Tour de France

Understandably, much of the general classification talk at the Tour de France has been about compatriots Primož Roglič and Tadej Pogačar. The Slovenian duo…

It was the end of the 2015 Tour de France and Richie Porte was at a Team Sky afterparty in Paris. Hours earlier, Sky…

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.…

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…

As Shakespeare wrote, there are those who are born great, those who become great, and those who have greatness thrust upon them. Thirty years…

A day is a long time at the Tour de France but cast your mind back, if you can, to the distant plains of…

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…

I’ve been covering WorldTour cycling for 10 years – about as long as a pure sprinter last won the green jersey – and there…

Hard as nails. That’s what they say about pro cyclists and in general, it’s true. So woe betide those prone to displays of weakness.…

Don’t try this at home kids. If you wanted a crazy idea for a bike race, you could do worse than take a bunch…

If you’d asked a hard-core French cycling fan or specialist media person what they would be happy with from the home riders after the…

Just when you thought that you knew what was coming, the Tour de France has this unnerving habit of surprising us. After a string…

We’ve waited long enough for this year’s Tour de France, so maybe we can wait a few more days for some genuine fireworks. It’s…

Let’s scroll back the best part of three weeks to the Critérium du Dauphiné, to the end of the third stage up to Saint-Martin-de-Belleville. UAE’s…

Race analysis by Nick Bull Nineteen days. Just nineteen days. That’s how recently Egan Bernal and Team INEOS shed what was left from the…

There was a summary about stage four of the Tour de France that struck me almost as much as Primoz Roglic’s ability to speak…

Race analysis by Nick Bull Observing that Caleb Ewan won stage three of this year’s Tour de France by three-quarters of a bike length…

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…

UCI president David Lappartient may, in the immortal words of Hot Chocolate’s Errol Brown and Tony Wilson, “believe in miracles”, or so he told…

The opening weekend of the Tour de France was befitting of 2020, chaotic, unpredictable and stress inducing — for both the fans and the…