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What’s happening in August?
The races continue to come thick and fast this month, with the Olympic time trials opening the month and the Vuelta a Espana straddling the end of it. Indeed Spain’s Grand Tour starts less than four...
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Tweets of the Week: In praise of all things Jens, fabulous Phinney and...
Well, what can I say? This has been quite a week on Twitter. Because I’ve already compiled a Special Tweets of the Week around the subject of Lance Armstrong this week, I’ve decided that this TotW is...
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Friday Feature: Up close and personal with Orica-GreenEDGE’s Lionel Marie
Lionel Marie, Orica GreenEDGE (image courtesy of Orica GreenEDGE) I think it would be fair to say that this has been more of a season-long encounter rather than a one-off interview, reflecting the very...
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Ronde van Vlaanderen preview
All of Belgium and indeed cycling fans everywhere are #ReadyToRonde. The Ronde van Vlaanderen (Tour of Flanders) is one of the sport’s biggest and most iconic races. This year, like most of the Spring...
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Paris-Roubaix Review: Knife-edge win for Spartacus
When Fabian Cancellara signed in last this morning for the start of Paris-Roubaix, he was the overwhelming favourite. But being the overwhelming favourite means that you’re a marked man, that no other...
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Friday Feature: A to Z of the Tour de France
A = Alpe d’Huez. The legendary Alpine climb with its 21 hairpin turns will be climbed twice in one day for the first time in Tour history this year. (It has appeared twice in the same Tour once before,...
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TdF stage 12 preview
Stage 12: Fougeres to Tours, 218km, flat Unlike this year’s Giro, the speed demons of the peloton are well catered for in this Tour. With no climbs, wide, straight roads and the intermediate sprint at...
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Friday Feature: Sheree’s Tour diary
Sheree brings us a pictorial diary from her recent trip to the 100th Tour de France. The Tour came to me this year, landing in Nice for the team time trial after three stages on the idyllic island of...
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Tour de France review: The Tour in numbers
Key race facts 3,404 – In kilometres, the total race distance of the 100th Tour. 242.5 – The length of this year’s longest stage (to the summit of Mont Ventoux on stage 15). The peloton heads for the...
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What’s happening in August?
The 100th Tour de France has run its course, but August sees the start of the year’s third and final grand tour, the Vuelta a Espana, one of three WorldTour events this month. August also sees two...
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