It’s 2021….New Year, New You! Or at least that’s the message most sports and lifestyle magazines and websites will be selling to their audiences…
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Racing
A women’s Tour de France can’t come soon enough to shed cycling of its old-school stereotypes
There are times when it seems easier to get Mark Cavendish a new contract than to organise a women’s Grand Tour, but there have …
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A little over a week ago, the Education First team sent a letter to cycling’s governing body, the UCI, and to RCS, promoters of …
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Classics
Julian Alaphilippe’s tangle with a race motorbike made the headlines in a riveting Tour of Flanders, blessed with a nail-biting finale
“MOTORCYCLE!” bellowed the TV commentator in angry and accusatory tones, as slow motion replays captured Julian Alaphilippe…
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Is it possible to have too much bike racing and too much news, on a single day? If so, then Sunday, October 11, 2020, …
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Words by Jeremy Whittle | Photo by SWpix.com / Cor Vos Drama, ducks, dogs — and bad luck — dominated the polemica after the Giro d’Italia …
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CommentTour de France
Ineos Grenadiers and their all-stars have been blown away, so what next for Egan Bernal and his team mates?
In hindsight, the writing was on the wall a month ago when Egan Bernal’s back first started plaguing him, at the Criterium du Dauphine. …
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Hard as nails. That’s what they say about pro cyclists and in general, it’s true. So woe betide those prone to displays of weakness. …
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Tour de France
Is this year’s race turning into too much of a snooze fest, or is the best yet to come?
We’ve waited long enough for this year’s Tour de France, so maybe we can wait a few more days for some genuine fireworks. It’s …
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Today’s crash-marred opening stage of the Tour de France needed some cool heads, as the peloton looked for a patron, to take a lead …
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The Hotel Parc Beaumont in Pau is a regular billet for teams on the Tour de France. It’s modern, clean, central and close to …
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Jeremy Whittle looks at the unique circumstances that have combined to make his move elsewhere almost inevitable. It would have been hard to imagine Chris Froome …
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As the explosion of awareness of the Black Lives Matter movement continues to ripple through our society, professional cycling has remained cosseted in a …
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It all happened so quickly. The first word of it reached the media late one evening, as we drove through the September sunset somewhere north …
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On a chilly February morning in Avignon’s Place d’Horloge, Nicolas Garcera, race director of the Mont Ventoux Denivele Challenge (or MVDC) is biding his …
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