Tour de France on TV

Author: Alex

  • Peter Sagan’s luxury wardrobe

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    Peter Sagan is some kind of deluxe onion. Peel back his layers and his appearance will barely diminish. His stage two victory has put him into the yellow jersey, but when someone overhauls his lead and pulls that off his back, he’ll still be wearing the green jersey as he’s also leading the points competition.…

  • Apparently Mark Cavendish can beat Marcel Kittel

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    It seems increasingly unfashionable to make a case for something using facts. I don’t quite know what it says that it took a Briton from outside the UK to remind everyone how persuasive such things can be. The Isle of Man’s status is not something to get into here. All that matters to a cycling…

  • Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen finally stood down from ITV’s Tour de France coverage

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    Au revoir to Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen. This site’s received a number of comments today expressing sadness at the absence of Phil and Paul from ITV’s coverage of the race. One woman even went so far as to say that her husband would not be watching the race as a consequence, which seems oddly…

  • Nine tips to help you enjoy the 2017 Tour de France

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    If you fancy following the Tour de France this year but aren’t exactly sure of the best way of going about that, just follow the tips below. Beforehand Read my brief and blunt explanation of the ins and outs of bike racing Check out the tactics section of 2014’s interactive guide at the Guardian (I…

  • Yellow jersey contenders in 2016

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    Who’s going to win the Tour de France? Probably not Bartosz Huzarski or Tsgabo Grmay unless an awfully large number of people abandon the race injured. Maybe one of these guys though. Chris Froome Both times he’s won the Tour, Froome’s ceded ground to Nairo Quintana in the mountains in the final week. He says…

  • Green jersey contenders in 2016

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    I’ve been putting off writing this points competition preview for a few days now and presumed there was some reason for this – nothing conscious, just some mystic message from the cosmos saying: “No, don’t bother yet. Play Civilization or go to the pub or something.” Turns out the cosmos was right. Everyone else is…

  • Important stages of the 2016 Tour de France

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    All of them, obviously – but let’s just try and get a bit of a handle on the route in a bid to work out where the race could be won and lost. In summary Relatively flat start Surprise mountain stage inside the first week Pyrenees on the weekend that follows that first week Mont…

  • Rounding up The Dolphin

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    Chris Froome won the Criterium du Dolphin. He won it on stage five. Team-mate Mikel Landa attacked on the final climb and Froome followed as his rivals chased the Spaniard down. The moment they caught him, whoosh, Froome was off. Richie Porte was the only one able to follow and the Tasmanian had nothing left…

  • Alberto Contador gets out of the saddle

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    There was a period, not so long ago, when every time Alberto Contador raced the Tour de France, he won it. He won in 2007, he won in 2009 and he won in 2010. The last of those was later stripped from him after what with hindsight feels like the first of the modern doping…

  • Highlights of the 2016 Criterium du Dauphiné are on ITV4

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    The Criterium du Dauphiné starts today (Sunday). ITV4 are doing a daily highlights programme, same as they do for the Tour de France. It’ll also appear on the ITV Player, which is available via all sorts of modern technology. It’s still worth recording if you’ve got the facility though as from experience programmes can sometimes…