'It was fun while it lasted': Adam Yates goes down fighting as he relinquishes Tour de France yellow jersey

The Brit will now return to his primary objective at the Tour - hunting down stage victories

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Adam Yates went down fighting as he lost the yellow jersey at the 2020 Tour de France, finally distanced from the race lead for good on the Col de Marie Blanque, as the GC battle burst into life for a second day in the Pyrenees.

"I did everything I could. I said from the very beginning, even before the Tour started, that I wasn’t at 100 per cent," Yates said after the finish of stage nine. "And I think we did well. We hung on for as long as we could. And yeah, there are a couple of guys going better than me. So I did the best I could and I think we can be proud."

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Hi. I'm Cycling Weekly's Weekend Editor. I like writing offbeat features and eating too much bread when working out on the road at bike races.


Before joining Cycling Weekly I worked at The Tab and I've also written for Vice, Time Out, and worked freelance for The Telegraph (I know, but I needed the money at the time so let me live).


I also worked for ITV Cycling between 2011-2018 on their Tour de France and Vuelta a España coverage. Sometimes I'd be helping the producers make the programme and other times I'd be getting the lunches. Just in case you were wondering - Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen had the same ham sandwich every day, it was great.