Samuel Petrequin, Author at Valley News

Colombia's Egan Bernal wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, center, rides past the Arc de Triomphe on the Champs-Elysees during the twenty-first stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 128 kilometers (79.53miles) with start in Rambouillet and finish in Paris, France, Sunday, July 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Egan Bernal wins Tour de France

by John Leicester The Associated Press, and Samuel Petrequin The Associated PressJuly 28, 2019

PARIS — On the Champs-Elysees fittingly bathed in the yellow of a golden dusk, a Tour de France for the ages crowned a champion of an unusually young age on Sunday: 22-year-old Egan Bernal, South America’s first winner of cycling’s greatest race.“I am…

Colombia's Egan Bernal sits in the team director car during the nineteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 126,5 kilometers (78,60 miles) with start in Saint Jean De Maurienne and finish in Tignes, France, Friday, July 26, 2019. Tour de France organizers stopped Stage 19 of the race because of a hail storm as Julien Alaphilippe lost his yellow jersey to Egan Bernal. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Egan Bernal storms into Tour yellow amid icy chaos

by John Leicester The Associated Press, and Samuel Petrequin The Associated PressJuly 26, 2019

The pack rides during the seventeenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 200 kilometers (124,27 miles) with start in Pont Du Gard and finish in Gap, France, Wednesday, July 24, 2019. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Tour de France set for a dramatic finish

by Samuel Petrequin AP Sports WriterJuly 24, 2019

Australia's Caleb Ewan celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win the sixteenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 117 kilometers (73 miles) with start and finish in Nimes, France, Tuesday, July 23, 2019. (AP Photo/ Thibault Camus)

Ewan beats the heat to win 16th stage

by Samuel Petrequin AP Sports WriterJuly 23, 2019

Colombia's Egan Arley Bernal Gomez, left, Britain's Geraint Thomas, center, and Italy's Gianni Moscon ride during the ninth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 170.5 kilometers (105.94 miles) with start in Saint Etienne and finish in Brioude, France, Sunday, July 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Technology beating romanticism at Tour de France

by Samuel Petrequin The Associated PressJuly 16, 2019

Belgium's Wout Van Aert celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win the tenth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 217 kilometers (135 miles) with start in Saint-Flour and finish in Albi, France, Monday, July 15, 2019. (AP Photo/ Thibault Camus)

Thomas blowing in the wind at Tour de France

by Samuel Petrequin The Associated Press, and John Leicester The Associated PressJuly 15, 2019

Slovakia's Peter Sagan is seen prior to a training session, in Brussels, Friday, July 5, 2019, ahead of upcoming Saturday's start of the race. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Cycling’s new generation ready to deliver at Tour de France

by Samuel Petrequin AP Sports WriterJuly 5, 2019

People pray as Notre Dame cathedral is burning in Paris, Monday, April 15, 2019. A catastrophic fire engulfed the upper reaches of Paris' soaring Notre Dame Cathedral as it was undergoing renovations Monday, threatening one of the greatest architectural treasures of the Western world as tourists and Parisians looked on aghast from the streets below. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

Notre Dame Cathedral burns

by Lori Hinnant Associated Press, Samuel Petrequin Associated Press, and Elaine Ganley Associated PressApril 15, 2019

Demonstrators wearing yellow vests walk past by the Pyramid of the Louvre Museum in Paris Saturday, Dec. 22, 2018. A few hundred protesters cordoned by the police did walk across Paris toward the Madeleine Church near the Elysee Palace but were stopped by police in a small adjacent street as some shop owners closed down early. Tempers frayed and police fired tear gas to repel protesters trying to break through the police line. (AP Photo/Kamil Zihnioglu)

Paris Protests Begin to Fade

by Samuel Petrequin Associated PressDecember 22, 2018

A demonstrators wearing a yellow vest clenches his fist as protesters open the toll gates on a motorway near Aix-en-Provence, southeastern France, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2018. French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe announced a suspension of fuel tax hikes Tuesday, a major U-turn in an effort to appease a protest movement that has radicalized and plunged Paris into chaos last weekend. (AP Photo/Claude Paris)

French Prime Minister Suspends Fuel Tax Hike; Protesters Vow to Fight On

by Samuel Petrequin Associated PressDecember 4, 2018