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Top Banana: Tour de France 2018 stage 2 – Lawson Craddock

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,...

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Tour de France: Chapatte’s Law and the art of the breakaway

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...

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‘I am a machine, an escaped robot. I attack.’ – Anquetil Alone

‘I am a machine, an escaped robot. I attack.’ – Anquetil Alone

“I didn’t choose it; the bike chose me. I don’t love the bike, the bike loves me. It’s going to pay for it.” An extract...

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The trouble with room-mates: Jacopo Guarnieri blog

The trouble with room-mates: Jacopo Guarnieri blog

From music etiquette to toilet talk, Groupama-FDJ rider Jacopo Guarnieri uses his new Rouleur blog to assess the bedside manners of ten seasons worth of...

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Tour de France quiz: Win a Rouleur membership plus entry to this year’s Étape du Tour

Tour de France quiz: Win a Rouleur membership plus entry to this year’s Étape du Tour

Ten stages, ten stories. Test your knowledge with our Tour de France-inspired quiz and win yourself a Rouleur membership, plus entry to this year’s Étape...

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Can Adam Yates learn from his brother’s mistakes to beat Froome at the Tour?

Can Adam Yates learn from his brother’s mistakes to beat Froome at the Tour?

Simon Yates led the Giro d’Italia into its final week but came undone after a heavy assault by Chris Froome. What lessons can his brother...

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Tour de France 2018: 21 stages, 21 stories – Party on, Alpe d’Huez

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

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Doing the double: Miguel Indurain on Froome’s Giro-Tour ambitions

Doing the double: Miguel Indurain on Froome’s Giro-Tour ambitions

Miguel Indurain is one of the few riders to have won the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France in the same year. What advice does he have...

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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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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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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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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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Tour de France: final day time-trials and the legacy of Greg LeMond

Tour de France: final day time-trials and the legacy of Greg LeMond

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

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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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Tour de France: The Longest Day

Tour de France: The Longest Day

The Tour de France is the most brutal and unforgiving test of human endurance. But compared to the race’s earliest editions, today’s feats can look like child’s play.

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The Link: Armstrong strong-arms Simeoni

The Link: Armstrong strong-arms Simeoni

The 2004 Tour and a sorry tale of peloton politics and downright bullying

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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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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 5 – Stefan Küng

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 5 – Stefan Küng

While Porte was ponderous on La Planche des Belles Filles, here’s to the BMC youngster who kept the breakaway of Voeckler, Gilbert and company in check

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The Peter Saga: A Rough Guide to the Stage 4 ‘Incident’

The Peter Saga: A Rough Guide to the Stage 4 ‘Incident’

Peter Sagan: expelled from the Tour. Mark Cavendish: out with a broken shoulder. Arnaud Démare: in the green jersey. We try to make sense of...

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 4 – Guillaume Van Keirsbulck

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 4 – Guillaume Van Keirsbulck

Guillame Van Keirsbulck’s road to the Tour de France has been a long one. Now that he’s finally made it, he seems determined to enjoy every...

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Chute! A brief history of crash photography

Chute! A brief history of crash photography

Heavy rain and anxious riders made for a nervy beginning to this year’s Tour de France, with several big-name contenders hitting the deck. Duncan Forbes gives us...

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 3 – Juraj Sagan

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 3 – Juraj Sagan

So often overshadowed by his younger brother, or cropped out of shot altogether, Juraj Sagan deserves more than a little of the limelight for today’s...

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Tour de France: Florence and the Machine

Tour de France: Florence and the Machine

When the Tour de France inevitably begins to take its toll on the peloton, it is doctor Florence Pommerie who pieces it back together. The race doctor...

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Breaking away for good: saying goodbye to Thomas Voeckler

Breaking away for good: saying goodbye to Thomas Voeckler

Love him or hate him, Thomas Voeckler has been one of the most exciting riders of his generation. As his final Tour de France beckons,...

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A Million Things We Have Learned about the Tour de France

A Million Things We Have Learned about the Tour de France

There are a few Tour de France stats that everyone knows  – 198 riders, 12 million spectators – but what about the less well-known ones? We’ve dug around...

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Comment: for Froome the bell tolls?

Comment: for Froome the bell tolls?

With Cavendish ailing, Contador ageing and Froome in uncertain form, this year’s Tour de France could mark the end of a generation

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The Link: Philippe Tesnière’s race to the Bottom of the Tour de France

The Link: Philippe Tesnière’s race to the Bottom of the Tour de France

A Frenchman, an Austrian and their battle for lanterne rouge at the 1979 Tour

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