people who actually are seeking to be canceled, seeking to be protested."

He said people like Rittenhouse often capitalize on controversy. "He's certainly part of a media ecosystem in which you do have some of those kind of characters where, if you can get canceled, it ups your follower rate and you can portray yourself as a victim," he said.

To the Turning Point leader at Kent State, it's a tactic the group uses to advance conversation.

"That's the sad reality of how people are," Seymour said. "You kind of have to stir up drama or be a polarizing character for people to end up paying attention to you."

Cybele Mayes-Osterman is a breaking news reporter for USA Today. Reach her by email at [email protected]. Follow her on X @CybeleMO.

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Grace Kim shoots 7-under 64 at Wilshire Country Club to lead LPGA Tour’s JM Eagle LA Championship

Grace Kim hits from the 16th tee during the first round of the LPGA LA Championship golf tournament at Wilshire Country Club, Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)

Maja Stark gestures after finishing on the ninth green during the first round of the LPGA LA Championship golf tournament at Wilshire Country Club, Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)

The Hollywood sign is seen as Ally Ewing, second from left, walks along the ninth fairway during the first round of the LPGA LA Championship golf tournament at Wilshire Country Club, Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)

Yealimi Noh hits towards the 16th green during the first round of the LPGA LA Championship golf tournament at Wilshire Country Club, Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)

Lucy Li hits from the 16th tee during the first round of the LPGA LA Championship golf tournament at Wilshire Country Club, Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)

Azahara Munoz hits from the fifth tee during the first round of the LPGA LA Championship golf tournament at Wilshire Country Club, Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)

Chanettee Wannasaen hits toward the 16th green during the first round of the LPGA LA Championship golf tournament at Wilshire Country Club, Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)

Chanettee Wannasaen hits from the 16th tee during the first round of the LPGA LA Championship golf tournament at Wilshire Country Club, Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)

Nataliya Guseva gestures after finishing on the 16th green during the first round of the LPGA LA Championship golf tournament at Wilshire Country Club, Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)

Sophia Popov hits from the fifth tee during the first round of the LPGA LA Championship golf tournament at Wilshire Country Club, Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)

Auston Kim hits from the fifth tee during the first round of the LPGA LA Championship golf tournament at Wilshire Country Club, Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)

Mone Inami hits towards the second green during the first round of the LPGA LA Championship golf tournament at Wilshire Country Club, Thursday, April 25, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ryan Sun)

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LOS ANGLES (AP) — Grace Kim shot a 7-under 64 at Wilshire Country Club to take the first-round lead Thursday in the LPGA Tour’s JM Eagle LA Championship.

Playing in the morning session, the 23-year-old Australian capped her bogey-free round with a chip-in birdie on the par-3 18th.

“Well, I chunked my tee shot on the last hole 20 meters short and then I chipped it in it,” Kim said. “I think that’s pretty cool, in front of everyone.”

Maja Stark of Sweden, Sei Young Kim of South Korea and Chanettee Wannasaen of Thailand were a stroke back at 65. Stark finished second last week outside Houston in The Chevron Championship, two strokes behind top-ranked Nelly Korda.

“I was so tired when I got here,” Stark said. “I barely been practicing. Just did a little bit of what I needed to do. I feel like it’s kind of similar anyway because there are just some pins that you can’t go for just like at Chevron.”

Korda withdrew Monday, a day after her fifth victory in a row.

Grace Kim won the LOTTE Championship last year in a playoff in Hawaii for her first LPGA Tour title. She missed the cut in The Chevron, shooting 76-72.

“If I was to compare my round today to last week, I really focused on just not having too much in my mind,” she said. “I think I over-thought a lot of things through my first and second round last week and struggled a little bit mentally.”

Sei Young Kim had four straight birdies on Nos. 12-15 in her afternoon round. She won the last of her 12 LPGA Tour titles in 2020.

Auston Kim, Haeran Ryu and Nataliya Guseva shot 66, and defending champion Hannah Green matched Amy Yang and Bianca Pagdanganan at 67.

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Olympic Qualifier Series: From Horigome Yuto to Nishiya Momiji, know the Japanese skateboarders in action

Discover your guide to skateboarding at OQS including the Japanese superstars, rising stars and all-important stakes heading into the qualifier showdown in Shanghai and Budapest.

