Readers Question: I don’t know the answer to the following question, and it bothers me. What is the difference between trying to gain a competitive edge through doping and trying to gain a competitive edge by using better equipment? Firstly, doping is prohibited. There is a long list of prohibited substances athletes can’t use. Using […]

It’s that time of the year, when I try to summon up my will power and avoid spending 3 hours in the afternoon listening to what the Eurosport commentators had for dinner last night, and the history of the local Chateaux. It is of course, the 2009 Tour de France and what cyclist can remain […]

Mark Cavendish won a thrilling sprint to take the 100th edition of Milan San Remo by the narrowest of margins. Second place Heinrich Haussler surprised everyone by jumping the leading group of 40 riders with under a kilometre to go. He looked to have the victory in the bag, but Cavendish came back and took […]

I’ll never forget the day, 2 years ago, when I just turned on Eurosport ‘for 5 minutes’ to check how the racing was going. Flloyd Landis had just broken away from the peleton and started one of cycling’s epic breakaways. Three hours later I was still glued to the set thinking I had witnessed one […]

Lance Armstrong has announced that he intends to make  a comeback to procycling and would like to win one more Tour de France. At 37, he still has the physical capacity. (Raymond Poulidor came second aged 40 in the 1970s) However, it would also be interesting to see how he copes after 3 seasons off […]

The tour of Britain is in the UK this week. In fact, yesterday it passed through my local training roads. Including  Streatley Hill a category 2 King of the Mountains  – a hill I have often raced on myself. British cycling is definitely on the up, after a great Olympics performance. Local velodromes are saying […]