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Mob handed with l’Equipe – Luke Evans’ Tour moto blog
With ties that stretch back to the very beginning of the Tour de France, French newspaper L’Equipe enjoys a privileged position amongst Tour de France...
Dutch Corner: the day they killed it
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...
Top Banana: Tour de France stage 12 – Steven Kruijswijk
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...
Guest column: Carlos Sastre on winning the Tour
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...
Top Banana: Tour de France 2018 stage 11 – Warren Barguil
Barguil stakes claim to retake his king of the mountains crown in La Rosière
Charly Wegelius Tour blog: Reflections on pavé
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,...
Darkness and light: remembering Fabio Casartelli
An exploration of love, loss and life with Annalisa Casartelli, widow of the last competitor to die during the Tour de France
Reflections: how Degenkolb and Uttrup Ludwig humanised 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...
Top Banana: Tour de France 2018 stage 10 – Luke Rowe
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
In amongst the crashes – Luke Evans’ Tour de France moto blog
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...
Top Banana: La Course 2018 – Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig
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...
There’s nothing new about gravel roads in the Tour de France
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...
Tour de France: Hail to the bus driver
The Tour de France – one part sporting spectacle, one part logistical nightmare. Andy McGrath meets the men who keep the wheels turning
Top Banana: Tour de France 2018 stage 9 – Oliver Naesen
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...
Top Banana: Tour de France 2018 stage 8 – Fabian Grellier
Liberté, egalité, fraternité, Grellier: on Bastille Day, chapeau to Direct Energie’s lively French fugitive
Jonathan Edwards on jumping into cycling
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...
Top Banana: Tour de France 2018 stage 7 – An empty field
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...
Why is there no black African rider in Dimension Data’s Tour team?
Dimension Data want an African Tour winner by 2020. We love their hope, but here’s why that looks unlikely
The longest day: Thierry Marie’s monster Tour de France break
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...
Top Banana: Tour de France 2018 stage 6 – Antwan Tolhoek
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
Jura Ace: Q&A with Alexis Vuillermoz
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
Top Banana: Tour de France 2018 stage 5 – Toms Skujins
Trek-Segafredo’s potato-powered Latvian TT champion plays it smart in Brittany to land the polka dot jersey
Jan Ullrich: "I thought everyone would love me"
“I couldn’t understand it, when the people turned against me,” says Jan Ullrich. We revisit our 2016 interview with Jan Ullrich
Tour de France: Cadel and the Mûr de Bretagne
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...
Top Banana: Tour de France 2018 stage 4 – Guillaume Van Keirsbulck
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
Charly Wegelius Tour blog: Craddock and his crash
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...
Top Banana: Tour de France 2018 stage 3 – Tejay van Garderen
BMC take the team time trial, Van Avermaet in yellow, Porte gains some seconds – but Tejay is our man of the day
Highs and lows of the Tour de France team time trial
Life is very rarely linear – apart for those riding in a team time trial. Here – from Rouleur’s 21 stages, 21 stories series –...
Top Banana: Tour de France 2018 stage 2 – Lawson Craddock
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,...
Tour de France: Chapatte’s Law and the art of the breakaway
“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...
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