A Tao KO in the final round | A recap of stages 10-21 of the 2020 Giro d’Italia
In my recap of the first week of this Giro d’Italia, I wrote that British interest ended after Stage 1. That turned out to be a bold and not very great prediction because turned out…
Vuelta a Espana highlights will be on ITV4
ITV4 will be showing highlights of the Vuelta a Espana (the Tour of Spain) each night. It’s mostly in a 7pm slot with each programme available online via the ITV Player shortly afterwards. They don’t…
Julian Alaphilippe wins, loses, crashes out | An Autumn classics recap
The Giro d’Italia is still limping on. (Although it’s Covid-19 testing again today, so that sentence might not see out the afternoon.) Let’s take a break from Grand Tours this week though and instead turn…
Back breaks, British breaks and bathos | A recap of stages 1-9 of the 2020 Giro d’Italia
The 2020 Giro d’Italia began with a much weaker field than usual, but two of Britain’s finest riders – Geraint Thomas and Simon Yates – all set for a serious tilt at victory. It doesn’t…
ITV4 are not showing the 2020 Giro d’Italia – here’s where you can see it
ITV4 will not be covering this year’s Giro d’Italia. The race is run by a different organisation from the Tour de France and many other major races and they don’t have the rights. That isn’t…
What in high heaven did Tadej Pogacar just do? | A recap of stages 16-21 of the 2020 Tour de France
Preview + favourites Week One recap Week Two recap Week Three recap Remember pogs? Little cardboard and plastic discs that kids collected? Their popularity peaked in about 1994, four years before the Pog that just…
Bye bye Bernal | A recap of stages 10-15 of the 2020 Tour de France
Preview + favourites Week One recap Week Two recap Week Three recap It’s not often that the reigning Tour de France champion cracks like old plaster and waves his chances of winning the race again…
Primoz Roglic leads – but how? | A recap of stages 1-9 of the 2020 Tour de France
Preview + favourites Week One recap Week Two recap Week Three recap The story of the first nine-day “week” of the Tour de France is that Primoz Roglic leads Egan Bernal by 21 seconds, pretty…
Who will win the 2020 Tour de France? (and other assorted questions)
Preview + favourites Week One recap Week Two recap Week Three recap So. The Tour de France then. Any questions? There’s a Tour de France this year? Yes. Are they actually going to make it…
ITV4 will show the Tour de France in 2020 (and so will Eurosport)
The good news for UK cycling fans is that ITV4 will be covering the whole of the 2020 Tour de France. They’ll have live coverage and then highlights at 7pm, same as every year. Some…
