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Rouleur’s riders of the decade: part 3

As the 2010s draw to a close, Rouleur’s editorial staff have each selected nine riders each as their stars of...

A short sit-down with Paul Fournel

“I ride to rest and to tire myself out. I ride to do myself good and to do myself harm.”...

The column: Enough of summit finish snooze-fests

A summit finish in a Grand Tour ought to mean attacks galore and guarantee GC gaps. Instead they’re pedestrian, predictable...

The column: Ten more years of Team Sky?

Does the success of Team Sky’s youngsters at The Tour of the Alps herald another decade of Grand Tour dominance?

Cillian Kelly: You don’t watch anything with kids

How has Chris Froome managed to win two Tours de France since having kids? Cycling stats supremo Cillian Kelly can...

Rouleur podcast: Grand Tour preview, Radio Tour and more

Looking ahead to the Giro, Tour and Vuelta – what can we expect from the Big Three? Will Sky go...

Geraint Thomas: did Froome want to attack me? (book extract)

In this extract from his new book, The Tour According to G, 2018 Tour de France winner Geraint Thomas recalls the ‘weird...

Tour de France 2018 – the Rouleur review

Who was the best team of this year’s Tour de France? What about the most unlucky? What was the biggest...

Tour de France stage 17: good, bad and ugly

Fast and furious racing, beautiful scenery, Sagan crashing, and Froome and Thomas involved in dramatic incidents. We were on the...

Inside Line: Nico Portal – the DS behind Chris Froome’s success

Nicolas Portal’s pre-race recces are as thorough as they come and his relationship with Chris Froome is fundamental to the...

Can Adam Yates learn from his brother’s mistakes to beat Froome at the Tour?

Simon Yates led the Giro d’Italia into its final week but came undone after a heavy assault by Chris Froome....

Inside line: Froome was overweight, in pain and thinking of quitting

There were mutterings of dissent and an audience unsympathetic to his plight. From inside the Sky camp, Kenny Pryde reports...

Giro d’Italia protagonists: who’s in shape to claim pink

Days away from the first ever depart of a Grand Tour to be held outside of Europe we look at...

Doing the double: Miguel Indurain on Froome’s Giro-Tour ambitions

Miguel Indurain is one of the few riders to have won the Giro d’Italia and Tour de France in the same...

Richie Porte: On Froome and snakes in the grass

At home with BMC’s crocked captain, talking Froome, venomous snakes and the Dauphiné betrayal that affected their friendship

Comment: Processional final Grand Tour stages rock – leave well alone

Photo ops, champagne, tootling into town, then a big sprint at the end. It’s a winning formula that needs no...

In pictures: week three at the Vuelta a España

With the 2017 Vuelta a España done and dusted, we take a look back at the movers and shakers of...

In pictures: week two at the Vuelta a España

As Chris Froome retained his grip on the overall, we look back at a second week in the Vuelta where some less familiar...

Gallery: Tour de France stage 21 – Dylan electric in Paris as Froome wins overall

The Tour’s ceremonial final stage around the French capital saw a flying Dutchman take maiden stage victory while Chris Froome sealed his fourth...

Gallery: Tour de France stage 18 – One more mountain

The Izoard was the last chance saloon for Romain Bardet. He gave it everything he had, but with Landa at...

Gallery: Tour de France stage 12 – Froome falters, Aru into yellow

Team Sky rode indomitably on the front all day but when a fight broke out in the closing kilometre Chris...

Tour de France Week 1 – vital statistics, knowns and unknowns

Digging deeper to uncover the digits that other publications just can’t find: it’s the Tour de France Week 1 Alternative Facts

Gallery: Tour de France stage 6 – Sticking to the script

After the unpredictability and chaos of the previous two days, Stage 6 went precisely as expected. An eleventh Tour win...

Gallery: Tour de France stage 5 – Aru conquers the mountain

Aru takes the stage, Quintana loses time, Thomas loses yellow, Froome takes the biscuit

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