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Top Banana: Tour de France 2018 stage 9 – Oliver Naesen
Stage 9 brought us a second splendid serving of stones for 2018, though it could have also brought the house down on so many Tour...
Jonathan Edwards on jumping into cycling
More from our Tour de France 2018, 21 stages, 21 stories series: former triple jumper Jonathan Edwards hosts British Eurosport’s coverage at the Tour. The...
Why is there no black African rider in Dimension Data’s Tour team?
Dimension Data want an African Tour winner by 2020. We love their hope, but here’s why that looks unlikely
Jura Ace: Q&A with Alexis Vuillermoz
We talk economics, electric vehicles and Emmanuel Macron with the Ag2r-La Mondiale climber who won the Tour de France’s last visit to Mûr de Bretagne
Top Banana: Tour de France 2018 stage 5 – Toms Skujins
Trek-Segafredo’s potato-powered Latvian TT champion plays it smart in Brittany to land the polka dot jersey
Tour de France: Cadel and the Mûr de Bretagne
21 stages, 21 stories – It was on the slopes of the Mûr de Bretagne that Cadel Evans and his BMC team sowed the seeds of...
Charly Wegelius Tour blog: Craddock and his crash
EF Education First sports director Charly Wegelius gives us the inside story on Lawson Craddock’s spill on the opening stage of the 2018 Tour de...
Top Banana: Tour de France 2018 stage 3 – Tejay van Garderen
BMC take the team time trial, Van Avermaet in yellow, Porte gains some seconds – but Tejay is our man of the day
Highs and lows of the Tour de France team time trial
Life is very rarely linear – apart for those riding in a team time trial. Here – from Rouleur’s 21 stages, 21 stories series –...
Top Banana: Tour de France 2018 stage 2 – Lawson Craddock
They make ’em tough in Texas. No-one would have blamed Lawson Craddock for calling it a Tour after yesterday’s horror crash, but despite being bloody,...
Tour de France: Chapatte’s Law and the art of the breakaway
“The winner from the break is the rider who won’t bargain for anything less. Even with himself.” Matt Seaton goes up the road in search...
Top Banana: Tour de France 2018 stage 1 – Yoann Offredo
Christian Prudhomme waves his flag, lowers his body through the sunroof of the red lead car, and the Tour de... The post Top Banana: Tour...
Tour de France: the watery world of the 2018 Grand Départ
A sleepy island of 10,000 and a mesmerising marshy hinterland hosts the start of the 2018 Tour de France. Andy McGrath dips his toes in...
Inside Direct Energie’s Vendee manor house
Direct Energie do things differently, starting with their 19th century manor house cum service course in the Vendée, and extending to the team ethos: “It’s...
Inside line: a detailed look at the first stage of the 2018 Tour de France
Quirky churches, stunning coastline and a baguette vending machine: we drove the route of the opener between Noirmoutier and Fontenay-le-Comte, which should end up being...
Imagining another Grand Tour with Adam Hansen
After riding 20 Grand Tours on the trot, Adam Hansen is taking a bit of time off during the 2018 Tour de France. But what...
Cover stories: issue 18.4, Tour de France special, by Simon Gill
“Editing over a rehydrating beer after each stage, the rider numbers started to leap out as a graphic in their own right.” Simon Gill’s photo...
Tour de France 2018: 21 stages, 21 stories – Party on, Alpe d’Huez
Fever pitch: Euro disco, booze aplenty and helping hands on the legendary 21 hairpins
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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