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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 20 – Romain Bardet

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 20 – Romain Bardet

Another podium place was a far lesser prize than Romain Bardet wanted from this year’s Tour, but for fighting right to the line, we award...

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The Miracle of Marseille: Fabio Roscioli’s fabulous breakaway at the 1993 Tour de France

The Miracle of Marseille: Fabio Roscioli’s fabulous breakaway at the 1993 Tour de France

The domestique who had his day: Roscioli remembers his remarkable 185-kilometre solo escape to victory on the longest stage of the 1993 Tour de France.

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 19 – Thomas De Gendt

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 19 – Thomas De Gendt

Three things are certain in life: death, taxes and a particular plucky Belgian rider in the breakaway. Thomas De Gendt, we salute you

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 18 – Darwin Atapuma

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 18 – Darwin Atapuma

Darwin Atapuma has now come second in stages at each of the three Grand Tours. For putting in one heck of a fight on the...

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Top Banana: La Course – Lizzie Deignan

Top Banana: La Course – Lizzie Deignan

Second place on the Izoard after many kilometres of domestique work: Deignan is the champion who can do it all

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 17 – Jarlinson Pantano

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 17 – Jarlinson Pantano

Hurting from a crash in the crosswinds, the Trek-Segafredo rider put in an incredible shift for captain Contador

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 16 – Simon Geschke

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 16 – Simon Geschke

Windy stages promise danger, present opportunities, and call for hard riding by the hardest of men. Sunweb, and Michael Matthews, must be glad they have...

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 15 – Michal Kwiatkowski

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 15 – Michal Kwiatkowski

The Polish domestique de luxe and his quick hands saved the day and the yellow jersey for Chris Froome

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Gallery: Tour de France stage 14 – Matthews masterclass, while Fabio flounders

Gallery: Tour de France stage 14 – Matthews masterclass, while Fabio flounders

The ramp to Rodez provided last-minute drama as the yellow jersey changes hands once again

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Tour de France: Caravan of Love part two

Tour de France: Caravan of Love part two

Will we go home with any freebies thrown out by the lovely people of the publicity caravan? Will our gyrating thespian Jonathan make it to...

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 14 – Warren Barguil

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 14 – Warren Barguil

Another fine day for Team Sunweb, but it was Warren Barguil’s fine teamwork that stole the show

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Tour de France: Robert Millar on form, feeling and the fundamentals of climbing

Tour de France: Robert Millar on form, feeling and the fundamentals of climbing

Robert Millar was the most successful British climber of his generation. Here, he shares the accumulated knowledge gleaned from a career spent up the road

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Top Banana: stage 13 – Alberto Contador

Top Banana: stage 13 – Alberto Contador

Rather than rolling back the years, Alberto Contador found a new way to race. He remains a rider of relevance, one who can still excite and...

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Coryn Rivera: Living the Dream

Coryn Rivera: Living the Dream

In her first full season, Coryn Rivera has made a real splash in the WomensTour. Still, with the World Championships on the horizon, she’s not...

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Top Banana: stage 12 – Steve Cummings and his one-man tribute

Top Banana: stage 12 – Steve Cummings and his one-man tribute

The British champion goes it alone over the Port de Balès in memory of Tom Simpson. We enjoyed it immensely

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Gallery: Tour de France stage 11 – Kittel takes five

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

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 11 – Maciej Bodnar

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 11 – Maciej Bodnar

Pole vaulted after a valiant effort: with more insipid tactics from everyone but Quick Step, breakaway hot rod Bodnar deserves all the kudos

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Nacer Bouhanni: A ‘Rough’ Guide

Nacer Bouhanni: A ‘Rough’ Guide

Fined and penalised for throwing a punch on stage 10. Wasn’t Sagan disqualified for a lesser infringement?

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Gallery: Tour de France stage 10 – Kittel’s quartet

Gallery: Tour de France stage 10 – Kittel’s quartet

Four stages wins and counting for the dominant sprinter of this Tour – Marcel Kittel

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 10 – Julien Vermote

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 10 – Julien Vermote

He’s done over 800 kilometres on the front of the Tour bunch already and has great hair. Here’s to Quick Step’s breakaway buster extraordinaire Julien...

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Tour de France: Caravan of Love

Tour de France: Caravan of Love

The Tour can wait. There’s a carnival procession to be witnessed and freebies to be had. We join the publicity caravan, Henri Desgrange’s 1930 marketing...

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Tour de France Week 1 – vital statistics, knowns and unknowns

Tour de France Week 1 – vital statistics, knowns and unknowns

Digging deeper to uncover the digits that other publications just can’t find: it’s the Tour de France Week 1 Alternative Facts

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Gallery: Tour de France stage 9 – disaster for Porte, brilliance from Uran

Gallery: Tour de France stage 9 – disaster for Porte, brilliance from Uran

Brilliance from Barguil, single-speed sprinting by Uran, sickening crash for Porte – stage 9 had everything and more

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 9 – Dan Martin

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 9 – Dan Martin

The Irishman has ridden a strong and smart first week at the Tour. Today’s crash was a setback, but he is still in contention

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 8 – Lilian Calmejane

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 8 – Lilian Calmejane

No competition today. The excellent Lilian Calmejane rode brilliantly in a stage of non-stop action and constant attacking

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Rouleur Cover Stories: issue 17.5 – Tom Simpson

Rouleur Cover Stories: issue 17.5 – Tom Simpson

A bon vivant who liked to drive fast and laugh hard, Simpson crammed many adventures and memorable moments into his 29 and a half years

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Gallery: Tour de France stage 7 – Kittel by a whisker

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.

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 7 – Reinardt Janse van Rensburg

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 7 – Reinardt Janse van Rensburg

With Cavendish out, Dimension Data should have been reduced to also-ran status in the sprints. Janse van Rensburg showed their train is still on the...

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Tour de France: Matt Seaton on hopes, dreams and breakaways

Tour de France: Matt Seaton on hopes, dreams and breakaways

The breakaway: natural home of cycling’s dreamers and romantics. Matt Seaton considers what it takes to succeed in the sport’s most kamikaze of spectacles.

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A letter from the Editor

A letter from the Editor

ITV4 has a new guest expert in the studio next week. Meet Philippa York

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