Racing

The opening days of this Tour de France were predicted, almost unanimously, to be the toughest in the race’s history. Saturday’s stage…

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 can’t actually remember…

Hearing the news of Gino Mäder’s death, familiar thoughts filled my head, memories of past riders who have suffered the same awful fate…

In the aftermath of the rebirth of the women’s Tour de France, enthusiasm for women’s cycling is on a high…

A few weeks back, a series of almost unheralded one-day races in Uzbekistan attracted wide attention when accusations…

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’ …

Throwing no shade on Geraint Thomas and his bitter disappointment in the Giro d’Italia, but losing the leader’s jersey…

Sport can put the passage of days, hours, minutes and seconds into a different dimension. It feels like a lifetime since Remco Evenepoel…

Back in 1997 I was lucky enough to get the chance to ride the Ras, the amateur Tour of Ireland, and I documented that experience…

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 few days…

The GC battle has been dull. I’ll call on Philippe Gilbert to provide supporting evidence for this verdict…

It’s now 28 years since the Vuelta a España changed from a mid-April to a late August start date. The switch was designed…

As the Giro d’Italia gets back under way today, erstwhile race leader Remco Evenepoel is under fire…

Milan-Sanremo isn’t a race that draws consensus. Glance down the list of starters and there may be two dozen names…

The morning after the afternoon before, the key players in Paris-Nice were taking stock of a week’s racing, from the French capital to the Côte d’Azur…

“Well, Jumbo-Visma have some work to do,” they kept saying — as if it was any comfort — in the vehicles descending from the stage finish…

Although the time trial purists were not wholly swayed by the new format for the team time trial at Paris-Nice today…

As was the case last year after he had blitzed his rivals up sharp incline into the small Creuse town of Dun-le-Palestel…

Sunday’s final stage of Paris-Nice will mark the 20th anniversary of the death of Andrei Kivilev at “the race to the sun”…

Matteo Jorgenson always comes into my mind when I’m riding up the pass towards the top of the Pyrenean valley where I live…