Tour de France on TV

Author: Alex

  • Seven cycling highlights for Great Britain from the London 2012 Olympics

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    Great Britain has been successful at cycling in previous Olympic Games, but I can’t imagine that they’ll ever do as well as this again. Britons should really stop and wallow in this while they can. They changed the format of track cycling for the 2012 Olympics and many people felt it was to prevent GB…

  • Why Vicky Pendleton didn’t enjoy competing

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    Vicky Pendleton once said that while she enjoyed training, she hated competition. Some people couldn’t get their heads around this. Surely winning things was the good bit? Well, look at it this way. She has just retired from cycling having won a gold medal and a silver medal and the BBC say: “Victoria Pendleton’s career…

  • Why I want Victoria Pendleton to win the Olympic women’s sprint

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    I wouldn’t say I was an enormous fan of track cycling, but it can definitely hit the heights every now and again. I support Britain’s male cyclists, but I don’t know them quite so well. Victoria Pendleton’s a different matter and this means that I give a toss. When you give a toss, sport’s a…

  • Bradley Wiggins – how many Olympic medals?

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    Seven. Seven Olympic medals. Four gold, a silver and two bronze. Bradley Wiggins has won more Olympic medals than any other Briton. Even more impressively, this isn’t one of those gargantuan medal hauls that comes about from the particular nature of the sport. It’s not like the swimming where if you’re good at freestyle you…

  • Bradley Wiggins’ body fat

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    Cyclists’ bodies are famously freakish. Thighs, lungs and hearts are enormous, while the arms and torso tend to be all emaciated. For such fit people, they can look damn sickly. Bradley Wiggins is 6ft 3in (190cm) but only weighs 10st 9lbs (69kg). In terms of body fat, he said he was down to four per…

  • Bradley Wiggins quotes from the 2012 Tour de France

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    Bradley Wiggins isn’t media-trained. It shows. He’s worth listening to. As a result of this, I thought it might be worth bringing together just a few of his best quotes from over the course of the 2012 Tour de France. What does he think about the people on social networks who point fingers regarding doping.…

  • One yellow jersey – many owners

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    As defining images go, you’d think it would be difficult to beat the moment 1km from the finish of the final stage of this year’s Tour de France. Bradley Wiggins, in his yellow jersey, led. The entire peloton trailed behind him. However, there was a better moment and it came just a few seconds afterwards.…

  • Bradley Wiggins – mean and average

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    I own a yellow T-shirt. I think I might wear it tomorrow in honour of the man attached to Bradley Wiggins’ sideburns. After another walloping time trial, Wiggins seems set to become Britain’s first Tour de France winner. However, perhaps the most remarkable thing about all of this is the fact that even if a…

  • Chris Froome sacrifices stage, Tour and self for Bradley Wiggins and Team Sky

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    This may be an exaggeration, but it’s not as ludicrous as it seems. Bouncing up the final climb of stage 17, Chris Froome seemed entirely unarsed by the gradient and more than capable of hauling in Alejandro Valverde. However, he opted to wait for Wiggins. Potential stage win lost. Froome also outperformed Bradley Wiggins in…

  • Thomas Voeckler and his many faces

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    Physically, it looks like there’s something wrong with Thomas Voeckler. His torso’s too small and the effect’s compounded by the way he rolls and writhes on his bike, like he’s trying to work half a dozen acorns out of his arse crack using only his buttock muscles. Mentally, it look like there’s something wrong with…