Today’s crash-marred opening stage of the Tour de France needed some cool heads, as the peloton looked for a patron, to take a lead…
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Stage 2 – August 30Nice-Nice, 186km The toughest opening weekend stage since 1979 should see a selection of maybe 40-50 riders. The first cat…
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On the eve of what promises to be an exciting, uncertain Tour de France 2020, we’ve put our necks on the block and made…
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“If a misanthropic scientist set out to design the perfect hothouse for infectious disease, he could do a good deal worse than the Tour…
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Is pushing on with a three-week Tour de France in 2020 irresponsible?
by Sophie Smithby Sophie SmithDays out from the 107th Tour de France I’m starting to really wonder if staging the race in its entirety, amid a pandemic is…
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As ever in the final countdown to the Tour de France’s Grand Départ, there is a huge amount of conjecture about rider selections for…
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The Hotel Parc Beaumont in Pau is a regular billet for teams on the Tour de France. It’s modern, clean, central and close to…
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As it often does, the recent announcement of the route for La Course by Le Tour de France led to debate. Is the 96-kilometre…
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On the last day of the Vuelta a España last year, Primoz Roglic told a Dutch journalist that his big goal of 2019 had…
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It is 30 years since I first reported on the Tour de France. That’s quite a span of time so not surprisingly I feel…
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The question will hang over the sport of cycling for the next couple of months. Will there be a Tour de France, or will…
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It all happened so quickly. The first word of it reached the media late one evening, as we drove through the September sunset somewhere north…
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