Rope barriers were placed around the notorious party central hairpin to tame the crowd, but how much of the atmosphere did it really sacrifice? An...

Dutch Tour contender Steven Kruijswijk made the early break and then took off on his own with over 70km to go. Having shaken the race...

The Spaniard secured his 2008 Tour victory on Alpe d’Huez. “The road book was already in my mind before the race started, I knew almost...

Barguil stakes claim to retake his king of the mountains crown in La Rosière

Stage 9 of the 2018 Tour de France was the one we’d all either been looking forward to or dreading. With their general classification man,...

An exploration of love, loss and life with Annalisa Casartelli, widow of the last competitor to die during the Tour de France

In a tough and macho sport, the refreshing reactions of John Degenkolb and Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig at the Tour de France showed the power of...

Who expected lanky Luke Rowe to lead the bunch over two big climbs? Respect to last year’s lanterne rouge for a real rouleur’s ride

As if the crashes and punctures aren’t chaotic enough for the riders, there’s a whole bunch of people in the Tour’s convoy who need to...

You can sit around and wait for the inevitable. Or you can stick your neck out and maybe pull it off. Hats off to Cecilie Uttrup...

Nor Peter Sagan’s podium goggles for that matter. Stage 10 of the 2018 Tour includes a couple of kilometres of dirt track on the Plateau de...

The Tour de France – one part sporting spectacle, one part logistical nightmare. Andy McGrath meets the men who keep the wheels turning

Stage 9 brought us a second splendid serving of stones for 2018, though it could have also brought the house down on so many Tour...

Liberté, egalité, fraternité, Grellier: on  Bastille Day, chapeau to Direct Energie’s lively French fugitive

More from our Tour de France 2018, 21 stages, 21 stories series: former triple jumper Jonathan Edwards hosts British Eurosport’s coverage at the Tour. The...

We watched it, so you didn’t have to. Stage 7 of the Tour de France took the race 231km due east from Fougères to Chartres...

Dimension Data want an African Tour winner by 2020. We love their hope, but here’s why that looks unlikely

He was a prologue specialist familiar with winning over short distances. But looking to right a historic wrong on home turf, Thierry Marie soloed 234km to a...

Fighting a rearguard action, here’s to LottoNL-Jumbo’s Dutch debutant who helped to save Primoz Roglic’s Tour de France after two slip-ups

We talk economics, electric vehicles and Emmanuel Macron with the Ag2r-La Mondiale climber who won the Tour de France’s last visit to Mûr de Bretagne

Trek-Segafredo’s potato-powered Latvian TT champion plays it smart in Brittany to land the polka dot jersey

“I couldn’t understand it, when the people turned against me,” says Jan Ullrich. We revisit our 2016 interview with Jan Ullrich

21 stages, 21 stories – It was on the slopes of the Mûr de Bretagne that Cadel Evans and his BMC team sowed the seeds of...

History is made as Belgium’s Guillaume Van Keirsbulck becomes Rouleur’s first double Top Banana winner after proving the most enthusiastic rider in today’s break

EF Education First sports director Charly Wegelius gives us the inside story on Lawson Craddock’s spill on the opening stage of the 2018 Tour de...

BMC take the team time trial, Van Avermaet in yellow, Porte gains some seconds – but Tejay is our man of the day

Life is very rarely linear – apart for those riding in a team time trial. Here – from Rouleur’s 21 stages, 21 stories series –...

They make ’em tough in Texas. No-one would have blamed Lawson Craddock for calling it a Tour after yesterday’s horror crash, but despite being bloody,...

“The winner from the break is the rider who won’t bargain for anything less. Even with himself.” Matt Seaton goes up the road in search...

Christian Prudhomme waves his flag, lowers his body through the sunroof of the red lead car, and the Tour de... The post Top Banana: Tour...