When the breakaway went clear after fifty of today’s whopping near two-hundred-and-fifty kilometre Stage 7 to Le Creusot, we blinked,…
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 back…
Tour de France 2021 Stage 6: Cavendish wins (again!) and everyone gets a cuddle
They’re like buses. You wait five years for one and two appear at once. Mark Cavendish, the fastest man in…
Tour de France 2021 Stage 5: Pogacar is in his happy place
In this, the era of wafer-thin Grand Tour winning margins, reigning Tour champ and visually adolescent boy Tadej Pogacar has…
Tour de France 2021 Stage 4: Cavendish wins!
Thirteen years ago he lit up the race as a mouthy kid to win career Tour de France stage number…
Tour de France 2021 Stage 3: this race has a crash problem
The Tour has a crash problem. Or maybe a risk problem? We peeped out from between our fingers today as…
Tour de France 2021 Stage 2: a mini-masterpiece from Van der Poel
I see your jubilant stage win and accompanying Yellow Jersey, Monsieur Alaphilippe, and I raise it, said Dutch uber-cyclist Mathieu…
Tour de France 2021 Stage 1: Alaphilippe reigns above the carnage
As we edge gently out from the Covid pandemic, we would all agree that fans at the road-side of a…
I have a problem with Mathieu van der Poel: go ahead, cancel me!
Mathieu van der Poel, superhuman Dutchman and acknowledged God of cycling, will soon be making his Tour de France debut.…
Giro d’Italia 2021 Stage 21: Bernal deep-breathes to victory
Towards the end of his ride today Filippo Ganna, overwhelming favourite to win this final stage time-trial, punctured. He pulled…
Giro d’Italia 2021 Stage 20: Bernal wins, Caruso gets the glory
If Damiano Caruso was a British cyclist his nickname would almost certainly be ‘Robbo.’ As in ‘Robinson’ Caruso. A play…
Giro d’Italia 2021 Stage 19: like cat and dog
There’s something cat-like about Simon Yates. I think it’s the tendon-taught climbing style, controlled and deliberate. If he fell from…
