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The Column: Chris Froome and the dream of Israel’s cycling team
Just over a year ago, in a bar in Jerusalem, Israel Start-Up Nation co-owner Sylvan Adams was holding court. Amongst a group of journalists and...
What does 2021 hold for Mark Cavendish?
We take a look at why Deceuninck-Quick Step have coaxed Cav into a second stint with the team, and what can be expected of the...
Flashback: Froome was overweight, in pain and thinking of quitting
There were mutterings of dissent and an audience unsympathetic to his plight. From inside the Sky camp at the Giro in 2018, Kenny Pryde reports...
Why are Deceuninck-Quick Step so dominant?
With the Deceuninck-Quick Step team launching their bid for 2021 at their training camp in Spain, we look at the reasons behind the team's historic dominance
Kasia Niewiadoma: Pole position
Feisty, fun and very fast, Katarzyna Niewiadoma takes her inspiration from Vincenzo Nibali at Sanremo: "He showed that if you attack, you just have to...
A Guide to the 2021 Women’s WorldTour Teams
With an exciting season of women’s racing ahead of us, we take a deep-dive into the character of the women’s WorldTour teams for the season...
The lady in yellow who rides at the front of the Tour de France
Claire Pedrono is the ardoisière at the Tour de France - the woman who relays time gaps to the riders on a blackboard. But with no...
Philippe Gilbert: The Road to Recovery, Dreaming of San Remo
Philippe Gilbert has spoken about his recovery from the second fractured patella of his career, while revealing his ambitions for the 2021 season
Cycling transfers 2021: the smartest moves
As the 2021 season begins, we look at the shrewdest bits of transfer business from the WorldTour
Six Reasons to Follow Women’s Cycling in 2021
Paris-Roubaix, the Olympics and a wealth of characters, if you have yet to take a keen interest in women's pro cycling, then 2021 is the...
"If you have got a job today, you’re incredibly fortunate": NTT's Doug Ryder on the struggles of 2020
After a turbulent year in the World Tour, we interview Team Qhubeka Assos manager Doug Ryder ahead of the 2021 season
It’s always sunny in Watopia: Confessions of a late Zwift adopter
I was dead against it. It just seemed so unlike cycling to me. At the best of times indoor training was misery, a 20-minute FTP...
Tom Pidcock: That’s Entertainment
“He’ll go soft in Monaco. You watch.” Only joking… Taking the boy out of Yorkshire: Pidcock’s progress
The Column: Tao’s Giro Fantastico – the moment of 2020
Tao Geoghegan Hart winning the Giro may be the decisive moment of 2020, but for Rouleur Executive Editor Ian Cleverly one specific comment said it all
The 2020 Cycling Season in Pictures
An unforgettable year for many reasons, but not least because of a truly historic cycling season. Here is Rouleur's choice of the images that capture...
The Column: A crying shame – pro cycling’s toxic masculinity problem
In a sport where riders put everything on the line, it really is OK to cry
Israel Start-Up Nation appoints first ever female Sports Director to the WorldTour
Israel Start-Up Nation appoints British ex-pro Cherie Pridham as new Sports Director, making her the first female DS on the WorldTour
The wisdom of Ernesto Colnago
“We mustn’t get too excited, but we shouldn’t get depressed either. We just have to keep pedalling.” Lessons of a life well-lived – though he’s...
The Road to Damascus: Syrian refugees racing in Berlin
Andrew Curry and Timm Kölln's award-winning feature from Rouleur magazine: Syrian refugees reach the velodrome in Berlin with one mission - to once again make a living from...
Rouleur's Top Ten Features: No. 4 - Richard Carapaz: Strong like the wind
Farm life, fishing and first places: at home with Giro d'Italia champion Richard Carapaz in Ecuador, charting his cycling beginnings
Rouleur's top ten features: No. 6 - Brian Holm vs Mark Cavendish (part 1)
“I wasn’t sure he would want to do the interview with me. I gave him a hard time in the bunch and he didn’t always...
Jacopo Guarnieri: How we rode the perfect Giro d'Italia
‘There have been three sprints so far and we’ve won four of them.’ Jacopo Guarnieri, Arnaud Demare's top lead-out rider, looks back on a dream Giro d'Italia for Groupama-FDJ
Rouleur's top ten features: No. 10 - Greg LeMond: On the line
Cycling was only half of the battle for the sport’s comeback king, Greg LeMond. America’s only Tour de France champion on Lance, lawsuits, trauma, triumphs...
La Vuelta 2020 in words and pictures
The final WorldTour race of the year dressed for the occasion in resplendent autumnal tones, as Roglič rightfully returned to Madrid in red
Romain Bardet: The art of descending
Romain Bardet is one of the best descenders in cycling. Rouleur's regular columnist shares what's going through his mind when the road heads downhill
Hugh Potential: The story of Hugh Carthy
In 2016 Rouleur met Hugh Carthy at a winter training camp, and tracked his progress from Preston to Pamplona
Young Tao Geoghegan-Hart: the making of a Giro d'Italia champion
On tour with a teenage Tao and the young British hopefuls dreaming of the top
Bernardo Ruiz: The Vuelta's Accidental Pioneer
He escaped Franco’s purges and endured abject poverty in Spain to win a ramshackle Vuelta. 95-year-old Bernardo Ruiz is the oldest living Grand Tour winner,...
Last place Luigi, the Giro’s greatest loser
On the 10th of June 1949, high on the mountain roads between Cuneo and Pinerolo, Fausto Coppi and Gino Bartali duelled for the 32nd edition...
Larry Warbasse: the art of the breakaway
Getting into a breakaway is an art. A paradox. Often a crapshoot. Yet you always find the same guys there. Try too hard to make...
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