Tour de France 2018 Stage 18: Strange thoughts
A slow day on Le Tour. A lull. Tomorrow is a big day of Pyrenean punishment and legs are beingContinue Reading
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A slow day on Le Tour. A lull. Tomorrow is a big day of Pyrenean punishment and legs are beingContinue Reading
The riders had brought their A-game of casually deliberate. Sitting astride top-tubes, wrists a-rest on bars, and impassive. Whoever had made the decision to start this stage with riders staggered in rank order had perhaps never seen a bike race. Or heard of cycling.
Alaphilippe descends like the devil. Yates would’ve known the Frenchman was on his tail. Often hindsight is the post-stage blog writers best friend, but something was surely going to happen. I could feel in real time in my twitching left leg and white-knuckle grip on the settee.
As we know, strange things happen on a rest day at the Tour de France. All the riders go forContinue Reading



