Tour de France 2019 Stage 18: a dose of panache
Julian Alaphilippe is irrepressible. All personality and panache, he’s contending through charisma. Dropped by the main contenders on the finalContinue 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 8: De Gendt, Alaphilippe, Pinot…
On this big, relentless day in the Massif Central, it started with a breakaway. Four riders; three of them beingContinue Reading
Tour de France 2019 Stage 6: stay cool Pinot…stay cool France
Stage six, a mammoth mission through the Vosges mountains, was to be a litmus test. Not big mountains, but aContinue Reading
