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The 102nd Tour de France will be made up of 21 stages and will cover a total distance of 3?360km. The most likely challenges for the yellow jersey.
The members of an independent commission that will probe cycling’s doping past since the Lance Armstrong scandal have been named.
On the one hand Lance Armstrong could be utterly engaging, but on the other he would bully anyone who dared to speak against him.
Lance Armstrong’s concession that he can’t win his doping case finally allows the sport to move on, argues William Fotheringham.
History has been on the side of the Tour de France organiser Christian Prudhomme in his quest to liven up the race.
The return of cycling’s greatest comeback man to the Tour de France has not gone to script
On hearing the news that Lance Armstrong was planning a comeback, a former professional said: ”They can’t ever stay away, can they?”
Since the Sébastian Hinault era ended 23 years ago, French cycling has been a case of worthy endeavour, lots of local pride, little success.
”The sign on the door in the bowels of the Manchester Velodrome reads simply ”Steve Peters”, but there is plenty else it could say. Abandon preconceptions all those who enter…
I didn’t watch Alberto Contador putting on the final yellow jersey of this year’s Tour de France in Paris. As I said, even before the disaster unfolded, this wasn’t a Tour where…
In the first move of its kind by any of the broadcasters that cover the Tour de France, German state television channels ARD and ZDF left the race on Thursday and, for the time…
The announcement of Jan Ullrich’s team for the Tour de France, which starts on Saturday, is a telling illustration of the way Lance Armstrong has upped the stakes during his…
It is what the French call un coup de jeune — an influx of youth — and, as well as Lance Armstrong’s effervescent form, the usual series of horrendous crashes, and heavy rain, it…
To his fans, Marco Pantani was Il Pirata. Since his death in The Roses apartment hotel in Rimini on the evening of Valentine’s Day, Pantani’s other, hidden life has been brutally…
One of the great sporting metaphors inspired by the Tour de France is that of the race as a road to Calvary. Le calvaire has been routinely used throughout the 100 years since…
Things American may not be the flavour of the month in France right now, and motor-mouthed Texans least of all, but in one far-flung corner of old Europe a small-time farmer…
Last week should have been a triumphant one for world cycling champion Mario Cipollini. But injury was piled on top of insult as Italy’s most charismatic cyclist slid across the…
