Author: Alex
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Primoz Roglic completes the catch | a recap of the 2024 Vuelta a Espana
The 2024 Vuelta a Espana showcased two of the race’s abiding qualities. Firstly, the at times chaotic nature of the race that means serious riders can sometimes take serious time by getting in the right break. Secondly, the glut of opportunities to take time on your rivals if you can climb better than they can.…
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Why the 2024 Vuelta a Espana might have to pick its own favourites
Who will win the 2024 Vuelta a Espana? Pffsh. Who knows? Unlike the first two Grand Tours of the season, there’s little predictable about the upcoming trip round Spain. Last year the team that was then Jumbo-Visma, and is now Visma-Lease a Bike, arrived at the Vuelta armed with the guy who had just won…
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Tadej Pogacar’s (modern) blockbuster win + The People’s Champion | a recap of Stages 16-21 of the 2024 Tour de France
There was plenty of action in the final week of the 2024 Tour de France – but action alone doesn’t hit too hard when there is so little sense of jeopardy. As such, Tadej Pogacar’s dominant victory was a lot more impressive than it was entertaining. Foreshadowing a damp squib The final week began with…
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Well done Pogacar, Vingegaard bloody | a recap of Stages 10-15 of the 2024 Tour de France
There’s still a week to go in the Overcooked Tadej Pogacar v Undercooked Jonas Vingegaard experiment. The sport’s meat thermometers are really struggling to see how the Dane could overhaul what still appears to be a growing deficit though. Overcooked? Or underfed? Stage 10 probably goes down as the most boring Tour de France stage…
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Third wheel Remco, gravel grovelling, Mark Cavendish doesn’t know what year it is + more | a recap of Stages 1-9 of the 2024 Tour de France
After nine stages of the 2024 Tour de France, the big stories are probably Remco Evenepoel inserting himself between yellow jersey Tadej Pogacar and reigning champion Jonas Vingegaard, and Mark Cavendish winning a stage – a feat that is almost paradoxically newsworthy precisely because of what a common occurrence it has been. Roll up, roll…
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Pogacar v Fatigue, Vingegaard v Fitness, overcooked v undercooked + everyone else | a 2024 Tour de France preview
It’s time for the annual Tadej Pogacar v Jonas Vingegaard head-to-head. There are however a pair of potential spanners in the works which mean everybody else can dampen their default defeatism a touch this year. The scoreline currently sits at 2-2 between Pogacar and Vingegaard when it comes to Tours de France victories and we…
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ITV4 will show the Tour de France in 2024 (and so will Eurosport/Discovery)
The good news for UK cycling fans is that ITV4 will be covering the whole of the 2024 Tour de France. They’ll have live coverage and then highlights at 7pm, same as every year. (Although the highlights do sometimes get shunted back a bit.) Some of the bigger stages will also be broadcast from the…
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Tadej the Giro, tomorrow the Tour | a recap of Stages 16-21 of the 2024 Giro d’Italia
And surprises came there none – not unless you count Tadej Pogacar working his way up to the biggest winning margin in a Grand Tour this century as a surprise (which I’m sensing by this point you probably don’t). Start-stop Tuesday’s Stage 16 was positively awash with tension, excitement and intrigue, with more plot twists…
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Tadej is hard, tomorrow will be worse | a recap of Stages 10-15 of the 2024 Giro d’Italia
Well this is all getting a bit processional, isn’t it? Albeit a very rapid, phenomenally exhausting procession. The working week Tadej Pogacar hopped back onto his bike on Tuesday with a 2m40s advantage over second placed Daniel Martinez. When he knocked off on Friday afternoon, the gap was still 2m40s, so I’m not going to…
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Tadej, tomorrow and for the rest of the race? | a recap of Stages 1-9 of the 2024 Giro d’Italia
No plot twists so far. And going by the form of Tadej Pogacar, we may very well never get one. The opening weekend This year’s Giro kicked off with a hilly stage and followed that up with the first summit finish. This meant that by the time we hit the working week, Tadej Pogacar already…