My intention this morning had been to watch the Muscat Classic where Mark Cavendish was making his debut for Astana-Qazaqstan. However…
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When does your road cycling season start? Much as I like the idea of the Tour Down Under and the Vuelta a San Juan, I’m firmly in the camp…
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A few days back I wrote about one of the stories that had held my attention over the off-season. Now I’m looking at another, Astana’s sacking of Miguel Ángel López…
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Among the stories that I’ve been enthralled by over recent months has been the apparent rise and the then very evident collapse of the B&B Hotels team…
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I’m not quite sure how I’ve managed to get almost 30 years into a career as a cycling journalist and writer and yet…
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The opening four days of the Giro d’Italia have underlined that every Grand Tour is a long slog…
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One of the narratives of the Classics season has been the failure of the Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl to compete for the titles that have long been their hallmark as a team…
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Sat having breakfast in the dining room of my hotel prior to the start of the third stage of the Tour of the Basque Country…
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My day started with my mum in tears, initially because she was pleased that I’d remembered to call her on Mother’s Day…
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Due to work commitments at Paris-Nice, I missed out on Tadej Pogačar’s latest extraordinary feats at Strade Bianche and Tirreno-Adriatico…
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While politics should have no place in sport, the terrifying, bloody and criminal Russian invasion of Ukraine underlines that they’re fundamentally inseparable…
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The second stage of the Étoile de Bessèges seemed pretty unremarkable…
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This is an extract from a book that a friend of mine was writing about his cycling experiences, tales of which always had me in fits of laughter…
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It’s been some weeks now since I’ve had the time to write something for La Course en Tête, my absence largely down to the fact that…
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This is an extract from a book that a friend of mine was writing about his cycling experiences, tales of which always had me in fits of laughter…
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Tuning in to watch Alex Dowsett’s Hour Record attempt last night was the opposite of déjà vu…
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So there we have it, the first edition of the Paris-Roubaix weekend…
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Unless Enric Mas can channel the spirit, verve and finishing power of his Movistar teammate and four-time Liège-Bastogne-Liège winner Alejandro Valverde…
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Before looking ahead, just a quick look back on Friday’s Vuelta stage into Villanueva de la Serena…
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The good, the bad and the ugly has become a cliché as a review of sporting contests. For once, though, this analysis is entirely appropriate…