How in holy hell did Chris Froome win? | The 2018 Giro d’Italia final week wrap
2018 Giro d’Italia contenders The first rest day wrap The second rest day wrap The third rest day wrap Final week wrap The great thing about doing these Giro updates weekly is that it keeps…
Will Simon Yates ever tire? | The third 2018 Giro d’Italia rest day wrap
2018 Giro d’Italia contenders The first rest day wrap The second rest day wrap The third rest day wrap Final week wrap It was a funny sort of week. The nondescript stages were the big…
Let’s rank Simon Yates and the other climbers | The second 2018 Giro d’Italia rest day wrap
2018 Giro d’Italia contenders The first rest day wrap The second rest day wrap The third rest day wrap Final week wrap We’re nearly halfway through this year’s Giro d’Italia, but most of the serious…
Tom Dumoulin and Elia Viviani set the standards – the 2018 Giro d’Italia first rest day wrap
2018 Giro d’Italia contenders The first rest day wrap The second rest day wrap The third rest day wrap Final week wrap The first rest day has come disconcertingly early in this year’s Giro d’Italia,…
Will Chris Froome win the 2018 Giro d’Italia?
2018 Giro d’Italia contenders The first rest day wrap The second rest day wrap The third rest day wrap Final week wrap Let’s first deal with the three big questions. Can anyone beat Chris Froome?…
Why I didn’t write about Bob Jungels winning Liege-Bastogne-Liege
This is not a race report. You can’t report on a race that took place over a week ago. This is more of an explanation tied up with a bit of record-keeping for when I…
ITV4 are not showing the 2018 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…
Paris-Roubaix Peter Sagan or Amstel Gold Peter Sagan? Which Peter Sagan did the better sprint?
Peter Sagan is the central figure in pretty much every race he rides, so let’s just write about Peter Sagan today. Sagan has appeared in two one-day classics in the last fortnight – Paris-Roubaix (which…
All hail Niki Terpstra, the most Belgian man ever to have failed to be from Belgium
Niki Terpstra’s top result in a Grand Tour is 94th in the 2014 Tour de France. He also finished 95th in the 2010 Vuelta a Espana. Here are all of Niki Terpstra’s other Grand Tour…
Vincenzo Nibali is slowly winning all of the things
Milan-Sanremo really is one of the finest races of the year. At 291km, it is very long, which is a very important quality as it means people can deploy the word ‘epic’ which is a…
