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UCI president David Lappartient may, in the immortal words of Hot Chocolate’s Errol Brown and Tony Wilson, “believe in miracles”, or so he told…

Days out from the 107th Tour de France I’m starting to really wonder if staging the race in its entirety, amid a pandemic is…

As ever in the final countdown to the Tour de France’s Grand Départ, there is a huge amount of conjecture about rider selections for…

The joy of a cycling season in full swing with thrilling, dramatic racing, has been tempered in recent weeks by a series of crashes…

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…

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…

Racing in France is set to get back under way with the Route d’Occitanie, where one of the main topics of interest will be…

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…

Professional sport has been trickling back into our lives since it came to a crashing halt in March. It will be a long time…

The news wasn’t unexpected, but it was still striking to see it confirmed in black and white. After years in familiar colours, the biggest…

On the last day of the Vuelta a España last year, Primoz Roglic told a Dutch journalist that his big goal of 2019 had…

A couple of weeks ago, I rode up Prat d’Albis, the Pyrenean climb just outside Foix where Simon Yates took the second of his…

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…

As the explosion of awareness of the Black Lives Matter movement continues to ripple through our society, professional cycling has remained cosseted in a…

I tip my hat to the cycling media who have come up with all kinds of ways to provide us with a racing fix…

Since professional cycling ground to a halt in March due to fears around the spread of coronavirus, the powers that be in the sport…

The absence of the Giro d’Italia encourages one to look back over Mays past to fill the void, and few editions draw the eye…

When the news broke that Chris Froome could leave Ineos mid-season and race the Tour de France this August with another squad, on paper…

The question will hang over the sport of cycling for the next couple of months. Will there be a Tour de France, or will…

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…