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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 3

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 3

Sprint or break? Break or sprint? Could go either way with this stage, but Cycling Mole goes for a sprinter

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 2

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 2

Valverde, Martin, Sagan, Roche or Fraile are the Rouleur panel’s picks. But Cycling Mole says no – it’s Kwiatkowski for the win

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Why Giorgia Bronzini will make an inspirational sports director

Why Giorgia Bronzini will make an inspirational sports director

With over 80 victories to her name, Georgia Bronzini has decided to hang up her wheels and move behind the steering wheel

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Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 1

Top Mañana: Vuelta a España – stage 1

An eight kilometre prologue – it’s got to be Rohan Dennis, surely? Or has it? Our picks for the Vuelta opener

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Vuelta a España preview: the stages and contenders

Vuelta a España preview: the stages and contenders

For some it’s the season’s last chance saloon, for others it’s perfect ground for a Grand Tour debut. Whatever the motivation to ride La Vuelta...

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Inside Line: Three parties banking on a German cycling renaissance

Inside Line: Three parties banking on a German cycling renaissance

As the Deutschland Tour returns to the roads of southwest Germany this week, can the nation’s public re-embrace a sport that so badly burnt them?

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Paolo Bianchini: from champion cyclist to winning winemaker

Paolo Bianchini: from champion cyclist to winning winemaker

How turning down a pro cycling contract put Paolo Bianchini on the path to becoming one of Italy’s top winemakers with Ciacci Picclomini

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Adam Hansen – the man with a programme

Adam Hansen – the man with a programme

There’s more to this man than 20 consecutive Grand Tours, there’s two stage wins and he can fix your computer

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Pasta al denture: passed down dietary wisdom in cycling’s lower leagues

Pasta al denture: passed down dietary wisdom in cycling’s lower leagues

From spaghetti in a flask to an absolute ban on melted cheese, James Stout recalls the bizarre traditions and ill-founded nutritional knowledge handed down through...

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British Cycling: Manchester united?

British Cycling: Manchester united?

As BC’s new batch of hopefuls enters the medal factory in Manchester, we ask how the organisation sets them up for success

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Cover stories: issue 18.6 – Alejandro Valverde by Timm Kölln

Cover stories: issue 18.6 – Alejandro Valverde by Timm Kölln

“A photo shoot should never take more than five minutes, in contrast to the subsequent meal which may easily stretch to over three hours.” Timm...

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Flourish or flounder: Egan Bernal and other cycling prodigies

Flourish or flounder: Egan Bernal and other cycling prodigies

Despite a nasty crash recently, the future looks extremely bright for Sky’s super Tour domestique Egan Bernal. But beware, history has shown us that young...

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Rising star: junior Gent-Wevelgem winner Pfeiffer Georgi

Rising star: junior Gent-Wevelgem winner Pfeiffer Georgi

A look at the emerging British talent coming through the ranks. This month: 17 year old Pfeiffer Georgi – a rider raised on the Herne...

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Fantasy cycling: Team of the Tour 2018

Fantasy cycling: Team of the Tour 2018

If you were to pick the mother of all super-teams based on this year’s Tour de France, this one would be hard to beat

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Going downhill fast – Luke Evans’ Tour moto blog

Going downhill fast – Luke Evans’ Tour moto blog

The descent off the Aubisque was probably the fastest and most thrilling of the Tour. Photography motorbike pilot Luke Edwardes-Evans was right there in the...

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Tour de France 2018 – the Rouleur review

Tour de France 2018 – the Rouleur review

Who was the best team of this year’s Tour de France? What about the most unlucky? What was the biggest surprise? Rouleur contributors look back...

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Philippa York column: Remembering the day LeMond beat Fignon by 8 seconds

Philippa York column: Remembering the day LeMond beat Fignon by 8 seconds

Pippa was a firsthand witness to the greatest Tour finish in history. “The ride back to the hotel was an eerie affair, streets deserted, the...

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Super Banana: Tour de France overall – Dan Martin

Super Banana: Tour de France overall – Dan Martin

For sheer enjoyment of racing, entertainment value and landing a tasty little result en route, we salute the Irishman with a renewed love of the...

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Jacopo Guarnieri blog: bursting the bubble on the Tour’s final stage

Jacopo Guarnieri blog: bursting the bubble on the Tour’s final stage

“It’s a beautiful mess”: Groupama-FDJ’s lead-out man on what makes the Tour’s last stage so different and  returning to reality post-race

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 20 – Michael Hepburn

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 20 – Michael Hepburn

The big engines, those domestique bottle-carriers who suffer through the mountains of the Tour, are offered a ‘day off’ during a time-trial. But they don’t...

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What it’s like being in the time-trial hot seat

What it’s like being in the time-trial hot seat

Tour de France 2018 – 21 stages, 21 stories. We talk to time-trial hot seat regulars Alex Dowsett, Ryan Mullen and Jos Van Emden about...

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 19 – Robert Gesink

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 19 – Robert Gesink

LottoNL-Jumbo land their third Top Banana of this Tour. This time it’s lanky Dutchman Gesink taking the plaudits. And the fruit

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Tour de France stage 17: good, bad and ugly

Tour de France stage 17: good, bad and ugly

Fast and furious racing, beautiful scenery, Sagan crashing, and Froome and Thomas involved in dramatic incidents. We were on the Col de Portet taking it...

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 18 – Groupama-FDJ

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 18 – Groupama-FDJ

We were on the verge of having the first Tour de France since 1930 without a French team taking a stage. Groupama-FDJ won the day...

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Just keep going: inside the fight for Tour de France survival

Just keep going: inside the fight for Tour de France survival

Behind the battle for Tour de France victory, there’s a bunch of exhausted riders simply trying to survive. Geraint Thomas, Malcolm Elliott and Alex Stieda...

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Charly Wegelius’ Tour blog – Too much bread

Charly Wegelius’ Tour blog – Too much bread

For some riders, a Grand Tour can be a struggle to down enough calories. Not so for sports directors, like EF Education First’s Charly Wegelius, where long...

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 17 – Egan Bernal

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 17 – Egan Bernal

A good day for Colombia at the Tour de France. Nairo Quintana wins the stage and Egan Bernal takes the prize Sky are really concerned...

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Inside Line: Essential Tour preparation at Romain Bardet’s mile high training club

Inside Line: Essential Tour preparation at Romain Bardet’s mile high training club

Romain Bardet, Peter Sagan and Philippe Gilbert soak up the high altitude atmosphere of the Sierra Nevada in more ways than one

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Brief Encounters: the short stages of the Tour de France

Brief Encounters: the short stages of the Tour de France

Stage 17 of the 2018 Tour de France is a mere 65km. There have been shorter, including 1988’s dash to Pau of 38km. Four of the...

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 16 – Adam Yates

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 16 – Adam Yates

An untimely tumble put paid to Adam Yates’ hopes of a first Grand Tour stage win. In finding his feet again he came out every...

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