Marc Madiot gets a bit het up
A rest day treat. The undoubted highlight of the Tour so far – FDJ-BigMat directeur sportif, Marc Madiot, getting slightly emotional about Thibaut Pinot’s stage eight win. Allez! Allez!
Stage nine time trial – detailed analysis
Okay, so Cadel Evans rode quite fast, but Chris Froome rode faster and Bradley Wiggins rode FASTER STILL. Time trials are pretty easy to get your head around. There’s actually even less to consider in…
Half an idea what’s happening in the Tour de France
If you’ve no idea what’s going on in the Tour de France, here’s an update from someone with half an idea. Lesson one: forget about all the guys who won stages in the first week….
Chris Froome – your favourite British rider
We quite like both Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish, but they’re not to everyone’s tastes. Chris Froome, however – as a Brit, how can you not get behind Chris Froome? The man has been suffering…
Crashes on stage six knacker up the general classification
Never mind Peter Sagan’s third stage victory, today’s flat stage had a big impact on the general classification. ‘General classification’ isn’t a particularly catchy way of referring to the overall times, so we’ll be tagging…
Andre Greipel’s legs
I was massively disappointed that Anthony Delaplace didn’t get into the break today, but I was less disappointed that Mark Cavendish was beaten by everyone’s favourite wide-mouthed Germanic meat sack in the sprint. You need…
How powerful is Andre Greipel?
Andre Greipel’s angry mashing got him over the line first today. I’m glad I’m not a pedal. He was lucky in that he didn’t have to beat Mark Cavendish who was mangled in a pile-up…
Peter Sagan and his victory celebrations
Peter Sagan once won the Slovak Cup on his sister’s bike after selling his own and then finding that the replacement from his sponsor had been delayed. If anyone tells me it wasn’t a ‘sit…
Mark Cavendish bollocks Kenny Van Hummel while sprinting
One of stage three’s highlights was seeing Mark Cavendish bollock Kenny Van Hummel during and immediately after the intermediate sprint. Van Hummel had done a bit of a manoeuvre and Cavendish felt it necessary to…
Three reasons why Mark Cavendish is inhuman
1. The ability to maintain a high speed Not the speed of the sprint, the speed of the run-in. The peloton was doing 45mph over the last few miles of Stage 2 of this year’s…
