If you want to keep getting the Tour de France on TV emails, you’ll need to sign up again
The short version: If you want to continue receiving my Tour de France recaps by email, you’ll need to sign up to the mailing list again. You can do that here. (Some of you have…
Egan Bernal fails to fade | a recap of Stages 17-21 of the 2021 Giro d’Italia
A whistle-stop tour of the 2021 Giro d’Italia contenders A recap of Stages 1-10 A recap of Stages 11-16 Photos of sportsfolk kissing trophies don’t ordinarily do it for me, but the one above amuses…
Egan Bernal o’er hill and gravel | a recap of Stages 11-16 of the 2021 Giro d’Italia
A whistle-stop tour of the 2021 Giro d’Italia contenders A recap of Stages 1-10 Yes, I know I said I’d recap the whole second half of the race last time around, but I changed my…
Egan Bernal’s back | a recap of Stages 1-10 of the 2021 Giro d’Italia
A whistle-stop tour of the 2021 Giro d’Italia contenders Egan Bernal’s back. As in ‘returned’. But also as in ‘his spine’ because we’ll need to talk about his scoliosis a bit too. Before that, let’s…
A whistle-stop tour of the 2021 Giro d’Italia contenders
Let’s take a look at the main contenders for this year’s Giro d’Italia. Let’s do it quickly, as if we’re a character in a film riffling through a filing cabinet in someone’s office when we…
ITV4 are not showing the 2021 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…
Unfamiliar faces v familiar faces | a 2021 spring classics recap
The big springtime one-day races represent the divide between people who really follow cycling and people who very much like it and will definitely watch it when it’s on ITV4 but probably won’t actively seek…
Van der Poel’s power, van Aert’s adaptability, Pogacar’s form and Roglic’s matter-of-factness – scene-setting in early spring
The season is now definitely underway and we’ve been given a couple of sighters for the bigger events to come. Let’s take a look at who you need to be keeping an eye on this…
When does the 2021 pro cycling season *really* begin?
The professional road racing season is theoretically international these days which meant the 2021 World Tour officially got underway in the UAE in February, following the cancellation of the Tour Down Under and the Cadel…
Primoz Roglic has done something no-one else has done in a while | A recap of stages 13-18 of the 2020 Vuelta a Espana
Pressed for time? Here’s a very quick summary: Primoz Roglic won the first stage of the Vuelta a Espana, lost the lead for a short period in the middle, but then won overall. How did…
