Throwing no shade on Geraint Thomas and his bitter disappointment in the Giro d’Italia, but losing the leader’s jersey…
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They call them ‘gifts.’ The one-day races, the stage wins, the classification jerseys, handed on a plate to other riders…
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Patrick Lefevere may remain one of the most renowned and successful team managers in professional cycling, but outside the Belgian bubble…
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The morning after the afternoon before, the key players in Paris-Nice were taking stock of a week’s racing, from the French capital to the Côte d’Azur…
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“Well, Jumbo-Visma have some work to do,” they kept saying — as if it was any comfort — in the vehicles descending from the stage finish…
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It was one of those finishes where such a complete team performance merited hand holding, arms aloft, pats on the back…
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Pogačar blasts onto the scene as trains, planes and automobiles plan revives past exploits
Tadej Pogačar has already stunned the peloton with a jaw-dropping performance to win his debut race of the year…
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It’s getting harder than ever to repeat Grand Tour success. In the past five seasons of Grand Tour racing…
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Marc Madiot, manager of the Groupama-FDJ, became the latest team boss embroiled in an internal spat after star rider David Gaudu let slip some major indiscretions…
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Silver-haired, ashen faced, weather-beaten, and occasionally, after a few drinks, world-weary, I was once told I look a little like Patrick Lefevere…
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As the 2023 racing season gets under way, independent cycling media is under threat. The demise of longstanding publications…
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The 2022 Grande Partenza is done and dusted, the planes will soon be rising over the Adriatic and across the boot of Italy to Sicily…
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Ineos Grenadiers have established themselves as the cobbled kings of 2022 after taking a long-awaited success in this year’s Paris-Roubaix…
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When Gazzetta dello Sport, the venerated Italian sports daily, publishes a wild transfer rumour — and over the years, there have been a few — cycling usually laughs it off…
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Cycling’s pursuit of diversity is bringing out the most dogged and driven characteristics in riders, none more so than in Biniam Girmay’s momentous victory in Ghent-Wevelgem…
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The finale of the 2022 Milan-San Remo represented peak Slovenia, both on the way up and on the way down the famed and winding Poggio…
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It is said that in the fog of war, disorder rules the battlefield. And, while the Russian invasion of Ukraine becomes ever more horrific…
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The opening salvos of early season racing peak this Sunday with the first real summit finish of 2022, at the Montagne de Lure in Provence…
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As a long-standing cyclist whose first fifty miles, many years ago, were ridden in trainers, T-shirt and football shorts, I’ve never had much time for The Rules…
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A Tour de France Grand Depart taking in Scotland, Wales and England may sound hugely ambitious but…
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