Category: General
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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 already signed up again and are already receiving the ‘new’ email. You guys can ignore all of this.) The slightly…
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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 Sky’s fate is in Sir Dave Brailsford’s mad hands
That image above depicts one of Sir Dave Brailsford’s very many crazy hand gestures. These days Sir Dave’s about 50 per cent the boss of a cycling team and 50 per cent mime. “Mime is money” according to Billy Crystal’s character in Spinal Tap – and that’s just as well because Brailsford currently needs to…
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A fans’ guide to knowing where to draw ‘the line’ when it comes to Bradley Wiggins and Team Sky doping allegations
It would be good to write about Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico this week, but unfortunately that’ll have to wait. Right now we need to talk about Bradley Wiggins, Team Sky, British Cycling and the latest wave of doping allegations. What’s happened? This week saw the release of a report by the digital, culture, media and sport…
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Bradley Wiggins’ gurning on The Jump – a real dignity-stripper with which to commence retirement
Bradley Wiggins has retired from cycling. I would have written something about it sooner, but he voiced so many contradictory plans that it wasn’t until I saw the last 25 seconds of The Jump last night that I honestly believed it had happened. Those 25 seconds were… painful. I wouldn’t call myself a Wiggins ‘fan’…
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All the unsatisfying equivocal answers about Bradley Wiggins’ asthma TUEs
There are things I write about because I want to and there are things I write about because I think it’ll look weird if I don’t. This is the latter. Don’t get me wrong. It’s not that I don’t want to write about this. I’ll write about any old shit. The background You’ll most likely…
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Lizzie Armitstead emerges with a nice grey sheen
I’ve been covering Lizzie Armitstead’s racing triumphs semi-regularly over the last year, so it only seems fair that I also report on her legal triumphs. If you haven’t seen the news, Armitstead has not been banned. That might not seem like such a triumph, but there was actually a very real threat of it. The…
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Cycling transfers for 2016 – and do you care?
For the last few days, one of the feeds on my homepage seems to have been stuck presenting the headline ‘Cancellara chooses not to use disc brakes in 2016′. Perhaps the world is trying to remind me that not everyone who enjoys cycling shares my interests. For me, the sport’s about the psychology, the physiology…
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Four or five riders to watch in 2015
I was going to pick five riders to watch, but while four came to me quite quickly, the fifth proved more elusive. A draft version of this article has been hanging around for about three months now, so I finally decided that four was my number. The perfect fifth selection will doubtless materialise in my…
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