The Olympic Qualifier Series (OQS) 2024 will be a bumper display of multi-sport action and for skateboarders set to compete in the event, the stakes couldn’t be higher.

By the end of the two-part process, kicking off in Shanghai, People’s Republic of China from 16-19 May and concluding in Budapest, Hungary on 20-23 June , the field for the Olympic Games Paris 2024 will be known with 20 skaters set to obtain a quota spot.

The Olympic qualifying journey so far has been long and testing.

Over the past two years, park and street skaters have been competing in phase one of qualification. That entailed stops across the world, where World Skate Ranking (WSR) points were awarded based on finishing positions. More points were up for grabs at World championship events to raise the intensity. From all competitions, only the top four results contributed towards their ranking.

Following the final stop of phase one in Dubai in February this year a cut to the field was made. Only the top 44 eligible skaters were invited to partake in phase two of qualifying: OQS.

Just as with phase one, WSR points will be the ultimate determinant as to who will secure a quota spot for Paris 2024 but for the two OQS stops, the ante has been upped.

The points on offer will be worth nearly three times more in Shanghai and Budapest than in the World championships in phase one, meaning no one is safe and everything is to skate for.

But there’s more.

Only three skaters from one National Olympic Committee (NOC) can compete at the Games meaning that for countries where there is depth, the battle will not just be to finish in the top 20. They must also finish in the top three. For the likes of Australia, United States, Brazil and Japan, where inter-country competition is fiercest, an extra layer of intrigue is at play.

So, what does this all mean for the skaters of Team Japan who will be taking part in OQS?

In the below, Olympics.com runs the rule over the skaters hitting the Olympic park bowl and street rails and examining the lay of the land ahead of Shanghai.

As National Olympic Committees have the exclusive authority for the representation of their respective countries at the Olympic Games, athletes' participation at the Paris Games depends on their NOC selecting them to represent their delegation at Paris 2024.

Click here to see the official qualification system for each sport.

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Japanese Skateboarders at OQS 2024: Men’s Street

The World Skateboarding Ranking is made up of the best four Olympic qualifying results from phase one.

1. Shirai Sora, 22

WSR Points: 182,553

Top 4 Olympic Qualifying Results

• Street World Championship Sharjah 2022 - 8th
• World Skateboarding Tour - Rome Street 2023 - 2nd
• Street World Championship Tokyo 2023 - 1st
• World Skateboarding Tour - Dubai Street 2024 - 3rd

5. Netsuke Kairi, 20

WSR Points: 147,835

• Street World Championship Sharjah 2022 - 23rd
• World Skateboarding Tour - Lausanne Street 2023 - 4th
• Street World Championship Tokyo 2023 - 2nd
• World Skateboarding Tour - Dubai Street 2024 - 1st

6. Onodera Ginwoo, 14

WSR Points: 125,963

• Street World Championship Sharjah 2022 - 3rd
• World Skateboarding Tour - Rome Street 2023 - 12th
• Street World Championship Tokyo 2023 - 6th
• World Skateboarding Tour - Dubai Street 2024 - 4th

7. Horigome Yuto, 25

WSR Points: 106,120

• World Skateboarding Tour - Rome Street 2022 - 8th
• World Skateboarding Tour - Lausanne Street 2023 - 5th
• Street World Championship Tokyo 2023 - 3rd
• World Skateboarding Tour - Dubai Street 2024 - 9th

10. Sasaki Toa, 17

WSR Points: 79,687

• World Skateboarding Tour - Rome Street 2022 - 10th
• Street World Championship Sharjah 2022 - 16th
• World Skateboarding Tour - Lausanne Street 2023 - 2nd
• Street World Championship Tokyo 2023 - 11th

15. Aoki Yukito, 20

WSR Points: 60,030

• World Skateboarding Tour - Rome Street 2022 - 12th
• World Skateboarding Tour - Lausanne Street 2023 - 6th
• Street World Championship Tokyo 2023 - 12th
• World Skateboarding Tour - Dubai Street 2023 - 8th

World champion Shirai Sora will lead the Japanese men street skaters at OQS

Japan Men’s Street Skateboarding: The stakes

One theme that has emerged out of Olympic skateboarding since Tokyo 2020 has been Japan's dominance, particularly in the street division.

