Prior to the start of the Tour’s third stage between Lorient and Pontivy, Deceuninck-QuickStep lead-out man Michael Mørkøv, who’s recognised…
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First the tribute kit, now the symbolic victory. The first two stages of Mathieu van der Poel’s Tour de France career have provided…
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The Tour is a risky business in 2021, but unfortunately that’s history repeating itself
The refrain is one I have heard every July since I first worked on the Tour de France back in 1990. The Tour, it’s always said, is getting more dangerous every year…
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It’s that time of year again, when we rush headlong from the Giro d’Italia to the Tour de France via a dizzying whirl of minor stage races…
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On September 8 last year, there was a bombshell at the Tour de France. The race director, Christian Prudhomme, tested positive for the Covid-19 virus…
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Words by William Fotheringham | Photo by SWpix.com / Cor Vos It’s been a few years since I went hunting badgers in the Ardennes.…
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Massive thanks to SWpix.com for supplying the images of the Tour de France that you see on our website. This selection is by Alex…
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Race analysis by Nick Bull | Photos by SWpix.com / A.S.O. So, congratulations then, Primož Roglič. Tour winner. Tour de l’Ain, that is. For…
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Words by William Fotheringham | Photos by SWpix.com / A.S.O. The French like to use a Franglais term, le hold-up, to describe a scenario where…
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End of an era? New kings emerge from the Tour of change
by Sophie Smithby Sophie SmithWords by Sophie Smith | Photo by SWpix.com / A.S.O./Alex Broadway Primoz Roglic and his Jumbo-Visma team had all but won the 107th edition…
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Words by William Fotheringham | Photo by SWpix.com Picking up the phone to Bahrain-Maclaren head Rod Ellingworth on Friday morning, with one rolling stage…
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The Tour de France physically ages you and at this point of the race Paris starts to resemble not the city of love, accomplishment…
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As a journalist and as a bike fan, I’ve found it hard to appreciate Primož Roglič. The Slovenian is completely devoid of expression when…
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Understandably, much of the general classification talk at the Tour de France has been about compatriots Primož Roglič and Tadej Pogačar. The Slovenian duo…
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It was the end of the 2015 Tour de France and Richie Porte was at a Team Sky afterparty in Paris. Hours earlier, Sky…
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Ineos Grenadiers and their all-stars have been blown away, so what next for Egan Bernal and his team mates?
In hindsight, the writing was on the wall a month ago when Egan Bernal’s back first started plaguing him, at the Criterium du Dauphine.…
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It wasn’t the way anyone would have wanted Romain Bardet’s Tour de France to end. A crash 90 kilometres from the finish of stage…
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François Lemarchand: from a little town in Normandy to the No1 car at the Tour
As Shakespeare wrote, there are those who are born great, those who become great, and those who have greatness thrust upon them. Thirty years…
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A day is a long time at the Tour de France but cast your mind back, if you can, to the distant plains of…
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Where were you on the day that the Tour de France director tested positive? I think I’ve got to type that again just to…