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  • Chris Froome’s Team Sky team-mates for the 2013 Tour de France

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    Chris Froome is Team Sky’s leader at the Tour this year. Here are some good reasons to support him. Other than that, you might like to know that he used to sell avocados off the back of his bike when he was eight and that he has a degree in economics. His support riders feature…

  • 2013 yellow jersey contenders

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    This year’s Tour seems set to boast an unusually strong field with Vincenzo Nibali and Bradley Wiggins about the only major stage racers missing. Here are the main contenders for the yellow jersey and a few dark horses as well. Alberto Contador – Saxo Bank Contador has won almost every Grand Tour he has entered.…

  • 2013 green jersey contenders

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    Let’s keep this brief. I can see three main contenders for the green jersey which is awarded to the winner of the points classification. Mark Cavendish – Omega Pharma-Quick Step The best sprinter. He will be the favourite on every single flat stage. Andre Greipel – Lotto-Belisol The second best sprinter and one of the…

  • Next week on this website…

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    Let’s mange baguettes, quaff vin rouge and have ourselves a bit of a Tour de France preview to get ourselves in the mood for the biggest race of the year which gets underway in Corsica on Saturday June the 29th. What kind of preview? You can expect the following: A look at the main contenders…

  • Bradley Wiggins’ knee problem

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    The somewhat tiresome media-fuelled battle for Sky team leadership at the Tour de France might have been resolved. Bradley Wiggins is apparently suffering from knee-knack and can’t train properly. You need knees as a cyclist. They move quite a bit when you’re on the bike. I haven’t done the exact maths, but I think you…

  • Pro cycling in June

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    So, the Giro’s done and dusted. What comes next in the cycling year? According to my unofficial list of the races that matter, it’s the big one – the Tour de France on June 29. With that in mind, the coming weeks constitute the build-up. On Sunday, the Critérium du Dauphiné begins. It’s an eight-stage…

  • Wiggins and Froome – defensiveness on the road and off it

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    Does anyone else wish that Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome would just knock it off? They both know that wattage speaks louder than words, so why all this public campaigning to be the designated team leader at the Tour de France? What’s going on? It’s primarily Wiggins’ fault. He’s been doing it all year. Whenever…

  • La Plagne climb in the Tour de France

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    I was in La Plagne last week. I had a great time thank you very much. I even enjoyed the airport transfer. Not many skiers enjoy sitting in a bus, grinding up a mountain, but I couldn’t help but try and imagine what the road must have been like for Stephen Roche on his memorable…

  • What DIDN’T Lance Armstrong do

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    Lance Armstrong is not a bad guy. He really isn’t. How do we know this? Because he never called Betsy Andreu fat. “I did call her crazy and I did call her a bitch, but I didn’t call her fat.” Betsy Andreu is really thin, so the only reason anyone would call her fat would…

  • Bradley Wiggins’ opinion of Lance Armstrong

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    A lot of people are bemoaning the fact that current cyclists haven’t been too outspoken about Lance Armstrong. According to Popbitch, Bradley Wiggins was asked about the matter at Dubai Rugby Sevens Weekend and answered: “If anyone is wearing one of those yellow cock-rings, I am coming and tearing it off.” Apparently, he’d had a…