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Lizzie Armitstead emerges with a nice grey sheen

August 2, 2016 · by Alex · in General

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…

Tommy Voeckler masks my foolishness at the Tour de Yorkshire

May 2, 2016 · by Alex · in Stage races

One of the challenges when writing about bike racing is that there are shitloads of riders. You look ahead to a cricket or football match and you’ve got at most 22 people to write about….

Peter Sagan and the possibly fictitious baton-passing pee stop

April 4, 2016 · by Alex · in Classics and day races

Ahead of the Tour of Flanders, FDJ manager Marc Madiot came out with the most outstandingly French quote to describe what it must be like to be Peter Sagan. “Sagan has the enormous freedom of…

Arnaud Démare motors to Milan-San Remo win (plus Armitstead update)

March 21, 2016 · by Alex · in Classics and day races

The finale of Milan-San Remo is always a lot more exciting to watch than to talk about. So let’s not bother. To boil it down to almost nothing, after near-enough 300km of racing, Arnaud Démare…

Lizzie Armitstead wants to win all of the things – including Strade Bianche

March 6, 2016 · by Alex · in Classics and day races

Do women actually have an Omloop, you might ask? Of course they do. Lizzie Armitstead won it last week in what was her first competitive outing of the season. This wasn’t entirely surprising. Armitstead is…

Peter Sagan did NOT come second

September 27, 2015 · by Alex · in Classics and day races

He’s only the world champion. If ever a season had a satisfying narrative, it was this year. In 2013, Peter Sagan notched four second places in the Tour de France. In 2014, he got another…

Velocipedes at the Empire Games

August 4, 2014 · by Alex · in Classics and day races

A quick update from the Commonwealth Games where, unlike the Tour de France, British riders have figured prominently. Time trials Cycling News went all Phil Liggett, calling Alex Dowsett’s win for England ‘the ride of…

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