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Ned Boulting: Ten years since I won the yellow jumper

Ned Boulting: Ten years since I won the yellow jumper

A decade since he wrote his first book, How I Won The Yellow Jumper: Dispatches From The Tour De France, Rouleur columnist Ned Boulting has...

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Rouleur predicts… Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2020

Rouleur predicts… Omloop Het Nieuwsblad 2020

  And they’re off. The pre-season friendlies done and dusted, the real season begins on Saturday at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. But who fancies it, who...

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The Road Book 2019: Ned Boulting’s review of the year, part two

The Road Book 2019: Ned Boulting’s review of the year, part two

From Štybar picking GVA’s pocket at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad to two of the greatest races we’ve ever seen in Amstel Gold, Ned Boulting with the...

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The Road Book 2019: Ned Boulting’s review of the year, part one

The Road Book 2019: Ned Boulting’s review of the year, part one

As the off-season clouds part and we look towards the early races of 2020, Ned Boulting reminds us how the first part of the 2019...

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Rouleur podcast: Matt Stephens, Ned Boulting, Lisa Brambani and Mandy Jones

Rouleur podcast: Matt Stephens, Ned Boulting, Lisa Brambani and Mandy Jones

Matt Stephens treasures his national champion’s jersey and his memories; Lisa Brambani has mislaid two of her four; while Mandy Jones goes one better –...

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Ned Boulting: Italy, a land of ghosts

Ned Boulting: Italy, a land of ghosts

Italy used to produce Grand Tour winners as prolifically as pasta. Recently they have become a rarity, with sprinters the new normal. Ned Boulting on the ghosts...

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Cillian Kelly: You don’t watch anything with kids

Cillian Kelly: You don’t watch anything with kids

How has Chris Froome managed to win two Tours de France since having kids? Cycling stats supremo Cillian Kelly can barely snatch twenty minutes of...

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What’s in the next issue? Rouleur issue 19.1 with Dan Martin

What’s in the next issue? Rouleur issue 19.1 with Dan Martin

Plus Notes on Belgium, Sep Vanmarcke, Romain Bardet, Ned Boulting, Philippa York, Ag2r at altitude, Alex Dowsett, pre-Roubaix cobbled chaos and more

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The Road Book: Ned Boulting’s 2018 season in review

The Road Book: Ned Boulting’s 2018 season in review

Ned Boulting and Cillian Kelly have teamed up to create The Road Book, a cycling almanack that provides an account of the 2018 season through...

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Race preview: The Tour de Ned

Race preview: The Tour de Ned

After commentating on the Tour de France and La Vuelta for ITV, in two weeks time Ned Boulting heads out on the road for another...

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Tour de Ned: Boulting hits the road

Tour de Ned: Boulting hits the road

“There’s going to be in-depth analysis of how a team time trial, composed solely by the core members of the Wombles, might perform.” This, Boardman’s...

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Philippe Gilbert: Classics king and Flanders champion

Philippe Gilbert: Classics king and Flanders champion

“I was always dreaming of the Classics,”  Philippe Gilbert says of his boyhood self. Now the Quick Step man wins them instead. Ned meets him...

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Number Crunchers: Pro Cycling Stats

Number Crunchers: Pro Cycling Stats

“You must be some kind of nerd to visit out website”. We sincerely hope not, as PCS is the single most useful cycling database on...

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