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Annemiek van Vleuten wins Voxy Award 2017

Annemiek van Vleuten wins Voxy Award 2017

Having been on winning form from January through to September, world time trial champion Annemiek van Vleuten has had a remarkable season

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The Link: Cyclo-cross à Melun, 1924

The Link: Cyclo-cross à Melun, 1924

Early cyclo-cross: winter training for roadies or preparation for war?

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Gallery: Six Day London by Benedict Campbell

Gallery: Six Day London by Benedict Campbell

Cavendish rocks London: action from Lee Valley Velopark

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Anti-Social Media: Twitter addiction and high anxiety in the peloton

Anti-Social Media: Twitter addiction and high anxiety in the peloton

A useful promotional tool when you get it right; a world of bickering and insults when it goes wrong. Pro riders share their experiences from...

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Larry Warbasse blog: The lows and highs of La Vuelta

Larry Warbasse blog: The lows and highs of La Vuelta

It was the race he and his team, AquaBlue Sport, had been building up to all season, but in the Vuelta’s first week, it all...

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Matt Rendell: Cycling and the age of post-truth

Matt Rendell: Cycling and the age of post-truth

With the arrival of Trump, the world seems to have woken to an age of disinformation. Unfortunately in cycling, as Matt Rendell reminds us, post-truth is nothing new

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Brief encounters: short Tour de France road stages

Brief encounters: short Tour de France road stages

Short Tour de France stages are not an especially new phenomenon. They’re more an eighties revival thing

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Bike change: Tom Pidcock returns to cyclo-cross

Bike change: Tom Pidcock returns to cyclo-cross

Having moved up a category, the junior world champion took two top-ten placings on the opening weekend of his cyclo-cross season. Tom Pidcock reflects on struggling in...

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Bright futures: guiding Britain’s cyclo-cross talent

Bright futures: guiding Britain’s cyclo-cross talent

Former professional cyclo-cross rider Matt Ellis was recently appointed manager of the British cyclo-cross squad. How bright is the future, Matt?

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How X-Bionic are reinventing team kit

How X-Bionic are reinventing team kit

Seamless with sewn-in logos, Gazprom-Rusvelo’s is a team kit with properties like no other. Morten Okbo finds an Italian factory where technology trumps tradition

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Race Preview: Il Lombardia

Race Preview: Il Lombardia

The final Monument of the season, and for many the most beautiful, Il Lombardia offers the climbers one last chance for redemption

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Farewell to Backstage Pass

Farewell to Backstage Pass

In praise of Backstage Pass, Orica-Scott’s behind-the-scenes documentary series that changed the game in professional cycling

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Alberto Contador: a champion for modern times

Alberto Contador: a champion for modern times

In his racing style, personality and even his ban, there was a solidity to Alberto Contador that places him amongst cycling’s greats

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Suffer-age: elite women who’ve improved with age

Suffer-age: elite women who’ve improved with age

From Beryl Burton in the sixties through to Amber Neben today, anecdotal evidence of women cyclists excelling later in their careers is plentiful

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Shoe gazing: George Bennett and his hand-painted kicks

Shoe gazing: George Bennett and his hand-painted kicks

George Bennett’s profile rose in 2017 thanks to both his results and the hand-painted shoes he wore during the Tour de France

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Where to start? The 2018 Giro d’Italia and the Israeli dilemma

Where to start? The 2018 Giro d’Italia and the Israeli dilemma

The Giro’s Grande Partenza in Israel will sure look nice, but what about the ethics of its visit? Richard Abraham mulls it over

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Richie Porte: On Froome and snakes in the grass

Richie Porte: On Froome and snakes in the grass

At home with BMC’s crocked captain, talking Froome, venomous snakes and the Dauphiné betrayal that affected their friendship

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Comment: Processional final Grand Tour stages rock – leave well alone

Comment: Processional final Grand Tour stages rock – leave well alone

Photo ops, champagne, tootling into town, then a big sprint at the end. It’s a winning formula that needs no alteration

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Norway ’93: Lance Armstrong’s Worlds win revisited

Norway ’93: Lance Armstrong’s Worlds win revisited

Twenty-six years ago a brash Texan asserted himself as the new star of the English speaking cycling world. William Fotheringham was there

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Worlds 1927: Alfredo Binda, Nürburgring and the first rainbow jersey

Worlds 1927: Alfredo Binda, Nürburgring and the first rainbow jersey

In an extract from his new book on the Worlds, Giles Belbin recalls the first championship opened to professionals

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In pictures: week three at the Vuelta a España

In pictures: week three at the Vuelta a España

With the 2017 Vuelta a España done and dusted, we take a look back at the movers and shakers of the final week

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The Link: Ivan Basso’s off-road excursion

The Link: Ivan Basso’s off-road excursion

The Tour de France and protests go hand in hand. But why are they protesting? And why is Basso studiously ignoring them?

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Caleb Ewan on the art of sprinting

Caleb Ewan on the art of sprinting

The fast-finishing Giro, Vuelta and Tour of Britain stage winner talks us through the finer details of his craft

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In pictures: week two at the Vuelta a España

In pictures: week two at the Vuelta a España

As Chris Froome retained his grip on the overall, we look back at a second week in the Vuelta where some less familiar names also came to the...

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Zen and the art of the cycling columnist

Zen and the art of the cycling columnist

Matt Seaton meditates on technology, art and who -or what- might be writing his regular Rouleur column in the future

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Grass Track: Victoria Pendleton’s racing roots

Grass Track: Victoria Pendleton’s racing roots

The peculiarly British discipline of grass track racing predates the velodrome version. Mildenhall in Suffolk hosts one of the finest grassroots meetings 

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In pictures: week one at the Vuelta a España

In pictures: week one at the Vuelta a España

With the first rest day of the Vuelta now ticked off, we take a pictorial look back at what has been a lively opening week

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Romain Bardet: Off the Wall

Romain Bardet: Off the Wall

“Don’t take it too seriously, it’s only sport.” Karaoke choices, drinks with Wiggins and apologies to maths teachers. Ag2r-La Mondiale’s dynamic team leader goes deep

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Tour de Pologne in pictures

Tour de Pologne in pictures

Sagan shines, the sun shines, and men in Speedos who really should know better: Poland through Laura’s lens

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Broken bones, healing hands: fixing the pro peloton in Herentals

Broken bones, healing hands: fixing the pro peloton in Herentals

For years, Rouleur received press releases detailing the upcoming surgery appointments of the peloton in the small town of Herentals, Belgium. Eventually, we sent Olivier Nilsson-Julien...

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