Despite their undisputed place as one of the iconic locations in bike racing, and particularly the Tour de France, the French Pyrenees…
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The Tour of Flanders has witnessed fluctuations in its length over the years. While the average distance stands at 253.67km…
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When the 2019 Tour de France passed through our village, my mum and my two kids walked down to the main road to watch …
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The concurrent running of Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico is among the many quirks of the international cycling calendar…
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In the aftermath of Tadej Pogačar’s decimation of his competition at Strade Bianche, I ended up in some social media back and forth…
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Tom Portsmouth: Brexit puts a brake on young Brits looking to Europe
Brexit may be “done”, but it has yet to be ironed out. Many of the glitches continue to impact Generation ‘Z’, who seem to …
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I will start by saying that this is very much a personal list. Since the Tour of Britain returned to the international calendar five …
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Exactly thirty years ago this Friday, I spent a good part of my thirtieth birthday sitting in the lobby of a Mexican hotel waiting …
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Like London buses, shock transfers are appearing in numbers. Even while we’re still getting accustomed to the prospect of seeing Primož Roglič…
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RadioCycling latest: One Cycling, Paris’s Olympic climb & split stages
Road racing may now have ceded centre stage to cyclo-cross, but there’s still plenty of major stories and issues for the RadioCycling team to …
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The opening days of this Tour de France were predicted, almost unanimously, to be the toughest in the race’s history. Saturday’s stage…
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This is the first time I’ve not worked on the Tour de France for a good few years, so long in fact that I …
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Hearing the news of Gino Mäder’s death, familiar thoughts filled my head, memories of past riders who have suffered the same awful fate…
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In the aftermath of the rebirth of the women’s Tour de France, enthusiasm for women’s cycling is on a high…
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The Philippines team born in Portugal and racing for experience in Uzbekistan
A few weeks back, a series of almost unheralded one-day races in Uzbekistan attracted wide attention when accusations…
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Ten years on from his career-defining win on Mont Ventoux during the 2013 Tour de France, Chris Froome returns to the ‘Giant of Provence’ …
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Throwing no shade on Geraint Thomas and his bitter disappointment in the Giro d’Italia, but losing the leader’s jersey…
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Sport can put the passage of days, hours, minutes and seconds into a different dimension. It feels like a lifetime since Remco Evenepoel…
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Back in 1997 I was lucky enough to get the chance to ride the Ras, the amateur Tour of Ireland, and I documented that …
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There’s been plenty of talk during this Giro d’Italia of the contest for the maglia rosa failing to spark into life until the last …