Sentence examples for a day's stage from inspiring English sources

But the best opportunity to mingle with the riders, it turned out, was just before the start of a day's stage.

Often competitors collapse with exhaustion at the end of a day's stage - Eddy Merkx famously did so after winning the 14th stage of the 1970 Tour, a stage that ran from Gap to a certain Mont Ventoux.

Whenever he wins a day's stage, or finishes as one of the top cyclists in a longer race, he is required to provide a urine sample.

"In the late 1990s and early 2000s if you were going to be competitive and win the Tour de France you would have to be able to cycle between 6.4 and 6.7 watts per kilogram at the end of a day's stage.

Travelling between stages, locating your hotel (a basic or two-star package is offered), trying to book a massage, attending a mandatory briefing about the next day's stage, rising at 6am to eat as much as your body will take – all catches up on the body.

At 9 p.m. Eastern (10 p.m. Pacific), the site will broadcast a two-hour look at the day's stage, including reports and analysis from the Web site's reporters covering the Tour in France.

Each day's stage does not necessarily start from where it stopped the previous day.

Barring illness or a crash, Thursday's stage is effectively the last chance for Nibali to defeat Wiggins.

They have ranged from innocuous tumbles to race-ending spills — RadioShack's Christopher Horner, one of the top American contenders, withdrew from the race after he fractured his nose and suffered a concussion during a crash in Friday's Stage 7. Leaders aren't exempt, either.

"I hope everyone who crashed is all right," added Cavendish, who also admitted that he felt as "worse as I have ever done on a bike" during Sunday's stage, which finished at the top of an ascent that featured gradients of 30%.

Tiredness could be a factor, but Sunday's stage win on the Champs-Elysées was more than ample proof of how beneficial the Tour can be to his underlying form.