Author: Alex
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What in high heaven did Tadej Pogacar just do? | A recap of stages 16-21 of the 2020 Tour de France
Preview + favourites Week One recap Week Two recap Week Three recap Remember pogs? Little cardboard and plastic discs that kids collected? Their popularity peaked in about 1994, four years before the Pog that just won the Tour de France was born. These were the standings as we entered the final week of the 2020…
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Bye bye Bernal | A recap of stages 10-15 of the 2020 Tour de France
Preview + favourites Week One recap Week Two recap Week Three recap It’s not often that the reigning Tour de France champion cracks like old plaster and waves his chances of winning the race again goodbye. Egan Bernal had a very bad stage and everything else that happened this week is secondary. That was the…
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Primoz Roglic leads – but how? | A recap of stages 1-9 of the 2020 Tour de France
Preview + favourites Week One recap Week Two recap Week Three recap The story of the first nine-day “week” of the Tour de France is that Primoz Roglic leads Egan Bernal by 21 seconds, pretty much exactly as I predicted. (Not the time gap part. That would need insane. Just the hierarchy.) That doesn’t tell…
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Who will win the 2020 Tour de France? (and other assorted questions)
Preview + favourites Week One recap Week Two recap Week Three recap So. The Tour de France then. Any questions? There’s a Tour de France this year? Yes. Are they actually going to make it all the way to the finish? Well, now you’re asking. Not sure I’d put big money on it happening, but…
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Woot! Wout! | A 2020 Italian classics recap + talking points from the Critérium du Dauphiné
The second phase of the World Tour season kicked off with Strade Bianche, the gravelly one-day race that actually only started in 2007 but which everyone has agreed to talk about like it’s been going for at least 100 years. It was an inauspicious start in some ways with Sylvan Dillier hoicked from the start…
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Who is in form for the 2020 Tour de France? And who isn’t? Which other 2020 races will actually matter?
There is going to be a Tour de France. It is due to take place from Saturday August 29 until Sunday September 20. It’s mad that they’re even trying to hold a three week race on public roads, but then if any sporting event can adapt to unexpected circumstances, it is the Tour de France.…
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Team Ineos are bad at cobbled classics because Team Ineos aren’t Belgian
Dig out your thermal base layers and your SealSkinz gloves, winter is sorta, kinda, almost over and the Spring Classics are underway. They race in Australia, they race in the Middle East, but the road racing season only really starts with the Omloop and Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne (even if they’re not technically top-ranked events). We know what…
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Primoz Roglic says nothing but does everything – a recap of stages 11-21 of the 2019 Vuelta a Espana
Favourites for the 2019 Vuelta a Espana A recap of stages 1-10 A recap of stages 11-21 After the first half of this year’s Vuelta, Primoz Roglic was in the lead. He was in the lead after the second half too. How did that happen? Let’s pick up with, ooh, let’s go with Stage 13.…
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Primoz Roglic takes a turn to be favourite – a recap of stages 1-10 of the 2019 Vuelta a Espana
Favourites for the 2019 Vuelta a Espana A recap of stages 1-10 When you’re reporting on the first 10 stages of a 21-stage race, there’s only one logical place to start. Let’s talk about Stage 7. Some things never change Stage 7 was the archetypal Vuelta stage. It finished with 20% gradients and Alejandro Valverde…
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Who’s going to win the 2019 Vuelta a Espana?
Favourites for the 2019 Vuelta a Espana A recap of stages 1-10 Simon Yates won the Vuelta last year. Simon Yates isn’t riding the Vuelta this year. So who’s going to win? Primož Roglič (Jumbo-Visma) The former ski jumper is the most interesting rider at this year’s race because he’s the only one who’s an…