Tour latest: Pogačar & Vingegaard’s Pyrenean slugfest; Ineos forced to rethink; sprinters gear up for Bordeaux; Paris unveils magnificent Olympic cour...

As the Tour de France leaves the Pyrenees, these are RadioCycling's news headlines...

It's been frantic, the tactics have been crazy at times, but it's also been totally captivating. We look back on two days in the Pyrenees when Jonas Vingegaard and Tadej Pogačar tried to knock lumps out of each other and in doing so served up racing action that was every bit as enthralling as last year's epic mountain duel between the pair, the sport's two outstanding climbers.   

While the dynamic duo have fought their own private battle, the Ineos Grenadiers have found themselves on the fringes of the GC battle. We speak to the British squad's sporting director Steve Cummings, who admits that the sport's most lavishly funded team is in transition and that they will have to reset their goals at the Tour because  they've already slipped out of the contest for the yellow jersey.

Friday will bring the sprinters back to centre of the action, with a stage into Bordeaux, a city long associated with the greatest sprint names in cycling's history.  We hear from the Alpecin-Deceuninck team, who've shown in the two previous bunch sprints that they're a step ahead of their rivals, well-drilled in support of Jasper Philipsen, who's finishing speed is currently peerless. We also hear from Fabio Jakobsen, who's still nursing injuries sustained Tuesday's sprint crash but has fought through the mountains with the aim of redeeming a hitherto difficult Tour with a stage win.

We then turn away from the Tour to examine the magnificent road race routes that have been announced for the 2024 Paris Olympics. As well as breezing by the chateau at Versailles, the men's and women's courses will feature a narrow, cobbled climb through Montmartre to the Basilica of Sacré Coeur,  passing, Jeremy points out, one of the city's most notorious bars and a renowned butcher's shop. We have all of the key details.

PLUS, in our Ground Beans round-up of news snippets and rumours, we reveal the yellow jersey wearer who "looks a banana" and the Instagram post Fabio Jakobsen was persuaded to change...   

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