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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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Tour de France: Florence and the Machine

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...

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 2 – Tony Gallopin

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

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Gallery: Tour de France stage 1 – Geraint Thomas rocks Düsseldorf

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

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Geraint Thomas: Grand Tour Contender?

Geraint Thomas: Grand Tour Contender?

Self-effacing, humble, humorous, but can the Welshman go the extra mile?

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Top Banana: Tour de France stage 1 – Taylor Phinney

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...

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Tour de France 2017 preview: Fourth Title for Froome?

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

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Breaking away for good: saying goodbye to Thomas Voeckler

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,...

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The Chairman: Former British champion Tim Harris and his Belgian Seat of Learning

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

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Cummings, Phinney, Dowsett, Hutchinson: the art of the time-triallist

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...

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