There are various ways of assessing the toughness of a massive Alpine climb like the Stelvio pass, but the race cape test is as …
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Professional cycling has been skating on thin ice since its return in August. The metaphorical floe has grown more fragile week by week through…
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Mark Cavendish’s teary contemplation about the end of his career after Gent Wevelgem on Sunday demonstrated how personal…
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Words by Peter Cossins | Photos by SWpix.com/Cor Vos “Pure sprinters are less and less welcome on the Grand Tours, that’s for certain.” Given…
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Words by William Fotheringham | Photo by SWpix.com / Cor Vos It’s been a few years since I went hunting badgers in the Ardennes.…
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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…
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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…
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End of an era? New kings emerge from the Tour of change
by Sophie Smithby Sophie SmithWords by Sophie Smith | Photo by SWpix.com / A.S.O./Alex Broadway Primoz Roglic and his Jumbo-Visma team had all but won the 107th edition…
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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…
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The Tour de France physically ages you and at this point of the race Paris starts to resemble not the city of love, accomplishment…
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As a journalist and as a bike fan, I’ve found it hard to appreciate Primož Roglič. The Slovenian is completely devoid of expression when…
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It was the end of the 2015 Tour de France and Richie Porte was at a Team Sky afterparty in Paris. Hours earlier, Sky…
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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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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…
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François Lemarchand: from a little town in Normandy to the No1 car at the Tour
As Shakespeare wrote, there are those who are born great, those who become great, and those who have greatness thrust upon them. Thirty years…
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A day is a long time at the Tour de France but cast your mind back, if you can, to the distant plains of…
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Where were you on the day that the Tour de France director tested positive? I think I’ve got to type that again just to…
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Bennett is in green, but the maillot vert is not a sprinters’ competition anymore
by Sophie Smithby Sophie SmithI’ve been covering WorldTour cycling for 10 years – about as long as a pure sprinter last won the green jersey – and there…
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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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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…