Chaque instant du Tour de France risque de faire basculer la course, mais voici les cinq étapes les plus susceptibles de décider du classement final de l’édition 2021.

The Tour de Suisse, June 6 to 13, will be the last opportunity for the classification stars to shine ahead of the Tour de France. So who are the favorites for the eight-day Swiss race, the cyclists we could see fighting also for the Tour victory a month later?

The 2021 Tour de Suisse, June 6 to 13, will reveal quite a lot about those riders who could shine big in future stage races including the Tour de France the following month.

The 2021 Tour de France covers 3,383 kilometers. Any one of those kilometers can provide the right mixture of circumstances for a race-winning attack, or a race-losing mishap. Such is the nature of the sport.

Tour de France champion Tadej Pogacar won his first one-day classic on Sunday, snatching Liège-Bastogne-Liège victory on the line ahead of world champion Julian Alaphilippe who described the Slovenian as "a phenomenon".

The cobbles are behind us, as the peloton prepares for the first of the Ardennes Classic races – Amstel Gold.