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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 4 – Guillaume Van Keirsbulck
Guillame Van Keirsbulck’s road to the Tour de France has been a long one. Now that he’s finally made it, he seems determined to enjoy every...
Gallery: Tour de France stage 3 – Super Sagan takes Longwy
Complete control from Peter Sagan, Dan Martin close, Michael Matthews closer
Chute! A brief history of crash photography
Heavy rain and anxious riders made for a nervy beginning to this year’s Tour de France, with several big-name contenders hitting the deck. Duncan Forbes gives us...
Top Banana: Tour de France stage 3 – Juraj Sagan
So often overshadowed by his younger brother, or cropped out of shot altogether, Juraj Sagan deserves more than a little of the limelight for today’s...
Gallery: Tour de France stage 2 – Standard Liège and Kittel’s Comeback
Teeming rain, the break caught within sight of the line and a sprinters’ battle royale: Düsseldorf to Liège had it all
Tour de France: Florence and the Machine
When the Tour de France inevitably begins to take its toll on the peloton, it is doctor Florence Pommerie who pieces it back together. The race doctor...
Top Banana: Tour de France stage 2 – Tony Gallopin
As is so often the case in the Tour, today’s fight at the back of the race was just as compelling as the one at the front
Gallery: Tour de France stage 1 – Geraint Thomas rocks Düsseldorf
Eighth Tour de France, first Tour stage win, first Grand Tour stage win, first maillot jaune. A landmark day for the Welshman
Geraint Thomas: Grand Tour Contender?
Self-effacing, humble, humorous, but can the Welshman go the extra mile?
Top Banana: Tour de France stage 1 – Taylor Phinney
It’s been a long way back for the big American from his horror crash in 2014 to his debut Tour. We think he’s going to...
Tour de France 2017 preview: Fourth Title for Froome?
From Düsseldorf to Paris and all stops between, your guide to a thoroughly enjoyable 104th Tour
Breaking away for good: saying goodbye to Thomas Voeckler
Love him or hate him, Thomas Voeckler has been one of the most exciting riders of his generation. As his final Tour de France beckons,...
The Chairman: Former British champion Tim Harris and his Belgian Seat of Learning
Cavendish, Froome, Thomas, Dowsett, Yates, McLay – even Gaviria. The big draughty house in Belgium that provides an invaluable stepping stone to the professional ranks
Cummings, Phinney, Dowsett, Hutchinson: the art of the time-triallist
The ‘race of truth’ is both the most idiosyncratic and unforgiving of cycling’s disciplines. Rouleur sat down with a few of time-trialling’s most accomplished practitioners to talk suffering, science...
A Million Things We Have Learned about the Tour de France
There are a few Tour de France stats that everyone knows – 198 riders, 12 million spectators – but what about the less well-known ones? We’ve dug around...
La Course: A race fit for the best women racers in the world?
While the men circle France for three weeks, the women get two short stages, neither of them in Paris. ASO could do better. A work...
Comment: for Froome the bell tolls?
With Cavendish ailing, Contador ageing and Froome in uncertain form, this year’s Tour de France could mark the end of a generation
The Link: Philippe Tesnière’s race to the Bottom of the Tour de France
A Frenchman, an Austrian and their battle for lanterne rouge at the 1979 Tour
Cape of Good Hope: Nicholas Dlamini on the Dimension Data Trail
From the townships to the peloton: South African Dlamini is finding his feet racing with Dimension Data’s continental feeder team in Italy
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