Remains of the Day
Ned Boulting opens the new decade with a lyrical reverie on riding, memory and the strange suspension of a long day in the saddle.
Ivan Basso
The two-time Giro winner turned blueberry farmer finds a change of pace on the family estate in northern Italy. The Smiling Assassin’s reasons to be cheerful.
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Beautiful Boy
Romain Bardet on becoming a father in the depths of winter, and how a newborn son reshaped a professional rider’s sense of what matters.
Timepiece
When the race cannot go on: the tours abandoned to earthquakes, floods and force majeure, and the riders caught in nature’s path.
Chris Froome and the Seventh Circle
Seven Grand Tour wins, then a horrific crash that nearly ended everything. Froome on the long road back, and his belief a fifth Tour is still within reach.
Michele Acquarone: Fall Guy
Seven years after €13 million vanished from RCS, the disgraced former Giro d’Italia director meets Morten Okbo in Milan to relive the scandal that upended his life.
Richard Carapaz: Strong Like the Wind
Amid the greenery and birdsong of his native Ecuador, the Giro d’Italia winner tells Matt Rendell the story of a meteoric, improbable rise against the odds.
Jonathan Vaughters
Chewed up by Generation EPO and spat out at 30, Jonathan Vaughters dived straight back in as a manager, agitating for wholesale change. The world according to JV.
Peter Kennaugh: Glass Half Full
A talent tipped for Grand Tours, Kennaugh walked away from pro cycling in his prime. The Briton on why he couldn’t carry on, and the sport’s mental health muddle.
Tête-à-Tête
Orla Chennaoui takes a journey through the cobbled streets of Amsterdam, where cycling feels not like risk but the most natural way to move through a city.
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In printIssue 144
The Tour Issue
Le Tour de France: a race defined by colour, passion and history, whose drama and romance continue to shape the identity of cycling’s greatest stage.
In printIssue 144
The Tour Issue
Le Tour de France: a race defined by colour, passion and history, whose drama and romance continue to shape the identity of cycling’s greatest stage.
