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Marcel Kittel, hair-raiser

Marcel Kittel, hair-raiser

From our 21 stages, 21 stories series: The harum-scarum life of a sprinter, staying cool in the Tour cauldron, and truth and reconciliation

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Fantasy cycling: Team of the Tour 2018

Fantasy cycling: Team of the Tour 2018

If you were to pick the mother of all super-teams based on this year’s Tour de France, this one would be hard to beat

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Going downhill fast – Luke Evans’ Tour moto blog

Going downhill fast – Luke Evans’ Tour moto blog

The descent off the Aubisque was probably the fastest and most thrilling of the Tour. Photography motorbike pilot Luke Edwardes-Evans was right there in the...

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Tour de France 2018 – the Rouleur review

Tour de France 2018 – the Rouleur review

Who was the best team of this year’s Tour de France? What about the most unlucky? What was the biggest surprise? Rouleur contributors look back...

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Philippa York column: Remembering the day LeMond beat Fignon by 8 seconds

Philippa York column: Remembering the day LeMond beat Fignon by 8 seconds

Pippa was a firsthand witness to the greatest Tour finish in history. “The ride back to the hotel was an eerie affair, streets deserted, the...

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Super Banana: Tour de France overall – Dan Martin

Super Banana: Tour de France overall – Dan Martin

For sheer enjoyment of racing, entertainment value and landing a tasty little result en route, we salute the Irishman with a renewed love of the...

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Jacopo Guarnieri blog: bursting the bubble on the Tour’s final stage

Jacopo Guarnieri blog: bursting the bubble on the Tour’s final stage

“It’s a beautiful mess”: Groupama-FDJ’s lead-out man on what makes the Tour’s last stage so different and  returning to reality post-race

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 20 – Michael Hepburn

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 20 – Michael Hepburn

The big engines, those domestique bottle-carriers who suffer through the mountains of the Tour, are offered a ‘day off’ during a time-trial. But they don’t...

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What it’s like being in the time-trial hot seat

What it’s like being in the time-trial hot seat

Tour de France 2018 – 21 stages, 21 stories. We talk to time-trial hot seat regulars Alex Dowsett, Ryan Mullen and Jos Van Emden about...

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Tour de France stage 17: good, bad and ugly

Tour de France stage 17: good, bad and ugly

Fast and furious racing, beautiful scenery, Sagan crashing, and Froome and Thomas involved in dramatic incidents. We were on the Col de Portet taking it...

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Charly Wegelius’ Tour blog – Too much bread

Charly Wegelius’ Tour blog – Too much bread

For some riders, a Grand Tour can be a struggle to down enough calories. Not so for sports directors, like EF Education First’s Charly Wegelius, where long...

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 17 – Egan Bernal

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 17 – Egan Bernal

A good day for Colombia at the Tour de France. Nairo Quintana wins the stage and Egan Bernal takes the prize Sky are really concerned...

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Inside Line: Essential Tour preparation at Romain Bardet’s mile high training club

Inside Line: Essential Tour preparation at Romain Bardet’s mile high training club

Romain Bardet, Peter Sagan and Philippe Gilbert soak up the high altitude atmosphere of the Sierra Nevada in more ways than one

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Brief Encounters: the short stages of the Tour de France

Brief Encounters: the short stages of the Tour de France

Stage 17 of the 2018 Tour de France is a mere 65km. There have been shorter, including 1988’s dash to Pau of 38km. Four of the...

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A bike for the job – Luke Evans’ Tour moto blog

A bike for the job – Luke Evans’ Tour moto blog

From the pilot’s seat of his motorbike, Luke Edwardes-Evans discusses the equipment he takes on Tour and observes the demeanour of Sky’s dual leaders  

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The remarkable Tour de France cartoons of Roger Blachon

The remarkable Tour de France cartoons of Roger Blachon

Cartoonist Roger Blachon’s perfectly drawn illustrations graced the pages of l’Equipe for 20 years. Isabel Best meets those who knew him well

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 15 – Peter Sagan

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 15 – Peter Sagan

Another mountain stage breakaway, more points and a helping hand to Majka from the Tour’s remarkable green machine

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Inside Line: Nico Portal – the DS behind Chris Froome’s success

Inside Line: Nico Portal – the DS behind Chris Froome’s success

Nicolas Portal’s pre-race recces are as thorough as they come and his relationship with Chris Froome is fundamental to the team’s success. Meet the young...

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 14 – Philippe Gilbert

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 14 – Philippe Gilbert

The groundwork was all laid, the result just didn’t turn out as planned. All the more reason then to recognise Philippe Gilbert’s effort

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Top Banana: Tour de France 2018 stage 13 – Tom Scully

Top Banana: Tour de France 2018 stage 13 – Tom Scully

Have you heard the one about the Kiwi and the banana? It’s been a long road from the foot of New Zealand to the top...

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Mob handed with l’Equipe – Luke Evans’ Tour moto blog

Mob handed with l’Equipe – Luke Evans’ Tour moto blog

With ties that stretch back to the very beginning of the Tour de France, French newspaper L’Equipe enjoys a privileged position amongst Tour de France...

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Dutch Corner: the day they killed it

Dutch Corner: the day they killed it

Rope barriers were placed around the notorious party central hairpin to tame the crowd, but how much of the atmosphere did it really sacrifice? An...

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 12 – Steven Kruijswijk

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 12 – Steven Kruijswijk

Dutch Tour contender Steven Kruijswijk made the early break and then took off on his own with over 70km to go. Having shaken the race...

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Guest column: Carlos Sastre on winning the Tour

Guest column: Carlos Sastre on winning the Tour

The Spaniard secured his 2008 Tour victory on Alpe d’Huez. “The road book was already in my mind before the race started, I knew almost...

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Top Banana: Tour de France 2018 stage 11 – Warren Barguil

Top Banana: Tour de France 2018 stage 11 – Warren Barguil

Barguil stakes claim to retake his king of the mountains crown in La Rosière

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Reflections: how Degenkolb and Uttrup Ludwig humanised the Tour de France

Reflections: how Degenkolb and Uttrup Ludwig humanised the Tour de France

In a tough and macho sport, the refreshing reactions of John Degenkolb and Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig at the Tour de France showed the power of...

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Top Banana: Tour de France 2018 stage 10 – Luke Rowe

Top Banana: Tour de France 2018 stage 10 – Luke Rowe

Who expected lanky Luke Rowe to lead the bunch over two big climbs? Respect to last year’s lanterne rouge for a real rouleur’s ride

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In amongst the crashes – Luke Evans’ Tour de France moto blog

In amongst the crashes – Luke Evans’ Tour de France moto blog

As if the crashes and punctures aren’t chaotic enough for the riders, there’s a whole bunch of people in the Tour’s convoy who need to...

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Top Banana: La Course 2018  – Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig

Top Banana: La Course 2018 – Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig

You can sit around and wait for the inevitable. Or you can stick your neck out and maybe pull it off. Hats off to Cecilie Uttrup...

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There’s nothing new about gravel roads in the Tour de France

There’s nothing new about gravel roads in the Tour de France

Nor Peter Sagan’s podium goggles for that matter. Stage 10 of the 2018 Tour includes a couple of kilometres of dirt track on the Plateau de...

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