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Marcel Kittel on the new generation of sprinters, mental health and the perfect sprint
Marcel Kittel talks on the importance of mental health in cycling, his perfect sprint and who he’s tipping to be the next sprinting star.
Marcel Kittel's Guide to Sprinting
With 14 Tour de France stages and almost 100 wins to his name, Kittel’s guide to being the best in the harum-scarum world of bunch...
Marcel Kittel: “The current anti-doping system is not working”
The German sprinter on clean sport, why anti-doping isn’t working and making sense of former room-mate Georg Preidler’s involvement in Operation Aderlass
The column: The riders retiring on their own terms
From Kittel to Phinney, Boswell to Blythe: more top pros than ever seem to be calling it a day in their prime years. What does...
Rouleur’s riders of the decade: Part II
As the decade draws to a close, Rouleur’s editorial staff have selected nine riders each as their stars of cycling since January 2010. Part II...
The column: Farewell Marcel
Marcel Kittel’s retirement was met with sadness in some quarters. We should instead be cheered, for he has finally felt able to shed an enormous...
Marcel Kittel, hair-raiser
From our 21 stages, 21 stories series: The harum-scarum life of a sprinter, staying cool in the Tour cauldron, and truth and reconciliation
Girona Gala for Qhubeka: Kittel, Hesjedal, Dennis and friends
For the third year, the Girona Gala proved to be a star-studded occasion and a terrific night for a great... The post Girona Gala for...
For the love of cycling: Q&A with Nathan Haas
Unionisation, love of the bike and Crema Catalana
Gallery: Tour de France stage 11 – Kittel takes five
A wing and a prayer: five stages for Kittel and three Hail Marys for any other sprinters hoping to land a win before Paris
Gallery: Tour de France stage 10 – Kittel’s quartet
Four stages wins and counting for the dominant sprinter of this Tour – Marcel Kittel
Gallery: Tour de France stage 7 – Kittel by a whisker
Just six millimetres separated Marcel Kittel from Edvard Boasson Hagen in Nuits-Saint-Georges, apparently. Wafer thin.
Gallery: Tour de France stage 2 – Standard Liège and Kittel’s Comeback
Teeming rain, the break caught within sight of the line and a sprinters’ battle royale: Düsseldorf to Liège had it all
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