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2019 photographs of the year: Benedict Campbell

2019 photographs of the year: Benedict Campbell

Behind the scenes at Roubaix, Flanders and Le Tour

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2019 photographs of the year: Pauline Ballet

2019 photographs of the year: Pauline Ballet

Alaphilippe in yellow, Van Aert in bits and Le Tour in Paris

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The column: What next for Julian Alaphilippe?

The column: What next for Julian Alaphilippe?

Julian Alaphilippe demonstrated at the Tour de France that he is capable of more than anyone had previously thought possible. It may, however, have left...

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Ten minutes in Paris with George Bennett, Tour de France 2019 Supreme Banana

Ten minutes in Paris with George Bennett, Tour de France 2019 Supreme Banana

Few riders at the 2019 Tour de France were put through the ringer like Jumbo Visma’s George Bennett, and none was more deserving of our...

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The Tour de France is over. Now what?

The Tour de France is over. Now what?

Does the finish of the Tour de France really mark the end of the cycling season? Of course it doesn’t. Who, in fact, would even...

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Supreme Banana: Tour de France 2019 – George Bennett

Supreme Banana: Tour de France 2019 – George Bennett

No other rider had more Tour ups and downs than the charismatic New Zealander, who worked his socks off for Kruijswijk after midrace misfortune

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 20 – Laurens De Plus

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 20 – Laurens De Plus

Laurens De Plus is a mellow fellow in yellow who matched Team Ineos pound for pound and pulled off a podium place for his captain

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Top Banana: Tour de France – stage 19 – The snowplough driver

Top Banana: Tour de France – stage 19 – The snowplough driver

The Rouleur team tries its hand at this live-blogging thing. We’re at Brewdog Tower Hill, for Stage 19 of the Tour de France. Refresh for...

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 18 – Romain Bardet

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 18 – Romain Bardet

Bardet bounces back in the Alps, nabs a spotty jersey and lands a banana

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 17 – Kasper Asgreen

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 17 – Kasper Asgreen

Deceuninck’s Danish debutant has dazzled with his Tour de France workrate. At this rate of progression, he’ll be Kasper the friendly G.O.A.T

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 16 – Lotto Soudal

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 16 – Lotto Soudal

Mellow yellow: Lotto-Soudal go banana crazy en masse

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Collecting memories of the Tour de France

Collecting memories of the Tour de France

Deep in the Norfolk countryside, we find a treasure trove of Tour-related nicknacks and memorabilia, an understanding wife and a son named Henri Desgrange

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 15 – Lennard Kämna

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 15 – Lennard Kämna

Lennard Kämna: Sunweb’s Tour de France debutant riding Grand Tour winners off his wheel 

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 14 – David Gaudu

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 14 – David Gaudu

Waiting for Gaudu? No longer. The young Breton seizes the day on the Tourmalet

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Trash Talk: Tour de France and the environment

Trash Talk: Tour de France and the environment

ASO have been cleaning up their act when it comes to the environment at the races. How can they improve at the Tour de France...

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 13 – Enric Mas

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 13 – Enric Mas

Deceunink-Quick Step’s young Spaniard Enric Mas sneaks into the white jersey and gives Alaphilippe an ace card in the mountains

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 12 – Matteo Trentin

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 12 – Matteo Trentin

A top team performance on tough terrain helps Simon Yates to his first Tour de France win – and yet another top ten for Matteo...

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Mathew Hayman: A quick Tour de France Q&A

Mathew Hayman: A quick Tour de France Q&A

Mathew Hayman is enjoying his first Tour de France since retiring in January. The legendary Australian domestique – and Paris-Roubaix winner – shares his hottest...

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 11 – Emanuel Buchmann

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 11 – Emanuel Buchmann

King of invisibility, prince of stealth, Buchmann will ‘do a Zubeldia’ all the way to Paris

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 10 – Luke Rowe

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 10 – Luke Rowe

Welshman takes our French fancy and lands the fruit in crosswind chaos on the road to Albi

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Thomas De Gendt: Stage hunter

Thomas De Gendt: Stage hunter

Stage hunter par excellence, captain of the break and seldom far from the front of the race. There’s no-one quite like Thomas De Gendt

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 9 – Jasper Stuyven

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 9 – Jasper Stuyven

Sprinter, puncheur, breakaway artist, domestique – he was denied in Brioude, but the classy Jasper Stuyven is going to win a big race very soon

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 8 – Thomas De Gendt

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 8 – Thomas De Gendt

Stage winner Tenacious Thomas takes Top Banana in shock result

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 7 – Wout van Aert

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 7 – Wout van Aert

The Tour’s dazzling debutant has caught the eye throughout the first week. Why not a stage win for wondrous Wout?

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 6 – Geraint Thomas

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 6 – Geraint Thomas

They said he was playing second banana but his performance on La Planche proved Geraint Thomas is still top. In normal times it would be...

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The column: Tour de France so white

The column: Tour de France so white

The Tour de France makes a good show of presenting itself as diverse and inclusive, but when it comes to making meaningful progress is it...

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 5 – Tom Skujiņš

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 5 – Tom Skujiņš

You say potato, Tom Skujiņš says potatoes. For overcoming gastronomic adversity, getting himself out of the basement and giving it a go, Top Banana. The...

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 4 – Max Richeze

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 4 – Max Richeze

The things riders are forced to do for their teams, eh? For the lead-out and the Lidl, Deceuninck Quick Step’s Max Richeze is today’s Top...

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Yvette Horner: Dancing queen of the caravan

Yvette Horner: Dancing queen of the caravan

Yvette Horner, world accordion champion, with sales of over 30 million records, and friend to the peloton stars

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 3 – Michael Matthews

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 3 – Michael Matthews

A confidence boosting runner-up spot for the confused Australian. A stage win or two are on the cards for Matthews

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