Every day in the first week, riders have temperatures of up to 35°C and at times up to 40°C. Sunday's stage was reduced by 30 kilometers.

Le rouleur de la formation Bouygues Telecom est le premier coureur d'origine maghrébine sur le Tour depuis 1954.

Outrage is mounting about the Gulf country’s complicity in Sudan’s catastrophic civil war – and it might be starting to hit them where it hurts, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik