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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…

Simon Yates gets to grips with three-week racing | a recap of stages 16-21 of the 2018 Vuelta a Espana

September 15, 2018 · by Alex · in Vuelta a Espana

A cast list for the 2018 Vuelta a Espana Week one recap Week two recap Final week recap Earlier this year, in the closing stages of the Giro d’Italia, Simon Yates collapsed like your granny…

Chris Froome more than a little relieved that there wasn’t more road

July 25, 2015 · by Alex · in Tour de France

The final climb of the 2015 Tour de France was really quite something. A French cyclist, Thibaut Pinot, in the lead; Chris Froome, in the yellow jersey, a few minutes back; and in between, Nairo…

Give Tony Martin an inch and he’ll cycle away from you very quickly indeed

July 7, 2015 · by Alex · in Tour de France

Tony Martin, on his own, can almost beat the entire peloton over a distance of 175km. When he decided to have a go with 3.3km to go on stage four, the front group didn’t stand…

Alejandro Valverde falls off the podium

July 25, 2014 · by Alex · in Tour de France

He’s been tottering around these last few days, but on stage 18, Alejandro Valverde finally slipped. Now he’s lying in the dirt, clawing at the air and screeching the word ‘podium’ like Gollum. There was…

Michael Rogers and the ferocious French fight for third

July 22, 2014 · by Alex · in Tour de France

You wonder what Michael Rogers could do if he didn’t have to spend the vast majority of his time dicking about towing Alberto Contador around. Free to do as he pleased in the Giro, he…

Yellow jersey contenders in 2014

July 3, 2014 · by Alex · in Tour de France

Who’s going to win this year’s Tour de France? Probably one of these guys and most likely one of the first two. But plenty can happen over the course of a Grand Tour. Just think…

Michael Matthew goes faster than Thibaut Pinot dares

August 28, 2013 · by Alex · in Vuelta a Espana

Orica-GreenEDGE (stupid typography) have all but cornered the market in second tier sprinters. They’re a kind of lead-out production line. Fortunately, having a sprinter who is merely very, very good is sufficient at the Vuelta…

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