Tour de France 2019 Stage 16: The lead-out train is dead (long live the lead-out train?)
There once was a set formula for winning a bunch sprint in a bike race: fill your team with beefyContinue Reading
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Tour de France 2019 Stage 15: Pinot in the trenches
The crisp, crystal clarity of high altitude was replaced, on stage fifteen, with something murky. Tree-lined climbs under leaden, occasionallyContinue Reading
Tour de France 2019 Stage 14: the Alaphilippe-o-meter
The Col du Tourmalet is a whopper. A huge shoulder of Pyranean earth with a ribbon of asphalt snaking up.Continue Reading
Tour de France 2019 Stage 13: An over-excitable Frenchman
Today, for the designers of the showpiece time trial in and around Pau, it was back slaps and congratulatoryContinue Reading
Tour de France 2019 stage 12: Simon Yates’ poker face
I wouldn’t like to play poker against Simon Yates. An impenetrable mask across two-thirds of his face, in the shapeContinue Reading
Tour de France 2019 Stage 11: sharing is caring for Caleb Ewan
Mark Cavendish, the sprinter of his generation, was a selfish bugger. In his heyday, any time a Tour de FranceContinue Reading
Tour de France 2019 Stage 10: the van Aert of winning
Luke Rowe, road captain and beating heart of Team Ineos, has got a sixth sense. Rather like a snake assessingContinue Reading
