William Fotheringham

Only 48 hours after the Vuelta finished in Madrid, La Course En Tête is proud to present its “pop-up” paperback book taking a look back at …

Earlier this year, the British magazine procycling discussed the idea that time trials might have little future in stage racing, given the constant…

Another Grand Tour, another time trial showdown, another unexpected and youthful winner. It sounds as if there’s a pattern developing in the world…

There are various ways of assessing the toughness of a massive Alpine climb like the Stelvio pass, but the race cape test is as …

Professional cycling has been skating on thin ice since its return in August. The metaphorical floe has grown more fragile week by week through…

The rejigged and immensely uncertain intra-pandemic cycling season can now be said to have taken some shape, in the same way that a kaleidoscope …

Words by William Fotheringham | Photo by SWpix.com / Cor Vos It’s been a few years since I went hunting badgers in the Ardennes. …

Words by William Fotheringham | Photos by SWpix.com Holland’s women are one of the best teams cycling has ever seen, national or trade.  You …

Words by William Fotheringham | Photos by SWpix.com / A.S.O. The French like to use a Franglais term, le hold-up, to describe a scenario where …

Words by William Fotheringham | Photo by SWpix.com Picking up the phone to Bahrain-Maclaren head Rod Ellingworth on Friday morning, with one rolling stage …

It wasn’t the way anyone would have wanted Romain Bardet’s Tour de France to end. A crash 90 kilometres from the finish of stage …

As Shakespeare wrote, there are those who are born great, those who become great, and those who have greatness thrust upon them. Thirty years …

Don’t try this at home kids. If you wanted a crazy idea for a bike race, you could do worse than take a bunch …

If you’d asked a hard-core French cycling fan or specialist media person what they would be happy with from the home riders after the …

There aren’t many hotels in the town of Gap, but it’s a regular stop off on the Tour de France route. Which is why …

Stage 2 – August 30Nice-Nice, 186km The toughest opening weekend stage since 1979 should see a selection of maybe 40-50 riders. The first cat …

On the eve of what promises to be an exciting, uncertain Tour de France 2020, we’ve put our necks on the block and made …

“If a misanthropic scientist set out to design the perfect hothouse for infectious disease, he could do a good deal worse than the Tour …

If you had to conjure up a single image of the first, pre-Tour de France phase of the 2020 relaunched condensed mid-Covid-19 season, it …

As it often does, the recent announcement of the route for La Course by Le Tour de France led to debate. Is the 96-kilometre …