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Pyrenees the stage for the next generation

May 8, 2024
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Slighter & lighter: How Flanders is won

April 23, 2024
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Has road racing got a speed problem?

April 8, 2024
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The best hour of the road racing season?

March 12, 2024
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Video killed the radio stars…

March 3, 2024
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Tom Portsmouth: Brexit puts a brake on young Brits looking to Europe

February 6, 2024
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Pyrenees the stage for the next generation

by Peter Cossins May 8, 2024
by Peter Cossins

Despite their undisputed place as one of the iconic locations in bike racing, and particularly the Tour de France, the French Pyrenees…

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Slighter & lighter: How Flanders is won

by La Course En Tête April 23, 2024
by La Course En Tête

The Tour of Flanders has witnessed fluctuations in its length over the years. While the average distance stands at 253.67km…

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Has road racing got a speed problem?

by Peter Cossins April 8, 2024
by Peter Cossins

When the 2019 Tour de France passed through our village, my mum and my two kids walked down to the main road to watch the race go past…

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The best hour of the road racing season?

by Peter Cossins March 12, 2024
by Peter Cossins

The concurrent running of Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico is among the many quirks of the international cycling calendar…

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Video killed the radio stars…

by Peter Cossins March 3, 2024
by Peter Cossins

In the aftermath of Tadej Pogačar’s decimation of his competition at Strade Bianche, I ended up in some social media back and forth…

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Tom Portsmouth: Brexit puts a brake on young Brits looking to Europe

by La Course En Tête February 6, 2024
by La Course En Tête

Brexit may be “done”, but it has yet to be ironed out. Many of the glitches continue to impact Generation ‘Z’, who seem to have suffered…

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10 of the best days at the Tour of Britain

by Peter Cossins January 25, 2024
by Peter Cossins

I will start by saying that this is very much a personal list. Since the Tour of Britain returned to the international calendar five years on from the final edition…

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Isaac del Toro and Mexican cycling’s emergence from the doldrums

by Peter Cossins January 17, 2024
by Peter Cossins

Exactly thirty years ago this Friday, I spent a good part of my thirtieth birthday sitting in the lobby of a Mexican hotel waiting to interview Greg LeMond…

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Does anyone really care who Cian Uijtdebroeks rides for?

by Peter Cossins December 11, 2023
by Peter Cossins

Like London buses, shock transfers are appearing in numbers. Even while we’re still getting accustomed to the prospect of seeing Primož Roglič…

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Miscellaneous

A fantastic experience and a memory to keep forever

by Peter Cossins December 6, 2023
by Peter Cossins

My good friend Clive died on Monday. Although he’d been ill for many years, his death came unexpectedly and suddenly…

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Ineos: “AJ August is here because he ticks a lot of boxes”

by Peter Cossins November 27, 2023
by Peter Cossins

Change is in the air amidst the Ineos Grenadiers. Most of it has been planned, although the sudden and very unexpected departure…

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On Sylvan Adams, Israel-PremierTech and Palestinian cycling

by Peter Cossins November 20, 2023
by Peter Cossins

The most recent podcast from the RadioCycling team featured an interview with Israel-PremierTech boss Sylvan Adams. In normal times…

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