Author: Alex
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Where’s Chris Froome? Other riders to watch at the 2019 Tour de France plus a few words about the route
Main contenders for the 2019 Tour de France A recap of stages 1-10 A recap of stages 11-15 A recap of stages 16-21 I always thought that the great danger of blowing your nose while cycling in strong winds was that you might end up with a streak of snot across your face. Apparently you…
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Don’t give Richard Carapaz an inch – a recap of stages 16-21 of the 2019 Giro d’Italia
The main contenders for this year’s Giro d’Italia A recap of stages 1-9 A recap of stages 10-15 A recap of stages 16-21 You might think that the marathon is a long race, but people are knocking them out in a couple of hours these days. A Grand Tour takes three weeks. Plenty changes in…
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Richard Carapaz at altitude, Primoz Roglic on the wrong bike – a recap of stages 10-15 of the 2019 Giro d’Italia
The main contenders for this year’s Giro d’Italia A recap of stages 1-9 A recap of stages 10-15 A recap of stages 16-21 That should probably more accurately read ‘a recap of stages 12-15 of the 2019 Giro d’Italia. Here’s my recap of stages 10 and 11: nothing happened. Let’s start at the end. Here’s…
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Primoz is primo – a recap of stages 1-9 of the 2019 Giro d’Italia
The main contenders for this year’s Giro d’Italia A recap of stages 1-9 A recap of stages 10-15 A recap of stages 16-21 The first week of the 2019 Giro d’Italia was (a) nine days long and (b) bookended by time trials with uphill finishes. Those two stages were the most important with regards to…
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Who’s the favourite for the 2019 Giro d’Italia?
The main contenders for this year’s Giro d’Italia A recap of stages 1-9 A recap of stages 10-15 A recap of stages 16-21 The Giro d’Italia starts on Saturday. It’s the first of the three Grand Tours and often the most interesting. If you’re in the UK, you can watch it on Eurosport or catch…
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Jakob Fuglsang hammers a twist into the tale of the 2019 Spring Classics
At one point this season, the story of the spring classics was that Julian Alaphilippe had won every one-day race he’d entered, except for the ones Mathieu van der Poel had ridden, which had been won by van der Poel. The subplot would have been that Jakob Fuglsang had been Mr Third-Best, finishing second to…
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Philippe Gilbert: the rider Bradley Wiggins perhaps wishes he could have been
Cycling’s a little like a giant volcano that rises from the seabed. Britons, in particular, see the obvious bit that pokes above the water – the Tour de France and Olympic track cycling – and don’t give much thought to all that lies beneath. If the other two Grand Tours, the Giro d’Italia and the…
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How many Italians have won the Tour of Flanders?
The cobbled classics started out normally enough. Zdenek Stybar – a man best known on this site for taking his false teeth out during the 2015 Tour of Flanders because they were rattling – won E3 Harelbeke. And then Alexander Kristoff, the jet-powered truck, won Gent Wevelgem. These are normal cobbled classics people and these…
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So that’s why Julian Alaphilippe was practising his sprint
I don’t tell you much useful on this website, but I did inadvertently drip-feed you a teaser of Julian Alaphilippe’s win in Milan-Sanremo. First, I told you he’d win a bunch of stuff this season. This was his seventh win and it’s not even April. Second, I told you that he won a bunch sprint…
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The 2019 Paris-Nice Wrap
I’ve been branding most of my stage race round-ups ‘wraps’ for the last year or so, but I can’t help but feel that a Paris-Nice wrap must be a specific type of French taco. Do you know about the French taco? It’s the French version of meat and chips in a wrap – which is…