Tour de France on TV

Category: Tour de France

  • Cadel Evans goes out the back door

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    I’ve always liked the back door. You go out the front door and you’re probably on your way to work, but go out the back door and there’s a good chance you’re going for a nice sit in the garden. Maybe there’s a beer involved. I like riders exiting through the back door in cycling…

  • Thomas Voeckler winces his way to stage 10 victory

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    My cable connection was knackered today, so I only saw the last 10km on the highlights. I basically got to see Thomas Voeckler making faces and weaving about the road in one of those finishes any amateur cyclist can comprehend. This was especially true for me, because in the absence of live coverage I tackled…

  • Marc Madiot gets a bit het up

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    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

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    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 the Tour de France than when you’re doing your own personal time trial over a familiar route. In the Tour,…

  • Half an idea what’s happening in the Tour de France

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    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. They were just making hay while the road was flat. Yesterday it was onto the serious business. One of the…

  • Chris Froome – your favourite British rider

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    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 from bilharzia, a tropical parasite, for the last couple of years. He picked it up in Kenya, where he was…

  • Crashes on stage six knacker up the general classification

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    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 relevant posts “yellow” from now on. The Tour de France is rarely won. It is more about who loses last.…

  • Andre Greipel’s legs

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    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 only take one look at Andre Greipel’s legs to know that it’s right that he win races. When someone has…

  • How powerful is Andre Greipel?

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    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 about 2.7km from the finish. He beat everyone else though. Like any Greipel win, it was a triumph of leg…

  • Peter Sagan and his victory celebrations

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    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 up and beg’ bike with a basket on the front, I will not listen. Some stories are better if you…