Tour de France 2018 Stage 11: Sky-shaped
The Tour de France, for the riders, is death by a thousand cuts. The drip-drip of hourly, daily, weekly sufferingContinue Reading
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Tour de France 2018 Stage 10: The Goldilocks Tour
From that early break he was out in front from the start. As the group whittled away around him he looked perky and light, and with 30k’s to go he attacked solo; devouring Alps like a hungry child going at an airport Toblerone.
Tour de France 2018 Stage 9: A cobblestone for a heart
Degenkolb was emotional at the finish, looking like a man who’d narrowly survived the big set piece shoot-out at the end of an action movie. He was only a tight white vest away from Bruce Willis at his most knowingly heroic.
Tour de France 2018 Stage 7: Near Biblical Conditions
A long, flat stage like today is all about the set-piece sprint finish. We can all get on with ourContinue Reading
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