Tour de France on TV

Category: Tour de France

  • Wiggins and Froome – defensiveness on the road and off it

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    Does anyone else wish that Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome would just knock it off? They both know that wattage speaks louder than words, so why all this public campaigning to be the designated team leader at the Tour de France? What’s going on? It’s primarily Wiggins’ fault. He’s been doing it all year. Whenever…

  • La Plagne climb in the Tour de France

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    I was in La Plagne last week. I had a great time thank you very much. I even enjoyed the airport transfer. Not many skiers enjoy sitting in a bus, grinding up a mountain, but I couldn’t help but try and imagine what the road must have been like for Stephen Roche on his memorable…

  • What DIDN’T Lance Armstrong do

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    Lance Armstrong is not a bad guy. He really isn’t. How do we know this? Because he never called Betsy Andreu fat. “I did call her crazy and I did call her a bitch, but I didn’t call her fat.” Betsy Andreu is really thin, so the only reason anyone would call her fat would…

  • Bradley Wiggins’ opinion of Lance Armstrong

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    A lot of people are bemoaning the fact that current cyclists haven’t been too outspoken about Lance Armstrong. According to Popbitch, Bradley Wiggins was asked about the matter at Dubai Rugby Sevens Weekend and answered: “If anyone is wearing one of those yellow cock-rings, I am coming and tearing it off.” Apparently, he’d had a…

  • Lance, lies and litigation

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    Can I stop writing about this now? Can I please stop writing about it? Although the media attention is heightening, we’re getting diminishing returns from the Lance Armstrong doping story now. He appeared on Oprah and said some stuff, but the whole of it can be neatly packaged away in one box thanks to one,…

  • Lance, Oprah and stage-managed redemption

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    Following Lance Armstrong’s interview with Oprah Winfrey, reports say he is going to dob some people in. William Fotheringham is probably right when he says that these stories are probably just Armstrong’s latest attempt to muddy what is actually a pretty clear picture of one man at the centre of organised, methodical doping on a…

  • The Yorkshire Tour de France route

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    If you’ve been to Leeds, you will know that it is not in France. You may even be aware of this if you haven’t visited. Despite that fact, the city is to host Le Grand Départ of the 2014 Tour de France. There will be two stages in Yorkshire with stage three taking place in…

  • Which bike races actually matter?

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    There are a billion bike races, but few people know which ones really matter. Everyone knows the Tour de France, but beyond that people are generally a bit lost. There’s a dim awareness of the Giro d’Italia (“It’s like the Tour de France, only in Italy”) and the Vuelta a Espana (“It’s like the Tour…

  • Will Bradley Wiggins ride the 2013 Tour de France

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    Maybe. But sounds like he won’t be racing to win. He’s got other aims: “I’m probably going to concentrate on the Giro d’Italia next year. For me, along with Paris-Roubaix, it’s the only race on the calendar that’s up there with the Tour de France for its history. It’s just beautiful and I’d love to…

  • Lance Armstrong: EPO, blood transfusions, subcultures and the line

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    I suppose a website with ‘Tour de France’ in its title should at least acknowledge the fact that the guy who won the race a record number of times is being ripped a new one as a result of an insanely lengthy report on doping practices being released into the public domain. For my part,…