With three of the available six medals at Tokyo going to Japanese skaters in the discipline such an observation might not be all that surprising, but very few could have predicted the number of upstarts that have come in the men's and women's fields to upset the status quo.

Indeed, the internal competition in team Japan has been so fierce that Olympic champion and superstar skater Horigome Yuto currently finds himself outside the top three in the country.

As the 25-year-old was adjusting to his newfound Olympic status hungry outsiders took the distraction as an opportunity to press ahead. Number one-ranked Shirai Sora , who competed at Tokyo, has shared his f ierce commitment to avenge his performance in Japan and his diligently been matching words with action. Aoki Yukito , number six of the Japanese skaters heading to OQS, is another Olympian poised to pounce.

Then there are the new faces who have impressed.

Teenager Onodera Ginwoo grabbed headlines after he appeared seemingly out of nowhere to take third place at the World championships in Sharjah, while Netsuke Kairi has been improving at such a rate with each event that his efforts were recently rewarded with a first place in Dubai, setting him up nicely for Shanghai.

Can Olympic champ Horigome muscle his way back into the top three?

It will be one of the biggest questions surrounding skateboarding at OQS and with so many points at play, anything could happen.

Japanese Skateboarders at OQS 2024: Women’s Street

1. nishiya momiji, 16.

WSR Points: 198,800

• World Skateboarding Tour - Rome Street 2022 - 2nd
• World Skateboarding Tour - Lausanne Street 2023 - 1st

3. Oda Yumeka, 17

WSR Points: 188,000

• World Skateboarding Tour - Rome Street 2022 - 3rd
• World Skateboarding Tour - Rome Street 2023 - 3rd

5. Akama Liz, 15

WSR Points: 178,771

• Street World Championship Sharjah 2022 - 4th
• World Skateboarding Tour - Rome Street 2023 - 1st

6. Nakayama Funa, 18

WSR Points: 141,774

• World Skateboarding Tour - Rome Street 2022 - 1st
• Street World Championship Sharjah 2022 - 5th
• Street World Championship Tokyo 2023 - 7th

7. Yoshizawa Coco, 14

WSR Points: 122,948

• World Skateboarding Tour - Rome Street 2022 - 6th
• Street World Championship Tokyo 2023 - 5th

9. Ito Miyu, 16

WSR Points: 79,385

• World Skateboarding Tour - Rome Street 2023 - 5th
• Street World Championship Tokyo 2023 - 9th
• World Skateboarding Tour - Dubai Street 2024 - 5th

Japan Women’s Street Skateboarding: The stakes

When it comes to women's street skating Japan is unmatched in depth.

With all six of its skaters qualified for OQS in the top 10 the fight for one of three Olympic quota spots for Japan could be its own standalone drama.

And if phase one is anything to go by twists and turns can be expected.

One steady constant from Tokyo 2020 to the lead-up to Paris 2024 has remained: Olympic champion Nishiya Momiji .

Ever since her gold medal exploits at home in Japan, the 16-year-old hasn't missed a beat since qualification for Paris began in 2022. Ever-expanding her repertoire of tricks, the Japanese skater has remained the benchmark for the rest of the field, and her four podiums in six qualifying events in phase one point to a deadly consistency that means she can never be counted out.

But even Nishiya's position now as the No.1 ranked skater hasn't always been guaranteed. Post-Tokyo has seen the rise of a string of new Japanese skaters who have shot straight to the top of the order.

Freshly minted world champion and number three ranked Oda Yumeka is one such example.

The 17-year-old's daring and trick selection has seen her repeatedly rewarded with podium finishes while Akama Liz , another newcomer, has made herself known through her style and capacity to come up clutch. A last-ditch frontside 270 lipslide at the final phase one contest in Dubai to snatch the win from Australia's Chloe Covell handed Akama a second World Skateboarding Tour win and fifth spot in the rankings.

