The good, in order of obvious goodness…
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A is for Age.
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Tour de France
The Tour is a risky business in 2021, but unfortunately that’s history repeating itself
The refrain is one I have heard every July since I first worked on the Tour de France back in 1990. The Tour, it’s always said, is getting more dangerous every year…
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It’s that time of year again, when we rush headlong from the Giro d’Italia to the Tour de France via a dizzying whirl of minor stage races…
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You could sum up the 2021 Giro d’Italia in various ways: I will point to two truly sublime episodes…
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On September 8 last year, there was a bombshell at the Tour de France. The race director, Christian Prudhomme, tested positive for the Covid-19 virus…
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It looked to be bludgeoning business as usual for the Ineos sledgehammer…
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Jai Hindley’s rainjacket in 2020, Remco Evenepoel’s ear-piece in 2021. The moment in the penultimate sector of sterrato on the road to Montalcino…
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We’ve had a short winter, in bike racing terms. It was October 25 2020 when the last Giro d’Italia closed with victory for Tao Geoghegan-Hart…
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Let’s get the bus joke out of the way now: you wait three years for a Mark Cavendish win, and then two come along at once…
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The 2021 cobbled Classics season ended not with bangs, clatters and a few curses, but with a whimper of frustration and the gentle pitter-patter of rain falling on northern France…
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Classics
There will be no Paris-Roubaix this spring, but there are other ways to steep yourself in the dust, mud and blood of the Hell of the North
Up to April Fool’s Day, Paris-Roubaix could reasonably be called Schrödinger’s Classic, after the famous quantum mechanics thought experiment. ..
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The daffodils are out, the cuckoos are on their way from Africa, its time for the first Monument of the season
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From a bike racing perspective, Covid-19 messed up the seasons good and proper in 2020, which meant that the first sighting…
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A new season, and it’s business as usual for Deceuninck-Quickstep…
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Anyone who raced in the mid-1990s would have smiled at the announcement from the UCI last week that they were going to ban…
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As the WorldTour men prepare to kick off their season in the GP La Marseillaise, the most obvious and biggest question for 2021 is…
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With relatively little fanfare, it was announced last week that there will be no junior races for either men or women at the upcoming cyclo-cross…
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Confession time. For a good deal of my cycling life, I was never that much into cyclo-cross…
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Back in April 2018, I was invited to a bit of a get-together in deepest Flanders to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Quickstep…