There is a definite dark star aura surrounding the Team Ineos. Everything is so perfect, the team identity so overpowering and intimidating, their massive money so very much on display combined with the unbelievable quality of their racers that it’s all somewhat off-putting.
Read MoreIf a rider weighs much more than 135 pounds, there’s little to gain by starting this Tour, sprinters included.
Read MoreEgan Bernal, the 22-year old Colombian winner of the Tour de France continued to show just what an phenomena he is with an end of season streak of performances that put everyone on notice: he’s perhaps even more than we’d thought.
Read MoreAnquetil’s first attempt failed to the raucous cheers of the partisan crowd. Alberto Masi, who had a shop under the banking’s of the track in the great cycling tradition, watched Anquetil’s failure, analyzed what was wrong with his position on the heavy French bicycle and went to work
Read MoreThe race exploded out of the blocks, riders wrapped up in all sorts of raingear to get them through the six hours of suffering ahead, and the sight of three Grand Tour winners at the head of affairs in a big breakaway put us all on notice that this was going to be a championship unlike any other
Read MoreIt was clear to the audience that Erik deeply loved Milano-Sanremo, the “Primavera”, that magically beautiful, 300-kilometer Classic race that he won four-times
Read MoreOn November 9th, 1989, the historic day that the Berlin Wall began to come down, Erik and the national team were in Tunisia at training camp. “We completely missed that most important day in German history
Read MoreEgan Bernal has opened a new era in cycling.
Read MoreHere we are, three days from Paris, and still, no knows who is going to win
Read MoreI witnessed the brilliance of Thomas De Gent.
Read MoreToday is the last chance for the “baroudeurs” those daring adventurers of the peloton
Read MoreFirst off, the Movistar were absolutely wonderful
Read MoreThis bar fight of a Tour, rumbling through France
Read MorePrésident de la République, Emmanuel Macron came to the Tour
Read MoreYou won’t ever see a better time trial than yesterday’s spectacle in Pau
Read MoreThis beautifully designed Tour de France only gets better as the days go on
Read MoreTony Martin, Kasper Asgreen and Maxime Monfort have just been stunning
Read MoreTwenty-years ago, in 1999, I was on my way to the Tour with high expectations
Read MoreI saw at this year’s Paris-Nice that Luke Rowe, back from his 2017 smashed leg, was definitely going to be on the Ineos (then Sky) Tour de France team.
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