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Why the Vuelta a España is the best Grand Tour

Why the Vuelta a España is the best Grand Tour

The Vuelta a España is treated as a poor cousin to the the other Grand Tours, shoved around the calendar and offered as a consolation...

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Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 14

Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 14

The Giro's second race of truth takes us to within a week of completing our second Grand Tour of 2020. We may yet not make it,...

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Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 13

Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 13

Flat, flat, flat, little lump, littler lump, flat. All in for Sagan? Almost...

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Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia, Stage 4

Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia, Stage 4

If in doubt, Sunweb? While the Rouleur team herd towards the thoroughbred sprinters, The Cycling Mole has his eye on another shiny stallion...

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Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 3

Rouleur predicts... Giro d'Italia 2020, Stage 3

Close but no cigar yesterday, as Miles and Cycling Mole's pick of Peter Sagan was pipped to the post and his first Giro stage win...

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Rouleur predicts... Liège-Bastogne-Liège Hommes

Rouleur predicts... Liège-Bastogne-Liège Hommes

A Monumental 40 consecutive days of WorldTour racing is barely beginning. Strap yourselves in as we attempt to pick the winner for every one of them...

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The Column: Actually, we do need to talk about doping

The Column: Actually, we do need to talk about doping

We need to talk about doping. Not particularly because Nairo Quintana’s room was raided at the Tour de France.Nor, particularly, because this week saw further...

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Mur de Huy: Theatre of Pain

Mur de Huy: Theatre of Pain

This article was originally published in Issue 60 of Rouleur. Download the app to read it in its entirety. Arthur Schopenhauer knew a thing or...

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Teniel Campbell: Trinidad's Trailblazer

Teniel Campbell: Trinidad's Trailblazer

Teniel Campbell hails from Trinidad, not the easiest place to become a pro cyclist. But this determined talent is on the edge of breaking big and...

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The Tour de France is 21 stages long: Tour de France 2020, Stages 20 & 21

The Tour de France is 21 stages long: Tour de France 2020, Stages 20 & 21

They said it couldn't happen, shouldn't happen and wouldn't happen. But the Tour de France is 21 stages long, and it did happen

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Comment: Grand Tours must ditch the ceremonial final stage

Comment: Grand Tours must ditch the ceremonial final stage

Ceremonial final stages of Grand Tours are a waste of everyone’s time. Let’s get rid of the procession and race them in anger once more

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Brothers in arms: Tour de France 2020, Stage 18

Brothers in arms: Tour de France 2020, Stage 18

Liberté, égalité and fraternité define the final day in the big mountains

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No time to take a breath, not much air to breathe: 2020 Tour de France, Stage 17

No time to take a breath, not much air to breathe: 2020 Tour de France, Stage 17

Do we have ourselves a podium? If we do, as it seems we may, its shaping came in a way that few could have predicted. ...

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Bernard Thévenet: The theory of relativity

Bernard Thévenet: The theory of relativity

The 1975 Tour winner on his favourite mountain, the mighty Izoard

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Low moments on high mountains: The Tour de France 2020, Stage 8

Low moments on high mountains: The Tour de France 2020, Stage 8

Not to make light of his plight, but “Thibaut Pinot looking forlorn in the company of team-mates (also looking forlorn)” really ought to be a...

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How I learned to love the Dauphiné

How I learned to love the Dauphiné

I was fast. Seriously fast. I had a yellow Peugeot jersey, black woolly shorts and perforated leather shoes.  Admittedly,... The post Paper Trail: Or How...

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Gallery: The Tour of Lombardy, Il Lombardia – the race of the falling leaves

Gallery: The Tour of Lombardy, Il Lombardia – the race of the falling leaves

From the 1950s to the present, the Tour of Lombardy has showcased some of the most spectacular scenery Italy has to offer. The racing’s not...

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Stars of the Future part V: Jess Pratt

Stars of the Future part V: Jess Pratt

More than just fast, fun can be life-changing too. The latest graduate of the Zwift academy, Jess Pratt, is going places

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Cover stories: Issue 20.5 by Sean Hardy

Cover stories: Issue 20.5 by Sean Hardy

This year’s Tour de France will be unlike any other. For our Tour special we needed a cover to match. Longtime Rouleur photographer Sean Hardy...

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Tourism de France

Tourism de France

In which our contributor explains why the Tour de France is not about a bike race and Jaws is not about a shark

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Chris Froome and the Seventh Circle

Chris Froome and the Seventh Circle

“Can we talk about the crash?” He doesn’t hesitate. “Sure.” He shows me some of his scars.

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Festina ’98: Into the Abyss

Festina ’98: Into the Abyss

This feature was originally published in Rouleur 18.5. Download the Rouleur app to read the whole issue. It’s twilight on... The post Festina ’98: Into...

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Stars of the Future part IV: Giulio Ciccone

Stars of the Future part IV: Giulio Ciccone

In 2019 Giulio Ciccone won the King of the Mountains at the Giro d’Italia and spent two stages in yellow at the Tour de France....

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The column: Anticipating racing’s return

The column: Anticipating racing’s return

As pro racing prepares to return to our screens, a few thoughts on what it will look like when it does

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Stars of the Future part II: Chloé Dygert

Stars of the Future part II: Chloé Dygert

With split screens showing riders in unbending aerodynamic positions and inexorably-shifting time differentials, time-trials are not often exhilarating viewing for... The post Stars of the...

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Stars of the Future part III: Liane Lippert

Stars of the Future part III: Liane Lippert

Sunweb's Liane Lippert is ready to take on the world's best

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Bigla-Katusha’s Leah Thomas: Caring for her community

Bigla-Katusha’s Leah Thomas: Caring for her community

After closing out the 2019 season with victory in the Chrono des Nations, Leah Bigla-Katusha’s Leah Thomas got off to the perfect start to 2020...

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Cover stories: Issue 20.3 by Grace Russell

Cover stories: Issue 20.3 by Grace Russell

A message of hope: Grace’s illustrated cover for our globe-trotting interview extravaganza. Rouleur 20.3 is coming soon

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The Home Life: Kasia Niewiadoma’s Zoom Q&A

The Home Life: Kasia Niewiadoma’s Zoom Q&A

Live from Girona, Canyon//SRAM’s captain on why baking is a lot like cycling, Adam Sandler films and finding peace in simplicity

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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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