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The Column: How Chris Froome can win the Tour de France… 2021

The Column: How Chris Froome can win the Tour de France… 2021

Don't write him off just yet. Why Chris Froome's chances of winning another Tour de France are higher than most people seem to believe

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Stars of the Future part V: Jess Pratt

Stars of the Future part V: Jess Pratt

More than just fast, fun can be life-changing too. The latest graduate of the Zwift academy, Jess Pratt, is going places

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Cover stories: Issue 20.5 by Sean Hardy

Cover stories: Issue 20.5 by Sean Hardy

This year’s Tour de France will be unlike any other. For our Tour special we needed a cover to match. Longtime Rouleur photographer Sean Hardy...

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Tourism de France

Tourism de France

In which our contributor explains why the Tour de France is not about a bike race and Jaws is not about a shark

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Chris Froome and the Seventh Circle

Chris Froome and the Seventh Circle

“Can we talk about the crash?” He doesn’t hesitate. “Sure.” He shows me some of his scars.

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Festina ’98: Into the Abyss

Festina ’98: Into the Abyss

This feature was originally published in Rouleur 18.5. Download the Rouleur app to read the whole issue. It’s twilight on... The post Festina ’98: Into...

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Stars of the Future part IV: Giulio Ciccone

Stars of the Future part IV: Giulio Ciccone

In 2019 Giulio Ciccone won the King of the Mountains at the Giro d’Italia and spent two stages in yellow at the Tour de France....

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The column: Anticipating racing’s return

The column: Anticipating racing’s return

As pro racing prepares to return to our screens, a few thoughts on what it will look like when it does

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Stars of the Future part II: Chloé Dygert

Stars of the Future part II: Chloé Dygert

With split screens showing riders in unbending aerodynamic positions and inexorably-shifting time differentials, time-trials are not often exhilarating viewing for... The post Stars of the...

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Stars of the Future part III: Liane Lippert

Stars of the Future part III: Liane Lippert

Sunweb's Liane Lippert is ready to take on the world's best

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Bigla-Katusha’s Leah Thomas: Caring for her community

Bigla-Katusha’s Leah Thomas: Caring for her community

After closing out the 2019 season with victory in the Chrono des Nations, Leah Bigla-Katusha’s Leah Thomas got off to the perfect start to 2020...

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Cover stories: Issue 20.3 by Grace Russell

Cover stories: Issue 20.3 by Grace Russell

A message of hope: Grace’s illustrated cover for our globe-trotting interview extravaganza. Rouleur 20.3 is coming soon

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Sean Kelly and the 1984 Paris-Roubaix cobble: the most prized trophy of all

Sean Kelly and the 1984 Paris-Roubaix cobble: the most prized trophy of all

“That’s the one I have great memories of.” Sean Kelly tells Rouleur why the 1984 Paris-Roubaix cobble is the most cherished item in his vast...

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Desire: Katusha – the pro-peloton veteran

Desire: Katusha – the pro-peloton veteran

As a sponsor to the pro-peloton for over 10 years, Katusha are shaking things up and we like it.

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The Home Life: Kasia Niewiadoma’s Zoom Q&A

The Home Life: Kasia Niewiadoma’s Zoom Q&A

Live from Girona, Canyon//SRAM’s captain on why baking is a lot like cycling, Adam Sandler films and finding peace in simplicity

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Ned Boulting: Ten years since I won the yellow jumper

Ned Boulting: Ten years since I won the yellow jumper

A decade since he wrote his first book, How I Won The Yellow Jumper: Dispatches From The Tour De France, Rouleur columnist Ned Boulting has...

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Desire: Passoni Fidia Milano-Sanremo

Desire: Passoni Fidia Milano-Sanremo

Milan-Sanremo may be postponed but Passoni have brought their own spectacle. Better still, they are donating one to support the fight against Covid-19

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The column: Let’s use this time to consider the future we want for cycling

The column: Let’s use this time to consider the future we want for cycling

Rather than dwelling on what we’re missing, the races that have been cancelled, let’s look forward, and imagine what cycling could one day be, once...

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Larry Warbasse: The Other Side

Larry Warbasse: The Other Side

“We are taught to be optimists: if we weren’t our careers would be too stressful and too short. We hope, we believe, we pray for...

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He ain’t heavy… Cycling siblings through the ages

He ain’t heavy… Cycling siblings through the ages

 Felix Lowe on the benefits of having a brother in the sport and cycling’s stand-out siblings through time

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Momma’s got a brand new E-bike

Momma’s got a brand new E-bike

Morten’s mum is behaving strangely – Zwift, e-biking, wearing Pas Normal clothing… At home with the Okbos

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Boxsets, bangers and braking: Diary of a quarantined cyclist

Boxsets, bangers and braking: Diary of a quarantined cyclist

“We are wild animals, we have to breath outside, to put our noses in the wind.” With no end to the crisis in sight, frustration...

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Flattening the curve: How the cycling world is doing its bit

Flattening the curve: How the cycling world is doing its bit

From the Bigla-Katusha rider who’s donned scrubs to the cycling-themed pub quiz keeping you entertained on lockdown, a few of the ways in which our...

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The making of Freddy Maertens

The making of Freddy Maertens

 “He made my character.” How an authoritarian upbringing that brought psychological suffering also put Freddy Maertens on the path to sporting success

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The column: The need for escapism and distractions in the time of Coronavirus

The column: The need for escapism and distractions in the time of Coronavirus

 At this uncertain, frightening time, it’s more important than ever to have ways to take your mind off things. Tell us what we can do...

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Training in a deserted world: Diary of a quarantined cyclist

Training in a deserted world: Diary of a quarantined cyclist

“I am starting to get bored. Today, I opened my own small bakery inside my bakery. Then I cut my hair.” The bizarre becomes the...

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Rouleur predicts… Paris-Nice 2020 – Stage 7

Rouleur predicts… Paris-Nice 2020 – Stage 7

We’ll meet again… Don’t know where… don’t know when… Stage 7, we’ve made it to Nice, when many thought we wouldn’t and many more thought...

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The Waiting Game: Diary of a quarantined cyclist

The Waiting Game: Diary of a quarantined cyclist

“Every day I act like I am infected.” Groupama-FDJ’s Jacopo Guarnieri reflects on life under quarantine in Italy

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Rouleur predicts… Paris-Nice 2020 – Stage 6

Rouleur predicts… Paris-Nice 2020 – Stage 6

Stage 6 finally finds us finishing a stone’s throw from the Côte d’Azur. It also finds our panelists arguing over whether this will be a...

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