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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 15 – Lennard Kämna
Lennard Kämna: Sunweb’s Tour de France debutant riding Grand Tour winners off his wheel
Top Banana: Tour de France stage 14 – David Gaudu
Waiting for Gaudu? No longer. The young Breton seizes the day on the Tourmalet
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...
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
Top Banana: La Course by Le Tour 2019 – Amanda Spratt
So near, yet so far for the Mitchelton-Scott fighter who made the running
The column: How can the Dutch be stopped?
They’re Dutch, they win when they want. Annemiek van Vleuten, Anna van der Breggen and Marianne Vos are the dominant doyennes of women’s cycling. Can...
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...
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...
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
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
Cover Stories: issue 19.5 by Marco Ventura
“My father took me to see live Felice Gimondi’s arrival in Milan, when he won the 1976 Giro d’Italia. That was the first time I...
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
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
Top Banana: Tour de France stage 8 – Thomas De Gendt
Stage winner Tenacious Thomas takes Top Banana in shock result
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?
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...
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...
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...
The Knowledge: Marco Haller’s sporting life
Team Katusha Alpecin’s Marco Haller’s describes his lifelong sporting addictions and how following in his big brother’s footsteps made him a gooner
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...
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
Top Banana: Tour de France stage 2 – Tony Martin
Tony Martin was in the driving seat and a big part of another stunning win from Jumbo-Visma
Top Banana: Tour de France stage 1 – Greg Van Avermaet
Hey, hey, GvA, what the heck did you do today? Smart racing from the Olympic champion bags a jersey
The column: Who’s (not) going to the Tour?
A dearth of sprinters, but plenty other big names missing out as well. A look at who’s missing out on this year’s biggest bike race...
Agriculture Club: Tour de France field art
Where would the Tour de France be without les agriculteurs? Keeping TV audiences amused through tedious transition stages, a look at the field art competition
Red, White and Blue: Matt Stephens
“I never won a lot of big stuff, but to have that jersey hanging up in the wardrobe, and to be on that list of...
Red, White and Blue: John Herety
“The ‘us’ and ‘them’ mentality came from both sides, in all fairness. I don’t remember it getting too out of hand… until that championships.” Herety...
Red, White and Blue: Tim Harris
“All I concentrated on that year for the whole season was that one race. It gives you a lift for evermore.” 1989 British champion
Red, White and Blue: Philippa York
Pippa has a rummage around in the loft for her 1995 national champs jersey
The column: Let’s put national championships weekend back on the cycling map
National championships weekend is brilliant but doesn’t have the profile it deserves. It should be front and centre, not a footnote
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