Tour de France 2021 Stage 13: Cavendish wins! (and Merckx is on the comeback trail)
The town of Carcasonne brings to mind folklore, medieval fortification, and exquisite winding streets escarped with god-awful stalls selling touristContinue Reading
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Tour de France 2021 Stage 12: hot, fast, and Nils Politt comes good
Embedded in the race and commentating from the back of a Eurosport moto, Bradley Wiggins was getting excited. Thirty kilometresContinue Reading
Tour de France 2021 Stage 11: Wout van Aert has ‘the face’
Yesterday, Stage 10, Belgian superstar all-rounder Wout van Aert took second place in a bunch sprint behind Mark Cavendish. Today,Continue Reading
Tour de France 2021 Stage 10: Cavendish Wins (long live the lead-out train)!
Back in his pomp (the old pomp, before this current, late career pomp), Mark Cavendish was known for his lead-outContinue Reading
Tour de France 2021 Stage 9: breadcrumb-scatterer in chief
It was a mucky, wet, cold day in the Alps. Single figures temperatures. Grim. Given the choice you’d peel backContinue Reading
Tour de France 2021 Stage 7: Van der Poel and the Royal Breakaway
When the breakaway went clear after fifty of today’s whopping near two-hundred-and-fifty kilometre Stage 7 to Le Creusot, we blinked,Continue Reading
Tour de France 2021 Stage 8: Pogacar on the rampage
There was a moment, with around thirty kilometres of today’s mountainous alpine stage remaining, when Tadej Pogacar could hold backContinue Reading
