Giro d’Italia

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…

I’m thinking of starting a new Twitter feed. It’s going to be called: @hastheGirogotboringyet?…

He may not be expected to win it, but Juan Pedro López’s journey in pink has been a compelling watch…

The first Grand Tour of the season holds great significance for every rider who competes but perhaps more so for Fernando Gaviria now…

The opening four days of the Giro d’Italia have underlined that every Grand Tour is a long slog…

The 2022 Grande Partenza is done and dusted, the planes will soon be rising over the Adriatic and across the boot of Italy to Sicily…

The 2021 Giro d’Italia told through Italian words of the day…

You could sum up the 2021 Giro d’Italia in various ways: I will point to two truly sublime episodes…

Between sundown on the penultimate stage at Alpe di Motta and sunup on the final day when the Giro reaches Milan…

“I’ve often felt that people have no regard for athletes’ mental health and this rings true whenever I see a press conference or partake in one….”

Cherie Pridham had to establish a website and task a friend to manage the interview requests that came through it such was the interest in her historic appointment…

It looked to be bludgeoning business as usual for the Ineos sledgehammer…

They say a week is a long time in politics. I’m not sure what that makes the 214 days that have passed since Team Sunweb’s Jai Hindley almost crashed near the top of the Stelvio…

If the number of stories that a stage serves up provides an indication of a stage’s quality, the Giro’s 205-kilometre run between Citadella and Monte Zoncolan was very good indeed…

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…

Taco van der Horn and Tim Merlier’s first stage wins. Victor Lafay’s first win as a professional cyclist. Andrea de Marchi’s first time in the pink…

The problem with golden ages is that we don’t tend know we’ve been in one until it’s gone…

Until about a decade or so ago, I used to drive a press car in the convoy during major races — that is in among the team cars, TV motorbikes…

As the 104th Giro d’Italia rolls on, deeper into its first week, it does so without a French rider expected to contend for a top three finish…

Packed crowds lining the roadside, a far from straightforward final kilometre, a frantic and chaotic sprint finish: ah, I’m so glad that it’s Giro d’Italia time again…