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Julian Alaphilippe wins, loses, crashes out | An Autumn classics recap

October 19, 2020 · by Alex · in Classics and day races

The Giro d’Italia is still limping on. (Although it’s Covid-19 testing again today, so that sentence might not see out the afternoon.) Let’s take a break from Grand Tours this week though and instead turn…

Primoz Roglic leads – but how? | A recap of stages 1-9 of the 2020 Tour de France

September 7, 2020 · by Alex · in Tour de France

Preview + favourites Week One recap Week Two recap Week Three recap The story of the first nine-day “week” of the Tour de France is that Primoz Roglic leads Egan Bernal by 21 seconds, pretty…

Egan Bernal might never win the Tour de France again – a recap of stages 16-21 of the 2019 Tour de France

July 30, 2019 · by Alex · in Tour de France

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 Team Ineos’s 22-year-old Colombian rider Egan Bernal won the Tour de France…

Thibaut Pinot is climbing – recap of stages 11-15 of the 2019 Tour de France

July 23, 2019 · by Alex · in Tour de France

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 At the start of my first week recap, I said that Julian…

Julian Alaphilippe’s pyromania – a recap of stages 1-10 of the 2019 Tour de France

July 16, 2019 · by Alex · in Tour de France

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 After the first “week” of the Tour de France, Julian Alaphilippe is…

Jakob Fuglsang hammers a twist into the tale of the 2019 Spring Classics

April 30, 2019 · by Alex · in Classics and day races

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…

So that’s why Julian Alaphilippe was practising his sprint

March 23, 2019 · by Alex · in Classics and day races

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….

Julian Alaphilippe does some foreshadowing at Strade Bianche

March 9, 2019 · by Alex · in Classics and day races

Julian Alaphilippe, the Frenchman with the pain-in-the-arse surname, won Strade Bianche at his first attempt today. I guarantee you he’ll win a whole bunch of other stuff this season provided he doesn’t break anything important….

Undroppable Geraint Thomas | the 2018 Tour de France final week recap

July 30, 2018 · by Alex · in Tour de France

Yellow jersey contenders Green jersey contenders Week one recap Week two recap Final week recap Geraint Thomas didn’t really concede any time, to anyone, at any point. This is a good and effective way of…

Geraint Thomas wins the Alpine leg | 2018 Tour de France week two recap

July 23, 2018 · by Alex · in Tour de France

Yellow jersey contenders Green jersey contenders Week one recap Week two recap Final week recap If the Alpine leg were a solid object, it would presumably be a bodily appendage made out of cheese. But…

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