One who has perhaps suffered from the upward pressure coming from below is Nakayama Funa . Though hardly off the pace in sixth, the Tokyo 2020 bronze medallist has struggled for podiums since her win in Rome back in 2022 and is now outside the top three. She will need to reconnect with the confidence that saw her become an Olympic medallist if she is to finish in the top three for Japan.

Sitting behind her, and both very capable of causing an upset, are Yoshizawa Coco and Ito Miyu : two more fresh faces following Tokyo 2020.

14-year-old Yoshizawa, in particular, will be one to watch after she clinched her first podium most recently in Dubai.

Japanese Skateboarders at OQS 2024: Women’s Park

The World Skateboarding Ranking is made up of the best three Olympic qualifying results from phase one.

1. Hiraki Cocona, 15

WSR Points: 184,000

• Park World Championship Sharjah 2022 - 2nd
• World Skateboarding Tour San Juan Park 2023 - 5th
• Park World Championship Rome Ostia 2023 - 1st
• World Skateboarding Tour - Dubai Park 2024 - 2nd

2. Kusaki Hinano, 16

WSR Points: 136,420

• Park World Championship Sharjah 2022 - 4th
• World Skateboarding Tour San Juan Park 2023 - 4th
• Park World Championship Rome Ostia 2023 - 2nd
• World Skateboarding Tour Dubai Park 2024 - 16th

5. Yosozumi Sakura, 22

WSR Points: 103,833

• Park World Championship Sharjah 2022 - 3rd
• World Skateboarding Tour San Juan Park 2023 - 30th
• Park World Championship Rome Ostia 2023 - 8th
• World Skateboarding Tour Dubai Park 2024 - 6th

17. Hasegawa Mizuho, 13

WSR Points: 35,251

• Park World Championship Rome Ostia 2023 - 48th
• World Skateboarding Tour Dubai Park 2024 - 3rd

21. Sugawara Mei, 16

WSR Points: 18,924

• Park World Championship Sharjah 2022 - 36th
• World Skateboarding Tour San Juan Park 2023 - 14th
• Park World Championship Rome Ostia 2023 - 38th
• World Skateboarding Tour Dubai Park 2024 - 9th

23. Nakamura Kisa, 23

WSR Points: 15,909

• Park World Championship Sharjah 2022 - 14th
• World Skateboarding Tour San Juan Park 2023 - 27th
• Park World Championship Rome Ostia 2023 - 37th
• World Skateboarding Tour Dubai Park 2024 - 32nd

Japan Women’s Park Skateboarding: The stakes

Sitting in first, second and fifth in the rankings ahead of OQS, Hiraki Cocona , Kusaki Hinano and Yosozumi Sakura have proven themselves to be dominant forces throughout phase one of qualification for women's park.

Hiraki, silver medallist at Tokyo 2020 and current world champion, above all, has displayed a remarkable consistency having not skipped a single final since qualification began.

But even when these three looked to be the best Japan had to offer for securing the three quota spots for Paris 2024 along came 13-year-old Hasegawa Mizuho .

The youngster from Ibarakiken first appeared at Worlds in Ostia, Rome without little notice but in Dubai, that all changed after she landed on the podium next to Hiraki and Spain's Naia Laso.

Though appearing late in the race, Hasegawa, also an X Games silver medallist, has managed to clinch a spot in the top 44 and her surge will be one her Japanese compatriots will be watching very closely not least with the points on offer at OQS.

Japanese Skateboarders at OQS 2024: Men’s Park

13. nagahara yuro, 18.

WSR Points: 52,242

• World Skateboarding Tour San Juan Park 2023 - 7th
• Park World Championship Rome Ostia 2023 - 5th
• World Skateboarding Tour Dubai Park 2024 - 14th

Japan Men’s Park Skateboarding: The stakes

As the only one of the four skate disciplines to feature a sole Japanese skater in Nagahara Yuro , the picture for Japan in men's park is markedly different from the rest.

But while there might not be the pressure of an internal battle that is not to say the 18-year-old won't be without the feeling entirely.

The expectation that Japan secures an Olympic quota in all of the disciplines and underlines its mastery in skating will still be present and with no other skaters to lean on the responsibility will rest with Nagahara and Nagahara alone.

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