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Top Banana: stage 13 – Alberto Contador

Top Banana: stage 13 – Alberto Contador

Rather than rolling back the years, Alberto Contador found a new way to race. He remains a rider of relevance, one who can still excite and...

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Coryn Rivera: Living the Dream

Coryn Rivera: Living the Dream

In her first full season, Coryn Rivera has made a real splash in the WomensTour. Still, with the World Championships on the horizon, she’s not...

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Top Banana: stage 12 – Steve Cummings and his one-man tribute

Top Banana: stage 12 – Steve Cummings and his one-man tribute

The British champion goes it alone over the Port de Balès in memory of Tom Simpson. We enjoyed it immensely

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Gallery: Tour de France stage 11 – Kittel takes five

Gallery: Tour de France stage 11 – Kittel takes five

A wing and a prayer: five stages for Kittel and three Hail Marys for any other sprinters hoping to land a win before Paris

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 11 – Maciej Bodnar

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 11 – Maciej Bodnar

Pole vaulted after a valiant effort: with more insipid tactics from everyone but Quick Step, breakaway hot rod Bodnar deserves all the kudos

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Nacer Bouhanni: A ‘Rough’ Guide

Nacer Bouhanni: A ‘Rough’ Guide

Fined and penalised for throwing a punch on stage 10. Wasn’t Sagan disqualified for a lesser infringement?

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Gallery: Tour de France stage 10 – Kittel’s quartet

Gallery: Tour de France stage 10 – Kittel’s quartet

Four stages wins and counting for the dominant sprinter of this Tour – Marcel Kittel

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 10 – Julien Vermote

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 10 – Julien Vermote

He’s done over 800 kilometres on the front of the Tour bunch already and has great hair. Here’s to Quick Step’s breakaway buster extraordinaire Julien...

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Tour de France: Caravan of Love

Tour de France: Caravan of Love

The Tour can wait. There’s a carnival procession to be witnessed and freebies to be had. We join the publicity caravan, Henri Desgrange’s 1930 marketing...

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Gallery: Men at work: Cannondale-Drapac mechanics

Gallery: Men at work: Cannondale-Drapac mechanics

Rest day for the riders, but the mechanics are hard at it as usual. Bike prepping with the Cannondale crew

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Tour de France Week 1 – vital statistics, knowns and unknowns

Tour de France Week 1 – vital statistics, knowns and unknowns

Digging deeper to uncover the digits that other publications just can’t find: it’s the Tour de France Week 1 Alternative Facts

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Gallery: Tour de France stage 9 – disaster for Porte, brilliance from Uran

Gallery: Tour de France stage 9 – disaster for Porte, brilliance from Uran

Brilliance from Barguil, single-speed sprinting by Uran, sickening crash for Porte – stage 9 had everything and more

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 9 – Dan Martin

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 9 – Dan Martin

The Irishman has ridden a strong and smart first week at the Tour. Today’s crash was a setback, but he is still in contention

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 8 – Lilian Calmejane

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 8 – Lilian Calmejane

No competition today. The excellent Lilian Calmejane rode brilliantly in a stage of non-stop action and constant attacking

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Rouleur Cover Stories: issue 17.5 – Tom Simpson

Rouleur Cover Stories: issue 17.5 – Tom Simpson

A bon vivant who liked to drive fast and laugh hard, Simpson crammed many adventures and memorable moments into his 29 and a half years

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Gallery: Tour de France stage 7 – Kittel by a whisker

Gallery: Tour de France stage 7 – Kittel by a whisker

Just six millimetres separated Marcel Kittel from Edvard Boasson Hagen in Nuits-Saint-Georges, apparently. Wafer thin.

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 7 – Reinardt Janse van Rensburg

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 7 – Reinardt Janse van Rensburg

With Cavendish out, Dimension Data should have been reduced to also-ran status in the sprints. Janse van Rensburg showed their train is still on the...

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Tour de France: Matt Seaton on hopes, dreams and breakaways

Tour de France: Matt Seaton on hopes, dreams and breakaways

The breakaway: natural home of cycling’s dreamers and romantics. Matt Seaton considers what it takes to succeed in the sport’s most kamikaze of spectacles.

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A letter from the Editor

A letter from the Editor

ITV4 has a new guest expert in the studio next week. Meet Philippa York

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 6 – Frederik Backaert

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 6 – Frederik Backaert

Today’s scorching temperatures limited the break to only the hardiest of souls. Here’s to the young farmer who is no stranger to long days in the sun

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Krasna Lipa: the Czech Republic’s long-running women’s race

Krasna Lipa: the Czech Republic’s long-running women’s race

The Tour de Feminin, based on the small Czech town of Krasna Lipa, celebrates its 30th edition this week. Our editor was on soigneur duties...

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Gallery: Tour de France stage 5 – Aru conquers the mountain

Gallery: Tour de France stage 5 – Aru conquers the mountain

Aru takes the stage, Quintana loses time, Thomas loses yellow, Froome takes the biscuit

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 5 – Stefan Küng

Top Banana: Tour de France stage 5 – Stefan Küng

While Porte was ponderous on La Planche des Belles Filles, here’s to the BMC youngster who kept the breakaway of Voeckler, Gilbert and company in check

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Got the minerals: Vittel, the peloton’s drink of choice

Got the minerals: Vittel, the peloton’s drink of choice

Vittel serves as the host of today’s Tour de France stage roll-out. But the little French spa town has a long history with the Tour...

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The Peter Saga: A Rough Guide to the Stage 4 ‘Incident’

The Peter Saga: A Rough Guide to the Stage 4 ‘Incident’

Peter Sagan: expelled from the Tour. Mark Cavendish: out with a broken shoulder. Arnaud Démare: in the green jersey. We try to make sense of...

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 4 – Guillaume Van Keirsbulck

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...

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Gallery: Tour de France stage 3 – Super Sagan takes Longwy

Gallery: Tour de France stage 3 – Super Sagan takes Longwy

Complete control from Peter Sagan, Dan Martin close, Michael Matthews closer

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Chute! A brief history of crash photography

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...

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 3 – Juraj Sagan

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...

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Gallery: Tour de France stage 2 – Standard Liège and Kittel’s Comeback

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

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