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Clarity postponed | a recap of Stages 1-9 of the 2022 Giro d’Italia

May 16, 2022 · by Alex · in Giro d'Italia

Maybe it’s just an illusion derived from social media, but sometimes I feel like I’m adrift in a world of certainty. Everyone arguing their case with conviction. Everyone eternally right about everything. I have no…

Victories for Froome and Cavendish, but mostly for Pogacar | a recap of Stages 16-21 of the 2021 Tour de France

July 19, 2021 · by Alex · in Tour de France

The yellow jersey contenders Week 1 recap Week 2 recap Victory for Chris Froome, who was named ‘most polite rider’ by Tour de France organisers ASO after the race. Getting through three weeks of frenetic…

Eddy Merckx says Mark Cavendish is pretty tidy | a recap of Stages 10-15 of the 2021 Tour de France

July 12, 2021 · by Alex · in Tour de France

The yellow jersey contenders Week 1 recap Week 2 recap Week 3 recap After a frenetic first week that ended with Tadej Pogacar 5m18s ahead of his closest credible rival, the headline news from the…

Unfamiliar faces v familiar faces | a 2021 spring classics recap

April 27, 2021 · by Alex · in Classics and day races

The big springtime one-day races represent the divide between people who really follow cycling and people who very much like it and will definitely watch it when it’s on ITV4 but probably won’t actively seek…

A sprinter’s view of the mountains as Mark Cavendish fails to make the time cut

July 19, 2018 · by Alex · in Tour de France

When Mark Cavendish finished stage 11 of this year’s Tour de France, they were clearing the barriers away. Podium ceremonies had been and gone and the new yellow jersey, Geraint Thomas, was busy doing a…

Vincenzo Nibali is slowly winning all of the things

March 17, 2018 · by Alex · in Classics and day races

Milan-Sanremo really is one of the finest races of the year. At 291km, it is very long, which is a very important quality as it means people can deploy the word ‘epic’ which is a…

Stage four: Cavendish finds more give in roadside barrier than Sagan’s elbow

July 4, 2017 · by Alex · in Tour de France

It was a day of aqueducts, châteaux and sheep. The flat profile meant the break was always going to be caught and when that break turned out to be just one rider – Belgian Guillaume…

Mark Cavendish elicits a strop from Marcel Kittel

July 16, 2016 · by Alex · in Tour de France

The thing about headwinds is, they slow you down. If Marcel Kittel had been one of the four men who had ridden near enough 200km into one as part of the break, he’d have been…

Mark Cavendish has started beating Marcel Kittel (he’s more used to beating everyone else)

July 8, 2016 · by Alex · in Tour de France

Before this race, Mark Cavendish had never actually beaten Marcel Kittel when the two have gone head-to-head in a sprint. That stat is old and irrelevant. He’s now beaten him three times in a week…

Mark Cavendish helps create a normal sandwich

July 4, 2016 · by Alex · in Tour de France

I like to think I know how years are named. Each year you just add one, don’t you? It doesn’t seem like that in cycling. My specific doubts centre on 2014 and 2015, which seem…

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