Racing

Directed by Joël Santoni, La Course en Tête was a 1974 documentary film that looked at the racing and private life of Eddy Merckx…

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…

Today is a story of answers. “This is one of the stages where we put a question mark,” Groupama-FDJ directeur sportif Sébastien Joly said…

And so another chapter in the colourful career of Julian Alaphilippe is written. Only two races into his reign as world champion….

The rejigged and immensely uncertain intra-pandemic cycling season can now be said to have taken some shape, in the same way that a kaleidoscope …

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…

There aren’t many hotels in the town of Gap, but it’s a regular stop off on the Tour de France route. Which is why…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

Change is never an easy prospect but shunning it can be equally as hard. In the slightly more eloquent words of Maya Angelou: “Stepping…

On a chilly February morning in Avignon’s Place d’Horloge, Nicolas Garcera, race director of the Mont Ventoux Denivele Challenge (or MVDC) is biding his…