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Tour Stage 19 Report: The stage finish in Cahors was expected to be a bunch sprint, but first the break and then Christophe Latour had different ideas. As the escape was being reeled in, Laporte jumped past them and carried on for the much wanted French stage win. Nothing changed on the overall, Jonas Vingegaard still in the lead before Saturday’s time trial. The final kilometre of stage 19Christophe Laporte of Jumbo-Visma won the nineteenth stage of the Tour de France. In the stage from Castelnau-Magnoac to Cahors, the Frenchman jumped past a leading group of three in the last kilometre to take the victory. This was the first French stage victory in the 2022 Tour.The jerseys at the start,…

In 2003 I went to cover my first Tour de France as part of the press. PEZ had almost no readers and even less money, so I rented the cheapest car I could find. I drove it for 2 weeks and 2500km across France from Lyon east to the Alps, across the south and into the Pyrenees via Andorra, dodging and weaving as far west as Lourdes, and then all the way back to Lyon. It was one of the hottest summers on record in France – when the mercury tickled 40C degrees every day for weeks.Click the video to watch, and see more at the PEZ Youtube channel here.The car was tiny and had no a/c, but I managed…