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Pyrenees the stage for the next generation

May 8, 2024
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Slighter & lighter: How Flanders is won

April 23, 2024
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Has road racing got a speed problem?

April 8, 2024
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The best hour of the road racing season?

March 12, 2024
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Video killed the radio stars…

March 3, 2024
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Tom Portsmouth: Brexit puts a brake on young Brits looking to Europe

February 6, 2024
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RadioCycling latest: One Cycling, Paris’s Olympic climb & split stages

by Peter Cossins November 2, 2023
by Peter Cossins

Road racing may now have ceded centre stage to cyclo-cross, but there’s still plenty of major stories and issues for the RadioCycling team to pick over…

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50 years on: The Tour’s greatest mountain stage

by Peter Cossins July 8, 2023
by Peter Cossins

In the days just prior to the Tour de France’s Grand Départ in the Basque Country, L’Équipe published its top 10 greatest mountain stages…

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Is Tadej Pogačar taking a leaf from Marco Pantani’s Tour playbook?

by La Course En Tête July 3, 2023
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The opening days of this Tour de France were predicted, almost unanimously, to be the toughest in the race’s history. Saturday’s stage…

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What kind of cycling news do we want?

by Peter Cossins June 30, 2023
by Peter Cossins

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…

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Remembering Gino Mäder

by Peter Cossins June 16, 2023
by Peter Cossins

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

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Tour des Pyrénées: keep the riders safe or reap the consequences

by Jeremy Whittle June 12, 2023
by Jeremy Whittle

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

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The Philippines team born in Portugal and racing for experience in Uzbekistan

by Peter Cossins June 9, 2023
by Peter Cossins

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

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Froome seeking closure as Ventoux looms large

by Jeremy Whittle June 7, 2023
by Jeremy Whittle

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’ …

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Remco becomes priority as Ineos fall short again

by Jeremy Whittle May 30, 2023
by Jeremy Whittle

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

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A race of constant activity and a climax to match

by William Fotheringham May 28, 2023
by William Fotheringham

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

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Round Ireland in the team car

by William Fotheringham May 26, 2023
by William Fotheringham

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…

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Viva Il Giro, the most democratic of Grand Tours

by Peter Cossins May 25, 2023
by Peter Cossins

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…

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